NFTs have monetary value because of speculation. Meanwhile, nobody would buy something so expensive (hundreds and hundreds of dollars) for a game so simple… Other games often have real-world money value items that are incredibly rare, like some Dota 2 items for example, but those are games with heavy work, quantity, and quality, that many people play and thus those items have value. So the earning portion is entirely reliant on buyers. Literally 50% of the time the poor people give their profits to the rich, lmaoįor me it’s the fact that the concept of play-to-earn sounds like you’re being paid to play a game, but in reality it’s pay-to-earn-to-sell, entirely reliant on selling to others who cannot earn. Heck, the way it sets up “the rich people” and “the poor people” is as on-target for a sham as possible. Gameplay? You mean selling things?” The wolf game is just like peak example of an absolute void of game, and absolute presence of loss of money. To me these p2e games sound like “we’ve designed a game around you spending money to play, for the purpose of turning around to sell things. Ebola-chan: a jokey cartoon “mascot” for Ebola that, in the hands of some particularly unprincipled 4chan users, became a hoax directed at vulnerable West Africans.Click to shrink.For me it’s the fact that the concept of play-to-earn sounds like you’re being paid to play a game, but in reality it’s pay-to-earn-to-sell, entirely reliant on selling to others who cannot earn.Needless to say, that’s one of many 4chan news hoaxes. Apple Wave: an alleged “feature” of the iPhone 6, hyped by 4chan users on Twitter, wherein people can charge their phones by microwaving them.Bikini bridge: an invented beauty/fitness trend that encouraged women to lose enough weight to create a gap between the bones of their hip and pelvis the trend, though fake, eventually caught on in online eating-disorder communities.#Leakforjlaw: a similar social media prank that encouraged women to post their nude photos in support of Jennifer Lawrence.#Cutforbieber: a Twitter hashtag that encouraged young Beliebers to cut themselves to demonstrate their love for the performer.Fake bomb threats: a vast number of hoaxers have posted mass bomb and shooting threats to 4chan, prompting several arrests and evacuations.4chan has successfully gotten a swastika to trend on Google. Google- and poll-bombing: voting or searching for the same terms en masse, to either sabotage an online vote or make a topic trend artificially.
The cyberbullying of Jessi Slaughter: one of the earliest high-profile incidents of cyberbullying, in which 4chan members sent death threats and calls to an 11-year-old girl who would later make multiple suicide attempts.Gamergate has since wrecked the lives of several female gamers and commentators and spawned a larger discussion about the way that industry treats women. Gamergate: an ongoing movement to expose “corruption” in video game journalism, which was (purportedly!) drummed up by 4chan users.Celebgate: the leak of dozens of stolen celebrity nude photos, which - while no longer available on 4chan - still exist as downloadable torrents across the Web.