Africarare's Ubuntuland metaverse - we tried to buy land and were signed up to 13 mailing lists instead

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We tried to buy plots in Ubuntuland's metaverse — but it was impossible

MTN and M&C Saatchi Abel recently announced that they bought “plots” in Africarare’s Ubuntuland metaverse. However, when MyBroadband tried to do the same, it proved impossible.

Africarare bills itself as a marketplace for African creativity, powered by the Ethereum blockchain, building the Ubuntuland metaverse and 3D virtual reality experience.
 
Something tells me that Ubuntuland will be one massive billboard,

Following the link to our mailing list preferences revealed that Africarare had signed us up to 13 different marketing mailing lists.

Aside from Africarare’s marketing emails, we were also signed up to lists for Mann Made Insights, MTN GLG 2022, MTN Go Bokke, SingularityU, and Toyota Touch.
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Jan said:
We tried to buy plots in Ubuntuland's metaverse — but it was impossible

MTN and M&C Saatchi Abel recently announced that they bought “plots” in Africarare’s Ubuntuland metaverse. However, when MyBroadband tried to do the same, it proved impossible.

Africarare bills itself as a marketplace for African creativity, powered by the Ethereum blockchain, building the Ubuntuland metaverse and 3D virtual reality experience.
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Excellent story Jan. I have been wondering for a few months if that ubuntuland thing is just a marketing scam with fake holders. Even when you look on openseas (the norman cartherine NFTs for ubuntuland) it looks dodgy when you look the amount of NFTs.

Wanted to type some more stuff about this, then I realized that I did not screenshot the evidence for what I was typing. what I will say is there were people promoting it on instagram stories. Wish I screenshotted it so I could show all the people who physically shilled it.

If someone can bubble map the NFT holders it might also make a very interesting story of what is going on.
 
There isn't enough liquidity in SA for this. Rather stick to something where there is at least some interest.
 
“90% of the projects aren’t going to succeed. It’s the projects that build long-term and offer real value that are going to last.”

And yours does this how?

Or just another type of scam at the end of the day?
 
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I just didn't crack the nod, guys.
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Ubuntu: (Zulu pronunciation: [ùɓúntʼù]) is a Nguni Bantu term meaning "humanity"

So Jan isn't human enough? What exactly are the requirements to be an Ubuntulander? Will Lindt bolletjie donations do?

Sounds like ubul5#1t to me.
/Avoids
 
Reminds me of Second Life.

No idea why anyone would want to subject themselves to a virtual world full of marketing.
 
Jan said:
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I just didn't crack the nod, guys.
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Yeah. Could this be the first commercial South African NFT scam? Every time an NFT discord mod speaks like that on discord it could possibly point out that they are not so honest as they try to pass their project off. It also tells us a lot of the professionalism of the africarare scam people.

I think you have a good story here Jan. Keep pressing them. Something sinister is going on with this project.
 
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Like, look at this nonsense. 1 of 400.... These people are just defacing Norman Catherine's work. Yes, Norman probably gave them the greenlight but I don't think he understands what the actual intentions are of these africarare people. People will get angry when they won't be able to sell their identical NFT at a higher price floor. These people are just stealing money at this point. These africare people just want people to be braindead consumers so they can get money from the gullibe.

Here is Norman Catherine's real trading volume according to Strauss and Co with fiat money: https://www.straussart.co.za/artists/norman-catherine/1

That being said Norman Catherine also makes money through other projects and private sales. That and other things artists do to make money.

Rather support Catherine by buying his physical or digital works or sending money to his crypto wallet instead of this crypto thing. This NFT nonense is getting out of hand.


I am typing this because I don't want people to fall for the MTI of NFTs. Last time I was silent about MTI a lot of personal friends lost money because I did not speak out when I saw something that looked like a scam.
 
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Sounds like a scam and they’re just collecting email addresses to check interest. Insiders own free “land” then when fake hype hit stupid people will buy nothing at massively high prices. “Early adopters” or in reality scammers will be singing the praise of how profitable the assets is. MTN is a perfect partner, provides money & can assist with advertising. In a couple month/years in pulls out massive with ROI.
Lekker new ponzi.

Poor Jan just isn’t platinum or carbon nanotubes level material or whatever the Ponzi hierarchy is. Maybe it’s political. It’ll be politically incorrect to have a “Jan” as one of the first “settlers”.

Good luck all. I’m avoiding this nonsense.
 
Can only laugh at all the idiots rushing to "buy land" and "assets" in the metaverse

It'll be worthless, just like Jack's first tweet
 
Can anyone explain the value or attraction to this Metaverse? Are peoples' lives so sad they need to invest in this?
 
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