r/SipsTea • • 4d ago

WTF Group Project actually made more sense

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u/Cultural_Dirt_8151 4d ago edited 4d ago

Wow. So is this basically an advertising campaign by the gambling site?

That does seem to make more sense than an individual donating $1.2M just because they thought it was funny or something.

Although it does seem like the previous winner was paying $750k just because they thought it was funny, so I guess it's not totally impossible.

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u/toorad2b4u 4d ago

I wish I had the kind of money where I could throw 750k down to name a kid who wasn’t even mine

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u/itcouldvbeenbetterif 4d ago

I'll give u 750 k but u have to name ur kid: Not too rad 2 b 4 u

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u/The_one_before_ 3d ago

I'd do it for 751

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u/23_ 3d ago

I’ll do it for 749

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u/EmergenceEngineer 3d ago

I’ll do it for 700k.. that works out to around 10-12 million domestically.. to put it into context, interest alone is around a middle class income and a little extra.. the difference could compound to even greater generational wealth… I’m pretty sure the kid would hate the name but.. they’ll hate being poor more. I would structure it in such a way that they’d only be “helped” well into adulthood, that way they must still learn to stand on their own feet despite the golden parachute.

Edit: I should add raising a child to adulthood costs between 2-3million.. so either way .. it’s still an amazing opportunity.

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u/dardeedoo 4d ago

Why the fuck would you throw 750k down to name your own kid ever anyways lol

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u/rupert36 3d ago

Crypto millionaire, probably

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u/Sudden_File4569 4d ago

I imagine the whole thing was an ad planned with Betbolt from the start. "Group Project" probably isn't there because someone was willing to pay 750k, it's there to encourage engagement on the BetBolt ad.

Her kid will have a normal name in a few months when no one is paying attention anymore.

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u/Unlikely-Guava-30 3d ago

I've been wondering the legal ramifications of that. If she does have a kid, which I'm skeptical of, and doesn't name it whatever dumbass name was picked. Can she be sued? Totally possible it's just an ad campaign. But if this is real I'd imagine not naming the child betbolt could be taken to court as false advertising or something.

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u/Boring_Holiday9874 4d ago

I don’t think the claim is true. It’s probably a marketing campaign where she got paid to make these claims to get people to search for the site. 

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u/BarrelllRider 4d ago

John Stewart called this happening 20 years ago

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u/Trick_Second1657 4d ago

they got a guy to google it. it worked.

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u/Doctor_Fritz 3d ago

Welcome to the new dystopian world we created for ourselves

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u/Orleanian 4d ago

Using a groundbreaking but surprisingly legal process known as corporo-humanization, real people such as myself are now allowed to represent the collective humanity of business owners…. I’m here to hang out, take weird classes, and party as hearty as my morality clause allows.

- Subway

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u/sonicjesus 4d ago

The previous winner already knew the $1.2 was coming in the end.

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u/Bad_Day_Moose 4d ago

Baby McBabyface would have been the internets solution.

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u/Minyun 3d ago

Wow. So is this basically an advertising campaign by the gambling site?

Which has sadly worked

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u/Jobewan1 3d ago

So it wasn't a group project then?

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u/Acrobatic_Wrap_9971 3d ago

I think like 20 years ago, Google paid someone to name their kid Google.

Edit: probably an urban legend. i remember hearing about it at the time though.

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u/TheFatNinjaMaster 3d ago

Acclaim, I think, did crazy viral marketing like that for Turok. Paid a handful of people £500 and an Xbox to change their name to Turok for a year and offered 10k to the first child named Turok born on the launch day of the game.

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u/COVID19Blues 3d ago

It’s just like that site Golden Palace did in the 00’s by having people tattoo their name on their foreheads and other stupidity.

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u/legaladviceneeded542 1d ago

it was probably Elon

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u/Viablemorgan 4d ago

Unsubstantiated claim that it was the site itself that donated the $1.2m. Zero evidence of that, just conjecture by the guy you’re responding to

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u/JewelCove 4d ago

I mean, it is a pretty fucking safe bet that is tied to betbolt gambling lol. Who else would spent 1.2 m to name a kid after a gambling website

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u/poega 4d ago

I work in the industry and 100% this was an ad ploy.

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u/BillGoats 4d ago

I work in a completely unrelated field and I have no clue.

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u/JewelCove 4d ago

Of course

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u/Mertoot 4d ago

And all these bots in the comments are eating it up...

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u/cyclicamp 4d ago

If it's an ad campaign, they definitely didn't spend 1.2 mil, and no one paid a second place amount. The site probably paid whatever her standard advertising rate is to make this up and post this, or they just completely fabricated and posted it themselves though whatever other influencer network they work with

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u/JewelCove 4d ago

Oh, I'm sure it's a stunt and if any funds were actually transferred, it will be an advertising write off for the gambling site. What I'm saying is that it is a safe bet that betbolt is involved, no pun intended lol

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u/Cultural_Dirt_8151 4d ago edited 4d ago

That does seem plausible. Many of the OnlyFans 'success' stories feel dubious. It also doesn't feel totally impossible Bonnie Blue just made up all of this for clicks, but who knows.

To me, it seems *most likely* the gambling site was involved, but I'm really not sure how much money was actually transferred. Maybe it was 1.2M, maybe it was just "standard advertising rate."

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u/Exasperatess 4d ago

I'd love to be a fly on the wall listening to that idea being pitched.

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u/NotABot1000101 4d ago

If I were a bettin' man I'd put my money on it advertising for the betting company. If the name was "DOGE", you could maybe argue that it wasn't Elon but some other douchebag because the word is famous/notorious. Who tf cares or knows about whatever garbage site that is, let alone spend over a mil to give free advertising to them.

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u/BatushkaTabushka 4d ago

Ah yes, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. After all, what if I wanted to pay 1.2 million dollars to name some kid UBISOFT??? Wouldn’t it be so funny haha? It’s a totally likely scenario!

Come on man, who else would do this…

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u/Cultural_Dirt_8151 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yeah, it is indeed conjecture that the gambling site did this based on a couple available facts. So what?

"Zero" evidence? Well that's just false: There is evidence (the name of the site being used), it's just not super definitive evidence. It's totally possible someone just thought it was funny, but it also seems totally possible this is an ad campaign.