A group of cryptographic investors claims the responsibility of a series of incidents where green sex toys were thrown to the WNBA courts, adding a strange wrinkle to an already loaded fury that throws a shadow on the league.
The WNBA games in Atlanta, Brooklyn, Chicago, Los Angeles and Phoenix have seen bright green, phallic -shaped objects, thrown towards hard wood during the game. Incidents have stimulated at least two arrests and a fuss of the participants and fans of the WNBA.
In fact, the incidents were designed to promote a so -called “meme” coin. These digital cryptocurrencies see their increase in value as more buyers accumulate in assets.
The creators of the token of green consumption coins, which has its own website, have not yet publicly revealed their identities. But in an interview with NBC News, one of the sponsors, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, denied that the scheme had something to do with racism or misogyny, and was designed to promote the community of Memecoin, which according to him is increasingly captured by “inflatant covers” and other bad actors.
“Our group joins people to make people laugh, make Memecoins fun and fun again, and try to revive a cryptography culture that has been lost,” he said.
He said that the original plan was to make four individuals launch green sex toys, which according to him were designed to represent the spirit of upward trade, on the WNBA courts on a single night last Tuesday. An individual finally decided not to move on, while the launch of another did not reach the court. A third individual was arrested.
The Athletic, the sports departure owned by New York Times, and USA Today, both reported Thursday about the cryptographic connection.
The Token spokesman reached by NBC News said that the planning months had obtained the launch of July 28 of the campaign, which also includes a website, merchandise, NFT and a telegram social networks channel that has now accumulated more than 1,000 members.
In the midst of the reaction, he considered that the effort a success.
“People are talking about that. They are seeing it in places relevant to everyday society,” he said. “That is why jokes are important to spread the message: it is about providing a fresh, new and safe place for memes.”
USA Today was the first exit to talk to a representative of the Memecoin group.
The jokes also seem to be paying financially: for Friday night, market capitalization, or combined value, of all currencies stood at approximately $ 15 million, according to a market tracker. The value maintained by each of the 10 best coins owners is now more than $ 100,000.
The spokesman compared the effort to try to revive the spirit that helped push the stocks of memes such as Gamestop with new heights several years ago, and that simultaneously challenged the most established Wall Street players. He said that a green dildo had also been placed in the Bull statue of Wall Street in New York, and in a Miami Marlins baseball game.
“You have the ability to participate financially in a trend or movement,” said the man. He added that, in contrast to many digital tokens whose virality, and value, they can be linked to a single Tiktok creator, “a meme coin is created through a trend, jokes, content, and each average person can monetize that trend, that is more or less the beauty of it.”
The incidents of the WNBA game have presented the indignation of the players and fans of a league that is already subject to a continuous invective in racist and misogynist.
“The safety and welfare of all in our sands is a priority for our league,” said a WNBA representative on Thursday. “Objects of any kind thrown to the court or in the seat area can represent a safety risk for players, game officials and fans.”
Anyone who intentionally throws an object to the court will be expelled immediately and will face a minimum one year prohibition of attending the Games, the representative added.
Despite this outrage, the current jokes seem to be supported by Donald Trump Jr., he himself very involved in cryptographic projects, which published a Photoshop meme on social networks on Thursday that shows the president by launching a green sex toy to a WNBA court from the White House roof.
The representatives of the President of the President and the White House did not respond to the requests for comments.
At least six incidents that involve vulgar jokes have been reported during the past week, even during a PHOENIX Mercury game, where an 18 -year -old girl threw a green sex toy that fell short from the floor. Instead, he hit a man watching the game with his nine -year -old niece, Fox10phoenix reported. The man, together with the WNBA and the operators of the PHX of Mercury Arena, seek to process the author.
A suspect in that incident, Kaden López, tried to flee after launching the sex toy, but was approached and retained for the police, according to judicial documents. López said he was “very unfortunate” for the trick and called his actions a “stupid joke that was in social networks.”
Memecoin spokesman told NBC News that López was connected to Memecoin Core’s launching group; Lopez could not be contacted to comment. A suspect involved in a launch incident during an Atlanta dream game, Delbert Carver, admitted it when he was interviewed by the police, judicial documents said. He faces multiple positions.
“This was supposed to be a joke and this joke was supposed to go viral,” College Park told a sworn statement.
Carver, 23, could not be contacted immediately to comment on Friday.
Memecoin spokesman said the group had no prior knowledge of Carver.
“These are community tokens, we are not a business,” he said. “Anyone can contribute.”
