@LittleShapesNFT, who had been promoting an NFT project consisting of 4,444 differently shaped images that he said were generated with a physics engine, subsequently tweeted a photo showing him “leaving the hospital.”
Then came the gut hit. “What the hell happened to my FTX account?he tweeted, followed in quick succession by “oh my fucking god.” During the period when @LittleShapesNFT said he was in a coma, the FTX crypto exchange it had collapsed spectacularly, ripping him and many other investors out of their cash.
The story went viral and a Series of crypto publications gullibly covered The story of @LittleShapesNFT. One site ran a exclusive interview with the victimwho told them that he was hit by a Ford F-150 and had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in FTX while in a coma.
“The owner’s story behind Little Shapes reads more like a script from a Hollywood thriller than a real-life story shared on Twitter,” that article began, “so I reached out to the account owner for some very detailed context. necessary in your crazy experience.”
The reason the story sounds “like a script for a Hollywood thriller” is because, BuzzFeed News reveals, the story was completely fabricated.
But the hoax was not, as one might expect, designed to generate interest in the Little Shapes NFT project. The 23-year-old Miamian behind @LittleShapesNFT, who asked to use the pseudonym Atto, told BuzzFeed News that he made the whole thing up as part of a scheme to draw attention to his allegations about how corrupted the NFT industry is: claims to go public today.
Atto first admitted to BuzzFeed News that his story was fictional on Jan. 5, after we reached out to him about his incredible story. (BuzzFeed News did not report that the coma story was fabricated at the time as a condition of gaining access to Atto’s research findings prior to publication.) He said that the photo of the hospital bed that started the whole saga was provided by an NFT. world friend of yours The tweet with the handwritten date proof was filmed outside a local hospital. He also had no money in FTX.
And the evidence he presented to detractors in later days, including medical billsthey were fakes created using online image manipulation sites. Tweets you posted about struggling to tell his wife about his financial loss were also false. “Yes, brother, I am 23 years old,” she said when asked if his spouse was made up. “Fuck a wife.”
