He's 21, he doesn't know what he is doing, he's inexperienced - that came up a lot. Clearly people seem to use the phrase "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" No... it's clearly malice, he knows what he is doing.
Incidentally, in court trials, incompetence or lack of malicious intent is typically a first defense for people that don’t know what they’re doing. Any law school graduate can easily counter this by pointing out that regardless of intent, the results still caused damages (physical, mental, financial harm) to the victim(s). So the incompetence or lack of malicious intent argument wouldn’t even help in a legal situation. The results are what matter when it comes to harm. (For better or worse, and of course excluding anyone who is sufficiently wealthy or powerful.)
Same. I don't think I could live with myself if the money I made to put me in a good spot was literally directly made as the result of scamming people. It's a shame, really because look how well these people are doing. :/
I honestly wonder at this point why i don't turn to scamming people. I literally go to work all week to make just enough to live on whilst some guy at 21 rakes in over 70m ($) for click "purchase" on a few assets...
ALL NFT games are Unity/Unreal Asset flips. No attempt to make them unique, no attempt to retexture. The NFT creators are flooding Fiverr and literally asking for this. They want full multiplayer games prebuilt with specific cookie cutter requirements and their budget is around the price of the Assets. More than 90% will actually share the the Asset link they want you to use.
@@keithfilibeck2390 i think a lot of people falling for it knows (or at least expects) it to be some sort of a scam, but they hope they will be the ones to cash out right before the ragpull and benefit from it being a scam
Not going to lie the name Pixelmon might be chosen so people may think its the same team that made the Minecraft mod . The mc Pixelmon has a good reputation in the community and the mod is quite big on mc ,so they might used their name for the scam
@@ariosthemak Nobody in their right mind at the mc mod team would be putting their name to registering a mark on something that is knowingly a grey-zone derivative not permitted by the original copyright holders. But as for why it was chosen, it obviously was to try to leech off name-recognition assumptions. I'd bet the one behind this got their start trying to weasel mc server "donation" money out of kids.
@@d0tline468 Well, then these cryptobros are the bunch of losers. The 'thing' they made is literally animated voxel arts, not even as close as the Minecraft mobs.
@@CrystalWings12 THIS is why you think cryptobros are losers? I mean I agree it's shitty and lame, but we knew that just from the outset of them being cryptobros
Just for reference, Pixelmon is a Minecraft mod that adds Pokemon and Pokemon related elements (battle system, crafting, gyms, etc) to the game. So there is no way in hell theyd be able to legally fight against this.
@@balthazar579 I heard someone explain it for people who do not understand how links work. He says that you own a treasure map but not the treasure. The hyperlink is instructions to the treasure and the treasure is the file.
The "bad harmonica riff" version of the Jurassic Park theme when it cut to "the reality" just absolutely *murdered* me when it came up, I had to pause the video due to how hard I was laughing.
It all comes down to fear of missing out. There are people who have become crazy rich off of crypto and NFTs and there are so many people who are afraid of missing out on the next big x1000 or x100000 thing. Which then leads to people making horrible decisions and trusting untrustworthy people. This whole thing needs to be regulated asap.
Nobody should ever feel bad for any of the "victims." Every single one of the rotten pieces of shit are just scammers who can't be bothered to put the effort in to pull it off themselves, so instead: they just want to ride a pump and dump, leaving some other sucker holding the grenade on its last tick. Alongside doxing and shaming the project heads, dox every single rat bastard who bought a single cent of this penny-stock degeneracy.
Martin: “My dream is to create businesses that are built around the idea of bettering the lives of other people and the planet through innovation.” Yeah, off to a bad start.
These people should just start buying those super expensive closed species adopts on DeviantArt. It'd be way more worth their money, cause at least they're individually designed and created rather than digitally generated. Honestly NFTS are just the crypto/mainstream(?) version of buying furry adopts LMAO.
Because they all think they're the big fish in the pond and think they can pawn it off other small-fry idiots. They're the low IQ version of the people who developed monitoring software to track pump and dump stock scams from the outside and go along for the ride, I forget which one, but DefCon had a really good talk on the topic a while back.
@@salemcrow5078 I’d say it’s still a bit different, NFT buyers are not actually buying a character but rather the promise of an increase in value. The fundamental problem here is that NFTs are worthless/soulless and have no reason to magically become valuable, compared to character adopts which might actually have time and thought put in to them.
People that keep shilling for something after they know it is a scam, but try to make their money back before it collapses. That sounds like any pyramid scheme ever.
I appreciate you still say Fear Uncertainty Doubt after saying FUD. Makes each video approachable and im sure new viewers learn what it means in each video that you say it on. Keep on man!
Thanks dude, I know it sucks to hear news repeat myself but I think crypto has a lot of red tape terms people don't understand and the few seconds to clear up what they are each time can help as you say to make sure we are all on the same page of understanding!
@@KiraTV1 If I know anything about scams and pyramid schemes, they like to use big fancy words or acronyms that aren't easily researchable in order to confuse their targets. Sadly works real well on non-native speakers. It's really difficult explaining all this crypto and nft business to my parents, but unlike with traditional scams they're at least protected by the higher barrier of entry that required tech knowledge poses.
