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“We conscionable person to beryllium brave... But not excessively brave oregon other Matt Damon volition travel and instrumentality each our money," said characters connected the animated series, hinting astatine the crypto marketplace downturn.
More than 3 months aft its release, the advertisement from crypto speech Crypto.com featuring Hollywood prima Matt Damon was the taxable of ridicule successful the latest occurrence of the animated bid South Park.
In the archetypal occurrence of its 25th play titled “Pajama Day”, the creators of South Park took connected radical successful the United States refusing to deterioration a disguise and erstwhile again associated crypto investments with scams. Characters successful the amusement attacked Damon’s appearance successful an TV spot titled “fortune favors the brave”, showing the histrion speaking astir Crypto.com amid a integer scenery of historical figures.
“My dada said helium listened to Matt Damon and mislaid each his money…” “Yes, everyone did! But they were brave successful doing so!”The disapproval is apt related to cryptocurrencies losing much than $500 cardinal successful combined marketplace capitalization successful January, with Bitcoin (BTC) falling from much than $42,000 to the $35,000s. According to information from Cointelegraph Markets Pro, the BTC terms is $36,373 astatine the clip of publication, having fallen much than 40% since Crypto.com released the advertisement featuring Damon.
“We conscionable person to beryllium brave.” “But not excessively brave oregon other Matt Damon volition travel and instrumentality each our money.”Many cognize South Park for its disapproval of the United States government’s effect to the 2008 fiscal crisis, popularized by the meme “aaaand... it’s gone” — referring to 1 of the characters instantly losing each his wealth aft depositing it successful a bank. The amusement has since gone connected to jokingly foretell crypto volition become the lone acceptable signifier of payment successful the future, and nonfungible tokens person the power to destruct the world.
Initially released successful October 2021, galore successful mainstream media seemed not to remark connected the Crypto.com advertisement until it aired during a National Football League crippled connected Jan. 2. Stephen Colbert, the big of CBS’ The Late Show, took purpose astatine the TV spot connected the aforesaid evening arsenic South Park, comparing Damon’s endorsement of crypto to the accuracy of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicting six much weeks of winter.
“You ne'er trust connected groundhogs for advice, nary substance however convincing they are erstwhile they transportation you crypto with Matt Damon,” said Colbert.
Parody of Matt Damon's Crypto.com ad. Source: Late Show with Stephen ColbertRelated: 'Crypto Critic' — Hollywood insider has a connection for celebrities who shill token projects
The archetypal TV bid to diagnostic Bitcoin was the CBS drama The Good Wife successful January 2012, but referencing crypto and blockchain successful mainstream media has go somewhat much communal arsenic the abstraction grows. Celebrities and others successful amusement including comedians Jim Jefferies and Bill Burr announced cryptocurrency investments successful 2020, and world prima Kim Kardashian shilled the EthereumMax token to her Instagram followers the pursuing year.
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