Norbert M

Culture Research at @Odipodev. Eternally curious.

[Big Cuz @imohumoren]

In 1966, All African counties boycotted the World Cup to protest apartheid and how black South Africans were marginalized

In 2026, All African countries supported Mexico against South Africa in protest against their xenophobia

Live long enough

[VERSUS @vsrsus]

The DR Congo arrival fits are pure aura.

[Jannik Beginner @Wana____]

Spurs gonna give Wemby the GDP of a third world country for his next contract extension.

[Spurs Culture @SpursCulture]

17 year old Wemby fouling out during the FIBA U19 World Cup Final vs. USA with 2:42 remaining in the 4th

Final - USA 83, France 81

Wemby: 22 points, 8 rebounds, 8 blocks

Chet: 10 points and won MVP

This is where it all started

[Jemedari @MrJemedari]

Now show us the schools!!

[D'g@M3 @khenryking]

@LADEig April 17: “Lakers have no chance.”
April 20: “If LeBron pulls this off, he’s the GOAT.”
April 22–25: “Rockets are frauds / dumb.”
April 30: “Lakers are cooked, LeBron’s exhausted.”
May 1: “LeBron will blow 3–0, GOAT case over.”
May 2: “Lakers won… but it doesn’t count.”

[💍💍💍💍 @warriorsger]

The dopamine rush of scrolling through twitter after your favorite player had an all time great performance

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

Draymond Green’s solitary confinement of Kawhi Leonard compilation, final 3 minutes:

[AFC_Haywhy09 @haywhyy09]

These two conned millions of innocent children into supporting Arsenal and our lives hasn’t been the same again 😭😭😭

[yammi @sighyam]

just watched this lady’s video where she argues that the language surrounding marketing roles is going through a rebrand/process of masculinisation in order to make them sound new/data driven and “serious” for men

[Odipo Dev @OdipoDev]

We’ve just released a research into Kenya’s Creator Economy. Here's what the data says about who's actually making money, which platforms are paying off, and where the big opportunity still lies

[arrryyyy 🐐 @dube1286]

In the end, Kenya will become what it fears most; Nigeria.

[Tosin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇹 @tosin_1109]

The last day of Arsenal’s six-year trophy drought.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million.

None of it was real.

I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off.

I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier."

The frontier closed last week.

It's a mobile app now.

Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me.

I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs.

The avatars didn't have legs.

I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis.

I called myself a "digital land baron."

I put it in my Twitter bio.

I put it in my LinkedIn headline.

I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts.

My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment.

My actual apartment has furniture.

Location, location, location.

My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court.

I held.

Diamond hands.

That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait.

A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users.

He said I didn't understand the technology.

I didn't.

I still bought more.

We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts.

We voted to "acquire strategic parcels."

The vote passed unanimously.

I voted four times.

My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY."

The slide had a rocket emoji.

That was my entire financial model.

In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000.

It's worth $14,000 now.

I don't talk about the Ape.

I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera.

My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was.

I said "digital art on the blockchain."

She asked why it cost more than her car.

I said "you don't understand Web3."

She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment."

She's not in my Discord.

Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million.

It's worth about $90,000 now.

I felt better about mine after I heard that.

That's community.

WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero.

We're all gonna make it.

None of us made it.

But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something.

It doesn't.

But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus.

Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse.

I need to say that again.

$84 billion.

More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines.

They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets.

It lives on as a mobile app.

My beachfront villa is now a mobile app.

Location, location, location.

Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that."

Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025.

That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun.

They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables."

The pivot took four years and $84 billion.

I pivoted too.

I'm an AI real estate investor now.

I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models."

I don't know what that means.

I gave him $40,000.

He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan.

The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank.

Q4 is always blank.

That's where the exit scam goes.

My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes.

I said $1.2 million.

He said "current market value."

I said $6,400.

He stared at me for eleven seconds.

I know because I counted.

He asked if I had any other investments.

I showed him my NFTs.

He stared for longer.

I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance."

He asked if I'd considered a 401k.

I told him a 401k was "legacy finance."

He told me to leave his office.

The metaverse is dead.

I don't accept that.

I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car.

Location, location, location.

The location is nowhere.

But I'm early.

I'm always early.

That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

[Ja Loka @_fels1]

If you can relate to this, start monitoring your blood sugar levels, pressure and daily steps.

[Ayo-Elesho @Ayoelesho]

Imagine you're in a fight with a powerful adversary who lives in a faraway town. Let’s call him Gringo.

Because Gringo lives very far away, he cannot attack you directly from his home due to the huge costs and technicalities involved.

Gringo then approaches some of your neighbours for assistance. Your neighbours give him some rooms in their homes where he stores weapons, and from where he coordinates his attacks on your home.

This makes Gringo’s attacks on you very effective and his latest attack kills your father and some of your family members.

Since you also cannot directly attack Gringo’s faraway home due to huge costs, technicalities, and a potentially disastrous aftermath, you decide to attack and destroy the rooms given to Gringo by your neighbours so that he can no longer store weapons and coordinate attacks on you so easily.

I hope this analogy helps those who are wondering why Iran is attacking its neighbours.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

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