@@meavor its also a tactic many cults, religions and political movements do to create in groups and out groups. Like shibboleths. Its meant to keep group cohesion and create a sense of hidden knowledge or secret power. Not to say all jargon in movements is shady but it can be an indicator
If I found out someone was using my commissioned work to sell as NFTs I'd be so fucking upset lmao that's something you should 100% disclose. I don't know if there's any legal leg to stand on but it seems so shitty to literally turn around and basically sell a picture of commissioned art work without the artist's consent. Hell, a lot of artists charge more (or even a profit percent) for the right to commercialize your commission because *they did all the work*
Just go ahead and report this to the Pokemon company they will sue him and the money will go to the correct rights holders of all of that intellectual property. Pokemon already sued the Pixelmon people so like they'll definitely win this.
@@patrickgronemeyer3375 are they actually using Pokemon, though? Pixelmon were straight up using the likeness of actual pokemon, which was the IP violation Edit: I'm genuinely asking, I only know about this situation through these videos
this is why until nfts not-alive a fiery post-alive or the government catches wind of this and regulates the s#!t out of it until it becomes a shell of its former self , I will probably NOT upload any art on the internet for a VERY long time.
@@emackenzie I found a post on reddit titled "How is Pixelmon back?" that seems to shed some light, although not much. Pixelmon did receive a cease and desist from Nintendo in 2017. I have 4 guesses as to why development of Pixelmon has continued after receiving their cease and desist. Guess 1) Pixelmon is currently being developed by a different team that did not technically receive the cease and desist from 2017. Guess 2) It is unclear how long cease and desists are valid for, it may differ from case to case. It is possible the cease and desist from 2017 is expired, though unlikely. I don't think Nintendo lawyers would let that happen. Guess 3) Pixelmon is currently being developed by the same team that recieved the cease and desist. The cease and desist is still valid and the Pixelmon team think enough time has passed for Nintendo to forget. This is dumb... Guess 4) The Pixelmon team anticipated profiting so highly from the NTFs that a lawsuit from Nintendo does not concern them. This is dumb...
My question is: How did the trailer have relatively good looking pixel creatures but the actual released ones were so bad? Why couldn't he just turn those pixel creatures into the ones that would be released?
1 trailer with a cherrypicked pool of custom-made assets with more attention paid to how the conversion to voxels worked on them, vs mass-produced placeholders to satisfy minimum deliverables.
@@d0tline468 also the shading, animation, and environments. The trailer had fancy lighting, nice environments, and custom animations. The actual NFTs were flatly colored, lacked anything remotely good in animation, and were all pasted into a flat plane.
People are fucking insane. Even the "what was promised/expectation" pictures are like.... I don't think I'd pay 5 dollars for that shit, never mind fucking $10,000. The real world is turning out to be worse than Idiocracy
Well they're not buying in to play it, they're buying in to offload the NFTs on to some other idiots for millions. Too bad _they are_ those other idiots.
@@mrwizard5012 Irrelevant. My point still stands. How can you make money off of payin 10k for stuff that most people wouldn't pay a few bucks for? I never said they were buying it to play the game, now did I?
when you commission art, you get a license to use the art. you don't get to OWN the art. If you buy a painting, you get the license to hang it on your wall and to sell it off again later. You don't get the license to photocopy it or to use it as part of a product you are selling.
@@longislandicedtea6323 If he's making money off of this?, probably not giving a shit. That or just so busy working due to NZ's high cost of living and low wages that they don't notice.
We need to get together and create a version of the Bat-Signal for Kira. Whenever we find an NFT or Cryptobro trying to screw over their community, we can light the Kira-Signal and he can come bursting through the virtual wall and call them out for the scum they are. Rubber body suit and latex encouraged... but not mandatory. :D
I was truly confused about this for a good moment since I kept thinking of the Minecraft Pixelmon mod that is literally pokemon in minecraft. This Pixelmon though... It shouldn't be happening.
I really, *really* wish these content creators would specify better that this scam is not created by or associated with the well-known Pixelmon Minecraft mod. Kira mentioned it once in the first video, but that's been it so far...
I have been following this with increasing Schadenfreude, and also mad respect for "kevin" whatever he actually is - but was REALLY surprised to see the guy is a NZer!!
It's embarrassing that the guy behind this atrocity is a Kiwi, like I am. On a positive note, it's been all over the news, here, on TV and on the NZ news websites. My mother saw it on the nightly news and sent me a text about not buying it, knowing that I play a lot of [actual] games!
I have to admit, everything I know about NFTs (which is sod all) is from watching your vids. mainly because I have less than zero interest, apart from laughing at idiots, in what seems to me is basically virtual stamp collecting. NFT wankers are the sort of cretins who shoot their load over one of those adverts for a "one time limited offer" of a gold plated coin which will possibly be worth money in the future, but in reality is a gold painted piece of plastic that you'll have to pay someone to take off your hands.
You know. When ever I feel like I spent too mutch money on something or in a short time, I think about the people who buys these clear scams everytime and that makes me feel better about myself
It sounds awful, but the more these scams go on, the more I'm like, "you know what? If people haven't learned their lesson by now, then it's their own fault they're losing money."
It's because they go into it not caring in the theory that it's surely a 'guaranteed' quick profit. Then when it fails, they bring the pitch forks out.
I disagree. Blaming the victim for being "dumb" enough to get tricked is just messed up, like kicking someone when they're down. Blame the piece of trash taking advantage of them. With all the scammers out to get people these days, its pretty easy to get duped. I get bombarded with scam calls, scam texts, scam emails, scams on social media, etc; if not for vids exposing the scams, I'd probably have gotten duped at least once by now.
