After Twitter, prankster Rahul Ligma now 'sacked' by another company, second time in a month

Prankster Rahul Ligma has done it yet again. After posing as a fired Twitter employee in front of its headquarters in the US. Ligma is now again seen carrying a box with office stuff as a sacked employee, this time in Bahamas. of beleaguered crypto exchange FTX in the Bahamas.

Few weeks ago, Ligma had become global sensation after a video went viral on the social media in which, a man claiming to be a sacked employee was seen giving interviews to news channels. In another video, a man identified as Rahul Ligma, a software engineer, was speaking to reporters. Ligma was seen carrying a book by former US first lady Michelle Obama - ‘Becoming’. Ligma told reporters that "Michelle Obama wouldn't have happened if Elon Musk owned Twitter, Obama in 2008 wouldn't have happened".

Ligma identified himself as a software engineer at Twitter, who later turned out to be someone whose name does not even exist in Twitter's Slack or email system.


In a new video, Ligma is seen carrying a box with office stuff, posing as a laid-off worker of FTX, a crypto exchange company in Bahamas which is in deep trouble after leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance backed out of its acquisition deal.

"It is really tough as this is my second job in a month (after Twitter). After Web 2.0 spit me out, I just really thought that Web 3.0 was going to be different. But it is not," Ligma said, jokingly.


"I've been out of my Twitter job and just moved my 'husband and wife' here in the Bahamas. And you know, everything just changed so quickly," he chuckled.

Binance on Thursday took a U-turn on acquiring its rival FTX, saying it was backing out of the deal after reviewing the company's finances, leading to further fall in major cryptocurrencies.

Crypto exchange FTX Founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried told investors that he needed emergency funding to cover a shortfall of up to $8 billion due to withdrawal requests received in recent days.

Ligma said he really does respect Sam as he "really tried to maximise his altruism".

Several sad stories are emerging out the recent mass layoffs in Twitter and Meta. An Indian techie yesterday claimed that he as sacked just two days after joining. He said he moved to Canada with family to join the Meta office, but was sacked as part of company's global layoffs.