I'm the person who started all the fuss @FameLadySquad and @queenship_ project. I have enough proof to state that FLS was created by 3 males who are also behind a whole bunch of abandoned NFT projects.
And their "signature" convinces me Queenship is also their product. Thread/
A couple of days after our launch we were invited into an NFT chat with other Russian-speaking devs creating NFT projects. The guys who created FLS were there.
Back than lots of projects we moving to BSC, they also started making @unicorns_bsc. Initially, we were just casually chatting and I even helped @d_mefi (one of their team) with some marketing tips
Then, at some point someone brought to us @NeuralPunks which was a copy of our project but much wors. And their designs looked a lot of what those guys did
Initially, I discarded the thought it was them as we seemed to chat and exchange NFT experience quite well.
But, then, I noticed those guys were minting new NFT projects like a conveyor
They released another one called @doge_bsc and that when I went on the blockchain and compared addresses from Neural Punk and all their other projects and found a connection!
@doge_bsc At the same time I went to their project's chats and saw this. It's the beginning of July. Nobody knows about FLS yet. @d_mefi promoting it in both their chat.
@doge_bsc@d_mefi He says he's just helping. But that's the trick. They used fake names in all their project's chats. And said their friends launched another project whenever they needed to funnel audience into the next cash crab.
And look at the date!
Most of their new projects start from a giveaway at @d_mefi twitter. FLS did the same. The giveaway is deleted now. That's the screenshot of one of the participants I found via Twitter search
@d_mefi Here comes a blockchain proof that @d_mefi is not "just helping".
This wallet had several OUT transactions. We need the 13.5 ETH one. Follow the path
It leads us to what it likely is a deposit wallet of @Bizlato P2P exchange. Yes, the person was cashing out. What is more, Bizlato operates in Russia and has a Russian language version
Study all the deposits. And discover other wallets that deposited funds there before. There are 2 interesting ones.
It also interacted with the deployer of @NftIdols (website is dead, actually)
Enough blockchain. What other proof do I have?
You don't really say "maketer" in such cases if you're a native. There is a reason why they used it. Google Translate. Same with "our". It's a mirror of "наш" in the Russian language.
Remember this "marketer". We'll need it
"Strong and independent woman" is a copy of Russian saying "сильная и независимая женщина". Modernly it's used as a mockery, not just statement. Any Russian would confirm that
Let's go to OpenSea now!
One of the trait is called Morgenshtern. It's a tattoo of 666 Russian blogger and YouTuber has. Would American ladies know that?
Remember I told you they're a conveyor of NFT projects?
Pasting this to the link of a popular Russian social network we find a guy of more or less same age and profile. But cannot be sure about this one. No other proofs.
@ColeThereum@FameLadySquad@M_PlanetsNFT@UnicornGGClub The whole story is kind of personal to me as I'm also Russian. And lots or Russians in crypto are afraid to share their nationality expecting it would make them look more suspicious.
It's important who is saying and not what is being said.
@ColeThereum@FameLadySquad@M_PlanetsNFT@UnicornGGClub As medium is the message. It's, probably, it's important to add some short bio of myself here.
I'm 26, Russian. I came to crypto in the middle of 2017. And we actually started from a meme project @SpaceKimICO. It was a parody North Korean ICO funding DPRK space mission
It went locally viral in the beginning of 2018, but then crypto market started going down and we lost most of steam and struggled to come up with a good follow-up
Currently, we're going to revive SpaceKIM as I also feel liable before people who supported the project
Then me and my mate Nick with whom we do all the crypto projects came to NFTs! Yes, in the end of 2018!
We were merging comics strips and an NFT lottery. One featured @CryptoKitties. And @NateAlexNFT was most active community member
Sadly enough, the startup got shut in the middle of 2019 due to bear market, poor management and, maybe, our yet immaturity as marketing managers
Unfortunately, we didn't stay in the NFT sphere, although it was most interesting and continued our carees in other spheres of crypto to come back in the autumn 2020.
Our most successful project so far is @NeuralPepe. It's a collection of 7,777 AI generated images of Pepe the Frog. This one is on BSC. Not because we love it, just due to low fees and lesser NFT competition.
And we have a super cool community there!
Not all Russian people in crypto are tricksters. And we were lucky to connect with @filmakarov and his team who came to crypto from gamedev.
Recently, Fil invited me an Nick to join the team of @WannabesMusClub it's an NFT collection inspired by the music and music community!
Our team is completely public, doxxed and passionate about music. And we're building a community of music fans, aspiring and successful musicians.
Our arts we inspired by Jamie Hewlett's works!
I think that's it. 7 am on my clock and I need to get some sleep. Hope, my intro wasn't too tactless here.
Thank you all for spreading the word so fast! It's truly impressive!
UPDATE. Seems these guys went for a cash grab spree and launched a whole bunch of projects. This one was deployed 15 hours ago
@d_mefi That's a bonus for Russian-speaking. @filmakarov asking in the chat "confess who of you did this?". He doesn't know I'm aware who did it yet. So one of them asks why Fil thinks so. Fil explains it's because of "strong and independent woman" is definitely borrowed from Russian.
@d_mefi@filmakarov .@plutoverse has helped to find more evidence on people connected to. Obviously, making 4-6 projects (or more?) can be hard for such a small team. So, most likely, there were accomplices.
Meet Ivan Shmalenko aka John Russo
@d_mefi@filmakarov@plutoverse Ivan is a former business partner of Max Rand. Here they're presenting their MRRX AR startup together.
There is one detail from @ryder_ripps investigation which made it to the @thirdeyeoftruth doc that I found dubious — the claim that apes 1488 and 6969 were put in their places on purpose. I doubted as I thought BAYC had a proper random reveal.
It turns out, they didn't /THREAD
In order to show how the reveal worked in the BAYC case and why there wasn't a proper randomness procedure I'll need to explain some technical details first.
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As @GordonGoner said in the interview to @CoinDesk they were highly inspired by @TheHashmasks. It's not surprising as the Hashmask were the project that started the PFP mania.
It seems @yugalabs has also borrowed a part of the smart contract and reveal design from them.
Another unbelievable coincidence. Gargramel (Greg Solano) wrote his thesis about 2666, by Roberto Bolaño. The book's protagonist is Hans Reiter, nazi physician and war criminal
Another Bolaño book called Nazi Literature in the Americas is featuring a story of a fiction Cuban author Ernesto Pérez Masón encrypting Nazi propaganda in his writing
Of course, there is nothing wrong in writing a thesis about a Roberto Bolaño book which is considered contemporary classics. But it highlights that the Nazi/WWII theme has been an area of Greg's interest
BAYC is of the most intricate hidden trolling campaigns in history created by very intelligent 4chan-related trolls who have hidden lots of nazi and alt-right innuendoes across the collection I've gathered enough proof to confirm it.
Ultimate extensive thread 🧵
I'm going to write this thread as my investigation story so you can see how I obtained all the proof and what my thought and reasoning was throughout the process. This way it want look like just a wall of dry facts and will be simply more interesting to read
Initially, it may look like another compilation of "stretched" facts you have probably heard during the previous "BAYC is racist" discussion. Please, be patient to read till the moment when all dots start connecting
On one hand Pickelhaube it's a symbol of German colonialism and WWI aggression. On the other, it inspired similar helmet designs of other nations and some are being used up to date and they're devoid of any negative connotation