So many of you know that by the mere mention of Rockiapp or #choon on any social platform I am on, I will swoop in like a rabid piranha on crack and while my history of war with one Bjorn Nicklas Tufvesson is somewhat historic; it’s recent raise in intensity was trigged by my digging into his past, when I found even more of my stolen content on his new platform Rockiapp. The multitude of stolen music and identity theft I discovered in the past 10 days made it impossible for me to walk away at this point, especially because i fund out that he had used our music to defraud investors into thinking he had content. Our names are now linked to his shady deals because he claimed blatantly that we signed up for this. After all the coin he stole from people on choon, after all the lies about choon and his broken promises to us that all choon content would be deleted he had the nerve to put up on his platform and use it to defraud people and hoodwink a whole new generation of musicians into the next grift. so here I am the crazy Russian screaming at my own Swedish Windmill hoping to save others from losing the content they worked so hard for. On top of this I really believe in Crypto, the blockchain and NFTs people like bjorn are running the reputation of concepts I hold near and dear to my heart and people like him can make a good thing fail. He needs to be shot down put and simple!
Bjorn Nicklas, as he calls himself, has a long history of business failures, fraudulent aspirations, shady behaviour, theft and scams that he stupidly or blatantly (depending on how intelligent you think he might be ) displays to the public and even advertises himself with . The fool even leaves the breadcrumbs for people to find on places like this lie riddled pitch video for rockiapp He uses similar tactics as he did for choon its always the same grift and people eat it up like apple pie and ice-cream. compare a choon pitch video
On his Angel investor list he lists a series of companies that all have one thing in common, they either no longer exist because they failed (he claims acquired , but then he claimed choon was a acquired and then we find out he bought it himself as Rockiapp), save for one company he claims he sold to Spotify. (he soo loves to brag about that one ). Isn't is comical that a man who raked hundred of thousands for these businesses and claims he is oh so successful does not have the ten quid it takes to get a proper e-mail. I mean hey, nothing screams high level professional as much as a Gmail account right?
And then what is up with this picture dude ? I mean You have used this same one since 2017 maybe even longer for each and every company bio, interview & social media account. Can Mr. successful not afford some good headshots once twice a year? Hell you are not even trying. I mean a good iPhone can do the trick- so lazy. Yet still investor after investor seems to do little to no research and either by dumb luck or/and his smooth rhetoric Bjorn seems to always run away with the piggybank and get a way with it.
But I digress here, where were we ? Ah yes,-all the companies listed on his angel list. another fun thing is that many of these companies listed (that he either founded or invested in) were linked to fraud.
Luxe, the luxury valet service, had multiple lawsuits and accusations ( SF & NY ) of using their clients luxury vehicles for joyrides and day trips, some being damaged in the process.It seems that one of the NY locations closed down and they actually stiffed the guy of his subscriptions and did not notify him until he called them - sound familiar ?
here a few more gems for the rest follow the SF & NY links above
But ok Bjorn claims he only invested in this company and had nothing more to do with it , while there are pointers that it might not be entirely true I have not yet found concrete truth that it is a lie, so let's move on to the grift that after #choon really takes the Cake and we know he is responsible for
Bjorn Eyeware
Bjorn Eyeware what can I say about that, if it were not so fucked up it would be comical, because as @theturtleproject put it yesterday in discord "they did not see that coming" <bad bad bad dark humour. But hey turtle was also one of Rockiapp's victims we are allowed to be dark . Seriously though, this stuff can be made up and it really os disgusting behaviour on the part of Bjorn.
So let's rewind to 2003 the days where Bjorn was a strapping 30 year old baby grifter
He opened a string of seeing eyeglass stores in San Fransisco that were first fairly successful. Come 2007 we find out that he pretty much closed them all up with no to little warning. Again where do we know this trend from? Customers were surprised to find the shop's boarded up when they came to pick up the glasses they paid for - yup you are reading right Bjorn did not only grab the piggybank this time but stole several peoples glasses - Who the fuck does that ? I mean seriously Bjorn you wear glasses yourself don't you know how it sucks not being able to see right and how expensive it is to replace them/ You had these peoples contact information how hard would it have been to just mail them?
