Observed arrival · 2026-11-05
The Midas Poes: Shiny, South Africa’s least reliable tycoon
A fictional corporate profile follows Shiny, a South African tycoon whose ventures reliably fail in spectacularly specific ways.
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- Readers of fictional business satire and South African internet culture
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- The fictional project history says PoesPay took R2.3 million in pre-orders before shipping a splash screen marked “Soon.”
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The profile builds its character through recurring sections rather than a single premise: supposed technical skills, failed ventures, interview anecdotes, and personal-life material. Its project entries use a plan-and-outcome format, with specific figures such as 340 PoesPay backers and 14 Braaibnb deposits. The page labels the material as fiction; a reader-submission link is also present, but its process is not shown in the extract.
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