There is no doubt that the big technological —and economic— news of the weekend, with the permission of the frightful ridicule of Twitter and the occurrence of Elon Musk with the verified payment, has been the withering blow of the cryptocurrency exchange FTXwhich has declared bankruptcy after its competitor Binance ruled out executing a rescue plan.
Comedy always breaks through
But in the midst of what is undoubtedly a real drama for the company’s workers and for the investors who have seen the values of their investments drastically reduced, the comedy has made its way. She has done it through an FTX ad issued earlier this year in which Larry David questions some of humanity’s greatest achievements.
The wheel, the fork, the toilet or the light bulb are some of the inventions that the humorist questions with no little joke; but it is in the last gag when the irony reaches its zenith. In the closing scene, a man tries to sell FTX to David by claiming that “it is a simple and easy way to get into cryptocurrencies”to which good old Larry replies “Nah, I don’t see it. And I’m never wrong with these things. Never.”.
In this way, the celebrated spot, considered one of the best broadcast during the Super Bowl by programs such as Good Morning America or The Today Show, has gone from being an amusing commercial claim to a harbinger of the debacle that has left the accounts of many crypto-bros in the red.