We Watched Famous Crypto Ads: Here Are the Best Ones

The good old advertising business: pressuring you into buying something that you don’t need, never heard of, and most likely will never use. 

Joking aside, not all ads have a malign element to them. Some simply inform others – or, at times, entertain you. Just like that green salad and laundry detergent that are so funny that people can’t stop laughing on camera and discuss it with friends and family. 

Don’t worry, our article won’t tell you why you need to get that salad. Instead, we’ll introduce you to crypto ads, which are no less entertaining than the more traditional ads. 

In fact, some of them are outright hilarious. We decided to focus on the best in our wrap-up. Here’s our pick.

Number 3. James LeBron’s “We going to the league! We going to the league!”

The Los Angeles Lakers star James LeBron secured the third spot in our crypto ads top-of-the-pops.

In his 2022 ad for Crypto.com, the slogan of which is “Fortune favors the brave”, he is talking to his 18-year-old self in 2003 about what the future holds. The young LeBron is excited to hear about wireless technology, watching movies via phones, and driving electric vehicles.

The whole conversation is supplemented with Snoop Dogg’s “Next Episode” tune in the background. 

While the older version of LeBron is happy to tell his younger self about what’s going to happen in the future, he doesn’t tell him whether he’s going straight to the league. This prompts the teenager to shout, ‘We going to the league! We going to the league’, and the Crypto.com logo appears.

Number 2. Shaquille O’Neal’s “I’m just an everyday guy”

The runner-up is an ad, featuring the famous basketball player Shaquille O’Neal. 

The commercial shows a purportedly unknown man with a disfigured voice and a wig, saying that he’s doing a bit of everything to make it in life. This includes “playing a little bit of basketball” and “sometimes DJing” and checking “his FTX” account. All of these statements are supplemented with videos that show the “stranger” doing all these activities with a poorly-blurred face. 

The “stranger” insists that it doesn’t matter what he looks like (he’s an everyday guy after all) and freaks out when the lamp is accidentally turned on, revealing his identity.

After that, however, the ad’s funny part ends, with O’Neal telling why he chose to collaborate with FTX, a decision he likely regrets these days.

Number 1. Larry David’s “Nah, I Don’t Think So.”

Top of our list is Larry David’s commercial for FTX. In 2022, the comedian who co-created the iconic show Seinfeld and starred as himself in another all-time favorite Curb Your Enthusiasm, played different historical characters. In a manner most hilarious. 

Dressed up as people from different eras and parts of the world, he criticizes  inventions that changed the course of history. Such as the wheel, the fork, the toilet, coffee, democracy, the light bulb, the dishwasher, the moon landing, and even portable music devices.

While there are many memorable lines in the video, the most hilarious one is, probably, the one where David criticizes the inventor of the light bulb, saying, ‘Can I be honest with you? It stinks. Does your wife know what’s going on here? You’ve wasted your time, and it’s sad’.

Likewise, David delivered a great performance where he is seen together with the Founding Fathers, attempting to prevent the roll-out of democracy, asking, ‘No king? Gentlemen, have you taken leave of your senses?’ When he found out that all people would be able to cast a ballot as a result of the reform, he went bananas, screaming, ‘Even the stupid ones? Stupid people vote?’ before ripping the paper apart.

In line with the ad’s logic, in the final scene, David is seen saying no to the FTX exchange, uttering the, ‘Nah, I don’t think so’ line.

Ironically, after the FTX implosion, the ad re-surfaced on the web. Different users noted that Larry David’s character turned out to be unintentionally right, saying, ‘I’m never wrong about this stuff.’

What about other ads? 

Naturally, there are many other crypto ads, featuring celebrities, including Brazilian model Giselle Bündchen with her now ex-husband Tom Brady; actor Matt Damon; Golden State Warriors basketball players Steph Curry as well as rappers Lil Yachty, Soulja Boy, Akon, Ne-Yo, and others.

Some of them are solemn while others are a bit bland. 

What unites them, however, is that most of the celebrities featured in the ads are now getting sued either by agencies or individuals.

To that end, David is getting sued for that ad Edwin Garrison, an Oklahoma resident who says he purchased a yield-bearing account from FTX. Garrison seeks to represent a class of “thousands, if not millions, of consumers nationwide” who, according to him, were defrauded.

The lawsuit is yet to be fully resolved.

Previously, The Coinomist reported that Netflix bans cryptocurrency ads.