YouTuber Logan Paul has threatened to sue fellow YouTuber and web detective Coffeezilla for defamation after he accused Paul’s CryptoZoo nonfungible token (NFT) undertaking of being a “rip-off.”
The 2 have been battling forwards and backwards on each social media and YouTube movies ever since Dec. 17, when Stephen Findeisen — often known as Coffeezilla — launched the primary of a three-part video collection attacking CryptoZoo and Paul, who was the face of the undertaking.
“CryptoZoo was purported to be a enjoyable blockchain recreation that may earn you cash […] however thousands and thousands of {dollars} of investor cash later, issues are nonetheless damaged,” he mentioned.
In his most up-to-date response, Logan Paul revealed a YouTube video on Jan. 4 accusing the web detective of getting “led the cost to drive and monetize a story telling thousands and thousands of those that I’m a fraud or I attempted to rip-off my viewers.”
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My Response To Coffeezilla’s Rip-off Allegations
necessary that you simply watchhttps://t.co/KbsWsXll49 pic.twitter.com/eYOHDfC2IZ— Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) January 3, 2023
He has additionally accused Coffeezilla of getting completed so with out verifying any background info or substantiating any proof, including that he “took a number of criminals’ phrases as fact and broke legal guidelines, you continue to revealed the defamation,” including:
“I’ll see you in court docket.”
CryptoZoo is an NFT recreation with the premise of permitting “ZooKeepers” to purchase NFT eggs utilizing the sport’s native token, ZOO. These eggs would then be hatched into animals that may be bred to create hybrid animals.
The hybrids have been supposed to be tradeable and supply ZooKeepers with ZOO, with Paul describing the undertaking in an Aug. 21, 2021, podcast as a “actually enjoyable recreation that makes you cash.”
ZOO pic.twitter.com/JOnVCpB7JE
— CryptoZoo (@CryptoZooCo) May 5, 2022
Moreover, Paul had urged the artwork for the sport can be “handmade” by 10 completely different artists over six months.
The hybrids have been the main target of a Sept. 11, 2021, video from Coffeezilla wherein he described the pictures as “a bunch of inventory photographs from Adobe which have been poorly photoshopped.”
Nonetheless, the CryptoZoo blog has not revealed any new content material since April 20, prompting some to consider that the event of the undertaking has halted.
Throughout Coffeezilla’s three-part collection about CryptoZoo, the YouTuber interviewed purported traders of the undertaking. One investor who claimed to nonetheless be holding eggs referred to as on the CryptoZoo staff to “reimburse these loyal followers they’ve or attempt to rebuild the undertaking.”
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Nonetheless, in his newest video, Paul mentioned that they’ll “proceed to construct CryptoZoo,” sharing a teaser stating that it was coming in 2023/2024.
“Belief me, CryptoZoo is coming, I’ll make rattling positive of it.”
Coffeezilla has continued to query the authenticity of those claims on Twitter.
Worry not CryptoZoo holders, who spent thousands and thousands in 2021.
The essential recreation MIGHT be delivered in 2023/24!!!! and undoubtedly not as a result of I made a video collection about it. pic.twitter.com/SQydiLrZjR— Coffeezilla (@coffeebreak_YT) January 4, 2023
In the meantime, each Paul and Coffeezilla have referred to as on one another to debate the matter on their respective platforms, however each have but to simply accept any of the invites.
In response to CoinMarketCap, the Zoo token has plummeted by 99.5% over the previous 12 months, regardless of some positive aspects inside the final week following current media consideration.
Paul had been an avid supporter of crypto and NFTs all through 2021 and was a significant promoter of the crypto token Dink Doink (DINK) previous to launching CryptoZoo. Dink Doink was additionally lambasted by Coffeezilla in a July 12, 2021 video.
