About a month ago there was a story about Little Shapes, a Twitter user that mostly posts about NFTs and particularly his project called Little Shapes. On 29 December 2022, Little Shapes posted for the first time after many months of inactivity since 24 June 2022. Little Shapes claimed that he had been in a coma for 5 months and woke up three weeks before sharing the story.

This story was first shared here in the subreddit on 29 December (3.3k upvotes) and an update on the story was posted on 18 January (1.5k upvotes). A lot of people were critical of the story here, especially because the story just kept getting weirder and weirder. In the last update, it was shared that his wife left him after supposedly cheating on him with a friend from the NFT space, and that Little Shapes was on a quest of vengeance to expose how bad the NFT scene truly is.

The story was also reported on by several news agencies, like The Chainsaw.

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After the last update - the posts were getting weirder and weirder (and Bitboy liked this)

After this update, the updates on Twitter by Little Shapes just kept getting weirder and weirder. An example:

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Of course, Bitboy loved the idea of a crazy conspiracy and wanted to have a chat.

Thanks to Cold_Vehicle5538

This story was a "social experiment" to expose NFT botnets

Now, the person behind Little Shapes finally admitted that "Little Shapes was a social experiment” and shared a link to a 158-page document. In this 158 document, the team behind Little Shapes alleged that NFT scammers utilized bot networks to rug-pull "$200 million+ out of the ecosystem.”

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Also, the people behind Little Shapes revealed that the project was a social experiment designed to shed light on this network of NFT scams. His reasononing was that he “needed a story that sells to make sure no one would ignore a story that hurts."

So, congratulations to all the detectives on this subreddit who noticed some weird things about the story and predicted it was fake. You did good!

Shoutouts to some of the Reddit Detectives:

Post 1

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Post 2

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