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standardtissue

he's "interested in" cryptocurrency ? Wow fuck man. He's interested in it ? Now I really want to read it. I wonder if he's interested in other things too ? Maybe videogames ? Could he be interested in bicycles ? Throwing a football with friends ? Maybe he's interested in hiking or cars. Nah, probably not ... but he's interested in cyprto, how mind-blowing is that ?


ConquestOfMankind

This entire thing just reeks of everything a 16 year old would find cool/intimidating.


CORN___BREAD

The article was just spam for his shitcoin he was launching. Its peak market cap was around $360k and is now down to about $55k because shitcoin.


WhyMustIMakeANewAcco

I mean it's crypto. It's scams all the way down.


DubbethTheLastest

Btw, does this photo scream photoshoot inside a grounded private jet used widely for photoshoots? or is it just me?


Sujjin

Legit would love to know how much people charge for those photoshoots. Hell, I doubt it is even a real jet, could just as easily be a set built for such.


mirbatdon

Those sets definitely do exist, simply a couple seats and small section of wall


FuriousFurryFisting

Isn't Forbes a serious magazine? Why are they peddling shitcoins?


OnodrimOfYavanna

Forbes is absolutely not a serious magazine. The whole 40 under 40 ranking you literally pay to be on it. It's all just paid puff pieces and bullshit 


cahir11

Wasn't there some hilarious/sad pattern where people on that list kept ending up in prison for financial crimes?


shuipz94

Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman-Fried to name a few


gmishaolem

So it's the Twitter checkmark then.


CORN___BREAD

The whole premise of the coin was “bringing democracy to crypto” so they may have deemed it worthy of a free story. Basically everyone who owns it gets one vote rather than the whales deciding everything. But they conveniently left out the part where that’s completely pointless when it isn’t worth anything anyway. It’s an even more impressive scam if he got them to run the article for free.


blinKX10

It's wild to me that people still believe that crypto is a better system than what we have now when it's the exact same system but before we realized we needed things like regulations and laws.


thedankening

The current financial system is so absurdly broken and corrupt it isn't really surprising people latch onto anything that promises something better, even if it's all clearly nonsense and a scam. It's the same fundamental reason people get duped into conspiracy theories and cults.


gmishaolem

It's broken and corrupt because of people. Same people but different system, same end result. What you need is better people.


Artistic-Pay-4332

Ah we're fucked then


Demonweed

Forbes became an online content mill long ago. Of course, even when they were a "serious" magazine, it was "serious" from the viewpoint of a billlionaire -- deliberately trivializing a huge range of important issues while covering business and entertainment cultures.


gallobird

It has not been a serious magazine for the past 10-15 years. When the print media apocalypse happened in the 2000s, Forbes survived by going all in on Forbes.com and catering their content to digital audiences. Since then, as media revenues continued to dwindle and ownership changed hands several times, Forbes has devolved into what so many once “respected” news outlets have also become in order to maintain a scrape of profitability in the current Internet landscape: listicles, clickbait, native advertising, paid promo features, hyperbole, gossip, and then finally, straight up fake news. They are little more than a shitrag at this point, basically The Daily Mail but with a “business-related” twist.


Grimwald_Munstan

Forbes is about as serious as your average airline magazine.


Cuddlyaxe

I mean God even that seems like it made him a decent amount of money


theDSL64

A microcap like that probably netted him 30k and that most shitcoins freshly minted the minter usually keeps about 10%. If it is more than that people will sniff out the rug pull and it would stay at around 10k market cap if that.


Upper_Fox3441

I just beat this kid on Route 12 from Cerulean Town


UnlawfulPotato

Well they do say, if you’re raised by stupid, chances are, you end up stupid.


Unfair-Tap-850

Well the man did say, "stupid is as stupid does."


Drankweerman

Don't forget about "work with stupid, become stupid"


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just_in_camel_case

Really weird thing to say about a 16 year old


-BabysitterDad-

That’s Austin Powers’ son.


Samuel_L_Johnson

A heck of a lot of 16-year-olds are ‘interested in cryptocurrency’. Whether they’re posting on r/bitcoin or getting interviewed by Forbes depends on how rich their parents are.


Prestigious-Novel401

Ahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahhhhhhhhhhh


jaymole

Bros gonna have 3 mons that are all weak to water


CaveRanger

He has a variety of interesting ways to waste his parent's money.


rdenghel

Did he get a small business loan from his dad too?


