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They compromised the official Instagram account then phished its followers for their NFTs.

The attacker seized control of the BAYC Instagram account and sent a phishing post that many followers were fooled into clicking on, connecting their crypto wallets to the hacker’s “smart contract” – a mechanism for implementing a crypto transaction. That enabled the attacker to steal the assets held in the wallets, seizing control of four Bored Apes, as well as a host of other NFTs with an estimated total value of $3m.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/26/bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-hack-theft-art-simian-oblivion

Series 3, episode 4, “The Speech”. Sadly, it’s also the episode where they convince Jen a box with a flashing red light is the Internet, but it has a subplot where Reynholm un-knowingly dates a trans woman. He finds her stereotypically masculine behavior attractive until he finds out she is transgender and a physical fight erupts between them.

It’s not even on the upper end of offensive comedy about trans people, but when the episode was criticized, Linehan doubled down and has kept doubling down harder for 20 straight years, to the point where he now spends all of his time harassing, dead naming and doxing trans women on Twitter. His wife left him, writing jobs dried up, he’s just a miserable has-been Twitter checkmark asshole now.

Except for that one transphobic episode that Graham Linehan has ruined his whole life over instead of going “Yeah, I’m sorry, that was a bit insensitive.”

Not a criticism, but that way of phrasing it is funny to me. Makes me imagine it was like a Doctor Who episode.

SCENE: INT. OFFICE BUILDING

Camera pans over standard office equipment, characters
making copies, having lunch in the break room. We hold
on a phone operator, female, Mediterranean appearance,
mid-30s. Her name is GIANCARLA. She is engaged in a
pleasant phone conversation in Italian. The other side
says something which makes GIANCARLA look confused.

    GIANCARLA:
      (Italian, English subtitles)
        Huh? I think something's wrong with the line, I
        can't understand you. Is that even Italian?

Wobbly blue energy wave (SFX) passes over GIANCARLA. She
is now female, Asian appearance, mid-30s. Other end of
phone continues speaking.

    GIANCARLA:
      (Chinese, English subtitles)
        That's better! Everything's back to normal, now.
        For a moment, it didn't even sound like you were
        speaking Chinese!

CUE OPENING CREDITS