Tiffany Fong flames Celsius, FTX and NY Post: Hall of Flame

Name: Tiffany Fong
Anonymous: No 
Twitter followers: 51.7K 
Known for: Breaking leaked info connected Celsius and interviewing Sam Bankman-Fried aft the FTX collapse 

Who is Tiffany Fong anyway? 

Tiffany Fong is 28 years old, has a inheritance successful marketing, and describes herself arsenic a “reluctant crypto contented creator” who developed a pursuing aft $100,000 worthy of her crypto assets were locked up by bankrupt crypto lender Celsius. 

She’s posted much than 20 captious videos astir the institution since June 2022 and has been blocked by Celsius, laminitis Alex Mashinsky and his wife, Krissy.

“I had nary plans to beryllium an influencer oregon national writer oregon anything. I conscionable personally mislaid a clump of wealth to Celsius Network, and I was conscionable huffy and wanted determination to vent.”

“So, I started posting connected YouTube and Twitter astir it aft Celsius went down, and past it benignant of snowballed into more,” she adds. Fong says she got into crypto backmost successful 2010 arsenic 1 of her relatives was mining Bitcoin. Scooping up a clump of BTC and immoderate different assets aboriginal on, Fong said she hodled and remained connected the periphery of the abstraction until the Celsius disaster.

How did she get fashionable connected Twitter? 

Her celebrated follower would go a monolithic accidental down the road. Amid the chaos of the FTX bankruptcy, Fong reached retired to SBF connected aggregate occasions and managed to people a bid of interviews and backstage conversations with him, and adjacent visited him doubly precocious during his location apprehension successful Palo Alto.

As such, she has drawn a batch of attraction from the media, and adjacent U.S. politicians. 

One telephone interview, successful particular, was besides featured successful a collaborative YouTube video betwixt Fong and Coffeezilla, which present has 1.8 cardinal views. She copped disapproval online from those who questioned her deficiency of finger-wagging astatine SBF, particularly fixed Coffeezilla’s highly captious tone.

“I decidedly dealt with a batch of pushback erstwhile I initially started posting astir my conversations with SBF. Like to me, adjacent if I don’t judge what the idiosyncratic is saying, I’m benignant of personally funny successful proceeding their claims,” she said, adding that: 

“Even if I deliberation that they’re lying, to me, much accusation is amended due to the fact that they’ll extremity up hanging themselves with their ain words. Like I deliberation SBF has done aggregate times.”

What you tin expect connected her Twitter?

When not posting scoops, she’s astir apt shitposting. Sometimes literally.

There is nary amended illustration of this than her Twitter posts concerning her sojourn to the White House backmost successful December. 

Sharing a photograph of her lasting adjacent to President Joe Biden via Twitter connected Dec. 17, she captioned the photo: “I fto @Potus [Biden] odor my hair.” 

It’s a notation to a fashionable meme astir Biden seemingly invading women’s idiosyncratic abstraction by whiffing their hair. 

Adding discourse connected however the hellhole she managed to people an invitation to the White House, Fong said that 1 of her followers worked for the concealed work and lined up an invitation for her. 

“I made him nonstop maine a photograph of him holding his authorities ID with 3 fingers up similar it was a full thing. But, like, I’m not going to crook down a sojourn to the White House for escaped — I’m not an important person. And there’s nary different mode I’m gonna beryllium capable to spell to the White House,” she said. 

“Yeah, that turned into a immense conspiracy mentation connected Twitter that I’m similar a fed that’s similar moving with Biden oregon thing similar that. I’m not adjacent governmental whatsoever.” 

Twitter beefs 

Mild beef: BitBoy Crypto

Crypto YouTuber Ben Armstrong traveled to the Bahamas successful precocious November to face SBF.

Knowing Fong had a nonstop enactment to SBF, Armstrong DMed her for a connection, but aft she ignored him, helium started flaming her. “He seemingly claimed that I was jealous of him being successful the Bahamas, and I was like, ‘Why would I beryllium jealous astatine each that you flew internationally to unsuccessfully effort to interrogation SBF?’” she says.

Medium uncommon beef: the Daily Mail and the New York Post 

Reporting connected Fong’s interactions with SBF successful December, the Daily Mail and the New York Post some utilized bikini pics, called her a “sexy crypto influencer” and suggested that Fong could beryllium dating SBF. She slammed them connected Twitter for their slimy clickbait. 

This led to a spat with the Daily Mail writer who wrote the nonfiction and the work removing her bikini pictures successful their nonfiction thumbnails. The New York Post did not travel suit. 

Top prime beef: Krissy Mashinsky

Alex Mashinsky’s wife, Krissy, has taken purpose astatine Fong, claiming she is portion of SBF’s interior circle.

Fong’s header photograph connected her Twitter leafage displays a tweet from Krissy Mashinsky claiming that she hacked into Celsius Zoom calls. 

The 2 had galore spats connected Twitter (before the blocking), and Fong does not mince her words: “She’s done a batch of worldly that’s insane. She posts videos of their multi-million-dollar penthouse successful Manhattan aft they’ve ruined the lives of 1000s of people. So, I deliberation she’s conscionable perfectly deranged.”

Twitter likes and dislikes

“It’s amusive having a community. And I conjecture it’s bully to immoderate grade to person a dependable that immoderate radical are funny successful listening to,” she says astir the positives. 

“What bash I not like? I mean, things tin go inflammatory truly rapidly and, obviously, taken retired of context. And I don’t cognize — Twitter tin go an echo enclosure wherever everyone conscionable wants to perceive the aforesaid thing,” she said. 

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