YouTube boxer Logan Paul, who leads the CryptoZoo NFT project, has accused Coffeezilla of posting “defamation” about him and the project.
YouTuber Logan Paul has threatened to sue YouTuber and Internet sleuth Coffeezilla for defamation after accusing Paul's CryptoZoo non-fungible token (NFT) project of being a "scam." The two have been sparring back and forth on social media and YouTube videos since Dec. 17, when Stephen Findeisen, also known as Coffeezilla, posted the first part of a three-part video series attacking CryptoZoo and Paul, who Is the spokesperson of CryptoZoo for the project.
“CryptoZoo was supposed to be a fun blockchain game that would make you money but then investors threw in millions of dollars and things still sucked,” he said. In his most recent response, Logan Paul posted a YouTube video on Jan. 4 accusing the internet sleuth of "spearheading and monetizing a story telling millions of people I'm a liar or that I'm trying to scam my audience. "
He also accused Coffeezilla of doing so without verifying any background information or corroborating any evidence, adding that he "took the words of multiple criminals as fact and broke the law and you still posted defamation," adding: “See you in court”.
CryptoZoo is an NFT game based on the premise of allowing “ZooKeepers” to purchase NFT eggs using the game’s native token, ZOO. These eggs are then hatched into animals that can be bred into hybrid animals. These hybrids are designed to be tradable and provide ZooKeepers with ZOO, a project Paul described as “a really fun game that lets you make money” in a podcast on August 21, 2021. Additionally, Paul suggested that the game's art would be "handcrafted" by 10 different artists over a period of six months.
The hybrids were the focus of a video from Coffeezilla on September 11, 2021, in which he described the images as "a bunch of stock photos from Adobe, but with a bad Photoshop treatment."
However, the CryptoZoo blog has not posted anything new since April 20, prompting some to believe that development on the project has ceased. In Coffeezilla's three-part series on CryptoZoo, the YouTuber interviews purported investors in the project. One investor who claimed to still hold the easter egg called on the CryptoZoo team to "compensate those loyal fans they have or try to rebuild the project."
However, in his latest video, Paul states that they will "continue to build CryptoZoo" and shares a teaser saying it will launch in 2023/2024. Meanwhile, both Paul and Coffeezilla have called each other on their platforms to discuss the matter, but neither has yet accepted any invitations.
Zoo tokens have plunged 99.5 percent over the past year, according to CoinMarketCap, though they rallied last week following recent media attention. Paul has been an avid supporter of cryptocurrencies and NFTs throughout 2021, and was a key promoter of the cryptocurrency token Dink Doink (DINK) before launching CryptoZoo. Dink Doink was also slammed by Coffeezilla in a July 12, 2021 video.