@random stuff No. People need to take some responsibility for getting scammed. Doesn't mean the scammer isn't to blame, but no one forced them into buying NFTs, and it's not something anyone needs. Getting scammed by receiving an official looking letter that appears like it's from the Internal Revenue Service is different than an NFT scam that has red flags all over it. Everyone with the least bit of common sense should approach all NFTs like they might be a scam right now. They either don't have the common sense or ignore the red flags out of greed, hoping they found the next bit coin. I hate this; the victim is never to blame shit; sometimes they are. With a project like this one, they are absolutely responsible for putting themselves in that position they're in. They spent thousands on NFTs from a person with no identity, just a user name at the time. It's not like they bought NFTs from EA, a company with a long history of experience making games... OK, maybe EA is a bad example, but you get the point.
I'm reminded of something Dan Olson said in his video. How NFT bros view all other vocations as lesser and simpler, lower on the totem pole of reality. Nails easily beaten in by the hammer of code and crypto.
@@mrwizard5012 It's pretty frustrating being a member of a team in an organization who does meaningful things for the world like biomedical research and the logistics of storing and distributing things like vaccines, making okay money but nothing crazy, to see people scamming left and right then smugly patting themselves on the back like they did anything other than be a colossal piece of shit. Then again, when you scam people out of enough money that real people problems don't affect you, it's easy to be that way I guess.
A really good example of using asset packs for development ( 7:18 ) s Phasmophobia. They used asset packs at the beginning and now they have 2 artists making new original assets for the game and slowly replacing the unity assets for original assets.
@@ickebins6948 That’s always how scamming works? Blaming the victims in these scenarios is not acceptable, no matter how stupid they seem. A lot of them probably don’t realize exactly what they are buying into. That doesn’t make them less stupid, but that does not make scamming them ok, either
@@TheSimonCle That is NOT a scam... It is very clear what people get themself into... If they dont know what a NFT is, why the heck do they buy into the bullshit... It is pure stupidity nothing less...
What pisses me off is that they are using the name of a popular Minecraft mod that puts Pokemon in Minecraft. As in, they are going to draw in people looking for the mod and scam them, and ruin the reputation of the modders.
14:02 So if I understand correctly, this text file is the NFT, and its contents cannot be changed. However, the actual picture associated with that URL can be changed to literally anything.
outsourcing the entire game's development has about the following track record: - aliens colonial marines - mighty number nine and of course - pixelmon (the NFT game) simply amazing
Man it's so easy to scam people these days. I'm a 3d artist and I can imagine how much money I could make if I was a physchopath with no morals. Just put together a decent looking trailer say I'm making an nft play to earn or MMO and bam.
You are the most intelligent stock analyst I've ever heard. I'm a 47 yr old man so I"ve seen the "greats" when they were live. You just do it in NFT and crypto space. Amazing.
imma go out on a limb and hypothesise that the dev company he supposedly worked with (if he was even working with them in the first place) sore all the drama and understandably noped outta there cause they dont want thier name tarnished by this shit
Hi Kira, one thing I found out and I'm concerned about is that a popular content creator "Nerd City" has made their own NFTs which they supposedly say are better than the norm, but I don't trust it on principle.
@@Colddirector Yeah, the quick, cursory glance of the NFT project itself, and a defense they typed up on their subreddit isn't giving any indications it isn't just another cash grab targeting an influencer's already established support base.
@@RowanHawthorpe I really want to have faith in them, but they're setting up some big red flags. They're talking about how their NFT's are going to have utility, but so far it's just avatars and username stuff, and they aren't really putting much effort into dealing with fan's concerns. It's either a scam, they believe in the technology and are willfully ignoring it's current problems, or this is some 5D chess twist they'll reveal in the tryhards video. I really want it to be the third option but I'm not confident.
I used to work in a "private" blockchain for business company. Even that felt like a grift (won't say it was, but it felt like it). I love watching blockchain, crypto and NFT drama since it's always the same.
What artists can do to protect themselves legally is to always use a contract when working with clients and clearly define what the deliverables will be used for in that contract.
The problem of the NFT only being a link to their website, is the same feature that would let them update broken “pixelmon” to working ones. It's not all bad.
Since I was 18 I’ve worked in the ceramic industry. For a FTSE 100 company for 19 years and since 2005 for myself and under contract to small companies & as a writer for a magazine. I had a young family & living in HKG I needed 3 jobs to replace the 1 FTSE Co job. My wife worked 2 jobs. We are now reasonably well off I would happily feed these scammers into a wood chipper
When I hear about kick starter scams and how they got ludacris funding, I wonder what went wrong with my own kickstarter that got zero backers despite being very reasonable (this is the capture card I want to buy, these are the lets plays I am making, I'll let you choose the game we'll play among all sorts of other very tangible rewards).
Given the wealth of information available on the web, if people are still throwing thousands upon thousands of dollars at either complete strangers or known scammers, then they deserve it. I only have so much empathy to go around, and I can't afford to waste any more of it on people who just plain don't deserve it.
I was working for a company that took a job of creating a second version of their game with the name VR at the end because they wanted to be a version for VR. And I was shocked when I saw they don't have any VR, they took the job, bought VR and started to learn how to program for VR... just what the. Ofcourse they didn't said to the company that they don't have any knowledge about VR programming.
