YouTuber who blew up a friend with explosive diarrhea and sold NFTs to children now

To get a feel for the current NFT market, think of the case of Stevin John, much better known as “Blippi” on YouTube.

As BuzzFeed News revealed in an eyebrow-raising report from 2019, John used to perform rough stunts under the pseudonym “Steezy Grossman”, even going so far as to blow up a friend with “explosive diarrhea” in a gag he later told the outlet was “stupid”. and tasteless, and I regret that I ever did. “

And since it is the year 2022, Blippi – who by the way has since collected almost 16 million subscribers to YouTube by entertaining toddlers – is now entering the NFT area.

In other words, it’s just another dark chapter in the regular drum beat of blockchain money.

According to Deadlinethe global entertainment company and distributor of children’s videos Moonburg Entertainment is teaming up with Zigazoo, “the world’s largest social network and NFT education platform for children,” to launch a collection of NFTs for children based on Blippi’s show.

Talk about late-stage capitalism. Apart from diarrhea, it is after all reasonable to ask why children want to own NFTs at all.

According to Zigazoo’s goal, the company wants to help children “express themselves through art and practice essential skills in financial competence”, while others see it as a thinly veiled attempt to extract parents’ money from influential tycoons.

In the great tradition of Pokémon cards and Beanie Babies, parents can spend up to $ 49.99 for each “pack” of NFTs, with varying degrees of rarity, by turning their hard-earned money into “Zigabucks”, the platform’s own cryptocurrency .

All purchases “are behind a parental control”, the company promises.

“With this decline, we are unlocking a whole new way for kids to interact with their favorite characters and put a Web3 spin on the popular post-in fan clubs that I loved when I was growing up in the 1990s,” Zak Ringelstein, CEO and founder of Zigazoo, told Deadline.

“This drop comes with exclusive content and benefits that allow kids to interact with our brand on and off screen, learn some new skills and, above all, have fun while learning through play,” he added.

But whether John’s former “Steezy Grossman” YouTube companies will be part of the collection remains to be seen.

“If there’s one thing I know Blippi loves, it’s a public and permanent record of one’s online activities, even under aliases,” BuzzFeed News reporter Katie Notopoulos, who broke the 2019 report, twitret in response to the news. “So a Blippi NFT makes sense.”

READ MORE: Moonbug Entertainment and Kids Social Platform Zigazoo launches ‘Blippi’ NFT Collection [Deadline]

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