"Virtual Currency Girls" - The J-Pop Girl Band That Sings About Cryptocurrencies
What better way to combine the love of the Japanese for cryptocurrencies and their obsession with young girls in puffy skirts than a jpop girl band singing about private key security and the risks of altcoin trading?
Meet Kasotsuka Shojo - Virtual Currency Girls!
Somehow managing to escape my radar for all things awesome, the Virtual Currency Girls first appeared in mid-January with their debut single The Moon, Cryptocurrencies and Me. The lyrics include gems like: "We are serious holders who are bringing it" and advice to "Be careful about your password! Don't use the same one!" and "Don’t underestimate the market!"
Here is it, if you want to sing along:
Band members wear wrestler-like furry masks with the logos of the coins each "represents"; the original BitCoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Neo (NEO), Mona (MONA), Cardano (ADA), NEM (XEM), and Ripple (XRP). Why isn't Steem there? Good question, I was wondering that too.
The eight member band of girls aged 15-22 was launched by Japanese entertainment company Cinderella Academy to "educate the public about the cryptocurrency world and the benefits of decentralised digital currencies such as Bitcoin". The Telegraph quoted Rara Narase, 18, the group's leader saying: "They (cryptocurrencies) are so convenient, you kind of have to wonder why we didn't have them before. We want everyone to learn more about them."
(Source: Twitter)
The Coincheck Incident
The tickets to concerts, as well as band merchandise are all sold in cryptocurrency, even though the band lost access to the account that pays its salary. The group's account was frozen as a part of a $530 million heist involving the digital currency NEM, but the girls still refused to be paid in fiat. "Our manager offered to pay us in yen, but we declined," Hinano Shirahama, who plays Bitcoin in the band, told Reuters.
It's important to note that the band doesn't encourage people to invest, but rather warns and educates about cryptocurrencies. Unlike certain social media networks that think that banning crypto-related ads is what's going to protect people from fraud.
As always, Japan just does it better.
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Hahaha wtf? This looks funny :D
חחח אצלנו זה היה יכול להיות רק אם זה בארץ נהדרת
זה התרחיש היחיד שאני רואה שלהקה עושה דבר כזה
כשאסי כהן ואלי פיניש בפנים.
בינתיים היה לנו רק את "קניתי לך ביטקוין" אבל פה השקיעו ממש
חחח הכל יותר מושקע כשמדובר בתוצרת חוץ 😜
שמת לב שיש להם מגיני דוד על המצח מסביב ללוגואים של המטבעות? אילומינטי אחי
LOL!
They should definitely add Steem! Maybe they'll add that when Bitcoin hardforks into a solo career!
LOLOLOLOL
This is too funny @techslut lol! I thought of some other good names. TRON could be a muscular girl, BitShare can be topless (or botomless), DOGECOIN could obviously where a dog costume, KOMODO could wear a kimono (this was a stretch), REDDCOIN could be all red. PACCOIN, Ms. Pac-Man. I could do this all day. Thanks for the great post!
OMG this is amazing. It was only a matter of time before Japanese culture started something like this and boy is it awesome. Why is #BCC the leader though!? Should be #BTC lolol
It'd be awesome if they actually had steem accounts and pushed their live through DLIVE
It'd be fucking epic!
Anywho, that is awesome to be dressed up as a different coins and singing and having fun
LOL, Wow
There should be a budget proposal for a Steem Blockchain education music video
It is cool. However, I'm not a fan of super sentai or power rangers like presentation. It seems like a parody. I wish they went for a cooler look. Anyway, they are so dedicated. :D
This is hilariously awesome. I love you Japan.
I wonder how much of this is the girls being genuinely interested in crypto, and how much is a music company capitalizing on the latest trend and putting another batch of girls through the mill. They pretty much follow this formula over and over with everything that comes along.
That doesn't mean I don't want to believe!