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Tiffany Fong flames Celsius, FTX and NY Post: Hall of Flame

Tiffany Fong stumbled into content creation and independent journalism after getting burned on the Celsius bankruptcy, moving forward she has no idea where this will lead.

Name: Tiffany Fong
Anonymous: No
Twitter followers: 51.7K
Known for: Breaking leaked info on Celsius and interviewing Sam Bankman-Fried after the FTX collapse

Who is Tiffany Fong anyway?

Tiffany Fong is 28 years old, has a background in marketing, and describes herself as a reluctant crypto content creator who developed a following after $100,000 worth of her crypto assets were locked up by bankrupt crypto lender Celsius.

Shes posted more than 20 critical videos about the company since June 2022 and has been blocked by Celsius, founder Alex Mashinsky and his wife, Krissy.

I had no plans to be an influencer or citizen journalist or anything. I just personally lost a bunch of money to Celsius Network, and I was just mad and wanted somewhere to vent.

So, I started posting on YouTube and Twitter about it after Celsius went down, and then it kind of snowballed into more, she adds. Fong says she got into crypto back in 2010 as one of her relatives was mining Bitcoin. Scooping up a bunch of BTC and some other assets early on, Fong said she hodled and remained on the periphery of the space until the Celsius disaster.

How did she get popular on Twitter?

Fong attributes most of the growth of her Twitter following to her reporting on leaks from Celsius insiders and her interactions with FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) not to mention some good old-fashioned shitposting.

I started getting leaks from Celsius employees. [From that] I think I gained a little bit more newsworthy attention, she says. So, I think that grew my audience a bit bigger. And thats when Sam [Bankman-Fried] started following me.

Her famous follower would become a massive opportunity down the road. Amid the chaos of the FTX bankruptcy, Fong reached out to SBF on multiple occasions and managed to score a series of interviews and private conversations with him, and even visited him twice recently during his house arrest in Palo Alto.

As such, she has drawn a lot of attention from the media, and even U.S. politicians.

never thought i'd hear my name dropped in congress, so leaving this here in perpetuity. pic.twitter.com/sr3xeUOgGa
— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) December 15, 2022

One phone interview, in particular, was also featured in a collaborative YouTube video between Fong and Coffeezilla, which now has 1.8 million views. She copped criticism online from those who questioned her lack of finger-wagging at SBF, especially given Coffeezillas highly critical tone.

I definitely dealt with a lot of pushback when I initially started posting about my conversations with SBF. Like to me, even if I dont believe what the person is saying, Im kind of personally interested in hearing their claims, she said, adding that:

Even if I think that theyre lying, to me, more information is better because theyll end up hanging themselves with their own words. Like I think SBF has done multiple times.

What you can expect on her Twitter?

When not posting scoops, shes most likely shitposting. Sometimes literally.

im showering n my sis came in to take a poop pic.twitter.com/wibs8dGFAp
— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) January 29, 2023

There is no better example of this than her Twitter posts concerning her visit to the White House back in December.

Sharing a photo of her standing next to President Joe Biden via Twitter on Dec. 17, she captioned the photo: I let @Potus [Biden] smell my hair.

Its a reference to a popular meme about Biden apparently invading womens personal space by whiffing their hair.

i let @potus smell my hair! pic.twitter.com/HWfBZr2zPq
— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) December 16, 2022

Adding context on how the hell she managed to score an invite to the White House, Fong said that one of her followers worked for the secret service and lined up an invitation for her.

I made him send me a photo of him holding his government ID with three fingers up like it was a whole thing. But, like, Im not going to turn down a visit to the White House for free Im not an important person. And theres no other way Im gonna be able to go to the White House, she said.

Yeah, that turned into a huge conspiracy theory on Twitter that Im like a fed thats like working with Biden or something like that. Im not even political whatsoever.

Twitter beefs

Mild beef: BitBoy Crypto

Crypto YouTuber Ben Armstrong traveled to the Bahamas in late November to confront SBF.

Knowing Fong had a direct line to SBF, Armstrong DMed her for a connection, but after she ignored him, he started flaming her. He apparently claimed that I was jealous of him being in the Bahamas, and I was like, Why would I be jealous at all that you flew internationally to unsuccessfully attempt to interview SBF? she says.

lmao what the fuck pic.twitter.com/jUTj94xPgi
— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) November 26, 2022

Medium rare beef: the Daily Mail and the New York Post

Reporting on Fongs interactions with SBF in December, the Daily Mail and the New York Post both used bikini pics, called her a sexy crypto influencer and suggested that Fong could be dating SBF. She slammed them on Twitter for their slimy clickbait.

jesus fuckin christ.
— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) December 29, 2022

This led to a spat with the Daily Mail journalist who wrote the article and the publication removing her bikini pictures in their article thumbnails. The New York Post did not follow suit.

Its definitely annoying, she says, pointing out that she got admissions out of SBF about donating to the Republican Party and admissions about the Bahamian withdrawals.

But I feel like all of that is overlooked. And then they pretty much just pulled like old bikini photos to make that the central focus of the fact that I spoke with SBF.

This is how @DailyMail approached me: noting I was not pleased with the use of an irrelevant old bikini photo in the @NYpost. As soon as I offered a sliver of commentary in response to their questions, @DailyMail immediately switched their photo of me to a bikini photo. pic.twitter.com/aZy7Kg1uAW
— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) December 29, 2022

Top quality beef: Krissy Mashinsky

Alex Mashinskys wife, Krissy, has taken aim at Fong, claiming she is part of SBFs inner circle.

hi @krissymashinsky. i leaked the audio to the @nytimes & received it from an anonymous @celsiusnetwork employee. i am not cozy w/ FTX, but SBF is willing to chat w/ me. i am not a dem – i do not identify w/ any political party & most importantly, you are still a cunt. pic.twitter.com/OwclKMp8JK
— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) November 20, 2022

Fongs header photo on her Twitter page displays a tweet from Krissy Mashinsky claiming that she hacked into Celsius Zoom calls.

The two had numerous spats on Twitter (before the blocking), and Fong does not mince her words: Shes done a lot of stuff thats insane. She posts videos of their multi-million-dollar penthouse in Manhattan after theyve ruined the lives of 1000s of people. So, I think shes just absolutely deranged.

honored to have made it onto @krissymashinskys word-cloud of enemies!! this feels well-deserved. pic.twitter.com/vIlKmVdS3t
— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) December 7, 2022

Twitter likes and dislikes

Its fun having a community. And I guess its nice to some degree to have a voice that some people are interested in listening to, she says about the positives.

What do I not like? I mean, things can become inflammatory really quickly and, obviously, taken out of context. And I dont know Twitter can become an echo chamber where everyone just wants to hear the same thing, she said.

Looking ahead

Fong says she has no idea where her social media fame will take her. I never had a plan about any of this. I was just posting, initially just upset about Celsius, she says.

And it snowballed into this. So, I feel like Im just taking it day by day and just in whatever direction the wind blows me. So, I dont have a career plan with this. And I didnt plan on becoming an influencer or citizen journalist.

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Tiffany Fong flames Celsius, FTX and NY Post: Hall of Flame

Who is Tiffany Fong anyway?

How did she get popular on Twitter?

What you can expect on her Twitter?

Twitter beefs

Twitter likes and dislikes

Looking ahead

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Who is Tiffany Fong anyway?

How did she get popular on Twitter?

What you can expect on her Twitter?

Twitter beefs

Twitter likes and dislikes

Looking ahead

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