In Crypto, fortunes can be made and lost in the blink of an eye.

It usually comes from people investing in some unheard-of coin, being overleveraged or completely impatient. It’s wild out there when people display these gold rush behaviours.

No part of me believed the headline of the story I’m about to tell you.

I was so sceptical I did a deep dive through the person’s social media to sanity check the information. Unfortunately, for the person involved, and according to their posts it’s entirely accurate.

A pseudonymous crypto investor named LittleShapesNFT on Twitter went viral after his story of returning to consciousness from a five-month coma hit the headlines.

News outlets quickly ran with the story of a man who had survived a horrendous car crash but also ended up financially wrecked because he had left $100k on FTX’s now bankrupt exchange.

I love the internet, especially Twitter, because you can get information straight from the horse’s mouth. I’d be lying if I said watching this all unfold wasn’t box office.

It’s unfortunate, but Little Shapes seems to be going great, and since he posted the picture from his hospital bed, he’s gained 30,000 followers and a ton of internet fame.

The story, however, is way worse than what the headlines describe.

While lying immobilised in a hospital bed for five months, Little Shapes’ world changed entirely.

His wife cheated on him.
His hero Andrew Tate went to jail.
Kanye West turned out to be an anti-Semite
His $100,000 left on FTX was missing.

And then, to put the icing on the cake, he shared the screenshots of him publicly dumping his cheating partner on Twitter after she begged for his forgiveness.

Little Shapes then went into a series of Tweets, saying he was in a car accident five months ago and just woke up from a coma and he didn’t know what had been happening while in the coma, but he wanted to send a Tweet out saying he’d come back stronger than ever.

LittleShapesNFT — Source

Hey, Little Shapes fam, this might sound crazy, but I got into a car accident 5 months ago and just got out of a huge coma.

I don’t know what’s been going on since then but we’re coming back harder than ever.

You’re only on the start, of the Little Shapes journey ❤

Tweet 2

“What the fuck happened to my FTX account
oh my fucking god”

Tweet 3

“I am still wrapping my head around this I’m going to bed. Will prob tell the wife how much was in it (FTX) tomorrow Jesus”

Tweet 4

“Alright to clarify some things -thank you for offering to send money/donate but I don’t want it and wont be accepting any — my wife still doesn’t know and I’m scared”

Tweet 5

“and apparently kanye’s anti Semitic now which is arguably the part that hurts me the most. I feel like I woke up in a whole new reality dude”

Tweet 6

“I’m going to tell my wife tonight but actually this time, she knew we had money in crypto but not in what exchange.

I’ll post an update”

Then somewhere between going to bed and speaking to his wife, Little Shapes posted this, which, if we’re honest, it’s what we were all thinking.

He’s replying to a Tweet from Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange — FTX.

Tweet 7

“Update: About to tell my wife how much money we had in FTX and I poured her some wine to hopefully ease the mood Wish me luck”

Tweet 8

“this is going absolutely terrible”

Tweet 9

“Hello everyone. As you know I was more on the inside of this industry before my accident, and unfortunately just came into some bad news involving my wife and my old NFT industry “”friends.”” I won’t go into depth right now, but things got worse.”

He then drops an absolute bombshell.

They’re getting a divorce because it’s come light that she was cheating on him.

It Was All a Lie.

Hook, line and sinker.

The internet fell for it completely.

Little Shapes completely lied about everything.

What he actually did was use a series of Tweets and false information to gain media headlines all over the world in what he calls a “social experiment” to promote a project he was launching. Yuck.

He did it with, as he says, zero advertising budget, just a pack of lies. But he managed to end up on the front page of Reddit twice and viral on every social media platform worldwide.

He says he did it off the back of a $2k student loan and because he wanted to raise your standards of what you looked for in your favourite Crypto founders.

LittleShapesNFT — Source

“I wanted to raise all of your standards.

Your favourite founders raised $10 Million and took 3 months to make T-shirts.

I took down the biggest NFT scandal in the market and got a fake NFT more organic engagements than they ever did with $2K in FAFSA money off the muscle on my own”

Final Thoughts.

I try and avoid gossip columns, but this story was just too insane not to share with you, and I figured it would break things up from the usual modern finance topics I write about.

One obvious thing in the age we’re going through right now is that attention is the number one currency. And in today’s world, how you get people’s attention almost doesn’t matter.

It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion. You know it’s wrong, but you can’t take your eyes off the action.

In today’s world, where the speed of information and the need to find information that appeals to your particular narrative often takes precedence over truth.

Misinformation has the potential to trigger the next world war.

It can be harmful if someone shares fake information on their Twitter account. Imagine artificial intelligence (AI) being let loose on the internet using unreliable sources.

We believe what we read blindly, which could be dangerous for everyone.