4 points

I can’t help but picture this guy as the pantsless frat ghost from US Ghosts and now this is charming help help me

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31 points

“I gotta sell this ape before it’s price is zero” this man says, without any introspectuon as to him trying to sell this ape for money while admitting it’s worthless. These people are the dumbest humans and should be studied.

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15 points

Named the ape Salazar which I am sure is not a reference to anyone.

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9 points

I gave him the benefit of the doubt and thought maybe it’s a reference to the RE4 character, but then I saw the badge on its helmet.

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8 points

whats the tea honey

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Salazar was the fascist prime minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. People within the whole ape NFT sphere keep making obtuse reference to fascist figures and iconography.

Less likely is it’s a reference to Salazar Slytherin, an evil racist wizard from Harry Potter.

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I never did understand NFTs. What happened to them? I know everyone here clocked them immediately for the obvious scams they are, but of course there were celebrities swearing by them and talk of them was everywhere and unavoidable. Now I don’t hear a peep about them. My hope is that this is because every rich fuck or cryptobro who swore by them has been driven into the kind of financial despair they always mocked. Is that true? Are all the mid-to-low level NFT connoisseurs now destitute or at least dispossessed of much of their ill-begotten wealth that they had accumulated before going all in on NFTs? Are NFTs 100% dead now (thank Allah), or is there a chance these dipshits will push hard enough that there will be some kind of a resurgence?

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3 points

It is a monument to the spectacularly stupid things that money is wasted on by the people who have far too much of it

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Celebrities were swearing by them because all celebrities hire management/consultants to handle their money. There was a boom in NFTs among rich circles in California. They became both fashionable and a way to quickly scam some money together.

Since celebrity financial managers are all inbred with tech bro California money dorks, celebrities ended up endorsing whatever their management told them to endorse. Most celebrities probably didn’t see it any different from doing a toothpaste commercial. They were told to buy NFTs to seem hip and to make money.

I don’t think anyone has actually been driven into financial ruin from NFTs. The kind of people buying the things already had a ton of money to throw around for other useless commodities.

All crypto has been slowly dying since the whole FTX scandal.

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16 points

The “value” of the NFTs was tied to the value of the coins (almost always etherium) on the chain on which they were minted. The hammer came down on FTX which was the primary company propping up the bezzle bringing down the hanger-on scams with it.

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9 points

Eth is actually not far off from its all time high value im pretty sure. FTX was just one of many hype bros scamming.

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So they really are all worthless now? After all that? If so…

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32 points

Juche gang stay winning

Also

spoiler

Bumbledoor lmao

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24 points

A lot of good apes went down in that hack

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