At the end of the first half of a Los Angeles fever match on Tuesday evening, a neon green sex toy thrown from the stands landed on the ground of Crypto.com Arena, at the foot of the goalkeeper of Indiana Sophie Cunningham.
Simultaneously, a group of people during an audio livestream on X was delighted at the moment and celebrated its potential to help stimulate the value of a same, a cryptocurrency derived from an internet meme but has exchanged very real markets online. The play was created on July 28, the day before the first occurrence of a sex toy launched in a WNBA court, and Thursday, its value had almost tripled in a week.
“Someone tweets that there is one in the game Sparks,” said a person on the river.
“It is literally the best scenario that we could imagine,” replied another, because the sex toy had fallen near Cunningham, who had a plea earlier in the week so that the spectators do not throw the objects on the courtyard, which encountered many memes involving the phallic object.
The incident in Los Angeles – as well as others that occurred that evening – seems to be part of a coordinated effort, born from the troubled and often mysterious corners of Internet culture, social media and opportunistic pieces on the cryptocurrency markets.
Like many things on the internet, users often interact without revealing their identity, especially in public circles. Samecoins, a novelty digital active ingredient from a meme, is part of a strange intersection of jokes that transform into something that users are trying to transform into an asset with more value, such as Dogecoin or Shiba Inu Coin.
A user speaking on a flow called the attention created by incidents and the chatter which results in “the following level”.
“This stimulates each cryptographic community of F-IG to start leaving the beaten track. Be creative and F -ing do something that makes people laugh. Even should make you laugh,” he said, adding: “The whole mission with this was the emphasis on the impact in cryptographic culture.”
It seems that the WNBA and its athletes are at the heart of the joke, whatever the intentions of the founders, and no matter how the players reacted. The incidents have aroused opportunities for detractors to make fun of the female league and sports in general.
“Women’s sexualization is what is used to retain women, and it’s no different,” said Minnesota lynx coach Cheryl Reeve. “These people who do this should be held responsible. We are not the chick of the joke, they are the problem.”
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THURSDAY, Donald Trump Jr. shared a meme This represented his father, President Donald J. Trump, throwing a sex toy from the roof of the White House on a court of women’s basketball players. “Published without any other comment,” said the youngest Trump, adding three emojis laughing.
From July 29, three neon green sex toys were thrown in the WNBA courts. At the New York Liberty game on Tuesday evening, an X video shows a similar object confiscated in the stands. Other social media users said there was an attempt to launch one at the Phoenix Mercury Game, which was played at the same time in the Sparks competition.
During Tuesday’s delivery, there was also a question of making another toy at the Free Climate Engaged Arena of Seattle Storm in the Tuesday match against Minnesota Lynx, although no incident occurred, confirmed a Storm spokesperson confirmed Athletics.
It seems that the Crypto -Mencoin community, Green Dildo Coin, is the source of the latest wave of WNBA incidents. Tuesday evening, live, the members recognized the communication they have with those who launch the sex toys in the WNBA arenas.
“I have just seen that the East Eastern Building,” said a member of the stream about seven minutes after the sex toy landed on the ground, indicating that the person who threw him fled without being apprehended.
“There are members of the community who bring their lives into play, so the least you can do is retweet,” said the same member as the law was starting to become viral on social networks.
“The potential launcher (in Seattle), if you want, lost his phone in Lake Washington, so I had to contact a friend who was able to put me in contact, and he is now ready,” said another member of the river about the potential incident during Tuesday storm game.
A source of the league said Athletics that the WNBA is aware of the recent Stream of Green Dildo Coin.
Last week, a 23 -year -old man of Georgia was arrested and accused of disorderly driving, of public indecency / indecent exposure and criminal intrusion, according to the County Judicial system of Clayton, a few days after the first of these incidents.
The messages shared on the flow and in the Cat telegram of the community suggest that the people directly involved in the Green Dildo Coin community were not aware of Delbert Carver before his arrest, although the members of the community were alerted to watch the game of Dream-Golden Valkyries of Atlanta on July 29.
