United States of Cringe

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Club happenings:

• Boys Club in TechCrunch!!!!

• May 30, Austin. Hoedown Pt. 2 with dYdX and EVG.

• Soft launch: The Boys Club Collective, a creative marketing agency. High on honesty, communication, and output, and low on headaches. Brand strategy. Campaigns. Brand Building. Get in touch.

• Listen to the Ordinals and Runes 101 pod, plus a feelings check-in on the cringe of it all.

Bye!

The Boys

Writer: Deana

From Bad to Worse. What’s a leftish person in crypto to do? Truly asking. First, it was revealed this week that the only viable (lol jk) pro-crypto candidate, RFK Jr., had a worm eat his brain. Maybe this explains the incessant, and frankly inappropriate, post-ETHDenver campaign emails? Then, Tr*mp entered the chat on Wednesday, saying he’s good with crypto, which set the timeline ablaze. In between court dates for his hush money trial, Trump also dined with the holders of his yassified NFTs. Chat, I simply cannot. Questioning everything.

Cringe Corner.

• The ayahuasca-laced Bitcoin commencement speech at Ohio State had us all smashing unsubscribe. Why can’t crypto people play it cool?

• Men will get an “angry AI girlfriend” instead of going to therapy. I guess cringe can pivot to AI too.

• FTX said most customers will get all of their money back, with interest. The cringe build on this story? The Effective Altruism Castle is on the market.

• Rounding out this week’s cringe coverage is a Thrillist article documenting a live birth experience of cabbage patch dolls at a museum in Georgia. Not tech-related but felt important to share.

@brookefinegold

getting in touch with my own desire at the bodega #comedy #gay #newyork

🎤 Watchensee performed their poem “BODILY CONFINEMENT” on national TV. Watch now!

👉 Berlin friends, hit up afk Berlin with Lens on May 23!

❤️ SheFi Summit: Brussels edition! Ticket sign up is live.

🥨 Mint.fun has been acquired by Zora, congrats to empowa who worked on the product!

✨ Lex Anastasia’s project StakeKit launched in collaboration with Zerion.

🏆 50MM Collective booked 2 media production clients during FarCon, 747 Airlines and Higher.

🌱 New Edge City drop! Check out the Edge Esmerelda programming calendar.

🌸 Hire purrcat.eth and hire Masha.

🌆 New Internet City pt. 2 with POAP! May 16, Brooklyn.