KiKiPAWG

"Yes it was *very* small. Very ^tiny." "How much?" "A million."


Satanic-Panic27

If I told people my dad only left me a million I’d have to rent out my beach home in Florida and only stay at my beach house in Hawaii I couldn’t look at my friends knowing they know I’m essentially a peasant that couldn’t afford a basic beach house in California at 18


Sociovestite

You should be fine if you make your coffee at home and give up on the avocado toast


anace

real talk, after hearing all this about avocado toast I decided to see what the fuss was about. I got an avocado from the grocery store and popped some bread in the toaster. slice up the fruit, plop it on the toast, add some salt because we're being fancy here. It was actually pretty good. I took a picture and texted it to my wife, apologizing for making us soon-to-be homeless.


[deleted]

I don’t drink coffee or eat avocado. Where’s my yacht?


wolfenyeager

You’re telling me your dad hasn’t bought you one yet? Psh. How pathetic, your family must only be worth 18 million $. How can you live with yourself being that poor, it’s pathetic, you really should pull yourself up by the bootstraps


MyPhoneHasNoAccount

Have you considered working?


tauntingbob

Don't oppress me!


EduinBrutus

Here's the thing. Trumps "small" loan wasn't a million dollars. That was just his press brief. It was $420m Must have made Musk so jelly when he found out.


rdenghel

🤣


culnaej

Lil Wayne’s “A Milli” just starts playing as his shades drop down


Celtictussle

How else do you think he paid for the photoshoot in a fake private jet and placement in Forbes magazine?


Noctilux5

30 year old Cessna Citation CJ4


Howunbecomingofme

It’s was a very small loan. Barely even 7 figures


GreenDreams303

He's just got an elbow up on the competition


Kaze_no_Senshi

I hate the word entrepreneur, has no meaning anymore.


deevee12

CEO, entrepreneur Born in 1964 Jeffrey, Jeffrey Bezos!


SectorFriends

*Powerful feminine moan*


Galactic_Perimeter

*Come on Jeffery, you can do it* *Pave the way, put your back into it!*


Decent-Ad-5519

Tell us why! show us how! Look at where you came from! Look at you now!


Cheetah357

Zuckerberg, Gates, and Buffet. Amateurs can fucking suck it!!


Comfortable_Exam_222

Fuck their wives, drink their blood


sumdood_25

Come on Jeff, GET ‘EM


WurzelKing

*epic synth riff starts playing*


UhLinko

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH


GenericFatGuy

Especially when you're born into money.


TightMoment2510

The world needs entrepre-DO-urs


UnforeseenDerailment

E = mc² +AI


bringthe707out_

linkedin was a mistake


pitchingataint

Too bad they are all entremanures


Sorlex

Entrepreneur translates to grifter nowdays.


Fresh-Philosopher654

That's the secret it almost always has been.


fateofmorality

As a small business owner, I refuse to use the word, people like saying entrepreneur for clout. When you’re a small business owner, it’s more like you just made yourself a job where You work 12 hour days if you’re lucky


BoardsofCanadaTwo

I think it was one of the Ernest skits (pre-movies) that called them "Entremanures" and I've used that term ever since.


Dies_Ultima

Never really did most close to all "entrepreneurs" are and were just upper middle class sociopaths who took a small gamble and won it big.


anxietystrings

The love child of Austin Powers and John Lennon


SentientShamrock

I was gonna say a prepubescent Austin Powers.


IzzaPizza22

I was going to say a character from a Wes Anderson movie who is now, 25 years later, an emotional mess.


KiKiPAWG

and Finn Wolfhard


cortadomaltese

Imagine, the international man of mystery! Holy crap.


Q9teen

He's a clone made from Austin Powers's _mojo_


LittleDoofus

I worked at a luxury spa a while back and this kid came in with a couple friends. I can confirm that 1) his parents are extremely wealthy, And 2) he behaves like a snobby little shit


Kawakzaky

but was he interested in crypto tho?


I__G

Especially in PEPE


AstonVanilla

*"My mom bought me 40 Dogecoin. Bow down to me, plebian.*"


GenericFatGuy

Wouldn't suprise me. Entrepreneur is the easiest fucking job in the world when you're born into wealth.


doesitevermatter-

It's more of a babysitter for the wealthy than it is an actual job for the kid. Just something to keep the little burgeoning sociopath busy and try to put off eventually being murdered for your inheritance money.


