Waqas
@worqas
Story time. A couple of years ago one of my followers on Twitter made worqas.eth ENS and just gave it to me. I didn't know the guy at all and it felt like a really nice gesture. He said that I can use that and fund my journalism through crypto. I said thank you but no thanks. I had never even considered that possibility up till that point. He insisted that I accept this gift. So I thanked the guy profusely, and to show my gratitude I tweeted about it. I tweeted that this random guy I don't even know has given me this ENS (I still don't know how it works) and I am excited about it. As soon as I tweeted it, a bunch of my dedicated haters (Pakistani military has a lot of trolls) descended on that tweet, started quote tweeting me etc and saying that I was running some sort of crypto scam and there is no random guy who has donated me anything. Someone even took out some screenshot of a blockchain transaction "proving" that I had purchased the domain myself. I didn't know what to make of all that.
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Waqas
@worqas
It got so bad and I felt that these random rumors could hurt my credibility as a journalist and I was doing some pretty important stuff related to Pakistan those days. The rumors also made me a bit paranoid, I knew nothing about ENS and all the talk about scams made me think that maybe that guy is trying to scam me in some way. So I messaged that guy and said that I didn't want to accept his gift and now there is all this bullshit floating because of his insistence. I was pretty rude about it. That guy, who probably really liked my work and wanted to thank me, got really sad. He said one day I will realize what it meant and then he turned his Twitter account private.
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OGE 🎩🎯
@ogebaeby
Gosh, I don’t even know how to react Is there a way I can help? I can check his account through mine and see if we can set up a path for you to talk to him 🥺
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Mashal
@mashal
you should DM him or tweet him. if nothing else i’m sure he’d appreciate even if he’s a lurker now 💝
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Myza
@joybrishti
That’s wild. What started as a kind gesture turned into chaos real quick. Sad how people twist things, even when you’re just being honest and thankful. You handled it well!
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M Kay
@mkays19
I recall this incident - was the time you were setting up the news site I think, which was unfortunately shut down/delayed/postponed/loaned(?). Hope you are able to contact the person and find closure.
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Mykhilo1🎭🔥🍖
@mykhilo1
Waoo, thats so touching i must say, sorry about that 🙏
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Mykhilo1🎭🔥🍖
@mykhilo1
Waoo, thats so touching i must say, sorry about that 🙏
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