buying my own private island

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Polygon had a big week.

Sometimes a throwaway shitpost escapes the internet bubble it came from and takes on a whole new life of its own on another platform.

We had the pleasure of witnessing this phenomenon this week. When a guy who works at World posted the below tweet. (Disclosure, he’s a friend but that is irrelevant to the story except for my knowing of the facts.)

World is a crypto project aiming to create a global digital identity. It has a token, a dystopian-looking Orb hardware device, and was founded by Sam Altman, which means people live to hate on it.

The tweet from @lay2000lbs, which for those who have eyes to see was a bit of a joke, links to a bizarre property that had recently sold at auction.

Then something happened that could only happen on the internet. A Reddit user took this seriously and decided to rile people up over on a subreddit called r/CryptoCurrency.

The upvotes started rolling in, the comments went off, and more and more posts were written about this World employee who was about to buy a private island off the coast of Manhattan.

As always, the comment section is really the sweet spot for people fighting with full delusion, complete inaccuracy, and absolute abandon.

By the second day, the story had evolved. The dev was now the founder, the island’s purchase price was said to be between $50 and $150 million, and “straight to jail” was a common recommendation for what should happen to the buyer.

Now, it should go without saying, but everything about this story on Reddit is basically inaccurate.

But it serves as a good opportunity to remind you all:

1) Don’t believe everything you see on the internet
2) Especially don’t believe it if it has anything to do with crypto