Controversy in the Shiba Inu metaverse: user bought land to form a swastika

Controversy in the metaverse of Shiba Inu after the user bought virtual land to form a swastika that could be seen from above. However, the other users did not allow this to stay that way.

For some years now the meme of the shiba inu puppy, known as cheems, became famous and was inspiration to create cryptocurrencies such as doge coin and shiba inu. Now there is also a metaverse or Web 3.0 based on it, where you can buy virtual land (Shiba Lands), create NFTs (Non-Fungible Token), find entertainment, among other things.

All Shiba Inu members can buy or sell land when it becomes available. “Once our map is drawn, divided into districts and listed on decentralized blockchain, Shiba Land will hold a pre-sale event! Shiba Land Developers will release a limited number of parcels for sale before Shiba Land is officially launched,” the metaverse page notes.

Thus, the platform cannot know the intentions of users when they buy virtual land or what they will do with them. Hence, it seemed like a “great opportunity” for a user to acquire spaces to give them the shape of a swastika.

The action was not fun or acceptable to the Shiba Inu community, which through its Discord channel began to protest and report what was happening in the meta-verse and take action.

“I just can't believe that there are people out there using the offers on the map to make swastikas - what a loser,” someone said about the member who made the Nazi symbol.

In addition to the complaints and disagreements shown on Discord, users quickly bought the surrounding land to transform the swastika into a window.

Thus, the user's plan to create the symbol that recalls part of the tragedy of World War II was thwarted.

For his part, Shiba Inu reported through his Twitter account that they would not tolerate hate speech on their platform, including symbols, words and actions, so that no user or group that performs such an action will not be accepted.

“We will not tolerate the use of hate speech, intolerance or fanaticism (through words, actions, symbolism, etc.) at the discretion of the community moderation team. No account or individual is allowed that attempts to incite harm others,” Shiba said.

Despite everything that happened, there were users who defended the “drawn” symbol, claiming that it was not a Nazi swastika, but the ancestral symbol of the Buddhists. Before Adolf Hitler adopted and turned a few degrees, it was used by the religious.

In any case, users and the metaverse demonstrated that they will not allow any hate symbols, or any other negative discourse in the community.

Initially Shiba Inu launched the sale of 100 thousand virtual lands that are sold in the form of NFTs. These have been released in stages and will be divided into four zones: Silver Fur, Platinum Paw, Diamond Teeth and Gold Tail, and each land is presumed to cost between 0.2 ethereum (ETH), around US $680.

In the metaverse, the currency of current use is ethereum cryptocurrencies to ensure that there is no disadvantage with respect to native Shiba Inu currencies.

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