I always say the only thing more pathetic than a petty thief is a dumb criminal. Our boy Bjorn here is either really wanting to be caught in all this mess or just dumb as rocks < pun intended. He literally provides those who look for it to the link of Bjorn Eyeware Yelp where there are some good reviews but also a ton letting people know he is a seeing eyeglass thief.
Some newer shady side hustles worth looking into are Gunlamps Where he claims he is a veteran of the British Army (Bjorn is Swedish ). I was told by one of his former associates that he only employed a veteran and that that was the only veteran even connected to that business. who knows but knowing Bjorn it's all a grift.
Then there was disinfect.life (which he closed once his grift was pointed out to people) - the minute covid hit Bjorn being Bjorn made a business out of it. Cashing in on the widespread need for masks and medical supplies he opened a PPE resell company and as gimmick he did a fundraiser to get masks to Armenia and while this is great for the Armenian people he is did it for- and yes there is proof that it was done (so this time he gave people the piggy bank )- he did make damn sure that everyone and their brother knew about this act of kindness ... UGH
Ok for arguments sake let's say I am salty because at this point I am just really disgusted with the guy and he did this one good deed it does not detract from all the really shitty crap he has done to people in the last years. On the other hand could it be that the fundraiser was done to deflect from the "misunderstanding " about PPE price gouging? I mean how many times did Bjorn say what happened at choon was a "misunderstanding " The man could fill tankers full of "misunderstandings by now ... As is disinfect life is down Bjorn's social media mostly scrubbed of it except for a few examples like this. but as wee see Sweed-Shady can always be found in the griftiest places and with Rockiapp he is setting the scene for the next big payday ; and no not by making it a successes, at least this is my theory, but by raking it in with investors in a prolonged BETA phase and then jumping ship like he did with choon.
Other Bjorn business worth looking into :
interesting thing when I put the original address in it pings a UPS store
it seems that it then went from the parcel palace to this here address that he also used for the other business
So many companies so many rabbit hole to fall into and I know he says he sold most of these companies but why did 99% just die - the only ones I can see that survived is Luxe and gunlamps just follow the links on his Angel investor page the majority of those businesses are dead, even his much bragged about Crowd Album that he sold to Spotify has been dead since 2016. Also it begs the question how much did he sell it for if he can't even afford a real email and has to constantly scam people...
Choon
To understand my distrust of Rocki beyond the fact that they Stole 105 of my songs (not including the many collaborations with other people on choon) and impersonated me we need to go into the choon deep dive and all the different grifts and injustices that happened there. 20 Dec 2017 in Englan Gareth Emery originally founded choon (with three others which includes our boy Bjorn ) - From What I heard from mostly reliable yet secondary sources (so take it with a grain of salt) There were tensions because of Bjorn and the way he envisioned Choons further direction. To be a fly on the wall ... 24 Jun 2019 all the core members save for Sweed-Shady left the company and the project completely cutting all ties. 26 Jun 2019 Bjorn appointed Damien Sacha Kanaghines to co directors (who he later on defrauded ). you can find all this in the Public records Here
For a while thing were going grand people flocked to the platform which was really well made. I personally loved the ease of access and the smart contracts, the promises made in the TOS were great and we all wanted to believe. But after the initial honeymoon phase there were signs that not everything was as it seemed. Many of us had just started to venture into the crypto verse so we were learning as we went. Bjorn had been selling it as blockchain streaming app but the problem was it was not on the blockchain.
What we all love about blockchain technology is that it is totally transparent and very hard to manipulate. Every transaction is coded and written down forever. this means that they can't fuck with the play data, they can't fuck with your wallet, they cannot do anything shady without it being logged publicly. The whole time we had thought Choon was built on blockchain tech it was not, the only thing that was connected to the blockchain was the $note token. Even the wallets were not reliable as we never were the real owners of either our notes or wallets. The only way to take possession of our earnings was to transfer them out into cold storage, and that was not always possible as Bjorn locked down the wallets on a regular, without an explanation, often playing the "technical difficulty" card.
