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    1. i feel like i never saw the words "shilling" or "grift" until NFTs came along
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    like, not that they're not basically accurate, but if you're going to use a pejorative term, it feels like it works better if people have a pre-existing emotional attachment to them
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      "grift" especially. i dunno. maybe it's an Americanism i never picked up on until recently. the words feel vaguely anachronistic in a that kind of American way.
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        i guess it makes me think of this Ricky Jay bit youtube.com/watch?v=GjjF4KK4SeE&feature=emb_title
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          doing the research, and "grifter" only got popular in the last two decades, but "grift" and "shill" are vaguely old-timey words. a bit more American than British, but not much. (note: data only goes to 2019, so the NFT part is unaddressed)
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            "shilling" is drowned out by the coin, ironically enough
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