Kickstarter literally doesn't care, I've flagged a few NFT / Meta projects with them and their response has been they see no issues with it. Also, I believe you can pledge and once funding goal is hit, cancel your own fake pledges so you don't get charged
Due diligence Due diligence is the investigation or exercise of care that a reasonable business or person is normally expected to take before entering into an agreement or contract with another party or an act with a certain standard of care.
there's more to NFT's than just xbox live generative pfps of [insert animal]. there's a major possibility for musicians to capitalize on our work without losing our digital rights and to be able to regain our streaming rights, while the conventional music industry is robbing professionals to the point where very few can live off their work. the blockchain gives opportunities for incorruptible systems to remove these exploiters from the chain altogether. what it becomes depends on what people choose to support. if stupid [insert animal] pictures for your twitter profile, or actual art. the value of art comes from its humanity. of course generative pfp's don't have intrinsic value. in best case, the instruments have the artistic value and not the generated pictures themselves. non-generative art has and will always have its human value and is also where you need to look.
cope. seethe. mald. no one who sincerely cares will buy your art. NFTs are just another tool of the capitalist machine to turn everything into a speculative market. it protects NO ONE, let alone the fucking artist. you are falling for the meme and you should be ashamed. nothing about NFTs is subversive in any good way. you are a fool. get out before you waste your time.
![Felix "Unfair" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Oswujxm2Ag0/mqdefault.jpg)
He's 21, he doesn't know what he is doing, he's inexperienced - that came up a lot.
Clearly people seem to use the phrase "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"
No... it's clearly malice, he knows what he is doing.
Think Kira means he does not know how to do anything but scam people
Incidentally, in court trials, incompetence or lack of malicious intent is typically a first defense for people that don’t know what they’re doing. Any law school graduate can easily counter this by pointing out that regardless of intent, the results still caused damages (physical, mental, financial harm) to the victim(s). So the incompetence or lack of malicious intent argument wouldn’t even help in a legal situation. The results are what matter when it comes to harm. (For better or worse, and of course excluding anyone who is sufficiently wealthy or powerful.)
Brilliant. He scammed a load of people so that he would have the money to buy into other people's scams.
Big brain move
The circle of life! I mean Crypto-bros.
Every day I feel so tempted to become a scammer. So much money, so easily.
Damn ethics and morals holding me back.
exactly my thoughts. id love to be set for life just like that. too bad its in expense of others
Same. I don't think I could live with myself if the money I made to put me in a good spot was literally directly made as the result of scamming people.
It's a shame, really because look how well these people are doing. :/
To be fair, the people who mine crypto and trade nfts by and large don't care about ethics and morals
@@Fullmetalnyuu0 yeah we know this, hence the op.
I honestly wonder at this point why i don't turn to scamming people. I literally go to work all week to make just enough to live on whilst some guy at 21 rakes in over 70m ($) for click "purchase" on a few assets...
ALL NFT games are Unity/Unreal Asset flips. No attempt to make them unique, no attempt to retexture. The NFT creators are flooding Fiverr and literally asking for this. They want full multiplayer games prebuilt with specific cookie cutter requirements and their budget is around the price of the Assets. More than 90% will actually share the the Asset link they want you to use.
its just funny that people constantly fall for it, everyone wants to be the smart gambler and make big for free.
the next evolution of the dirty dev it seems like
@@keithfilibeck2390 i think a lot of people falling for it knows (or at least expects) it to be some sort of a scam, but they hope they will be the ones to cash out right before the ragpull and benefit from it being a scam
Not going to lie the name Pixelmon might be chosen so people may think its the same team that made the Minecraft mod . The mc Pixelmon has a good reputation in the community and the mod is quite big on mc ,so they might used their name for the scam
Is it registered? That is an avenue that could be pursued if it is (and potentially even if it isn't)
@@ariosthemak Nobody in their right mind at the mc mod team would be putting their name to registering a mark on something that is knowingly a grey-zone derivative not permitted by the original copyright holders. But as for why it was chosen, it obviously was to try to leech off name-recognition assumptions. I'd bet the one behind this got their start trying to weasel mc server "donation" money out of kids.
@@d0tline468 Well, then these cryptobros are the bunch of losers.
The 'thing' they made is literally animated voxel arts, not even as close as the Minecraft mobs.
@@CrystalWings12 THIS is why you think cryptobros are losers? I mean I agree it's shitty and lame, but we knew that just from the outset of them being cryptobros
Just for reference, Pixelmon is a Minecraft mod that adds Pokemon and Pokemon related elements (battle system, crafting, gyms, etc) to the game. So there is no way in hell theyd be able to legally fight against this.
He spent his hard-scammed dollars on Jpegs of monkeys, amazing.
(Imagine me saying this like Captain Salazar from the Pirates of the Caribbean)
No, no no. Not jpegs. Links that point to jpegs.
The Cycle of Crypto Bros
I immediately love the adjective "hard-scammed"
@@tavirosu25 you know that joke about two cowboys eating s**t of each other?
@@OctyabrAprelya not even a link, that would be too useful, just an abstract chunk of a blockchain. nfts are the most "brilliant" scam in humanity.
god
I remember the days when "Pixelmon" meant that minecraft mod that added pokemon to the game
Oh my god the harmonica bit had me dying. I've heard a few awful versions, but not that one. Combined with that clip, just gold.
I haven't laughed that hard in ages. Holy fuck that was hilarious.
I am glad that it is finally getting out that the image (file) is not protected by the blockchain
I was trying to explain this to some friends and they were thoroughly confused.
@@balthazar579 I heard someone explain it for people who do not understand how links work. He says that you own a treasure map but not the treasure. The hyperlink is instructions to the treasure and the treasure is the file.
@@ttrev007 like this explanation a lot, thanks!
