The most obvious stupid scam ever conceived and they actually managed to hook a bunch of actual corporations

Square Enix, Nickelodeon, Coke, KFC, and more fell for this shit while regular people were laughing about how obvious a con it was.

Really puts into question the capitalist myth of the genius entrepreneur and the idea that these corporate types are rich because they are smart or deserving in some way.

  • DifferenceEngine [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    This is one of those moments where you realize these companies aren’t jumping on these trends things for us, but they’re doing it to placate an investor class that doesn’t know any better and wants them to be into the new, hot thing among these twitter brained friends.

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      10 months ago

      yeah I think the execs in these companies saw that people in their rich social circles were messing around with crypto and thought that meant everyone else is doing it and it’s the next big thing, for an industry that markets itself as innovative there’s a lot of herd mentality in tech