So when we approached him about the Blockchain deception he said it was a "misunderstanding" a term he really loves to use in his grifts. He said that he was still learning the terminology too and that he just didn't explain it right to us and would clarify it in future. We desperately wanting to believe, and because Bjorn can be charming when he wants to, we just gave him the benefit of the doubt and moved on. But there was a voice inside our heads whispering from time to time when he would promise things, make big incumbents that then were either retracted or basically acted like they had never been uttered in the first place. I don't know how many times he gave a us a lunch date that never panned out. He would play it off as he played it all off until the last few times he actually got verbally aggressive if one asked for a clarification or followup. More and more he was turning into a despot, who refused to admit fault and was unable to take criticism.
Then people stated to notice that certain favourite fanboys were constantly in the top playlist and had insane plays regardless of quality of content - Sound familiar take a good listen at Rockiapp's current top playlist of horrors I greatly recommend the blood dolphins number 11 best track on the platform, it is a life changing experience. When approached about this Bjorn again was dismissive and when the vices would not stop became very aggressive. then as if to deflect from the subject Choonageddon1 happened.
Choonageddon I.
Some people woke up finding their accounts locked and their wallets empty, there was no warning no notification. then a public statement Where Bjorn openly called the account holders in question thieves scammers. He tried to rally his fan boys against them the whole thing was ugly and totally unhinged. He then went to explain that the people in question had engaged in one or all of the following, bought listens ( some of the top playlist fanboys did this but kept their account and notes), had engaged in play for play (his fanboys had done it heavily but keep their account and notes) or played their own music on a loop for days hours on end ( I do not know if the fan boys did this or not ). The last in that list was clearly a breach of the TOS we signed up for the other two were not really specified as the TOS was messy and not very coherent, also a total nightmare for non native speakers to read.
while I totally get that Bjorn could have been mad the people who looped their own songs the play for play people and the buying of listens people were doing things they were used to from other platforms. Yeah is a bit distasteful but it is musician culture all over the place. The whole thing was poorly handled Bjorn public behaviour abominable. I go into my first war with him on Twitter. He had accused my friend @d-vine who's show (not the one we have now but it's predecessor) not only featured him in interviews and offered him a platform to expand his base but also actively promoted the platform on every show. One would think that he who had regularly communicated with her over e-mail and social media could have had the decency to write her and asked her for clarification instead of taking her well earned Notes and publicly calling her a thief and a scammer(rich coming from him in retrospect isn't it ).
I so mad at this I saddled the twitter horse of the seven underworlds and did what I do rained twittergeddon on him and many others chimed in. people were leaving the platform in droves in protest and Bjorn did what Bjorn does he locked the wallets preventing them from taking the notes they earned outright. Some stayed because of this because they did not want to loose their money others left anyway. I decided to stay but took all the tracks I really cared for off and uploaded protest songs like Someone ate Dj d-vine (which made the top 3 ) and Bjorn and the elephant in the room. I also kept up my fight on twitter.
If you want to read some other accounts of Choonagdon1 @ravenmus1c Wrote about her experiences here mind you Raven has a huge account on choon making my sizeable account look like pennies and it was all gone ... What this screenshot of hers also brings to light is that Bjorn had failed to mention to any off us that Gareth and the other founding members had left the platform. One would think that would matter considering that most of the people that originally joined came because Gareth's name was attached to the project. Raven made that public and people were mad as hell, even more started pulling up their stakes. The forums and twitter were buzzing with heated conversations, insults and discussions.
And yes front and centre was yours truly. Then Bjorn Messaged me and after a bit of back and forth snapping he changed his tune. He admitted that he had jumped the gun, he explained it was because he loved the platform so much and had felt like they were trying to break it. We talked a bit and sadly I fell for his shit, I thought ok he acted like a prick but feels bad, so I sat down and had this long discussion with him in which I pointed out that he should have contacted people given them a warning strike, but not kicked them out. (excluding the ones that actually broke the TOS) I told him how unfair he had treated d-vine he offered to let her back in but at that point she just had had enough of the whole thing, plus she would have had to have stated from scratch note wise, he refused to budge on that. D-vine had had a fan who had played her songs obsessively and from time to time like we all do she also listened to her own stuff if she wanted to show it to a guest or something, nothing major but enough for him to be ridged on giving her back her notes.