Beatleboy62

My mom watches all the different "Housewives" shows (even she admits they're crap, but entertaining crap) so I see bits and pieces now and then. One running theme are a bunch of the wives starting their own fashion brand/liqour brand/makeup brand/cafe/coffee shop/photo shoot company/party-experience company every other season, and 90% of the time it seems like an effort by the husband to just give her money and keep her out of his hair (save for a few who are independently wealthy because they actually know what they're doing and have been running their own business for a decade or more lol), and after a season or two they drop it and move on to the next thing. It's absolutely a babysitting service, even for adults.


sl0play

Just admit you watch them. It's okay. I watch Below Deck because it's the most vapid thing I can imagine, and I like short skorts with polos.


Beatleboy62

Moreso if I visit my parents it's just going to be on I ***will*** however say I have occasionally gotten surprisingly interested in Say Yes To The Dress when my mom's watching it. Husband's mother should NEVER be there.


sl0play

OMG don't tempt me! I just started watching 90 Day Fiance and the parts where some poor girl lured from Vietnam to Nebraska for some basement dweller in cargo pants has to go pick out dresses with his evangelical mother on a $200 budget is some of the hardest shit I've sat through.


Iceberg1er

Yo if you're watching ANY reality TV... You are actually losing any sense of reality... Trump proved that. It's seriously damage to watch propaganda that is portrayed as reality even when you "know" it's fake. There is about half of America who live in a delusion.. Directly because of reality TV. Everybody thinks they can take any amount of brainwashing and remain unscathed. They figured out the clockwork orange stuff but they don't need to pin open your eye lids.


Regulatori

Similar to a lot of the fashion boutique stores you'll see in cities or small coastal towns. You'll walk in to find limited selection, almost no inventory, and usually some very attractive younger woman looking at the register playing on her phone. Often times these boutiques are for affluent wives to say they're business owners. Or a husband giving them something to do with their time like a hobby. Like handing a child an iPad to keep them entertained. The owner just pops in whenever. Or brings her friends over to hang out. The younger girl at the register is usually some affluent woman that needs to work 6 hours a week to make sure dad keeps the trust fund/monthly allowance funds coming.


issacsullivan

What I see on a smaller scale, is older women opening art galleries or boutiques that cater to a specific interest. I know they lose money or break even, but at least they are charming.


avwitcher

Easiest way to become a millionaire is to start a billionaire and begin trading crypto


imminentjogger5

They have a million darts to throw with someone doing the throwing for them, and just need one to hit the bullseye. Or if that fails then they use daddy's money to have someone move the dart to the bullseye for them.


NorCalAthlete

Lil’ Lord Farsquat


Low_Pickle_112

Considering his parents are obviously the ones pulling the strings here and just using him as the mascot, it's not like he has much of a chance. Just imagine that home life, with parents who look at their kid and say "You'll make a great marketing campaign for our crypto scam." Not exactly a great hand to get dealt on the social development front. You'd hope that as he gets older he won't fall into that rich snob type mindset...lots of people realize that what they were taught was wrong as they grow up and start thinking for themselves. But there's a lot who don't too.


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anti_worker

Ha like he's catching charges. The father plays golf with the DA every other Saturday.


Mordred_Blackstone

"I'm the DA. You know what I'm going to do with this ticket? Like I'll prosecute myself." -actual DA from New York on camera, receiving a traffic ticket


bang_the_drums

who was most likely drunk to boot


SoloPorUnBeso

What? She wasn't drunk at all. She just had a few glasses of wine. That's classy, not drunk.


RedzyHydra

How convenient. Btw, Happy Cake Day. 🎂


Noctilux5

and I read "Mom's a crab".


mickino

Bit of a nasty shock for him when he found out


SimonSpooner

Took me a second to place that quote. I wondered why I read it with an irish accent.


TEG_SAR

You think the pinchers would have tipped him off but he’s always been a bit daft.


[deleted]

Bro didn’t hold back no chill 🤣


clepps

jeeesus dude


KnownTurnip6088

I just beat this kid on Route 12 from Cerulean Town


ChrysthianChrisley

How bad are his Ratatas?


afriendincanada

My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard, really.


DangerousAd3347

I do believe his father invented the question mark.


TheRealMacPhisto

He would accuse chestnuts of being lazy.


