Paul
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
I was just intrigued. I was interested. I was like, how is it that nobody can know who this guy is? Like, how can we not find his actual profile or his identity? And yeah, so I reached out to you because I didn't know like where to like, you know, I didn't want to like weigh in and like help out Seth Green. And like, you know, I wasn't trying to put my thumb on the scale.
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
Yeah, exactly. I'm not trying to dox anyone. I'm not trying to like, I don't care what happens with these apes or this or that. I just think it's interesting, almost like as an exercise to see whether investigative techniques could be used to find an individual who was involved in like an NFT transaction.
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
And I saw that among other social media sites, he has like a Instagram page, right? Which only has like, I think, five posts on it, all of which are NFPs that he is trying to sell. And these... So that told you, I'm just looking at his Instagram.
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
So that one is mostly like graphic design illustrations and like advertising mockups and stuff like that. But at the very bottom, there's one post that doesn't fit with all the others.
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
So at the very bottom, there's a post that if you see, it's a photograph in the style that's extremely similar to Darkwing's NFTs, right? Almost like immediately. Like I'm not a professional art critic, but I feel like, you know, Jerry Salt or someone would see that and be like, oh yes, this is a Darkwing 84. Like this is, you know, this is very much his exact style.
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
Well, his initials, I would say, is DW, right? And, you know, he's a Sydney-based cinematographer. Because once you have his name, he has his own website. He has, obviously, a LinkedIn account, a Facebook page, the whole nine yards. Very prolific, very publicly available profiles. And, you know, the thing that strikes me is DW, Darkwing, right?
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
And then 84, if you look at the year that he started college as an undergrad, you go back 18 years, he would have been born in 1984. So you've got Darkwing 84 right there.
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
That's the fascinating part of this. And this is the part that gets me most excited as someone who works in compliance and stuff like that, is that this is completely uncharted territory.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
55: Stories from Run Reigate runners as they crossed the finish line, the big Redhill Arts Takeover week… and more
I've been doing it for 10 years, and I just can't stop. Once a year, the gorilla costume comes out, go around Rygate, goes away for the year. I hope it's washed in between time, otherwise... No comment. How was the race? It was okay, yeah. I'm glad it didn't rain, because that'll double in weight with the wet. So I did a 46.38, so I'm pretty pleased with that. Better than last year, yeah.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
55: Stories from Run Reigate runners as they crossed the finish line, the big Redhill Arts Takeover week… and more
Not quite the PB, but that's okay.