As always Bjorn used half truth to get to all of us. in my case he showed me data proving that some had abused the platform , that being said that was just a small fraction of those who lost their accounts. when i pointed out all the flaws in his TOS he asked me to help him revise it so nothing like Choonageddon would happen again. As I believed his remorse I agreed to help him. I also publicly apologised for the parts where I had been unfair on twitter, something his fan boys now love to hold against me nowadays. Thing is,It was the right thing to do at the time, I did not retract where I was right but holding back when one makes mistakes or is wrong about things is dishonourable. So gripe all you want I have no regrets even faced with what a Smuck Bjorn turned out to be.
Here are some screenshots that prove that I am speaking truth about our conversation and the TOS- in fact He likes my work so much he was going to commission a video to go with it and @junkfeathrs was going to help me do it because his animations are great.
In those few days we talked a lot he told me he was lining up investors - I believed him. now keep in mind because of my illness my hands suck so many of these messages will be riddled with typos bare with me - LOL ! typogeddon is here. Another thing we talked about extensively is that he cannot just take people off a collaboration track and keep the track up on his platform. Basically he was putting the royalties of the deleted partner into his own pocket highly illegal! And he claimed it was a computer glitch = Well until the last days of choon that "glitch" persisted and the songs stayed up - thing is it seems that Rockiapp has the same "glich" because a ton of unauthorised collaborations are on there and the potions belonging to people who refused to be on the platform or never go loaded on go right into Bjorn's pocket - this happened to @d-vine they removed it just weeks ago (doesn't that add insult to injury considering she was kicked off choon and he then brazenly steals her stuff for Rocki) - even after i had all my solo music and profile removed off of Rockiapp I still had to keep on pushing them to delete all my collaborations the last was deleted this month about 2 weeks ago!
But back to choon as some of you know I have a lot of health issues so I had taken about a one week break in finishing up the TOS - Bjorn had been less communicative and it was really hard to reach him. He had wanted me to help me with a press release trying to mend fences witch everyone. But he kept staling then this was the last of our communications I had about 2 pages more on the TOS to do ... I never heard from him again before chonageddon 2
Choonageddon II.
during the weeks I was working on the TOS The choon website was offline several times. there was no communication for days then we got a statement saying it was a "misunderstanding"with the web hosting company. I heard from someone on the inside that Bjorn just hadn't paid them. This happened 1-2 times more it's been so long I would be lying if I gave you an exact number . then Choon just never came back- again for over a week no communication - Nada! Then an official release saying that Choon was over. People were furious they wanted to get their content off the servers, wanted to get their Notes - Bjorn said nothing. Now I had given most of my Nots to TMP who had most of them in his cold storage and some stuck in his account. They were stuck there because Bjorn had locked all the wallets again when the first website breakdown happened and never opened them again. It is like we sensed something, a ton of us had started moving our notes the minute the site came back up after being down for days. But most were not so lucky Music - gone, notes- gone and bjorn was once again not communicating.
Then the Kraken, ah I mean Bjorn cam back online and told all of us that Choon had now teamed up with @Emenate and we would all be moving to their platform.
Again this was another half-truth, in their discord Emanate made it VERY clear that Bjorn was to be no part of their company, never was planned to be and that they were just offering us refuge. Emanate also wanted us to stake 50$ worth into their platform just to be a part of it so many of us just walked away. We made it very clear to Bjorn that we wanted our content off his servers and he assured us that nothing would go to emanate and that it would be all deleted. This is sadly their only screen shot i have of the multiple times he stated that it would all be gone off his servers because I was ultimately banned from the forum for calling him out about Rocki and i just din't think of going though the messages there at the time.
Here some more posts on the choon desolvement 1 2
In the end I was totally disillusioned as he said all was deleted I just walked away from it all in disgust not expecting to hear of Sweed-Shady again. in fact I walked away from all the crypto platforms for almost year after all that mess. Then I was contacted about Rocki app ...
SWEED-SHADY IS BACK!
