This is the best example of Poe's Law I've ever come across [1]. I honestly can't tell if this is brutal satire or someone's legit endgame. The more I watch the more inclined to think it's satire, but there's a lot of other things in this space I didn't think could be serious that are.
Cryptoland [video]
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#102Why would you want to live in a theme-park on a remote jungle island in a volatile jurisdiction with a bunch of assholes?
So, there's actually a bit of a history of libertarian-ish types doing this sort of this thing. Examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya... It doesn't generally end well.
It's like the level Seaside Shock in Cruelty Squad
A group of seasteaders have recently acquired vast fortunes through biocurrency speculation. It wasn't however enough to attain their dream of building an artificial floating island on the open seas, so they've had to settle for a compromise and have purchased their own cruise ship, the 'Titanium Princess'. It is now a den of pathetic losers living out their depraved fantasies.
Re: Cryptoland [video]
#103Wtf did i just watch. This has got to be someone trolling, right? If you didn't watch the whole thing, make sure to at least watch the animated section.
I don't think it is trolling.
Crypto has made it so a lot of young people have randomly gotten extremely rich. For some of these people, it is bound to go to their head and make them think that they are actually business geniuses. Sprinkle in a dash of bro culture and suddenly "buy an island and have a huge nonstop party" feels like an attractive idea.
Re: Cryptoland [video]
#104Really impressive, this is a ton of effort for a satire piece.
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#105Why would you want to live in a theme-park on a remote jungle island in a volatile jurisdiction with a bunch of assholes?
Isn’t that the exact promise of El Salvador’s Bitcoin City, except for the island part.
You can already move to crypto land. You can buy residency in El Salvador for 3 bitcoin. There's even a tropical beach there. What? You don't like poor people? Tough luck pal. Besides, in your tiny little crypto island who's going to make your bed, take out the trash, make your meals and clean the toilets? Robots? Places like Aspen, or other towns for the super rich usually have a nearby middle class town for all the oompa loompahs. There's no island anywhere of only rich beautiful people.
Re: Cryptoland [video]
#106Here[1] is an article with more details. One worrying detail is that whoever runs the Cryptoland Twitter account "joking" about the age of consent being the age of "mental maturity". It is always interesting what laws these people prioritize changing. [1] - https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n38x/cryptocurrency-invest...
The official response to the age of consent thing was that they didn't know what "age of consent" means: https://twitter.com/cryptoland/status/1480231356848349192 They've also sent a C&D to someone: https://twitter.com/cryptoland/status/1480236809531838464
more importantly, a "cease and decease"
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#107The Cryptoland Twitter account also endorsed pedophilic grooming: https://twitter.com/widesauce/status/1478816782966136832 Transcript: > Q: what will the age of consent be in Cryptoland? > A: Mental maturity should be more than enough! :) Cryptoland is either tasteless performance art or a disaster waiting to happen.
Just to clarify -- it wasn't a smile at the end of their gross response, it was a winky face (only important because they're trying to deny they knew what "age of consent" meant now that they caught shit for it, but the little wink gives it away completely).
Re: Cryptoland [video]
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
After browsing OpenSea one may reasonably come to the conclusion that for every competent artist selling NFTs of their art, there are approximately 40,000 low-effort mspaint primates.
It's impressive how quickly the NFT space has abandoned any semblance of selling unique artwork, and converged on ten thousand variants of "randomly generated animal pictures" with half of them being monkeys because they're cargo-culting Bored Ape Yacht Club. Ironically in trying to create "digital scarcity" they've lowered the bar to entry so far that their "scarce" assets are buried under an endless avalanche of ne…
Same thing happened in the online beat space. It used to be producers creating music. Now it's a race to the bottom. Who can download a pre made loop the fastest and put the same drums over everything then sell it for $5. I don't know what has happened with humanity. Everyone just wants to make a quick buck.
Re: Cryptoland [video]
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was marked as unlisted, then Molly White (@molly0xFFF) got ahold of it and started making fun of it. That's how I found out about it. Now Cryptoland is threatening Molly with legal action https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1479974074986209286 Edit: She has another site that is very cool: "Web3 is going just great" consisting of a daily update of the latest rugpulls and other frauds https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
I thought it was a prank? And that c&d looks faked
The email is likely not faked because they doubled-down but it shows another area of incompetance. A real cease and desist would likely go through an actual lawyer (with relevant contact information to ensure they actually have standing), not a legal@ email address.
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#110319 ETH per acre. ($1mil USD today) I'm struggling to find a way to constructively criticize. Project aside, the video is not at all professional to a western audience. (watch all of it, I dare you) It's stylistically tone-deaf for their target market, grift notwithstanding. Who decided that real estate investors need a cartoon? At least Fyre's promo content felt "cool."
It could be deliberate. An unprofessional pitch shrinks the buyer pool, but by repelling scam-savvy people it *concentrates* that pool with vulnerable people, increasing the conversion rate. This is useful if the scammers need to devote a lot of individualized attention on each target. HN had threads discussing this concept (in the context of 419 scams, I think); I don't remember how to find them. Those have enormous…
Repelling scam savvy people with CGI renderings of monuments to previous crypto scams and a slot machine with a flashing "Scam Alert" is unusally direct.
It's almost like they've gone beyond filtering out the savvy and gone straight for the making sure nobody feels sorry for the "investors" angle