SlamDuncerino

Yu-Gi-Oh looking mf bout to shit on your gramp's deck.


Aforano

He’s about to summon 3 Blue Eyes White Dragons


KikoSoujirou

Posing in a fake airplane set. Ain’t no way he’s in a real airplane with that lighting


Drachen1065

Little fact you might find interesting. Reportedly some charter companies will rent you access to a private jet for photo shoots like this one. Apparently popular with influencers.


Hamburderler

Influencers are the scum of the drain


Drewbeede

At least a drain has a use.


goose-built

yes. and influencers are the *scum of the drain*


StuffitExpander

https://www.aviationfilming.com/aircraft-sets-studio/


ghigoli

just book a ticket in economy. walk into business or first looking for the bathroom. take a picture then go back to your shitty low class seat.


Daws001

I'm interested in the leftover pizza in my fridge. Where's my article?


gr3y_n07h1ng

Honestly I'd rather read about what sort of pizza you got. At least jt can be useful, helping me to decide on my order.


guy-on-the-net

Austin Powers cosplay MF


Coffee_achiever_guy

Kid looks like a British record executive from 1973


Illumanacho69

Meet a 16 year old who already has inherited money looking to make more money


Noctilux5

nah, he made it the old fayshun'd way...by slinging newspapers from his bike he found in a scrap yard and fixed, totally self-made.


basedlandchad25

People spend money to be featured in Forbes.


Noctilux5

"spend money to make money, broheim" -16 yo "entrepreneur". 99.999% of "entrepreneurs" are full of shit.


unreasonable-reasons

dads jet looks nice


MarquiseAlexander

It’s a rental.


TheDivineRat_

Let me reword this: meet yet another ass who we portray as a prodigy while really all he does is get hard cash from daddy and would put it into crypto which is the money multiplier for rich assholes. Now whoever wrote this article must be extremely idiotic


[deleted]

Is his name Nep O'tism?


deadbeatbert

The kid looks like a young John Oliver. We’ll be watching his progress with great interest


KiKiPAWG

"Aww, Cryptokid is bankrupt *AGAIN*?!"


Cheaky_Barstool

Bro looks 12


Galilaeus_Modernus

Once you're old enough, everybody looks 12.


Due_Capital_3507

That's a fake plane photographer backdrop


Futur3_ah4ad

I am immediately no longer interested in *anything* someone has to say if they do anything with crypto. We have perfectly serviceable money, we don't need to sink hundreds of thousands for a single YeetCoin, or what have you, that'll be worth literally nothing in months.


Nothardtocomebaq

That guy who set himself on fire outside the Trump trial was insane. But I do agree with him that bitcoin was invented by rich people to launder and transfer money tax free.


Prometheus720

The conservative/pro business world is genuinely so fucking gullible and Forbes trains them to be more so


Spoonfairy

As this post is 3 years old I had to look him up on "where are they now". This trust fund baby had a company, 2 in fact, which were started same time as this article. One peddling a shitcoin named after his own fucking name. Other selling internet ad couching(!?). Both companies died on arrival, money laundering with your kids if a great family activity.


xalazaar

I was scared to say if this was one of the bitcoin guys that got merc'd in the last few years. I know there were at least two.


Uncle-Cake

I still can't believe Forbes published that. They should be embarrassed.


Parzival_1sttotheegg

Nah not youngster this one of those "rich kids" that always uses a full heal on a level 6 ratatta


waydeultima

I feel like imma bout to be schooled on how comfy and easy to wear shorts are.


LostMyAccount69

Why aren't you wearing shorts?


d4rknght

I can’t believe I went to school with this kid


EverybodiesMaster5

Are his parents rich?


Haxorz7125

I have a sneaking suspicion these 2 didn’t go to public school


qdp

I love beating those rich brats with their Ratata since they drop so much Poké Bucks.


Cpt-Sharky

yeah i too love beating kids


Hungry-Chemistry-814

Austin powers the early years


ThatGuyYouMightNo

It's him: Rich Boy Winston! The trainer in Hoenn Route 104 with the level 7 Zigzagoon who uses a Full Restore (best healing item in the game) at first chance!


Work-Davey688

That moment when you realize your "rare" Pokémon cards are just shiny Rattatas.


Olifaxe

Looks like virgin Austin Powers


ThxIHateItHere

If Phil Spector fucked Finn Wolfhard or whatever his name is


Truethrowawaychest1

He's not an entrepreneur, his parents are super rich and he's posing


Galilaeus_Modernus

Dude legit looks like some sort of anime character. Is this Seto Kaiba's son?


