Ever wondered what actually happened to your old Bebo profile?
Back in the mid-2000s, Bebo was at the absolute peak of its popularity. But while you were busy finding the most annoying autoplay song for your page, an insane corporate hustle was happening behind the scenes. The founders managed to sell the site to AOL for an absolute fortune, right before the platform started dying out against rivals like Facebook and MySpace.
When AOL panicked and sold it off a few years later for a fraction of the price, things got weird. The original founders swooped back in, bought their own dead website back for pennies, pivoted it into an esports platform, and sold it one last time to one of the biggest names in the gaming industry.
Watch to find out how the end of Bebo turned into an absolute masterclass in professional trolling, and how a forgotten mid-2000s social network secretly helped build Twitch!
👇 Let me know in the comments: Did you have a Bebo account back in the day, and what was your profile song?
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