“Obviously, it was no one in the community,” said a member of Tuesday Stream. “I didn’t want to give it credit, but I thought we could go and pay the deposit of this type, and say, as you know what, we support the launchers of green dildos.”
The WNBA said on Saturday in a statement that anyone throwing an object in the court would be immediately ejected, is subject to a one -year ban and could cope with arrest and prosecution by local authorities.
“The security and well-being of all in our arenas are an absolute priority for our league. Objects of any type thrown on the field or in the lounge area may present a security risk for players, game managers and fans,” said the League.
An 18 -year -old man, Kaden Lopez, was also arrested in the Mercury match on Tuesday after the police said that he had launched a sex toy towards the seats in front of him, hitting a man and his 9 -year -old niece. Sergeant Phil Krynsky, spokesperson for the Phoenix police department, confirmed Lopez’s arrest in a press release Athletics.
The identities of those who created green dildos are not clear, although the field of the same website was recorded on July 19, according to Who.is, an Internet Domain Research Service. According to Christian Grewell, a blockchain expert and cryptocurrency technology at New York University, “almost nothing to do, they are essentially free, but they can generate millions of profits in a few days.”
The community also has an online showcase which sells clothes related to the Toy and the same. It was recorded on July 7, almost two weeks before the first sex toy in a WNBA court.
Green Dildo Coin launched his account on X on July 28, with his apparent founder, Lieutenant Daldo Raine, expressing a speech of almost 15 minutes – usurped the opening speech of the character of Brad Pitt, Lieutenant Aldo Raine, in the “insignificant bastards” of Quentin Tarantino – in which he explains the goal of the same. The WNBA is not explicitly mentioned in the opening comments, although Raine said that “evidence of our cruelty” are in the “giant green, aggressive and erect candles that we leave behind”.
In several live flows listened to by AthleticsMembers regularly expressed raw humor on the WNBA. Jokes were made about the WNBA audience, and the memes circulated in the telegram of the community juxtaposed the sex toy in the hands of the WNBA players.
“The attention we have created for a dildo ($ 40) and seats ($ 140) is the upper level,” said one of the aforementioned members of the community on the watercourse. “This stimulates each F-IG cryptographic community to start leaving the beaten track. Show creativity and do something that makes people laugh. Same should make you laugh. The memes should make you laugh.
“It is a movement for me to allow the average FG teacher.
Incidents seemed to modify the $ Gode negotiation prices. According to the Coingecko Cryptocurrency website, it has a commercial volume of more than $ 1.5 million between Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. Polymarket, a prediction model based on cryptocurrencies, has also taken bet on the question of whether the disturbances occur. The site reported that it had taken more than $ 180,000 in volume on the question of whether a sex toy would be launched to a game by August 10. Platform users can also exchange the specific day that another sex toy will be thrown.
“Dildo’s launch incidents were essentially an excuse so that the bad players divert existing negativity and convert it to attention,” Greewell wrote in an email to Athletics.
Raine, the group’s spokesperson, told USA Today that the disruption of the use of sex toys at the WNBA games is probably over, but that the pranks would not stop. A photo circulated online, and in the community’s telegram cat, a spectator holding a green sex toy during the Miami Marlins game on Wednesday evening.
“If we are too disruptive for too long, people will be annoyed,” a stream member said on Tuesday. “The biggest events, we must find creative ways to love the cameras on us, then, F -ing Bingo.”
WNBA players and coaches expressed their dissatisfaction with the incidents and asked for taking into account the safety of the players.
After the second incident, which occurred in Chicago last Friday, the Sky Center Elizabeth Williams said that it was “super disrespectful” and “really immature”.
“It’s ridiculous, it’s stupid, it’s stupid,” said Sparks coach Lynne Roberts.
(Photo of Sophie Cunningham: Sean M. Haffy / Getty Images)
