A week ago @xyzashu posted in my opinion an ill-thought-out "prank". After a week the post seems to me more like something of a badly planned hoax. That's the gist of this post. If you're the kind of person @xyzashu seemed to want to target you can move on to the next post after scrolling down and upvoting this post. Life is short. You've got things to do.
Still Reading? Great!
Image Source: @xyzashu/cub-finance-hacked-pull-out-your-liquidity-asap
Last week @xyzashu made a post about the @leofinance Cub Finance project being hacked. Complete with an uncredited source image of an empty wallet. The first few paragraphs were worded in a way to induce FUD with a call to action to withdraw liquidity "immediately". You know, so users wouldn't have the time to scroll down to read the back-ended cubs with COVID-19 and disclaimer.
Image Source: @xyzashu/re-holovision-qqyac7
I don't know how @xyzashu was able to conclude that nobody had acted on the title of his post. Someone could have acted, looked at the comments before posting a thank you; because you know, @xyzashu's call to action was "immediately", and felt embarrassed to leave a reply then. The accuracy of self-reporting can be quite low so presumably that wasn't the empirical evidence. Somehow @xyzashu was able to make that "sad" determination. The converse being @xyzashu would have been happy had someone acted "immediately".
I replied on April 2nd pointing out that April Fools' Day was over and the post should be edited for clarification before someone seeing it after the fact did act. A week later there's no update to the post's beginning clarifying it was a "ha-ha! Fooled you!". The headline is still the same. Someone seeing that a day or two later might have panicked and it wouldn't have been a simple "April Fools' Day prank" then.
Is @xyzashu doubling down on a bad prank? Was April Fools' Day just an excuse to try to spread some FUD with a slapped on disclaimer to prevent libel claims? I don't know. All I do know is that @xyzashu doesn't quite understand what a proper April Fools' Day prank is.
Important Disclosure:
@xyzashu probably didn't commit a hoax in the legal sense. This post's title was made with a similar playful spirit that @xyzashu engaged in.