I usedto think Gary V was a pretty smart dude, back when I used to watch him during his early wine library tv days, I bought into his hustle mentality and up to some point he was the catalyst to push myself to become a professional and study a career. After years of watching his videos and seeing him grow in his advertising company he started pushing sneaker buy and resale (basically scalping) and buying and selling Pokémon cards and was confused but figured "to each their own I guess", shortly after he started pushing crypto and then NFTs and at that point I lost all respect for this dude because he's either an idiot and has been lucky all this time, or he's fucking scamming his followers in some sort of pump and dump scheme and stopped following him everywhere.