(Twitter / @trickruiz, @sculliosis)

Cryptocurrency billionaires the Winklevoss twins, hitherto best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg on the grounds Zuck stole their idea to create Facebook, have recently become famous anew for laying off 10 percent of the staff at their crypto company Gemini and purportedly butchering covers of classic rock songs at live shows.

Earlier this month, the pair announced the layoffs to Gemini employees amidst the ongoing crypto crash. However, the pair, evidently still in good spirits, then took their band on the road to bewilder small rock clubs with their repertoire of hits you'd find in rotation on your local rock radio station.

While we can't begrudge anyone their passion for performing good-old-fashioned rock and roll, it became clear to many that the central issue with the Winklevoss twins' band is that they are not very good at singing.

Last week, a video of the twins performing Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," perhaps a fitting song for the WAGMI crowd who fear they're NGMI, left Twitter slackjawed at the duo's inability to approach the correct notes while singing the song.

Their real "hit," however, was posted on June 10th by Twitter user @Sculliosis, who caught the twins covering "Killing In The Name" by Rage Against the Machine.

Some found this an odd choice of song for cryptocurrency billionaires best known for suing another billionaire to perform, as Rage Against the Machine was pretty explicitly anti-government and anti-rich people.

Videos of the duo performing Harvey Danger's "Flagpole Sitta" and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Give It Away" have also circulated online, generating similar criticisms of their performance. One fears what other '90s hits the duo will cover on their mini-tour, but if they decide to whip out "Pulp's 'Common People,'":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM irony might truly be dead.


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