Has anyone heard of this? Twitter has been blowing it up
No but I like a good conspiracy theory and that is a doozy. I canāt seem to find any live items with interesting names and sale prices so, sceptical.
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Lol - some people I follow online get Suckered into every conspiracy theory out there, so I saw it mentioned, but I never actually read what these people ramble on about everyday.
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Personally, the only conspiracy theories / scandal that I follow and watch on YouTube are about fake weights in videos, like the most recent one from a month ago.
New Fake Weights?
Where? I love these fake weights guys!
On conspiracies: Itās interesting. Almost anything can become a conspiracy once the story teller has your ear and the listener is willing to accept the premise. Once a little seasoning is added and the listener/reader is fully bought in they are then charged with āsee for yourself!ā. Then with a forum like reddit, once started it can feed itself with a bunch of people finding evidence.
Itās not like the real ones though, like when Gary Coleman was running the heroin trade through the entire northwest. Youāll never hear a word about that, but Holy Moley! That dude pulled a full on Breaking Bad with the fentanyl up there.
From roughly a month ago. Very lean and very famous YouTube coach known for his instructional videos.
There are conspiracy theory videos, then videos debunking the conspiracy theory videos, followed by a massive reddit discussion and so onā¦
Are they also very athletic?
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Oh man! 
Fortunately or not, Iāve got a slew of time on my hands to run down this rabbit hole!
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Vaguely related, but I have a hobby trading (very) minor works of Chagall, Picasso, Leger, and other pre-1970 or so well-known artists. Basically I buy things I like if they are cheap (by trolling estate auctions) and frame them myself professionally. When Mrs. Jewbacca decides I have too many, I slowly sell them, maybe 4 a year. Make a tidy profit. The kind of thing I might keep doing when I retire.
Anyway, I periodically see stuff for sale (and selling) for WAY above market value. Like multiples of 10X too much. This can be explained by irrational buyers, I suppose. Or someone who just needs a certain Madoura to finish off his or her collection.
But it happens with such frequency, and with such poor examples, that Iāve begun to suspect money laundering/selling, probably drugs.
Or maybe people are just stupid.
A Russian joke:
Two Russian oligarchs run into each other in an expensive restaurant.
The first oligarch says to the other āLook at this tie! I paid two thousand for it!ā
āYou foolā the second one replies āI could have told you where to buy it for five thousand!ā
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When the iPhone App Store first launched in 2008, there was an app titled āI Am Richā. It sold for $999.99. Four people bought it before it was removed. It could have been a way to launder money or, more likely, it was proving that four people were self-absorbed enough to show they had spent that much on a phone and also a useless app.
IIRC, upon opening, the app had a picture of a gemstone. Thatās it.
Wasnāt there a movie where exactly this was happening but with adults? Perhaps celebrities, they were shipped in wooden crates, I believe
Canāt find the original image so use your imagination.
āWhen the couch from wayfair arrivesā
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