It was a good joke, a great one, even.
I nearly fell for it, too. In mid-March 2022, I saw an announcement about the “” dating app, looked at the site, and was intrigued . I sent the site owners an email asking about it, to see if it was a possible story. They responded that it was set to launch in two or three months and had hundreds of signups. I didn’t follow up.out the image of the app with a big red canceled stamp on it back on Feb. 10. It appears they tried the joke then, but it didn’t quite take off.
Over Twitter DMs today, the prankster confirmed to BuzzFeed News that it was a joke. Well, OK, “confirmed” via a winky smiley face, but like, that’s exactly the emoji you’d use to confirm something’s a joke.The prank may not have quite landed in February, or even in March. Perhaps that was ahead of its time. Back then, you, gentle reader, might not have heard of “Bored Apes” or didn’t exactly know what an NFT was.
But now, Twitter has completely coalesced into two camps: NFT enthusiasts and NFT haters, both equally insufferable in their own ways. What made this prank so delicious is that it was able to dunk on both groups — it called NFT people sad dorks and also poked at self-righteous
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