@@ttrev007 That's actually a good analogy to describe nfts in a nutshell
@@balthazar579 I can understand that. The entire concept is kinda so stupid, that you get that “this can’t possibly be how it works”-feeling
The "bad harmonica riff" version of the Jurassic Park theme when it cut to "the reality" just absolutely *murdered* me when it came up, I had to pause the video due to how hard I was laughing.
part of the problem is people throwing money at someone they don't know anything about because they said blockchain and Web3 lmao
People are absolute idiots smh
It all comes down to fear of missing out. There are people who have become crazy rich off of crypto and NFTs and there are so many people who are afraid of missing out on the next big x1000 or x100000 thing. Which then leads to people making horrible decisions and trusting untrustworthy people. This whole thing needs to be regulated asap.
Nobody should ever feel bad for any of the "victims." Every single one of the rotten pieces of shit are just scammers who can't be bothered to put the effort in to pull it off themselves, so instead: they just want to ride a pump and dump, leaving some other sucker holding the grenade on its last tick. Alongside doxing and shaming the project heads, dox every single rat bastard who bought a single cent of this penny-stock degeneracy.
Martin: “My dream is to create businesses that are built around the idea of bettering the lives of other people and the planet through innovation.” Yeah, off to a bad start.
Revised. "My dream is to burn through investors cash as quickly as possible"
@@venerable_nelson and also the planet
I don't get it - even if the critters looked exactly like the expectations, why would they be worth $9k?
They wouldn't. NFT bros are delusional and have way too much money, something which scammers are more than happy to relieve them of.
A fool and his money are soon parted
These people should just start buying those super expensive closed species adopts on DeviantArt. It'd be way more worth their money, cause at least they're individually designed and created rather than digitally generated.
Honestly NFTS are just the crypto/mainstream(?) version of buying furry adopts LMAO.
Because they all think they're the big fish in the pond and think they can pawn it off other small-fry idiots. They're the low IQ version of the people who developed monitoring software to track pump and dump stock scams from the outside and go along for the ride, I forget which one, but DefCon had a really good talk on the topic a while back.
@@salemcrow5078 I’d say it’s still a bit different, NFT buyers are not actually buying a character but rather the promise of an increase in value. The fundamental problem here is that NFTs are worthless/soulless and have no reason to magically become valuable, compared to character adopts which might actually have time and thought put in to them.
People that keep shilling for something after they know it is a scam, but try to make their money back before it collapses.
That sounds like any pyramid scheme ever.
Stockholm Syndrome.
Ponzi's pyramid scheme.
Classic Sunk Cost fallacy
no honor among thieves... The entire NFT community is filled with scammers and get rich quick con men...
I appreciate you still say Fear Uncertainty Doubt after saying FUD. Makes each video approachable and im sure new viewers learn what it means in each video that you say it on.
Keep on man!
Thanks dude, I know it sucks to hear news repeat myself but I think crypto has a lot of red tape terms people don't understand and the few seconds to clear up what they are each time can help as you say to make sure we are all on the same page of understanding!
@@KiraTV1 If I know anything about scams and pyramid schemes, they like to use big fancy words or acronyms that aren't easily researchable in order to confuse their targets. Sadly works real well on non-native speakers. It's really difficult explaining all this crypto and nft business to my parents, but unlike with traditional scams they're at least protected by the higher barrier of entry that required tech knowledge poses.
@@meavor its also a tactic many cults, religions and political movements do to create in groups and out groups. Like shibboleths.
Its meant to keep group cohesion and create a sense of hidden knowledge or secret power.
Not to say all jargon in movements is shady but it can be an indicator
If I found out someone was using my commissioned work to sell as NFTs I'd be so fucking upset lmao that's something you should 100% disclose. I don't know if there's any legal leg to stand on but it seems so shitty to literally turn around and basically sell a picture of commissioned art work without the artist's consent. Hell, a lot of artists charge more (or even a profit percent) for the right to commercialize your commission because *they did all the work*
Just go ahead and report this to the Pokemon company they will sue him and the money will go to the correct rights holders of all of that intellectual property.
Pokemon already sued the Pixelmon people so like they'll definitely win this.
@@patrickgronemeyer3375 are they actually using Pokemon, though? Pixelmon were straight up using the likeness of actual pokemon, which was the IP violation
Edit: I'm genuinely asking, I only know about this situation through these videos
@@emackenzie I think it's still IP infringement. idk tho.
Kind of depends on how good of attorneys this kid can hire to defend himself..
this is why until nfts not-alive a fiery post-alive or the government catches wind of this and regulates the s#!t out of it until it becomes a shell of its former self , I will probably NOT upload any art on the internet for a VERY long time.
@@emackenzie I found a post on reddit titled "How is Pixelmon back?" that seems to shed some light, although not much. Pixelmon did receive a cease and desist from Nintendo in 2017. I have 4 guesses as to why development of Pixelmon has continued after receiving their cease and desist.
Guess 1) Pixelmon is currently being developed by a different team that did not technically receive the cease and desist from 2017.
Guess 2) It is unclear how long cease and desists are valid for, it may differ from case to case. It is possible the cease and desist from 2017 is expired, though unlikely. I don't think Nintendo lawyers would let that happen.
Guess 3) Pixelmon is currently being developed by the same team that recieved the cease and desist. The cease and desist is still valid and the Pixelmon team think enough time has passed for Nintendo to forget. This is dumb...
Guess 4) The Pixelmon team anticipated profiting so highly from the NTFs that a lawsuit from Nintendo does not concern them. This is dumb...
My question is: How did the trailer have relatively good looking pixel creatures but the actual released ones were so bad? Why couldn't he just turn those pixel creatures into the ones that would be released?
The might of commission someone for the trailer? If he has relay on artist for the nfts. He might’ve paired someone else for the trailer.