I was just slowly coming back to crypto when someone messaged me on Discord telling me that I had a full profile on Rociapp. First I did not believe it but there is was Even though Bjorn had promised me and even told me it had all been deleted He had boldly made an account in my name using my old data and filled it with my music
I was furious and since I was still in the old Choon group addressed Bjorn. Maybe it was an oversight right I mean maybe he was not trying to scam people yet again. So I stated the discussion as follows.
I was getting grumpy so I decided to take the gloves off somewhat
And he went aon and on about how the email was legal blah blah blah fact is though it is not even if I had received an email “telling me “ he was going to use my content, personal bio, data and artwork -He would have had no legal right to it
A- this was uploaded to a totally different company! this new company has no right to it at all! As after backuptcy evey asset went to the crown ! look it up Here
B- he cannot go bankrupt refuse to delete content ! And then years later steal content and impersonate me for profit!
Now remember I reworked the TOS for Bjorn so I know the ins and out of the old one. The old TOS clearly stated that all content belonged to us, the artist. That we at any time could revoke choon's right to have it on there and take it down.
He made it impossible to take our stuff down so there technically could be a legal grey zone there, ( as distasteful as it is) had he not been told to take it off in a public forum and had he not responded to that request. So what he did with Rocki is not only copyright infringement but identity theft pure and simple.
I have since lost the screenshot shot but i am quoting my last replay from an old post i made about it
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"think about this” I told him “ it is not about being open ! when choon failed people asked you to delete their content -you said back then that you no longer had access to the servers and thus could not do this - this new company has no right to our content you never asked permission but instead just used it to boost the volume of your platform for profit - now I might have been interested had you asked me to comeback but - but yet again you are being evasive like you were back then - refusing to see where you are fraudulently taking content and identity of people for profit - anyone reading this -there is literally no contact with him at this point -he can take it all as he did the last time without notice ! You don't even have the flimsy protection you had with choon - nothing ! - Bjorn you cannot just offer to date worthless tokens after the fact of stealing - it is like me walking into your home taking your tv and your cat and leaving you some lemon drops behind as payment - What were you thinking ?”
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I got no answer and was then booted from the platform. Before finding this old post I had forgotten that depending who asked he had either said t was deleted or that he had no accesses to the servers. In the end both versions of his statements proved a lie or Rockiapp would not exist.
I kept checking their site and my profile was still there. So again I took to Twitter as it just is a very affective tool to call people out. I kept demanding they take my profile down, it took weeks but finally they did. It took until last week however to get all my collaborations down and they still have a picture I own the rights to and my name in their data base showing. I wrote an article at the time and a handful of musicians chimed in demanding to have their music taken down as well. At this point I was just annoyed, it was stressing me out and literally so many people just didn't want to bother with it while others wanted the rocks they were promised , no matter if their rights had been violated. I waled away disgusted. that was October last year.
Fast forward to about a week ago and a friend told me shocked that her profile was on the platform, then several people tried to recruit me to Rocki. It was like the universe was saying "you are not done yet" but I really didn't want to have to let Bjorn's energy back in my life so I tried to ignore the whole thing. That's when someone told me that Bjorn had not only taken a handful of accounts like we previously thought but that most of them were stolen and the people they were representing were not even aware of it. Then I was made aware of the fact that Bjorn's new investors were defrauded with our names attached to the grift. It is called proof of content, he literally is/was telling people that we signed up for this and are supporting the project. The thought that he was defrauding people in my name just pissed me off so I decided to dig and boy did I find a extinction level wave of fraud history on Bjorn as you see in the beginning of this post. I also found over 20 accounts that were stolen in these 10 days alone.
Some of them they deleted when we went public with it, others like @janskyofficial found their profile and music taken hostage. You see they keep on trying to make him log in and delete it himself. Why you ask ? Because logging into that account constitutes consent in some countries and they would have saved their behinds. This is why they are doing this with everyone who finds out; and this is why under no circumstances you should log in if you find your profile and/or music illegally up there. Tell then to take it down write them an official e-mail but refuse to use the site.
