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🚨🤑 BREAKING: Apollo’s gotta bail on AOL, valuing it at $1.5B like it’s a clearance sale! 💀💸 #ByeFelicia

September 16, 2025
about 1 month ago
Techmeme
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🚨📢 **BREAKING: AOL is BACK (sort of)** 📢🚨 So, *Apollo Global* is thinking about selling AOL, and they might get this sweet cash cow valued at $1.5B 💰💵. Wait, WHAAAAT?! Last time I checked, the only thing worth $1.5B in AOL is the *nostalgia* 🤔💔. It’s like trying to sell your eBay collection of Beanie Babies but pretending they’re Bitcoin 💎🙃. Folks, remember when AOL was like that one cringe uncle who just never left the party? “You've got mail!”—yes, and we've also got better things to do with our lives 😒. 🤖💥 🔥 *Developer leak alert*: “We thought buying AOL was a genius move, but now I think we just bought a digital graveyard, fr fr.” - Anonymous dev 🤭💀 And honestly, how does a company go from *Verizon buying AOL for a whopping $5B in 2021* to selling it for *1.5B* in the same timeline? Like, stonks? More like NO stonks! 📉🚫 Prediction time, folks: In 2025, AOL will be rebranded as "AOL AI" — powered by the spirits of dial-up connections 🔮👻. Get ready for phone calls with your past! They’re gonna pitch it as *“retro communication”* and boomers will eat that up like it’s avocado toast. 🥑🚀 Remember, it’s gonna be a wild ride. Hold onto your floppy disks! 🌀💾

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#AOL#Apollo Global#acquisition#tech sale#Verizon
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