How YouTuber Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) hunts for scams on the internet

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Alberta is the unlikely front in the war against NFTs, entrepreneurs, and the metaverse.

This episode of the BetaKit Podcast is a little different because (if you want) you can see me!

We’re back in the StartWell studio experimenting with video and it’s frankly awful.

“We have industrialized the scam in a way that is unprecedented in human history.” -Dan Olson

But there’s a good reason: This week we spoke to Canadian YouTuber Dan Olson, known online as Folding Ideas. We couldn’t just make an audio podcast for a YouTuber of his stature.

You may not know Dan by name, but you’ve probably seen his two-hour video Line Goes Up interrogating Web3 and NFT, or his video In Search of a Flat Earth, where he systematically demonstrates that we don’t actually live on a flat earth.

Besides being a really smart and thoughtful guy, I wanted to talk to Dan because he’s a bit struggling with his content, directly attacking Internet scams, analyzing them, understanding their components and cultural implications. It’s a lot of my shit.

Because Dan, like me, comes from a certain demographic of people dissatisfied with the current state of the internet because we remember what it was like before when scams were glamorous and not scaled down to such a degree that they were dehumanizing or awful or metaverse-y.

But why is Dan Olson so drawn to these dark corners of the internet in the first place? How can they be explained through World of Warcraft? What is the measure of a man?

We dig.

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The BetaKit Podcast is hosted by Douglas Soltys and Rob Kenedi. By Kattie Laura. Feature image courtesy of Dan Olson. Sponsored by Goodlawyer.

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