You would think that the whole taking the choon data thing would be shady enough but then then is the @skaarl case you remember choonmageddon 1? Well Skaarl was one of the people who had deleted his whole content off the platform after they screwed over d-vine. So not only did they take peoples stuff from the old data base but they also reconstructed the deleted files and used them!It does not get scammier than that! When we discovered this I suddenly remembered that i myself had taken down a ton of my songs and left only those that were not so important to me and the protest songs. so i took a good look at my screenshot from the stolen profile and sure enough the protest songs were not on there but some of the deleted ones were. Skaarl and I also compared some screenshots in October when he first told them to take down his stuff he only found these two songs
yes one of them was a collaboration with me. But look at the one I found this week not only did they brazenly put a profile of him back they uploaded a ton more of his songs. Also observe the upload dates. With the first profile they at least tried to pretend he had uploaded it himself , with the second they were so sloppy that they left the original upload dates from choon. why? Because Bjorn thinks he is untouchable as he has his fanboys tooting his horn and most people he defrauded just want to be done with it and refuse to stand up to him or even worse got lured in with the shine of his shitcoin. The problem is this is not where the grift is going to end. Bjorn is already playing the we are going to launch game and we have seen with #choon and with some of the other companies where that goes. This time round no one can even touch their coin in the beta phase I am told so if this is true essentially it is even less theirs as choon's notes were ours
so the question is how many times will they revive accounts like Skaar's and then put it off as a mistake as Bjorn did on twitter. will we sporadically have to go check ? And then we have to ask ourselves how long it will take for Bjorn to shut down this company and steal the piggybank ?! What does that mean for the future of our data? He still has it, what will stop him to use it again without our consent. And we might not be so lucky to actually find out next time. It is so frustrating to deal with this but if no one stand up to this man , he will just keep on hurting people. And unlike most people I can't just not care. I want blockchains to succeed, I believe in crypto but for this to happen Scammers like bBorn need to be driven out of the village ,with pitchforks if need be. We don't need scammer in our communities, we don't need thiefs stealing our content, he needs to be held accountable finally. And I will do my damndest to make his life uncomfortable until he is either stopped or stops himself and reimburses every single person he has defrauded including those eyeglass people who's glasses he ran off with.
AccI don't care about the fanboys who at this int have berated me, belittled me and called me every name in the book. I have been shot at, left to die locked up in a rom with a broken leg do you really think that some mommas boys and their opinion of me is going to stop me from trying to protect others? Fat chance! I am deathly ill with chronic pain keeping me at night. I have nothing but time to find every grift this guy has done and drag it into the open. And Bjorn is stupid he has an open footprint on the web that a blind person could find. that is why I am so surprised that non of his investors has looked into this stuff. He claims to have 5000 active users and yet the top track list is riddled with karaoke tracks, pretty horrible tunes and one or two nice ones that hardly ever even move on the list. the new track list has repeat offenders loading up 20-50 tracks at a time that all sound the same . How the hell did these people miss that and how does anyone miss that his Rocki video pitch is almost identical to his choon one back in the day- sometimes even the same exact wording. it just boggles the mind.
