B-List celebs including Lindsay Lohan fined after crypto shill probe Eight very B-list celebrities have agreed to cough up fines after being accused of shilling a cryptocurrency without disclosing they were paid to do so, while the chap who apparently paid them has been charged with fraud. That chap is named Justin Sun. He's the owner of Tron Foundation Limited, BitTorrent Foundation Ltd, and …
I also want Eadon back. The comment sections on Microsoft articles are getting boring.
I think he's back, under a few different names... but I won't name and shame incase it isn't him.
Yes, Lester is missed! ----> One of these for those who remember him!
Trouble is... the microsoft stories are getting boring
Patch day with yet another critical bug in windows being patched
Patch day +3 : update KB 666 makes some network connected PCs explode
Patch day +4: out of hours update to solve the exploding PC problem
Patch day +6 : Outlook 365 fails to live up to its name... again
Patch day +9 : M$ cloud services barf and fall over
Patch day +14 : its new patch day with 5 more critical bugs....
Yeah and we need more stories like post pub day fry up rescipes (and be quick its pub day again tommorrow.......)
You can't bring back Lester Haines (god rest him) but you could bring back Dabbsy
I'm following Dabbsy over on Autosaveisforwimps... I don't think he would come back, El Reg is no longer El Reg, but Reg.com. I get the feeling that the disappearance of Paris in the icons and Dabbsy's exit come from a PC directive, you know, make it SFW. And we know that Dabbsy is anything but PC in his rantings.
I miss the post pub nosh, and the breakie after the pub! I guess that Reg.com needs the space for webinars and such frippery, not to be confused with Robert Fripp.
Dabbsy's coat...
Millions of followers really isn't unusually big in the worldwide scheme of things, especially as many are probably late millennials who were fans in her 2000s heyday and getting nostalgic for their childhoods. If she was still at the peak of her fame in today's social media environment, she'd conservatively be (certainly) well into the seven and probably eight figures.
FWIW, you can tell that the front page thumbnail image of her- presumably taken around the peak of that 2000s fame then early infamy- is pretty old now from the fact that everyone is shoving their cheap digital compact cameras (with regulation 2000s sprayed silver finish) in her face, rather than their smartphones.
I don't think describing Lohan as "B-list" is overly disrespectful, since she's nowhere near her peak popularity of 15-20 years ago and only really still famous at all off the back of that.
It'd be more disrespectful to describe her, on that basis, as a "has-been".
(BTW, just thinking... if someone belongs to the B list, does that make them a BLister?)
I know at least one of those was in an FTX advertisement, in which case they probably followed the rules which basically say that you can hire any actor to say that your company is great, but making them hide information as was done here is the problem. If the actor just read lines that the company wrote, then the company can be at fault for the lines but the actor isn't expected to check their legality, and if the company had the actor read the required lines while still conducting fraud elsewhere, then the actor's definitely not at fault for what the company did. I don't know if both of them did that or if the other one did something different, so this wouldn't always apply.
Actor/boxer Jake Paul, rapper/producer DeAndre Cortez Way (aka Soulja Boy), YouTube popster Austin Mahone, adult performer Michele Mason, rapper Miles Parks McCollum (aka Lil Yachty), musician Shaffer Smith (aka Ne-Yo), and musician/philanthropist Aliaune Thiam (aka Akon) also, according to the SEC, shilled for Sun.
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I trusted these people.
If it were Warren Buffet shilling for a particular crypto, I might take notice, but Kendra Lust? A guy that beats people up for a living? A rapper (who might might be assassinated or in jail next week)? I'm not even going to buy a watch that some cinema star is being paid to endorse. What do they know about watches other than the price? If Jay Leno were to come out and endorse a car, I'd be all ears. Yeah, he was a talk show host and still does stand-up, but he's very well known for his car collection and extensive knowledge on the subject. Somehow I doubt that any sum of money would be enough if he didn't honestly think the car was a gooder.
This shit rag and all the rest data mine every fucking reader going to sell all their information for pennies.
You can't complain about people willingly handing over money when shit rags like this don't even give it's readers a choice to have their data mined.
I bet you all a dollar the CEO of The Register would gladly flog you NFTs for articles if they could get themselves this years bonus.
I don't agree with Bitcoin, but at least the saps walk into it willingly.
Unlike the American media companies who just believe all the data simply belongs to them
....seeing Jake Paul on that list. Him and his brother are the low lifes of the Internet. But then we can blame YouTube as well for never banning both.
Jake Paul's brother Logan went to Aokigahara forest in Japan purely for the views. Wearing a stupid hat & was hoping they'd run into a suicide. And they did and he filmed it and it stayed on YouTube for a while making him and YouTube quite a bit of money in ad revenue. Anyone else would of been banned but as he made them lots of money with his channel, the video just got removed and he was allowed to carry on.
The two brothers are fucking awful.
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