1 trailer with a cherrypicked pool of custom-made assets with more attention paid to how the conversion to voxels worked on them, vs mass-produced placeholders to satisfy minimum deliverables.
It's called "Selling the Product".
@@d0tline468 also the shading, animation, and environments. The trailer had fancy lighting, nice environments, and custom animations. The actual NFTs were flatly colored, lacked anything remotely good in animation, and were all pasted into a flat plane.
People are fucking insane. Even the "what was promised/expectation" pictures are like.... I don't think I'd pay 5 dollars for that shit, never mind fucking $10,000. The real world is turning out to be worse than Idiocracy
@Basement-Dweller They would have more chance at real gambling tbh..
Well they're not buying in to play it, they're buying in to offload the NFTs on to some other idiots for millions.
Too bad _they are_ those other idiots.
Like the saying goes, if you can't figure out who the sucker is at a table, it's probably you.
@@mrwizard5012 Irrelevant. My point still stands. How can you make money off of payin 10k for stuff that most people wouldn't pay a few bucks for? I never said they were buying it to play the game, now did I?
@@vicc6790 Hey hey hey. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying crypto bros are stupid _and_ opportunists. Lol
I really don't get it. The "expectation" pixelmon looked pretty bad too. Certainly not worth 10k, at least...
When someone tells you "don't do your own research" that should've been a massive red flag.
He's lucky he's from new zealand. Had he been American he'd been in huge trouble in the law with that tweet
Scammer : don't do your research.
Frodo : all right then. Keep your secrets.
when you commission art, you get a license to use the art. you don't get to OWN the art. If you buy a painting, you get the license to hang it on your wall and to sell it off again later. You don't get the license to photocopy it or to use it as part of a product you are selling.
That Jurassic Park joke was Perfect. Kudos to you and any editors you might have.
People say Syberer doesn't know what he's doing. I think they're wrong. He knows exactly what he's doing - tricking people out of their money.
AND he's already done this BEFORE he was 21 from the looks of it, which I have to ask: WHERE ARE HIS PARENTS?!
@@longislandicedtea6323 If he's making money off of this?, probably not giving a shit. That or just so busy working due to NZ's high cost of living and low wages that they don't notice.
We need to get together and create a version of the Bat-Signal for Kira. Whenever we find an NFT or Cryptobro trying to screw over their community, we can light the Kira-Signal and he can come bursting through the virtual wall and call them out for the scum they are.
Rubber body suit and latex encouraged... but not mandatory. :D
The Kevin signal
nah let idiots lose their money, then the nft hype will die down
No no, that last part is absolutely mandatory
This is the first video I watched that showed your face. I usually just listen to you as I work. Love the General Esdeath pillow!
That expectation vs reality meme was S+ tier
Well, anybody who put in 10k for that shit deserves what they got. About time people stop funding these NFT scams.
I had no idea the guy was a Kiwi (New Zealander) they basically dox'd him on national news the other day 😂
That's what the queer kiwi means?
Ha also didn't know until I saw it on Stuff. Sad way to rep.
I was truly confused about this for a good moment since I kept thinking of the Minecraft Pixelmon mod that is literally pokemon in minecraft. This Pixelmon though... It shouldn't be happening.
I really, *really* wish these content creators would specify better that this scam is not created by or associated with the well-known Pixelmon Minecraft mod. Kira mentioned it once in the first video, but that's been it so far...
Kira. I almost needed a hospital after choking on my breakfast with the "Jurassic Park" reveal. Holy crap 🤣😂
I have been following this with increasing Schadenfreude, and also mad respect for "kevin" whatever he actually is - but was REALLY surprised to see the guy is a NZer!!
These NFT scam video are addicting.
It's embarrassing that the guy behind this atrocity is a Kiwi, like I am. On a positive note, it's been all over the news, here, on TV and on the NZ news websites. My mother saw it on the nightly news and sent me a text about not buying it, knowing that I play a lot of [actual] games!
He better hope he hasn't ripped off other kiwis, because it's not a big place to try and hide.
lol I’ve met the guy a few times
W mom
@@RedDeadMarston1 they said mother so I just said mom lol
@@RedDeadMarston1 also that comment was 8 months ago lol
Really liking the added value of explaining how blockchain and NFTs works a little more in depth, more knowledge = less scammed people.
I have to admit, everything I know about NFTs (which is sod all) is from watching your vids. mainly because I have less than zero interest, apart from laughing at idiots, in what seems to me is basically virtual stamp collecting.
NFT wankers are the sort of cretins who shoot their load over one of those adverts for a "one time limited offer" of a gold plated coin which will possibly be worth money in the future, but in reality is a gold painted piece of plastic that you'll have to pay someone to take off your hands.
It’s complex but only to get into their heads.
Yes, except, it's a link to a picture of a coin.
Little did we know, that guy was a hero for non-NFT people.
He helped destroying NFT environment
You know. When ever I feel like I spent too mutch money on something or in a short time, I think about the people who buys these clear scams everytime and that makes me feel better about myself
It sounds awful, but the more these scams go on, the more I'm like, "you know what? If people haven't learned their lesson by now, then it's their own fault they're losing money."
Of *course* it is!
It's because they go into it not caring in the theory that it's surely a 'guaranteed' quick profit. Then when it fails, they bring the pitch forks out.
Yea, these people must have the money to lose, I don't have much sympathy for anyone involved. Just and idiot tricking idiots
I disagree. Blaming the victim for being "dumb" enough to get tricked is just messed up, like kicking someone when they're down. Blame the piece of trash taking advantage of them. With all the scammers out to get people these days, its pretty easy to get duped. I get bombarded with scam calls, scam texts, scam emails, scams on social media, etc; if not for vids exposing the scams, I'd probably have gotten duped at least once by now.
