Pratique du Shadowing: KSI Accidentally Exposes His Crypto Scams - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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KSI is one of the world's most popular YouTubers,

but yesterday he accidentally exposed the pump and dump crypto scams that he promoted.

They've been hidden for two years,

but only came out when KSI logged back into his old Twitter account,

saying, does this still work?

Now if you didn't know,

this is KSI's crypto account where he used to talk about crypto coins he liked.

But he messed up, because one investigator has been waiting for him to return to the scene of the crime.

And that person is not me,

it's Zach XBT, a crypto investigator on Twitter who I'll link below because his work is incredible.

He's a friend of the show,

we've collaborated a lot, I just encourage you to go follow him.

But I was shocked when he said this.

In before he starts sharing garbage again,

dumping your tokens on Logan Paul's lapdog is permitted and encouraged.

Now many people, including myself,

hadn't seen anything from KSI to this point that seemed shady.

But Zach had been waiting for this moment.

He goes on,

Now, obviously I was stunned by this,

but looking at the date of when this all happened,

I realized Zack has been holding onto this piece of evidence,

waiting for KSI to come back to this account for years.

He had this tweet in the drafts and KSI logging back in activated the trap card.

Zach also shared a picture as proof,

series of transactions from KSI's wallet,

where starting on March 27th,

when he sent that tweet,

KSI started selling XCAD, the same day he tweeted he was part of the huddle game,

slang for someone who wouldn't sell this crypto coin, right?

In fact, that wasn't the only time KSI has mentioned this holding stance publicly.

I'm holding my bags.

I'm holding my Luna, my XCAD.

Videos like this are why people genuinely thought KSI was just buying and holding, but he wasn't.

This time, he sold.

And he tweeted again on March 30th, 2022.

Me looking at Zill and XCAD right now.

And it might look like that means he's excited about this,

but really he was looking at the sell button,

because he continued to sell XCAD to his fans who thought he was part of the HODL gang once again.

And this is what I mean by a pump and dump scam.

He got his followers excited while selling his own crypto back at the same time.

In total, over $800,000 was sold by KSI over a few days and these two tweets,

according to ZachXBT.

Now, as a quick aside,

if you're wondering or skeptical of the fact

that influencer tweets can have any kind of effect on a token price or volume,

I whipped up a chart for you,

showing volume of XCAD during the days when KSI tweeted.

You can see that trading volume spiked millions of dollars on those days,

which in part were some of his followers putting money in as he sold.

Today, the price of XCAD has plummeted from $3 to about $1.

Now, as always, with such large allegations,

I wanted to be sure to reach out to KSI to give him a chance to explain these large accusations.

After all, I didn't find this, Zach did.

So I reached out to KSI over Twitter and he gave me the following statement.

Hey bro, I mean, I'm still a HODL game, LMAO.

Sold some profit,

as well as my own money to put into Luna thinking I would profit more to buy back more XCAD

and took a major L.

fully believe in XCAD, the ability to earn from watching content.

Honestly, you should talk to Redacted.

He's very excited about this project.

I never left crypto.

I've just been watching it from the shadows.

It's kind of hard to leave when you've invested so many years into it.

So that's his statement.

He then shared a personal account screenshot showing that he does have some XCAD still held.

But while that's an interesting fact and an interesting explanation,

it doesn't really change the core accusation of whether he pumped and dumped his fans.

And I thought it was interesting KSI didn't deny the crypto wallet was his or that he made that amount of money.

He's just telling us, well,

I'm still hodling some of it,

just 800,000 of it I sold.

Now, to be honest, I don't buy this explanation for a second,

but I kind of was feeling like I had to leave the story there.

It felt like a one-off scam that I talk about on my new side channel,

CoffeeZilla Extras, but the story would die there.

But then I got another message,

which changed everything from Zach.

He said, I have one more KSI example with a different coin.

Turns out on March 20th,

2021, KSI tweeted this, two NFT coins I'm very bullish on, super and earn.

Any other NFTs I should look at?

Now normally when you're bullish on a coin you buy that coin,

but that's not what KSI did.

See right after he tweeted that,

six hours later, he sold a hundred

seventy four thousand dollars worth of EARN token and then four hours later sells another a hundred seventy four thousand dollars.

Now if that isn't a textbook pump and dump I don't know what is.

He tweeted, that's the pump,

within 24 hours He sells three hundred forty eight thousand dollars.

That's the dump It couldn't be more clear or so I thought

because I asked KSI about this

and that's where things got a bit muddy He says I

don't really remember the details of every transaction I made these

were coins I put my own money in thinking they would

do well I would listen to what people said on Twitter and just follow stuff.

I invested in doge etc I didn't have malicious intent in trying to scam.

