Alleged serial scammer launches "MetaWorld" project for at least the third time

Discord message from "BenG": "I was looking closer at some of the images posted in the creators channel and you can clearly see that he photoshopped some things out of them but did a pretty bad job at it. On some of them, if you look closely, you can make out where the watermark used to be. But this one is just awful, it looks like he used content aware fill to remove the text but left the shadows behind."Discord discussion of apparently stolen assets (attribution)
Dedric Reid has repeatedly stolen art and promotional material, passing off other projects' work as his own, to promote his "MetaWorld" project — a concept he's been promising (and fundraising for) in various forms since as early as 2016. He's recently relaunched it with a web3 spin, including metaverse ideas and NFTs into its newest form, but it appears to be as much vaporware as it was five years ago. Reid has raised at least $14,000 over the years for this idea which still has no tangible result, though Engadget believes the true amount scammed is probably higher.