Matt Damon
If you haven’t seen Matt Damon’s cringe-tastic commercial for the crypto and NFT platform Crypto.com, go you should go watch it now. We’ll wait.
Okay, now that you’re back. Uggggghhhhhhhhh! It’s Damon, dressed in all black, walking through a gallery while telling viewers to “take a risk” on cryptocurrency, the same way mountaineers and adventurers of days past took a risk on their own ideas. Wright Brothers make an appearance. There’s astronauts. In other words, it’s self-important as hell, and totally an inaccurate portrayal of the giant scam-ridden ponzi scheme that the world of crypto so often is.
It doesn’t help that the star also recently announced that the environmental non-profit he co-founded more than a decade ago, Water.org, would be partnering with the cryptocurrency platform. At the time, Crypto.com put out a statement saying that the move would hopefully encourage “crypto-donations” to the nonprofit, which seeks to improve access to clean water in regions most hit by climate change. Because, you know, nothing says “fighting climate change” like paying with crypto.
