“This is your sign of pretending to be a girl to start stripping in the Metaverse.” The line is not only making the rounds in crypto space. There are already posts about it in the social media mainstream. The unbelievable: According to their own statements, the creator made several thousand US dollars with the scam within a week.
The TikTok user advertises in a total of three videos @holynft the supposedly new idea for success. Stripping in the Metaverse. The “entrepreneur” claims to have received a total of 12,000 US dollars for it. The concept is not new: The earliest evidence for erotic dances can be traced back to Paleolithic cave paintings in southern France more than 20,000 years ago. The desires of prehistoric man were also fed in the Neolithic Age: Archaeologists found miniature statuettes of exotic dancers near the Black Sea regions, which are estimated to be over 9,000 years old. Even in the Bible, in the book of Mark, chapter 6, verse 22, King Herod rejoices in the “dance of Herodias’ daughter.”
A lot has changed since then: numerous people earn money by stripping. Noisy Comparably the average stripper gross salary in the US is $26,000 a year. That would be $500 a week, but only 7 percent of the total reported by the alleged Metaverse stripper.
So should all “real-life strippers” switch gears and quench the greed of the fans from home using a green screen? The perhaps sobering truth: no. Because the videos actually act as a marketing measure for the “Holy Nephalem” NFT collection. In the Discord group, one of the team members describes that the “TikTok video was intended as a satirical post to reach people who don’t know anything about NFTs.” He confirmed to BTC-ECHO: “You can definitely make money with NFTs in the Metaverse.”
Without regard to losses
The influencer has already generated more than 12 million views. The numerous videos on the platform show footage of luxury sports cars and heaps of cash that was allegedly earned through various investment tricks. Even trading cats would have fetched $7,200.
The fastest way to get rich as a teen in 2022: cat trading. I got this cat for 800 $ bought from a homeless man. A week later I gave them to a rich man for 8,000 $ sold as an exotic cat from Cambodia
@holynft
The questionable methods prove: the team does not shy away from harming others. In the Discord channel, a participant described how he bought VR equipment and a new computer for several hundred dollars in order to get started as an online stripper.
Trail leads to VRChat
If you first think of metaverses like The Sandbox or Decentraland, you are on the wrong track. In his video, @holynft uses footage from the free-to-play online game VRChat. The game allows users to interact with other players in a virtual world using 3D avatars.
read too
According to a BBC researcher, strip clubs, pole dancing, sexual material and threats of rape are not uncommon in VRChat reported.
VRChat definitely felt more like an adult’s playground than a kid’s. Many of the rooms were overtly sexualized in pink neon, similar to what you might see in Amsterdam’s red light district at night or the seedy parts of London’s Soho. Sex toys were on display inside
BBC
The British children’s charity NSPCC consequently warned: “Some apps in the virtual reality metaverse are inherently dangerous.”
A grain of truth
Stripping in the Metaverse will probably not be the next big crypto hype. However, there is a grain of truth: there are exotic dancers in the Metaverse. Drag queen Lena Diamond is one of them. Stripping is her passion. She dances at The Diamond Mine, a virtual burlesque and dance club on VRChat.
read too
As in real strip clubs, customers should be able to “request lap dances or private rooms”. Players like Lena receive monetary benefits or tips. in one contribution on TikTok she explains that VR dancing is “unfortunately not a sustainable source of income”. Consequentially: You probably won’t get rich with the help of VR stripping.
Do you want to buy cryptocurrencies?
Trade the most popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum with leverage on dYdX, the leading decentralized exchange for derivatives trading.