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This is episode is sponsored by Better Help.

On this week\\u2019s show, the second installment of our wide-ranging, in-depth, and ultimately hopeful talk with four people lured into The Grotto \\u2014 a mostly online hub for digital art that turned into a kind of Ponzi cult with plenty of love bombing and possible fraud. Our guests \\u2014 anonymous, but going by Charm, Kateryna, Shayna, and Fomo \\u2014 say it all begins with Jaime Dubuar Dean, aka \\u201c@thr33som3s,\\u201d who is a supposed former professional baseball player-turned digital artist who used Discord to coerce people to invest in his NFTs. With each dollar spent on his art, he promised that his followers could get closer to him. Our guests will say that Dean used coercion, financial manipulation, and empty promises to draw them in. And then he took his power too far.\\xa0

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Our artists are mostly anonymous, but you can find Kateryna \\u2014 and her incredible art \\u2014 here and here.

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CREDITS:\\xa0

Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames

Production Partner: Citizens of Sound

Producer: Will Retherford

Writer & Co-Creator: Jess Tardy

Theme Song: \\u201cCultivated\\u201d by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin

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