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KOLs & promotion

Binance: paid promotion · 20 Feb 2026

A huge number, almost all of these KOLs who have rugged or repeatedly extracted money from their own followers with shitcoins were or still are busy bootlicking Trump and pushing one baseless lie after another.

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Explain it to me.

Tell me.

I can’t fully explain it, but there’s a clear pattern:

A huge number, almost all of these KOLs who have rugged or repeatedly extracted money from their own followers with shitcoins were or still are busy bootlicking Trump and pushing one baseless lie after another.

I’m talking about guys with 50k+ followers up to millions.

Almost all of them were/ are big Trump supporters.

A lot of them are also constantly shilling the Binance narrative and acting as defenders of CZ.

At some point it stops looking random.

The overlap between blatant grifting, paid narratives and nonstop misinformation is just too consistent to ignore.

My explanation is simple: concentrated stupidity, bad actors and pure greed.

Or do people with a tendency toward scams and wrongdoing naturally gravitate toward other scammers and liars? Like a rat recognizing another rat?

The list is endless. The attached images are just a few examples.

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