Stephanie Matto, 31, made headlines around the world when she announced that she'd have to retire from selling her farts in jars after she says she was hospitalized while trying to keep up with the skyrocketing demand. The former star of TLC's "90 Day Fiancé" said she made around $200,000 from selling her bottled farts to her fans, but doctors advised her that her excessive wind-breaking was taking a toll on her body.
Instead of abandoning the business venture entirely, Matto told Insider that she decided to pivot to selling her farts as non-fungible tokens. Now, Matto is hoping to carve out a space in the NFT world with her "unique" fart art. "There's space for everybody," she said during a phone call with Insider.
Matto explained that while she was running an 18-and-over fan subscription platform, similar to OnlyFans, she received a lot of requests for her farts. "I always thought that was a complete joke," she said. But last year, she said, she decided to sell her farts as an "experiment" to see if anybody would actually purchase them. Her first batch of 97, each selling for $500, ended up selling out instantly, she said. The second shipment, selling for $1,000, also sold out, she said. Matto said she made approximately $200,000 total.
One morning, she had three "large servings" of protein shakes and "several bowls" of black bean soup to help meet the demand. But she started to feel unwell, with sharp shooting pain in her chest and heart, and decided to go to ER. Doctors diagnosed her with severe gas pain, Matto explained, and advised her that her wind-breaking was harming her body. "I had to rethink my business model because I knew that selling my farts in this way was just not something that was physically sustainable for me," she said.
A digital artist reached out to her and suggested they make a collection of unique artwork, based on her bottled farts, to sell as NFTs. An NFT, or non-fungible token, is a unique identifier that can cryptographically assign and prove ownership of digital goods. Matto said she jumped on the idea because she has a "very creative mind" when it comes to making money. Fart Jars NFT launched on Wednesday and are now selling for 0.05 Ethereum ($186).
Bizarrely, I feel a much greater sense of goodwill towards this one. I mean she was at least committed to delivering a genuine product for her customers. Can't argue with that. She wasn't just on a mission to rip a load of poor lonely bastards off, like Belle Delphine and her Peckham Springs.
>>36798 You're a bit daft if you think her claiming to have to been hospitalised because of trapped wind is evidence of authenticity and not potentially a clever piece of marketing in itself.
>>36800 I do a lot of farting, such that I could almost definitely sell a good couple of dozen a day, and I have never needed any sort of medical assistance and I feel fine always. I have done a few experiments where I wound up shitting a lot, and when I ate over 1kg of peanuts in one day, I couldn't stop shitting but I never needed help then either. I really struggle to imagine ever needing to go to hospital for too much farting, based on my own experiences.
Has no one here run a proper bulk? A diet replete with milk, whey protein, porridge, fibrous vegetables, frequent cheat meals, and as much meat as you can get down your gullet?
If I set my mind to it, I could quite literally blow this girl out of the water.
We approach a moderately successful e-girl with a business proposal to sell farts. She's the face of it all. We supply the farts in a jar. We split the profits 50:50. We could easily keep up with demand between us all.
Nobody would ever know. I'm fairly certain that 90% of the farts in a jar sold never get opened and for the remaining 10% you couldn't tell the difference between a boy fart and a girl fart.
Burusera shops and vending machines seem to be real but from reading the wiki article, underwear from under 18s are legally murky and definitely illegal in at least some parts of Japan.
>>36817 >>36818 We hosted a Japanese lad at work for a few months a while back, and he brought his wife with him. One night when we were out having dinner, we got onto the topic of the Japanese relationship with sex. She started talking about how her school was at the top of a hill, and there was a bloke that would park his car at the bottom of the hill every morning so he could watch all the schoolgirls walking and biking up the hill in their uniform skirts. The Japanese lad couldn't control his laughter, it was the funniest thing he'd ever heard that a grown man would spend his mornings perving on school-age women.
>>36817 >Having no interest in gaming or Japanese culture and only a passing interest in tech I found Tokyo pretty boring
I can sympathise with that. But Tokyo is fucking giant, obviously, and the Japanese are experts at doing something incredibly specific and niche very well - so nearly everything you want IS there...
But as a foreigner, knowing A) where to go and find this obscure thing on the 8f of some random tower block, and B) even being let inside as one, is another thing.
There are also neighbourhoods for any and every taste you could want, they just aren't always immediately recognisably distinct as you would expect, because most of the sprawl looks very similar.
As for the schoolgirl vending machine thing, well I don't know about that one specifically, but I would not in the slightest bit be surprised. I didn't see one myself when I lived there. But again, a lot of stuff is very closed off to foreigners or even those just not in the know. I've had friends work in very high profile positions in the most traditional Japanese company imaginable, and there are some VERY freaky establishments that open their doors to you with the right company.
I really fucking miss Japan actually, I would love to go again soon.
Japan has an age of consent of 13. And it is not part of closeness in age laws that you have in other countries where a 16 year old can consensually bonk a 14 year old without legal repercussions, while an adult can not. Technically, a 40-year-old Japanese man can legally bed a 13-year-old girl.
No idea how common that is, but I guess when a society considers 13 year olds sexually mature, a lad perving teenaged schoolgirls from his car isn't a very outrageous thing to do.
There was a guy who seemed to be doing the same thing outside my niece's school in Essex. He was approached by police one day because it kept happening, and it turned out that he had a prior conviction for online solicitation.
I guess you can't really tell somebody not to park outside a school along a public road, as long as he's not accosting pupils and endangering their wellbeing. But in light of his past offences, he was given to understand that police and authorities would take a much more aggressive tone with him if he didn't stop doing it.
>>36822 IIRC the age 13 law is just a sort of backstop set nation-wide so that no individual prefecture (that sets its own laws for certain things) could, say, roll the age of consent back to like six or something. In reality each prefecture sets its own minimum age and I think they're all between 16 and 18 or so.
Even if you go to a country where it's legal for you to have sex with somebody who is far younger than the UK age of consent, you can still be prosecuted upon your return based on UK law, which expressly forbids underage sex tourism with the intent to exploit lower ages of consent in other countries.
Countries like Norway are even harsher nowadays. As a Norwegian citizen, you can get nicked for illegal sex tourism if you go abroad to another country where adult prostitution is perfectly legal. Prostitution is banned completely in Norway, even over 18, and the law is not only aimed at forbidding it within Norway's borders, but also at punishing Norwegian citizens who travel abroad to have sex with a legally adult prostitute.
Not sure how that law is really enforced. They can't seriously expect Norwegians to answer the question truthfully when they come home from a weekend bender in Latvia's red light districts.
