DraftKings Dumps 'Walking Bets" Sports Influencer Taylor Mathis?
Reports began surfacing Friday that sports influencer Taylor Mathis has locked her Twitter account following a wild cryptocurrency exchange and also may no longer be working with DraftKings.
Speculation regarding the latter comes as she removed all references to the US regulated sports betting site.
From Awful Announcing:
Essentially, fans of Mathis made the $TAYLOR token based off her likeness, and she agreed to promote it in exchange for 20 million tokens, two percent of its total supply. She started promoting it on her X account (which has more than 200,000 followers) last week, leading to it reaching a $6 million market cap Saturday (which would have her stake worth an estimated $120,000).
Then the value of the coin quickly collapsed on Saturday.
Because it's the internet, we are able to capture a tweet prior to Mathis locking her Twitter account.
Awful Announcing added:
Amidst that, Mathis sold her stake for 95 SOL (another cryptocurrency, with 95 tokens currently worth just over $16,000). She then sent messages saying she didn’t want to be involved in $TAYLOR any more. She posted on X that crypto wasn’t for her and that she would donate the money to charity. But her account then bought 34 million $TAYLOR tokens at a new low price of $9,000 (giving her almost 1.5 times her initial stake and a $7,000 profit), and she promoted that she was back in on the coin. That led to yet more people questioning if she was illegally manipulating the market, and to them tagging DraftKings, and to her locking down her account and removing DraftKings references from it.
Mathis made headlines for her "Walking Bets" videos on Instagram....and no they were not exercise themed.
The "Walking Bets" would ultimately be sponsored by DraftKings.
Her latest entry appeared just Thursday.
Gambling911.com cannot confirm whether DraftKings has dropped Mathis or if the two of parted ways.
Stay tuned.
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