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7 Dec, 14 tweets, 10 min read

[THREAD] Bloomberg 50: From Guy Fieri to Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, these are the people in entertainment who defined an unprecedented year trib.al/QWmKpE7

@GuyFieri

Guy Fieri (a.k.a. the Mayor of Flavortown) raised more than $21.5 million in seven weeks to assist unemployed restaurant workers trib.al/nRUq9ky #Bloomberg50 @GuyFieri

@THEREALSWIZZZ

Bloomberg 50: Swizz Beatz and Timbaland launched rap-battle series Verzuz, which has been seen by more than 20 million people on Instagram Live trib.al/mAcnHn4 @THEREALSWIZZZ @Timbaland #Bloomberg50

@celestebarber_

Comedian Celeste Barber's Facebook fundraiser brought in more than $37 million for Australian wildfire relief, the largest charity drive in the platform’s history trib.al/qaCFb8c @celestebarber_

@ParasiteMovie

Director Bong Joon-ho's Parasite became the first non-English film to win a Best Picture Oscar trib.al/PqUKtuv #Bloomberg50 @ParasiteMovie

@sarahcpr

Sarah Cooper's TikTok video spoofing Trump’s suggestion that UV light and disinfectant injections could cure Covid‑19 drew 25 million views on social media trib.al/RXHxSNt #Bloomberg50 @sarahcpr

@billieeilish

Billie Eilish won the “big four” Grammys in January—best record, best song, best album, best new artist—which nobody had done in a single year since 1981 trib.al/umMTM3q #Bloomberg50 @billieeilish

Jason Hehir's The Last Dance docuseries about Michael Jordan's final season aired when most of the U.S. had been in lockdown for a month and live sports were almost totally on hiatus trib.al/JPh6Qon #Bloomberg50

@Kaepernick7

Colin Kaepernick has become a civil rights icon in the years since he decided to kneel during the national anthem at the start of NFL games trib.al/MW3ZWwO #Bloomberg50 @Kaepernick7

@animalcrossing

Aya Kyogoku and Hisahi Nogami are the humans behind Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which has sold more than 26 million copies since its March release trib.al/FyLv5bQ #Bloomberg50 @animalcrossing

When Covid-19 struck, Donna Langley released Trolls World Tour online, a move that earned the studio the ire of theater owners—and $100 million in streaming revenue trib.al/8jPZ8KW #Bloomberg50

@ReneeMontgomery

Renee Montgomery decided to sit out the season—and instead raise $5 million for Morris Brown College trib.al/5upm3Yw #Bloomberg50 @ReneeMontgomery

@MarcusRashford

Marcus Rashford's Twitter campaign helped shame the U.K. government into providing free school meals to more than 1.5 million children from low-wage families trib.al/ufuT6bY #Bloomberg50 @MarcusRashford

See who else made this year's Bloomberg 50 trib.al/QWmKpE7 #Bloomberg50

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