Polygon The Game Website Gets Spammed By Shady Crypto Nonsense

Polygon is an American online game web site that publishes blogs, information, critiques, and such. Polygon, in line with its web site, is “a protocol and a framework for constructing and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks.” Regardless of comparable logos and Tweets from the blockchain community plaguing these of the online game web site as of late, the 2 firms are fully unrelated.

Should you take a look at tweets from the online game Polygon posted this week, there’s a very good likelihood you’ll get launched to the cryptocurrency Polygon within the course of. It doesn’t matter what the tweets are about. Take this one tweet concerning the new Blade Runner anime trailer. Should you scroll down previous the conventional feedback from the great, tremendous individuals of the web and click on on the “is likely to be offensive” response possibility, you’re handled to a bunch of bizarre responses from individuals tagging @POLYGON_BONUS and @MATICGIFT, neither of which I’m going to hyperlink as a result of they’re invasive and obnoxious.

The unusual tweet responses are referring to a scammy-seeming promotion from the cryptocurrency firm Polygon known as the MATIC Airdrop. With a view to promote the difference of their particular cryptocurrency, MATIC, Polygon is “making a gift of” 10 million items. All an individual has to do to qualify is pay a few of their very own MATIC, and extra MATIC will magically circulation into their cryptocurrency coffers. For some motive, a number of Twitter accounts that hardly observe anybody and don’t have any followers themselves are spamming “It really works!” tweets in response to tweets from the correct online game Polygon.

In keeping with Newsweek, non-gaming Polygon was based in 2017 because the Matic Community, an India cryptocurrency startup. In February of this yr the corporate rebranded as Polygon, adopting a emblem that appears nothing just like the online game web site’s emblem save the positioning of its graphic factor and a virtually equivalent font. Should you’re confused, simply search for the capital P. That’s the suitable Polygon or, in line with the picture above, the left Polygon.

We’ve reached out to the flawed (proper) Polygon to ask what’s up with all of the bizarre Twitter spamming, and can replace this put up ought to they reply. We’ve additionally reached out to the web site Polygon, former employer of Kotaku’s earliest and most up-to-date editors-in-chief, and hope to listen to from them quickly.

Should you ask me, that is doubtless the act of some guerilla advertising group that simply gained’t let Polygons be Polygons.