Frustrated by the lunacy of the crypto world and the extended bear market, XRP the Standard Productions decided to post an article on Coil in mid-November 2019:

It was meant to give people a chuckle. It was meant to be satire that was so obvious that no one would be able to do anything but laugh and say, “Wow, that's silly, but I get your frustrations at the slow-moving U.S. crypto regulations. Thanks for the laugh! Now off you go, funny man.”

But something strange happened. It exploded on Twitter. Well, explosions are relative, but it definitely popped resoundingly:

A lot of people immediately 'got' the satire and laughed heartily out loud. Some people said they thought it was real until they read it. A few others ranted against the U.S. government, not understanding the satire or even reading the article. “Remarkable,” I thought.

So why not write another and see how it goes? Maybe this time having fun with the idea of David Schwartz being a robot that goes 'Down for Maintenance'?

Twitter exploded again, at least by my standards. Not only that, but David Schwartz himself responded:

What was going on here? Was I on to something, or were people just giving these things attention because they were misunderstanding the stories and were 'outraged'? Maybe a little of both?

While David Schwartz himself might not have read the article and might have been simply responding to what he thought was a false piece that was saying he was taking an extended rest after SWELL (I'm truly not sure on this one), there was a significant and mixed response from others—some expressing uproarious hilarity and others becoming upset at me and proving that they didn't truly read any part of the article.

For a moment I considered stopping. I didn't.

The love of laughter and satire combined with the general impression that this was going to be pretty fun and was ripe with further possibilities kept me going.

Besides, the satire was clear and I damn sure wasn't going to stop just because a few people said, “But some people might think it's real!”

Really?! A man sues Ripple because they didn't make him a billionaire? Do I REALLY need to give a disclaimer on this type of stuff?!?!? The Onion doesn't. The Babylon Bee doesn't. XRP the Standard Productions won't.

Besides, support from certain other XRP community members helped me see that A LOT of people 'got it'. Not only that, but it made them happy and gave them some release from all this crypto-craziness.

Soon I was publishing an article a day and trying to accomplish two things:

1) Poking fun at things and people that frustrated me in the crypto space while making a valid underlying point

2) Creating crazy scenarios that had no underlying message but were meant to give people a strong belly-laugh

Tone Vays debated a monkey about XRP and lost

Brad Garlinghouse accidentally gave 60 billion XRP to a Twitter scammer

Trump drunk-tweeted a secret Ripple/XRP plan to Christine Lagarde

Charlie Lee appeared on Shark Tank to pitch his Litecoin T-Shirts

Bearableguy riddles ended up leading to a “Drink More Ovaltine” message

And more

As published in our recent review of 'How We're Doin' on Coil, we've brought *over 100,000 people* AND COUNTING to this platform through our Twitter links alone. That doesn't even count other people sharing our stuff (it happens quite a lot) or people who find the content via other media sites or web searches.

Bottom line? It's been a fun ride. And by the way, the creative well isn't dry...

The hilarity will continue, and it's an absolute thrill to release the material on this amazing new site which is pioneering the world-changing web monetization tech that incorporates XRP.

I hope you will be subscribing to Coil if you haven’t already. If you’re an XRP holder, I think it almost should be considered mandatory. You would be directly contributing to its future (and the value of the very asset you are holding).

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