Australian actress Margot Robbie, who performs the lead function within the new Barbie film, has brought on a stir inside the crypto neighborhood after stating that speaking about Bitcoin (BTC) displays comparable traits to Barbie’s companion, Ken.
Within the final 24 hours, the crypto neighborhood on Twitter, together with MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor and social media influencer Layah Heilpern, had a blended response to Robbie’s assertion about Bitcoin in an interview with Fandango on June 22.
#Bitcoin is Huge Ken Vitality. pic.twitter.com/ExFOGXsuJ9
— Michael Saylor⚡️ (@saylor) July 28, 2023
Robbie revealed that each time she overheard her husband Tom Ackerley and tv producer David Heymen discussing Bitcoin on set, it delivered to thoughts the traits of Ken, the fictional co-star character in Barbie, portrayed by Ryan Gosling.
“When David and Tom would begin speaking about Bitcoin or one thing, Gretta and I might be such as you’re being such Kens!”
Together with Saylor declaring that Bitcoin is in truth “Huge Ken Vitality,” a number of different outstanding figures within the crypto business shared their ideas on Robbie’s remark.
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Crypto influencer Lea Thompson, higher recognized to her 225,000 Twitter followers as Lady Gone Crypto, said that she is “so bullish” after listening to Robbie speak about Bitcoin.
Bitcoiners final week: yah have not seen the Barbie film, no matter, appears to be like dumb
Bitcoiners right this moment: MARGOT ROBBIE SAID THAT BITCOIN IS BIG KEN ENERGY, SO BULLISH
— Lady Gone Crypto (@girlgone_crypto) July 29, 2023
In the meantime, Layah Heilpern perceived Robbie’s remarks in a different way, suggesting that she interpreted it as an insult in direction of males who speak about Bitcoin.
Heilpern defined to her 621,400 Twitter followers on July 30 that Robbie was implying that male Bitcoin fans are “weak and pathetic.”
When Margot Robbie stated you’re a Ken if discuss #bitcoin
She meant you’re weak and pathetic. This was not a great factor
— Layah Heilpern (@LayahHeilpern) July 29, 2023
Nevertheless, Dr Mark Travers, lead psychologist at Awake Remedy, steered that having Ken power may very well be an indication of somebody who’s selfless and has the power to adapt to completely different conditions.
Travers said in a July 13 Forbes report, that the character of Ken challenges conventional gender stereotypes.
“In a universe which revolves round Barbie, Ken has solely a supportive function to play, and he performs it gladly” Travers said, including:
“Barbie is and comes at first, we see male counterpart Ken relegated to the uni-dimensional and purely aesthetic function that girls have usually been confined to up to now, in a flippant and parody-like method.”
Robbie said within the interview that it’s exhausting to outline what makes a Ken, or what offers off Ken power, as it may be subjective.
“It’s not one thing you may outline; it’s simply one thing you may sense” Robbie said.
With a way of optimism, Steven Lubka, a managing director at Swan Bitcoin, perceived Robbie’s remark as a optimistic for the crypto neighborhood.
Lubka instructed his 20,200 Twitter followers on July 29 that “we’re so again.”
Barbie stated we’re all Ken’s
We’re so again
— Steven Lubka (@DzambhalaHODL) July 29, 2023
Robbie’s feedback on Bitcoin have been transient and impartial, going down at a time when there are ongoing authorized actions in opposition to celebrities who’ve promoted crypto lately.
Most lately, NBA Miami Warmth star Jimmy Butler sought to be faraway from the $1 billion class-action lawsuit alleging the promotion of unregistered securities by cryptocurrency trade Binance.
In a July 24 submitting, Butler’s attorneys argued that the tweets he appeared in didn’t promote the named securities, and subsequently couldn’t have helped promote them.
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, together with Youtubers Ben Armstrong (BitBoy Crypto) and Graham Stephan, are additionally difficult similir allegations in the identical lawsuit.
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