RadioShack’s Twitter Account Didn’t Get Hacked, They’re Just Selling Crypto Now
Since society now insists on spiraling more backward as each day passes, it would be nice if we could at least replicate some of the pleasantries of the past; like the feeling of your mom letting you get a Nerds Rope AND a box of Raisinets in the check-out line of Blockbuster after scoring the last copy of The Mask on a Friday night. But sorry, the best we’ve got is RadioShack creeping back into our lives with skanky tweets to sell imaginary money to wannabe finance bros who’ve never seen a female breast in person before. The other day, RadioShack’s Twitter page went viral after it tweeted, “If you find a squirter marry her.” No, RadioShack’s Twitter wasn’t hacked, this is their current strategy of pandering to their new target audience since internet marketer, Tai Lopez, bought the flailing company and decided that what the world was missing was another place to buy crypto.
According to Mashable, RadioShack now has its own place on the blockchain (the where?) and its own token (a what?).
That’s right. RadioShack has pivoted to the blockchain and launched its own crypto exchange called Radio Shack Swap. The company even has its own token called $RADIO, currently trading at around a penny. (The crypto crash seems to have knocked it down by two-thirds of its pre-crash value.)
That all sounds pretty foreign to me, but basically it seems like all a crypto dealer needs to do in this day and age to get people with the intellects of 13-year-old boys to hand over their cash is give them the giggles. This is what RadioShack’s Twitter account looks like currently…
Some people think beer is nasty, and so am i after 15.
Good Morning. Happy Friday.
— RadioShack 😈 (@RadioShack) July 1, 2022
Anybody that thinks RadioShack twitter is wildin just remember: we watched a court room full of people talk about Amber Heard taking a dump in Captain Jack Sparrows bed on live tv.
— RadioShack 😈 (@RadioShack) June 30, 2022
Taking the second half of an edible after feeling nothing from the first half is always a bad idea. This chocolate bar got me out here fighting for my life.
— RadioShack 😈 (@RadioShack) June 28, 2022
…which obviously confused lots of users, but RadioShack clarified that this is, indeed, on purpose:
Shack intern here. I wanted to take a sec to reflect on my post. Ik your expecting me to say, in my wildest dreams I never thought that tweet would go viral and to apologize. But i did because ik that shit was fire af. No we didnt get hacked, and no im not fired. Buckle up bitch
— RadioShack 😈 (@RadioShack) June 30, 2022
The century-old business still does have actual store locations, though it’s a fraction of how many there used to be, but hawking Discmans and clear, corded phones that you can see the inner workings of isn’t where the money’s at anymore.
RadioShack’s move from your grandpa’s electronic retailer to its current incarnation as a cryptocurrency pumper occurred after the company was bought out by Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV) in 2020. This was after a tumultuous period for the company, during which it closed a slew of stores and filed for bankruptcy. When REV purchased the company, RadioShack had just 400 physical retail locations, down from its peak of 7,300.
REV is owned by Tai Lopez, who YouTubers know as the internet marketing guy that has long filled the platform with pre-roll video ads promoting “get rich quick” schemes. Perhaps his most well-known YouTube video advertisement is “Here in My Garage,” which features Lopez showing off his Lamborghini. It currently has more than 71 million video views.
Here’s that guy, in case you were curious about what some of today’s youth aspires to:
Tai does own other, more tangible ventures though, like legacy brands including Modell’s Sporting Goods, Dressbarn, Linens ‘n Things, and Pier1–so the only person who will “get rich(er) quick” from trading tokens through an archaic store on its last legs with an edgy Twitter account–is Tai Lopez. I can see it now: “stay tuned for RadioShack Tweet takeovers featuring our favorite miscreants and jagoffs: Donald Trump Jr., DaBaby, and Conor McGregor, with special guest Candace Owens! And Stay tuned for a special workshop with Seth Green who will school us all on how to buy NFTs and just absolutely obliterate that cash!”
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