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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

A Look Back at 2021 - The Year in Scams

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Michael Kosta takes a look at the top scams of 2021, including skyrocketing NFT sales, meme stocks, Donald Trump's voter fraud claims, anti-critical race theory hysteria and more.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:02.7

A lot changed in 2021.

0:30.5

It's basically when you buy the rights to a piece of digital art and hang on to your

0:37.4

Apple wallets, they got pretty expensive.

0:40.4

$200,000 for O'Learn James' dunking clip, $600,000 for, I don't even know what that is

0:47.8

in the middle.

0:48.8

And millions for Jack Dorsey's first tweet.

0:52.1

This image of digital toilet paper is worth $2,100.

0:55.7

Yeah, $2,100 bucks for digital toilet paper.

0:58.7

I guess it'll come in handy when I have to take a dump in the metaverse.

1:02.5

Sadly gullible, idiots spent millions on NFTs thinking they have actual value.

1:07.8

When in reality, they can become worthless at any time.

1:10.6

Which I found out the hard way when I sold my house to buy this NFT of a dog wearing pantyhose.

1:16.1

What can I say?

1:17.1

I love art.

1:18.5

My next favorite scam of 2021 was the meme stock.

1:22.2

All year long, people were pumping money into terrible businesses just because the internet

1:26.6

thought it was cool.

1:27.8

It was the financial equivalent of the tide pod challenge.

1:31.2

And no stock was more meme than GameStop.

1:34.6

It's stock had been declining in value for a long time because it's a store that tries

1:38.3

to sell you video games that you can download at home.

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