People are string to notice though this guy said he found Bjorn tampering
things are only going to get worse there. he is trying to get a foot in the door with NFTs we really don't need him there because he is going to poison the well with so many when he blows up his grift. Let me conclude this monster post-
Let's reiterate -why am I doing this? Because the world is a shitty place and it isn't going to change if no one stands against people who make it even worse There is no hero coming, we need to be our own hero or suffer and die in the messes we make. If you made it to the end here, thank you for caring enough to read it all. If you want to help, great let Bjorn know what you think, If you find your music on Rocki don't just ask him to take it down in secret( as so many did this week )- speak up! There are others that might be protected and can benefit from your courage - in the end you will find me trowing virtual rotten tomatoes at the Swedish Windmill- Donna Quixote at your service - may the force be with you also never give up and never surrender
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Im aware of his shadiness from my experience with Choon and what he did to u guys and lots of my artist friends but not to this extent u really diggeed a lot of stuff on this dude in a way it shows why the pattern keeps repeating in everything he executes... :/
Im not sure why u had such an expereince with Emanate, its really simple to join and for free and upload your music and start earning by bringing organic plays to your music and once u accumulate enough u can easily subscribe to any of the tiers that suits u but definitely there is no magic free money as previous platforms as we all know they dont live for long, please free free to reach out to me directly on our Emanate discord if u need any assistance and want to learn more about the platform it will be my pleasure to assist and keep up your good fight, Salute. https://discord.gg/A8zFBnHq
We've chatted on-chain a little about your experience already. With this post, you show us you did a lot of research! I do very much agree with you the de-centralised space without 'rulers' can only work when we can trust each other. Fact is, we can not. The only thing is then, to try and do something about it ourselves. I have little experience with Choon and Rocki. In our recent chat, I mentioned I had a playlist and some Choon which seems to be available at Rocki (playlist + I suppose the same amount of Rocki tokens as I had Choon). As you've been pointing out, my profile was at Rocki and as I mentioned to you then, I was not able to find an email asking if it was ok for Rocki to establish my profile and playlist etc based on my Choon profile. Long story short: Twitter is a good channel to call out on. But, for crypto space to become less scammy, we need at least a wall-of-shame. As far as I know, we don't have this wall-of-shame. So until we have something like that, a central place where anybody can see bad actors listed with the what and why and proofs, we shall use different tools to clean up the crypto space. I think you shall try to get some of the crypto news sites to write about this. Decrypt for instance, but some of the top crypto news services are even better. It would help to group together when approaching these news services. In parallel, you can also consider legal actions. We must have lawyers in our community, or in the networks of any of those who want and will fight with you against injustice. I can't be of much help, other than the advice I gave in this comment. My network in this space is not large outside HIVE, and even at HIVE I'm not super well connected, but please let me know in case of questions and I'll do my best to help.
Wall of Shame FTW!
Something we need. Maybe first to start one for HIVE and then expand. In need of some people to fine tune the concept and also in the need for people who can build the website and all required to create such Wall of Shame. If you have ideas? I'm thinking of first connecting with the Hive Watchers team. They may have ideas, and may also have some dev skills.
keep me posted - and remind me in a few days
Thanks so much for writing this article! It gives me even more background information on the matter. It`s incredible how unprofessional this dude acts. I found my Raven profile on Rocki too, although I got banned from Choon. And I also found my song of the other genre I produce (artistname Binaural Concept) on Rocki. Guess like we all, I did never give permission to rocki to use any of my stuff. Why should I ? They just took away 1.2 Million Notes I earned with my plays. This would have been a fucking lot of money to me, which would have made my life a little easier. So I would never give permission to Bjorn to use any of my songs or my artist name. When I wrote a mail to them, I never got an answer. So I guess my content is still up there. But the Rocki Website has so many bugs, that I cannot even look if my music is really still on there.
The whole thing just sucks as hell, and I am thankful that you are taking your time to make all this public again!!
Music business is hard anyways - especially for those of us who want to make a living of it. But beeing pranked and robbed like this is just incredible, and does not make the whole business easier....
I hope this will reach many many people, so everyone knows how Bjorn is handling things!
give me all the handles you had there and i will search their system
Oh shit, here comes the takedown! Don't mess with @tygertyger or anyone she loves, roar, she will take your head off!
Well, with everything we found on our research that shows what of a scam artist he actually is, not a very clever one though, this sucker so deserves it!!
He is sowing distrust & screwing things up for any future decentralized music platforms, he is bringing shame to böockchains as well, doing exactly that what newbies are afraid of. Actually, more people should be on his case than there are, but we know, right @tygertyger, it takes courage to speak up & wanting to do the right thing. Doing the right things might not be the easy way, but to us, it's the only way!!
I love you so much Tyggo, thank you for fighting for all of us musicians & the decentralized world <3
Wow! That is something else. When I read it I was wondering how many times this guy has "shed his skin" over the years, you know, how snakes do? I really feel for you having to go through this. A person's reputation really is all we have in this world, and it is horrible when someone does something to hurt it, especially undeserved.
Yeah plus I feel it in my bones that he is going to do the same with Roakiapp and just screw over another set of victims and use our data again for the next project - he is abominable
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