Crypto group says it orchestrated sex toy tosses in WNBA games [View all]

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A self-described crypto enthusiast told ESPN he is part of a group that orchestrated recent sex toy stunts that have disrupted at least three WNBA games in the past 10 days.

The man, who spoke on the condition of anonymity over videoconference Wednesday, said that the stunts were meant to market a crypto coin that his online community created. The WNBA and all its "controversy," he said, made the league a logical target.

"It was more or less like an opportunistic approach to, you know, what is already trending," he said. "Where is there already controversy and how do we intercept some of that attention?"

The man, who uses Lt. Daldo Raine as his username on X -- a nod, he said, to the Brad Pitt character in the movie "Inglourious Basterds" -- kept his camera off and refused to give his name or age during the call with ESPN. The group, he said, wants to reclaim the creative and community aspects of the crypto world.

"We wanted to really make memes funny again," he said.

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/45923322/crypto-group-says-orchestrated-sex-toy-tosses-wnba-games