A teenage Minecraft YouTuber raised $1,234,567 for a meme prediction market called Giggles. It broke me.

Justin Jin’s company Giggles – which he describes as “putting a trading app and TikTok together” – started as a joke.

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A teenage Minecraft YouTuber raised $1,234,567 for a meme prediction market called Giggles. It broke me.

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Justin Jin’s company Giggles – which he describes as “putting a trading app and TikTok together” – started as a joke.

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