Creators of cryptocurrency memes coins behind recent WNBA sex incidents
USA Today Sports discovered the group behind the incidents where sex toys were launched on the field in WNBA matches. Meg Hall explains why this group says they do this.
- A cryptocurrency group claimed the responsibility to launch sex toys at WNBA games.
- The group says that acts are a protest against the “toxic” environment in the world of cryptography and are not intended to lack respect for female athletes.
- Two people were arrested for launching sex toys, but the spokesman claims that they were not affiliated to their group.
- The group says they plan to continue with “lighter” pranks and “more good taste” to attract attention.
Creators of cryptocurrency memes coins say they are responsible for sex toys launched on several WNBA games, and they plan more “pranks”.
From Atlanta to Los Angeles, no arena was immune to green objects whistling from the stands, in the air and on the courts of the WNBA. If there is a timely window, a brightly colored entity will be launched, causing intentional and symbolic chaos, according to a spokesperson for the cryptocurrency group. The person, who uses the name @daldo_raine on social networks, spoke to USA TODAY SPORTS on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the problem.
In the past two weeks, six known incidents of green toy has been launched at WNBA games. The last to draw attention occurred on Tuesday evening in a match between the Indiana fever and the Los Angeles Sparks In Crypto.com Arena de la Green Sex Toys was also launched in the stands at the New York Liberty and Phoenix Mercury games on Tuesday in two Atlanta dream games last week and a Chicago Sky match on Friday. Two people were arrested for several accusations for allegedly launched the objects.
“It’s ridiculous, it’s stupid, it’s stupid,” said Sparks coach Lynne Roberts after the match. “It’s also dangerous. Players’ safety is 1, concerning the game, all these things. I think it’s really stupid.”
The spokesman for the Crypto group told USA TODAY SPORTS which was not the intention. He said that a group of crypto and merchant enthusiasts had launched Green Dildo Coin (Dildo), a piece of memes intended to be light and perceived as a joke, at the end of July to protest against what they describe as a “toxic” environment in the cryptographic world. According to the group, many small players in space find it difficult to follow the influx of influencers and fraudsters.
As a form of protest, the meme piece was created and the faction began to infiltrate WNBA arenas with color coordinated sex toys to coincide with the launch. USA Today Sports obtained SMS showing the group’s coordination and planning before the launch of the play on July 28 and the first sex toy launched in a WNBA match on July 29.
USA TODAY SPORTS has contacted the WNBA about the cryptographic group, sexual toy incidents and security measures in the future. The league refused to comment on the file.
The spokesperson for the Crypto group said it was not his intention to harm anyone, and community members were invited to throw their green articles from a brand only if there is a level of personal comfort and that objects can land without hitting someone. He also shot down any account that sex toys were a sign of lack of respect for female athletes.
Sex toys were launched at sporting events in the past, the best known incident was probably in a New England Patriots match against Buffalo Bills in 2018.
“We have not done this because as we do not like female sports or, as, some of the stories that tend right now are ridiculous,” he said. “Creating disruptions to games is like, it happens in each sport, right? As we have seen in the NFL, as we have seen in hockey, you know … fans doing random things to create more or less attention.
“We knew that to get a voice in space … We had to go out and make viral waterfalls to avoid having to pay this Cabal influencer, sacrifice our souls and the fate of the project.”
The incidents started 10 days after the WNBA stars match, which included significant media coverage and many viral moments on social networks.
The spokesperson explained that catapulant sexual objects (with drawn sunglasses and the name of their medal) consists in making known a culture that they want to perpetuate, cultivated around jokes, pranks and various waterfalls. The green sex toy is supposed to reflect a green candle, and if the price of the candle increases, it represents volatility, which, according to the spokesperson for the group even, is the dream of a merchant. The light color of the object was intentional, he said, disruptive and creation of curiosity.
He also said that the two arrested people were not part of their group. Delbert Carver was reserved for disorderly conduct, public indecency / an indecent exhibition and criminal intrusion after alleging a sex toy at the Atlanta dream stadium on Saturday. And Kaden Lopez, 18, was arrested in Phoenix, suspected of disorderly driving, assault and public presentation of explicit sex material. According to the local Fox station, Lopez told the police that he had seen the viral trend on social networks and had bought his own green sex toy.
“To move forward, we have much more pranks, but they are much lighter. They are much more good taste,” said the spokesperson. “They are with a lot of different brand goods, and it is more or less to keep the dildo identified in different places which are areas with high traffic with cameras.”
The coordinated effort is a strategic protest against what the creators of memes consider as a small group of individuals controlling cryptographic space. From the start, part of the group’s mission was to ensure that enough chaos “attracts a voice” and the attention of the media. The spokesman said they had since secured this and planned to continue their deployment, but would not reveal what the group then planned.
The group also placed a green sex toy on the Wall Street Bull in New York and shared a video with USA Today Sports showing a person with a green toy sitting behind marble during a major league baseball match. “We want to change the crop in crypto, and we want to be the 1,000 against the one,” said the spokesperson.
A piece of the same is a type of cryptographic asset inspired by memes, characters or internet trends “for which the promoter seeks to attract an enthusiastic online community to buy the memes piece and engage in his trading” The Securities and Exchange Commission. The coins are like collectible objects with limited or without features, says the dry, with a value dictated by social and cultural influences. This has more risks compared to other cryptocurrencies with values related to more foreseeable supply and demand relationships.
The nature of the group even of the group raises concerns that this could be in the short term, pump play. A pump and smoke strategy generally involves inflating the price of a room through marketing and the owners who buy large quantities of the medal, then sell it to others who are not intention behind the medal. The original owners then release (unload) their parts to increase the offer once the price has lowered, and anyone who holds cryptocurrency essentially has coins that have a minimum value.
This particular piece of memes has increased by almost 309% in the last seven days and more than 80% in the last 24 hours. It has a 24 -hour negotiation volume over $ 1.3 million, according to Coingecko.com cryptocurrency website.
However, in a conversation recorded online, a member of the group said that it was not their goal.
“Are we looking for a quick pump and dumping ground? No. It’s never vision,” They said On X. “The vision is … we want to bring the trenches back to the chronology. We want to bring a community of basic animals (explanive) who like to make fun (explanive).”
This is a story in development and will be updated.