@random stuff No. People need to take some responsibility for getting scammed. Doesn't mean the scammer isn't to blame, but no one forced them into buying NFTs, and it's not something anyone needs. Getting scammed by receiving an official looking letter that appears like it's from the Internal Revenue Service is different than an NFT scam that has red flags all over it. Everyone with the least bit of common sense should approach all NFTs like they might be a scam right now. They either don't have the common sense or ignore the red flags out of greed, hoping they found the next bit coin. I hate this; the victim is never to blame shit; sometimes they are. With a project like this one, they are absolutely responsible for putting themselves in that position they're in. They spent thousands on NFTs from a person with no identity, just a user name at the time. It's not like they bought NFTs from EA, a company with a long history of experience making games... OK, maybe EA is a bad example, but you get the point.
One of those NFTs in the title card looks like the lovechild of Salad Fingers & Bubs from Homestar Runner.
Just imagine it in Bubs voice: _"Oo! Look a rusty spoon! Well hey, nettles! I like it when the red water comes out!"_
This one reminds me of Zombie Tsunami.
Homie got an Esdeath body pillow
He is truly a man of good taste and culture
7:00 "People in the NFT community are so horny"
The irony 😂
I often feel bad for people who have been taken advantage of but I have a hard time feeling bad for the people who bought into this project.
Keep it up Kira, making me laugh since keeping up with the Caspians 😁
Money laundering never tasted so good.
watching his mug in those clips has reminded me we havent had a "keeping up with the caspians" entry recently? is he in jail now? dead?
Just wanted to say I love your sarcasm. Great video once again
If you are affected by this scammer, you should contact the Serious Fraud Office (New Zealand) so they can start registering complaints.
I'm reminded of something Dan Olson said in his video. How NFT bros view all other vocations as lesser and simpler, lower on the totem pole of reality. Nails easily beaten in by the hammer of code and crypto.
The irony being that all those 'lesser' vocations actually produce value. Lmao
@@mrwizard5012 It's pretty frustrating being a member of a team in an organization who does meaningful things for the world like biomedical research and the logistics of storing and distributing things like vaccines, making okay money but nothing crazy, to see people scamming left and right then smugly patting themselves on the back like they did anything other than be a colossal piece of shit. Then again, when you scam people out of enough money that real people problems don't affect you, it's easy to be that way I guess.
LOL, NFT's just a link to a place I did not know that. No matter I can screenshot, all NFTs are free for me.
A really good example of using asset packs for development ( 7:18 ) s Phasmophobia. They used asset packs at the beginning and now they have 2 artists making new original assets for the game and slowly replacing the unity assets for original assets.
I certainly don't advocate scamming people, but honestly at this point? If you're buying into shit like this, you get what you deserve.
Exactly... People are stupid enough to spend their money...
He didnt "steal" anything, it was given to him freely...
@@ickebins6948 That’s always how scamming works? Blaming the victims in these scenarios is not acceptable, no matter how stupid they seem. A lot of them probably don’t realize exactly what they are buying into. That doesn’t make them less stupid, but that does not make scamming them ok, either
@@TheSimonCle That is NOT a scam... It is very clear what people get themself into...
If they dont know what a NFT is, why the heck do they buy into the bullshit...
It is pure stupidity nothing less...
@@ickebins6948 It's obviously a scam, if you actually look in to the case. Don't be stupid
@@TheSimonCle Where is the scam?
The people got what they paid for or didnt they?
The faces of these "pokepixels" or whatever are hilarious 😂 🤣🤣🤣!!
Imagine the faces of the people that bought them 🤣 😂
Lmao yes they are great. Straight up trolled. Love it
NFT Scam Video is like NatGeo Documentary
about scammed creature in their discord habitat
dude, the Jurassic Park harmonica had me choking on my drink
"I've been looking for a team for weeks". Bruh.
The fact that I got an NFT ad on this video ☠️
Theyre advertising to the wrong people
EDIT: TWO NFT ADS!!
Cool Esdeath pillow.
I hate how when you search pixelmon instead of the minecraft mod it comes up with this website.
What pisses me off is that they are using the name of a popular Minecraft mod that puts Pokemon in Minecraft. As in, they are going to draw in people looking for the mod and scam them, and ruin the reputation of the modders.
Like clockwork. This well will never run dry.
14:02 So if I understand correctly, this text file is the NFT, and its contents cannot be changed. However, the actual picture associated with that URL can be changed to literally anything.
Massive Chinpokomon vibes from this scam
really ironic that youtube is putting nft ads for me in a video all about hating nfts....
Dude, you’re providing the best quotes pertaining to the NFT space. “A pixelmon that’s melted into the ground as if he’s taken too much acid”
Its nice to see the face behind the voice.
Your work ethic despite medical concerns is excellent. Thanks for my daily morning cryptocrap news.
@@PìnnedbyKìraTv That wassap looking sussy wussy lads
@@valsharess-yt yeah def report that one
My man’s got the body pillow in the back
😂😂 no fucks given
outsourcing the entire game's development has about the following track record:
- aliens colonial marines
- mighty number nine
and of course
- pixelmon (the NFT game)
simply amazing
Kira! Love your videos and the content! keep it up!
"Don't do your own research"
The red flag would be about the size of the moon
Man it's so easy to scam people these days. I'm a 3d artist and I can imagine how much money I could make if I was a physchopath with no morals. Just put together a decent looking trailer say I'm making an nft play to earn or MMO and bam.
