Originally Posted by
Using My Pass
Sorry to neckbeard everyone but confirming some of the paintbrush inflation is artificial, many large jumps have been made by as few as 2 accounts.
I was stalking one PB in particular and watched the TP clear out in real time (not literally, but over the shortest time I've seen thus bar by a massive whack) and then two users popped up at nearly the same time with seeking price of 4 million more than the last highest price.
I then watched it happen to a couple of other PBs and, let's just say, if you find an unrelated item with an 'inflation notice' on jellyneo and search it on the TP, you'll start seeing recurring usernames having them up for trade. Often popping up around the same time, just after the TP clears out randomly.
The demand for PBs is definitely higher with pet slots and whatnot, but the massive surges we're seeing are intentional.
The same can be said for nerkmids. When they first shot up, you could see the stores with 50+ of each nerkmid, the price kept dropping back but now has stabilised at 100k+. Funnily enough, one of the stores belonged to a user I recognised from watching pb prices lmao. Cunts.
(I'm not naming because it's anecdotal and could be the world's biggest coincidence - and also because one of the accounts has a note to TNT on their profile that suggests other people might be fucking with them)
TY for letting me get this off my chest because it's been making so fucking mad. I want PBs that aren't even UC or popular.
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You can actually track the prices via jellyneo and there are some pbs that were less than 200k back in the day that are now 5-7 mill.
Some of the popular ones have gone back to their peak values and others have/had gone above that.
I was being a massive dork and putting the info into graphs recently and it's actually whack