Take a deep breath and prepare yourself, because the “saga of the green dildos” is going to get really, really dumb.
Now take another one, just to steel yourself—this story involves crypto and memecoins, after all.
Ready? Okay.
Perhaps you’ve heard that people have been tossing lime green dildos at WNBA players for the last few weeks. Front Office Sports counts five such incidents; other sites say six.
Two men, Delbert Carver and Kaden Lopez, have so far been arrested. Both are under 25—young, but old enough to know that throwing sex toys at professional female athletes is both unsafe and deeply disrespectful.
WNBA players have been emphatic about their dislike and disapproval of these actions, which have been widely covered even in outlets like Cosmopolitan, which railed against “these idiots throwing dildos onto the court” who “don’t care about what women deserve or how disgusting and violating their actions are.”
Meanwhile, Donald Trump Jr. recently posted an image to Instagram showing his dad on the White House roof, tossing a large green dildo down at women on a basketball court. (Representative reply comment: “Cool. Epstein files now?”)
Why would anyone pay money for a WNBA ticket, only to throw dildos at the players? According to the Associated Press, both men arrested so far claimed that the incidents were pranks, with one saying the idea was intended “to go viral.” If you read that and find yourself wondering why you’d want green dildos to go viral, USA Today got the “EXCLUSIVE” answer:
It was crypto bros.
Pushing a memecoin.
Called “Green Dildo Coin.”
That now has a market cap of $12 million.
The paper talked to someone representing Green Dildo Coin, who explained that the stunts were done for truly noble reasons. Indeed, they were a form of “protest” against injustice.
