A Guide to Child Culture for Adults Out of Touch With Reality: Did Logan Paul Pay $3.5 Million for Fake Pokémon Cards?
This week YouTuber Logan Paul got scammed for three and a half million dollars, crypto-heads are planning to leave us forever, and children are eating NyQuil chicken – or none of this is happening at all, because everything is fake.
Logan Paul stole $3.5 million
Famous YouTuber andhighly paid boxer Logan Paul has apparently been swindled out of $3.5 million. He paid that amount for a box of 1st Generation Pokémon cards, but it turned out that the sealed boxes were full of nearly useless GI Joe cards. Paul was warned by Pokémon collectors that the box was most likely a fake (its history is very sketchy), but the authenticity of the unopened box was confirmed by the Baseball Card Exchange before Paul bought it.
Ina video posted on his channel , Paul said “I’m a super positive person bro and I will always look on the bright side and I try but it’s very hard.” learning that the cards are fake. Since this is the internet, chances are that some or all of this story is also fake.
Cryptoland is trying to lure residents
Would you like to live on a tropical island inhabited exclusively by cryptocurrency brothers creating a blockchain-based utopia? If you are like me, you answered: “Perhaps if I am convicted of an unspeakable crime and forced to choose between execution and exile”, but maybe we are not far-sighted enough.
According to a presentation video posted by the people behind the (almost definitely scam) project, Cryptoland is planned to be “an international hub where the community can come to work, live and play, and enjoy a top-notch crypto lifestyle… A paradise built by crypto enthusiasts for crypto enthusiasts.” .
Allegedly, a guy named Kyle Chasse has already forked over $750,000 in counterfeit money to live on an island in Fiji. While this is almost certainly either a joke or a scam , I desperately want it to be true, just for laughs.
Do kids really eat NyQuil chicken?
If you’re looking for something to eat for dinner tonight and feeling sick about SAR, don’t consider making ” NyQuil chicken. ” An online recipe calling for chicken breast stew in NyQuil cold medicine is going viral this week.
This isn’t new, and it seems like it’s more of an attempt to piss people off than what people actually eat, but just in case: according to medical professionals , boiling water and alcohol from NyQuil concentrates the drug, which does its dangerous. You will breathe in fumes and if you don’t cook the chicken long enough you will get food poisoning. So this is a bad idea in every way. NyQuil paste is a bad idea. NyQuil smoothies are also a bad idea, but maybe less bad than chicken because you don’t actually boil the medicine.
Airing this week: Season 4 of Cobra Kai and Peacemaker.
This week, Netflix released the fourth season of the action/comedy/karate series Cobra Kai , while HBO released the first few episodes of the action/comedy/superhero series Peacekeeper.
While these shows are very different in terms of audience and style – ” Cobra Kai ” is a wacky cheesy martial arts festival aimed at kids, while “Peacemaker ” is a dark superhero comedy definitely aimed at adults – the protagonists are amazingly similar. Both John Cena’s Peacemaker and William Zabka’s Johnny Lawrence are white dudes who love 1980s metal, bloated in their own power and importance, and seem lost in a world where their once-ubiquitous brand of toxic man-childish masculinity is barely surviving. This is how children see us.
Viral Video of the Week: Horse kicks tree, farts on dogs and runs away
I don’t know why the YouTube algorithm caters to everyone this week: “A horse kicks a tree, farts on a dog, and runs away ,” but I’m glad it does. In the video, the horse kicks a tree, farts on the dogs, and then runs away. If it looks like something you’ll like (and I already know it’s what you’ll like) , click the link right away.
The video has been viewed by more than 13 million people and the reaction is almost always positive. “This horse really kicks a tree, farts on dogs, and then runs away… and it’s absolutely majestic!” YouTube user Rainbow Unicorn comments where Smart Smears says “I feel like everyone wants to be that horse at times like this.” I feel that way too.