You are the most intelligent stock analyst I've ever heard. I'm a 47 yr old man so I"ve seen the "greats" when they were live. You just do it in NFT and crypto space. Amazing.
I'm pretty sure that pixelmon monkey is just Suzanne, one of the default meshes built into Blender!
imma go out on a limb and hypothesise that the dev company he supposedly worked with (if he was even working with them in the first place) sore all the drama and understandably noped outta there cause they dont want thier name tarnished by this shit
Hi Kira, one thing I found out and I'm concerned about is that a popular content creator "Nerd City" has made their own NFTs which they supposedly say are better than the norm, but I don't trust it on principle.
That's not a high bar to clear.
I like his videos but to say I'm skeptical of his support for NFTs is an understatement.
@@Colddirector Yeah, the quick, cursory glance of the NFT project itself, and a defense they typed up on their subreddit isn't giving any indications it isn't just another cash grab targeting an influencer's already established support base.
@@RowanHawthorpe I really want to have faith in them, but they're setting up some big red flags. They're talking about how their NFT's are going to have utility, but so far it's just avatars and username stuff, and they aren't really putting much effort into dealing with fan's concerns. It's either a scam, they believe in the technology and are willfully ignoring it's current problems, or this is some 5D chess twist they'll reveal in the tryhards video. I really want it to be the third option but I'm not confident.
I've seen some pretty big names in their discord, so one way or another, it's gonna be a big deal
bro your videos are so addicting.
I used to work in a "private" blockchain for business company. Even that felt like a grift (won't say it was, but it felt like it). I love watching blockchain, crypto and NFT drama since it's always the same.
What artists can do to protect themselves legally is to always use a contract when working with clients and clearly define what the deliverables will be used for in that contract.
what the actual hell, I was playing 'Pixelmon' the minecraft mod while listening to your other videos, and this plays
Good on him! Keep buying those NFTs guys!
PT Barnum getting proven right every day
PT Barnum was also a scammer and con artist
The problem of the NFT only being a link to their website, is the same feature that would let them update broken “pixelmon” to working ones. It's not all bad.
Since I was 18 I’ve worked in the ceramic industry. For a FTSE 100 company for 19 years and since 2005 for myself and under contract to small companies & as a writer for a magazine. I had a young family & living in HKG I needed 3 jobs to replace the 1 FTSE Co job.
My wife worked 2 jobs. We are now reasonably well off
I would happily feed these scammers into a wood chipper
Getting an add for a crypto trading platform right before watching a video called “The NFT market is a joke” is just *chef’s kiss*
I’m going to make NFTs called Nothings that are just black squares and see how much money I can make.
You’d probably make about 2 mil and that’s being modest
Call it 'Not a Fukken Thing'.
I thought pixelmon was that pokemon minecraft mod?
When I hear about kick starter scams and how they got ludacris funding, I wonder what went wrong with my own kickstarter that got zero backers despite being very reasonable (this is the capture card I want to buy, these are the lets plays I am making, I'll let you choose the game we'll play among all sorts of other very tangible rewards).
Psychochickens is a band who in 1980 released a song called "The fool". That is foreshadowing that is.
Given the wealth of information available on the web, if people are still throwing thousands upon thousands of dollars at either complete strangers or known scammers, then they deserve it. I only have so much empathy to go around, and I can't afford to waste any more of it on people who just plain don't deserve it.
2:41 "Don't do your own research"
Translation:
"I'm gonna scam you"
I was working for a company that took a job of creating a second version of their game with the name VR at the end because they wanted to be a version for VR.
And I was shocked when I saw they don't have any VR, they took the job, bought VR and started to learn how to program for VR... just what the.
Ofcourse they didn't said to the company that they don't have any knowledge about VR programming.
Love the content as always, thanks
Ooo I like the clicking sound effects.
So proud of Kevin finding work for himself, although I'll need to talk to him about looking into his employers beforehand
Kickstarter literally doesn't care, I've flagged a few NFT / Meta projects with them and their response has been they see no issues with it.
Also, I believe you can pledge and once funding goal is hit, cancel your own fake pledges so you don't get charged
4:40, Pokemon fans when they released the diamond and pearl remake.
He is Martin van Blerk from New Zealand.
Due diligence
Due diligence is the investigation or exercise of care that a reasonable business or person is normally expected to take before entering into an agreement or contract with another party or an act with a certain standard of care.
You know what, the youtube ad of this video is a NFT ad, thought it's part of the video
Google at work
Ah shit, here we go again.
there's more to NFT's than just xbox live generative pfps of [insert animal].
there's a major possibility for musicians to capitalize on our work without losing our digital rights and to be able to regain our streaming rights, while the conventional music industry is robbing professionals to the point where very few can live off their work. the blockchain gives opportunities for incorruptible systems to remove these exploiters from the chain altogether. what it becomes depends on what people choose to support. if stupid [insert animal] pictures for your twitter profile, or actual art.
the value of art comes from its humanity. of course generative pfp's don't have intrinsic value. in best case, the instruments have the artistic value and not the generated pictures themselves. non-generative art has and will always have its human value and is also where you need to look.
cope. seethe. mald. no one who sincerely cares will buy your art. NFTs are just another tool of the capitalist machine to turn everything into a speculative market. it protects NO ONE, let alone the fucking artist. you are falling for the meme and you should be ashamed. nothing about NFTs is subversive in any good way. you are a fool. get out before you waste your time.