In 2013, a redditor made one of the first Bitcoins ads through MS Paint. That even went on to South Park later and was one of the most popular Reddit ads back then.
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If we turn the clock back to about February 18th 2013, where the BTC price was at just $26, on Reddit the Bitcoin sub already existed and was just at the starting points. Already then the moderator asked the community to create a Bitcoin ad themselves for the sub. Then the Reddit user u/mavensbot submitted, what we today remember as one of the first Crypto ads ever:
Just over MS Paint this masterpiece of an ad was made and became one of the most popular ads on reddit back then. So popular that in November of 2013 South Park made an art for their Season 17 Episode 7 that was very similar you could say:
South Park inspiration from Bitcoin ad
Even the people reacting to that ad back then did not really knew what was going on and actually enjoyed it:
Original reactions to teh first Bitcoin Reddit ad
This is definitely one part of Bitcoin history and shall be remembered for a long while as the first popular Crypto ad to ever surface and who knows how many people this ad actually introduced to Bitcoin.
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