Sex Toys, Memecoins, And The Collapse Of Common Sense

A big controversy has now broken out over WNBA games — people are throwing sex toys on the court.

By any normal stretch of human behavior, this is a bad thing to do. You should not go to games and throw sex toys on the court. It’s obscene. It’s ridiculous. And no matter how much you dislike the WNBA, you probably shouldn’t go there and throw a giant sex toy on the court, right? As a respectable human being, you probably shouldn’t do it.

Is it funny? Sure. A lot of things are funny. A lot of violative and transgressive behavior is funny.

But that doesn’t mean it’s good.

The internet culture and subculture have become so reactionary, so reactive, and so disagreeable that this pattern is now driving economic decision-making. An article in The New York Times titled, “WNBA sex toy incidents may be linked to cryptocurrency groups’ money scheme” reads like a fever dream: 

Late in the first half of a Los Angeles Sparks-Indiana Fever game on Tuesday night, a neon green sex toy thrown from the stands landed on the floor of Crypto.com Arena, at the feet of Indiana guard Sophie Cunningham. Simultaneously, a group of people during an audio livestream on X reveled in the moment and celebrated its potential to help boost the value of a particular memecoin, a cryptocurrency deriving from an internet meme but traded through very real markets online. The coin was created July 28, the day before the first occurrence of a sex toy being thrown on a WNBA court. As of Thursday, the coin’s worth had nearly tripled in its first week.

“Someone is tweeting that there’s one at the Sparks game,” one person said on the stream. “That is literally the best case scenario that we could possibly imagine,” another replied, because the sex toy had fallen near Cunningham, who had previously posted a plea for spectators not to throw the objects onto the court, which was met with numerous replies of memes involving the phallic object.

The disruption in Los Angeles — as well as others that occurred that evening — appeared to be part of a coordinated effort, borne out of conversations held in some particularly murky, often mysterious corners of internet culture, social media and opportunistic plays in the cryptocurrency markets.

In the normal world, all of this would be treated as sociopathic behavior, going to games and throwing sex toys on the court.

Regardless of how much you dislike the sport, it would be considered, at the very least, bizarre and at the worst, vile.

It could be funny, and a lot of vile behavior is funny, but it is significant; a country with a robust social fabric does not have this kind of behavior, or at least it has less of this kind of behavior. That’s because you wouldn’t do this in your community, would you?

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I know I’m treating seriously what is a frivolous topic, but I think we are now entering an era with the merger of the internet and the real world, a time where there are no more frivolous topics. Every frivolous topic becomes a symptom indicative of true social ills that are dividing us from one another.

You can’t get together and say, “Yeah, we probably shouldn’t do that,” or “A Sydney Sweeney jeans ad? Who cares? That’s fine.”

What happened to normalcy? As normalcy disintegrates and as people take one side or the other on ridiculous meme sociopathy, what you end up with is a very, very polarized electorate.

And that’s particularly true as young people age into the voting population. You’re seeing it in terms of sexual polarization between men and women; women are swinging wildly to the Left. Men are moving significantly more to the Right. And in terms of political polarization, it’s more about aesthetic feel than it is even about policy for a lot of these folks.

Is it a problem?

It does say something about the continuing social polarization of our country. We are addicted to our phones, our memes, and to the LOLs, as opposed to the things that actually build a society — like spending time with other human beings in a physical setting with a common goal of making our society and country better.