What’s the ‘choose rich’ crypto meme all about?
Nifty co-founder Nick O’Neill, aka NFT Nick, created the memetic catchphrase ‘ choose rich’ to assert his wealth and attract attention from money-seeking Social Media users. Unfortunately for him, it looks to have backfired as, like many aspirationally rich influencers, NFT Nick’s wealth is mostly self-described. In a comical turn of events, Crypto Twitter discovered O’Neill’s countless exaggerations and lies about his wealth. In the process, users have co-opted the catchphrase and inverted its meaning entirely. For context, the phrase ‘ choose rich’ is a reference to the film T he Wolf of Wall Street , in which Leonardo DiCaprio — speaking as disgraced trader Jordan Belfort — says, “ I choose rich every time .” However, the phrase never gained any meaningful traction until O’Neill fumbled his own attempt to kickstart its adoption. Community noting NFT Nick’s lies NFT Nick claims to own a ‘fleet of Ubers’ and a chauffeur. In rea...