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I was new to crypto

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So I was excited putting money in random things trying to chase the pumps

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and ultimately lost heavily I hope people didn't take advice

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or tweets as gold

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because looking back at my track record I was effing dog I wish I was an evil genius

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that would pump and dump at the right time

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Because then at least people would say

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that I had some wit about me reality is I was just at crypto And that's basically KSI's defense.

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He was dumb.

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He was bad at crypto But is that true?

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Well, he says he put in two million dollars of his own money

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and lost it all in the end He says quote,

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I made zero profit on crypto in the end.

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I lost it all on Luna.

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Look, I haven't seen his accounts Maybe that's true either way even

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if he is bad or dumb with crypto I just it doesn't explain the pump

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and dumps like telling people you're bullish

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and then selling is not explained by I Was new I was dumb

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and I said as much I said I'm just trying to understand why you traded the opposite way

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that you were saying on Twitter and KSI replied this,

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Because I thought I was getting trolled.

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Honestly, every time I tweeted something,

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the opposite would happen on the market.

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So I decided to tweet the opposite of what I was actually doing and still took an L.

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So, just to be clear,

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KSI's story that he's going with is that he thought the market was against him,

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so he publicly said one thing while privately,

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secretly doing the opposite, Which is kind of the definition of a pump

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and dump when you promote that to a big audience.

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You say you're gonna buy to your followers while secretly selling.

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Whether or not it's a successful pump and dump,

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whatever pump and dump, that's what it is.

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Now look, I understand that people are gonna have conflicting ideas of whether this was malicious or not,

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and I think it's gonna entirely depend on whether you think KSI's story makes sense.

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I'm just trying to provide full context,

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while also giving you my opinion on that,

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which is that I don't really buy that he had no clue

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that tweeting one thing would positively affect the price in his favor.

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Meanwhile though, while I was confronting KSI,

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I heard a final response from Zachxbt,

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which I think moved the needle a bit.

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He said, I found another example.

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On May 11th, 2021, KSI Crypto tweeted,

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this is about to explode.

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Many moments later though, he sold $25,000.

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Didn't buy it.

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Which I get it, it's a relatively small amount,

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but it furthers that same pattern of behavior.

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It's just a matter of what you think that behavior was.

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If you ask me,

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I think KSI tried to use his influence to move the market for himself in crypto through a few pump and dumps.

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He may have lost all his money eventually in a Ponzi scheme,

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but that does not make what he did okay.

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In fact, I think it's fair to say that a lot of his followers,

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we saw that he influenced millions of dollars in trading volume,

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went into some coins that are now doing very poorly.

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But ultimately I think the true piece of cosmic irony for KSI here though,

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is that he would have gotten away with all of this,

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no one would have known about any of it,

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if he just hadn't logged back into Twitter for one last spin at the slot machine.

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Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « KSI Accidentally Exposes His Crypto Scams ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : Ksi, crypto, pump, dump, Xcad. Cette vidéo contient 159 phrases et 1599 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 8:45. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 183 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. Seuls 78 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.

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Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
tweet nom	/ˈtwiːt/	gazouillis, pépiement
dump verbe	/dʌmp/	se débarrasser de
coin nom	/ˈkoɪ̯n/	pièce de monnaie, jeton
scam nom	/ˈskæm/	entourloupe, arnaque
token nom	/ˈtoʊkən/	symbole
accusation nom	/ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/	accusation
malicious adjectif	/məˈlɪʃəs/	malveillant, mauvais
investigator nom	/ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/	enquêteur, enquêtrice
secretly adverbe	/ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/	secrètement, en cachette
wallet nom	/ˈwɑl.ət/	portefeuille, portemonnaie
huddle verbe	/ˈhʌdəl/	se blottir, s'amasser
influencer nom	/ˈɪnflu.ənsə(ɹ)/	influenceur, influenceuse
plummet verbe	/ˈplʌmət/	dégringoler, chuter
allegation nom	/ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/	assertion, allégation
collaborate verbe	/kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/	collaborer

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
come out verbe	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	sortir
get away with verbe		s'en tirer
mess up verbe		gâcher

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Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

Structure	Dans la vidéo
Present perfect continu have/has been + -ing — une action commencée avant et toujours en cours	has been waiting · has been holding · I've just been watching
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant	They've been hidden · we've collaborated · has mentioned
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait	They've been hidden · is permitted · was stunned
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose	someone who wouldn · opposite, Which is

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Le locuteur utilise 39 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, didn't, don't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons « sh » et « zh »: bullish /ˈbʊlɪʃ/, accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, malicious /məˈlɪʃəs/, allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, shady /ˈʃeɪdi/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, investigator /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/, influencer /ˈɪnflu.ənsə(ɹ)/, allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, collaborate /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

/tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, garbage /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/
/r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: crypto /ˈkɹɪptoʊ/, follower /ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/, secretly /ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/, influencer /ˈɪnflu.ənsə(ɹ)/, collaborate /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/

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