RadioShack’s Twitter account wasn’t hacked. It is simply an ‘edgy’ crypto retailer now.

“When you discover a squirter marry her.”

That is the tweet at the moment taking up Twitter, with shocked reactions within the replies and quotes tweets asking, “What on this planet is happening?”

The tweet wasn’t unintentionally despatched by a politician or a hacked firm’s account.

It was tweeted by RadioShack… on objective. 

However why would RadioShack tweet such a factor? It is easy: RadioShack is a cryptocurrency firm now. 

A screenshot of the Radio Shack Swap homepage. Credit score: Mashable Screenshot

That is proper. RadioShack has pivoted to the blockchain and launched its personal crypto change referred to as Radio Shack Swap. The corporate even has its personal token referred to as $RADIO, at the moment buying and selling at round a penny. (The crypto crash appears to have knocked it down by two-thirds of its pre-crash worth.)

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When you go to RadioShack’s web site proper now, you will see that it nonetheless does promote some digital odds-and-ends. However, entrance and heart on the primary web page is the RadioShack cryptocurrency platform.

Radioshack’s fundamental web site is concentrated on selling its cryptocurrency platform proper now. Credit score: Mashable Screenshot

So as to enchantment to the libertarian-leaning crypto “degens,” (crypto slang for “degenerates,” which some crypto advocates consult with themselves as) the 100-year-old electronics retailer has additionally pivoted to posting “edgy” content material on Twitter. And whereas the since-deleted “squirter” tweet could also be its greatest attention-grabbing success to date, it isn’t the primary time the account’s gone viral as a result of shock worth of seeing your dad’s go-to outlet for outdated ham radio spare components slum it up on-line with some tweet-then-delete edgelord humor.

“who else excessive af rn” tweeted the @RadioShack account on June 16.

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“Taking the second half of an edible after feeling nothing from the primary half is at all times a foul concept. This chocolate bar acquired me out right here combating for my life,” it posted on June 28.

Edgelord RadioShack. Credit score: Mashable Screenshot

“This man fucks,” @RadioShack replied to a consumer who posted a photograph of their outdated RadioShack “Battery Membership” card.

“congrats on the touchdown of your new large steel cock elon” the account despatched as a reply to Elon Musk on June 17.

RadioShack’s transfer out of your grandpa’s digital retailer to its present incarnation as a cryptocurrency pumper occurred after the corporate was purchased out by Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV) in 2020. This was after a tumultuous interval for the corporate, throughout which it closed a slew of shops and filed for chapter. When REV bought the corporate, RadioShack had simply 400 bodily retail areas, down from its peak of seven,300.

REV is owned by Tai Lopez, who YouTubers know because the web advertising man that has lengthy crammed the platform with pre-roll video adverts selling “get wealthy fast” schemes. Maybe his most well-known YouTube video commercial is “Right here in My Storage,” which options Lopez displaying off his Lamborghini. It at the moment has greater than 71 million video views.

This is not Lopez’s first endeavor within the crypto area. He launched his personal line of NFTs earlier this yr, which was shortly labeled a rip-off by critics who claimed that Lopez “siphons out the funds” as quickly as a consumer would mint an NFT. 

If REV is profitable in its crypto imaginative and prescient for a relaunched RadioShack, maybe we’ll see different firms make the pivot, too. Through the years, Lopez’s REV has acquired various legacy manufacturers, which embody Modell’s Sporting Items, Dressbarn, Linens ‘n Issues, and Pier1.

Wicker Basket Coin, anybody?