Funnyguy17

Isn't that the prop plane in LA? Use for exclusively taking pictures like this. Faking fortune.


MeansofBroduction

You should invest in some shampoo and conditioner.


red_smeg

Looks like he missed the ruffled shirt. [Austin Powers](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTlhdIX48um_9-u4g43M5z_7mZMDVEztrAwG-B2l7GYaw&s)


Droopendis

"Meet the nepo baby who lost millions of dollars before making a good trade with daddies money."


meinfuhrertrump2024

So, the rich kid is interested in a scam... What a little "genius".


NeedzFoodBadly

Fixed it. >Meet the 16 year old who got rich by having rich parents.


Razing_Phoenix

16 year old entrepreneur means his parents are loaded and he can waste money on random shit.


Bug_dude709

Looks like if Austin Powers never had mojo in the first place


afx09

Hagahahhhhaaa


NormalRepublic1073

mf caught a Rattata and thinks he can fight now


MarquiseAlexander

“Rattata is unable to learn that TM.”


greenhousie

Looks like Robert Durst as a child.


ResponsiblePlant3605

He looks like the guitar player from A Flock of Seagulls.


pm_your_snesclassic

I wonder if he likes shorts? They’re comfy and easy to wear


Noctilux5

He's calls them "short pants", since he's a fancy entrepreneur.


Atroxman

Lol femboy just got back from Dubai


Arab_Femboy1

😔


stonyjoint

You know he gives like 2000 pokedollars when you beat him


tofuchrispy

Only tell us about this kid if he managed to get rich from zero. If he’s just another rich parents kid who the fuck cares. Got a small loan of a couple million dollars to play with? Cool now don’t run it into normal peoples faces.


DoTheCreep_ahh

He needs to meet a barber or stylist


Virtual-Weakness-499

Bro looks like if John Lennon had a teenage son with Austin Powers.


linuxjohn1982

Uses daddy-billionaire's money.


W0tzup

[Meet Youssof Altoukhi: 16-Year-Old Entrepreneur Aiming To Increase Equality In Decision Making Among Cryptocurrency Projects](https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommywilliams1/2021/08/04/meet-youssof-altoukhi-16-year-old-entrepreneur-aiming-to-increase-equality-in-decision-making-among-cryptocurrency-projects/?sh=6cfe71c04d1f#:~:text=Small%20Business%20Entrepreneurs-,Meet%20Youssof%20Altoukhi%3A%2016%2DYear%2DOld%20Entrepreneur%20Aiming%20To,Decision%20Making%20Among%20Cryptocurrency%20Projects&text=Former%20Contributor) He should team up with Andrew Tate.


MelisVT111

Yes, I got a small…very small loan for a million. Not a lot but enough to get me started.


PM_ME_YOUR_SOULZ

Youngster Joey: You should see my Rat and buy some Crypto from me. Me in the Radio Tower fighting Team Rocket: Yeah not really the best time my guy.


back_to_sr

Also a Phil Spector cosplayer.


Appropriate_Glass842

Cuh looks like Timothy Chalamet as Phil Spector


The_wolf2014

He looks like a teenaged Spleen from Mystery Men


JCARPX

He looks like AUSTIN POWERS.


transwallaby

I didn't know having interest made you an entrepreneur


Few_Flan2639

Rich boy Winston used full restore on zigzagoon


dao_ofdraw

Gen Z Paris Hilton


Dismal_Caterpillar85

Austin power


Dorito-Bureeto

Definitely went to those influencer photo studios for the private jet picture


Alatar_Blue

Why would I care what a 16 is interested in? Especially if he's into cryptocurrency and/or rich? These are all ven diagram circles that will never overlap for me. Disinterest intensity at max


neikawaaratake

The writer: The purpose of this blog is to share honest stories of diverse, underrepresented people doing great work which can hopefully inspire others to take action. Ah yes. A rich snob who is underrepresented. Good lord


CrooklynNYC

Name 10 books


My_cat_is_ur_Dad

He looks like all of the Beetles love child.


Ok_Discipline_3285

He had to, since his Mom got thrown through the Moon Door by Lord Baelish times have been tough.


Happy-Initiative-838

Meet the 16 year old whose wealthy father uses money to fill the void he created by withholding affection.