At the turn of March and April 2024, social networks and the media reported that the star of the series “Euphoria” and the co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform had become a couple. We have verified the veracity of this rumor.
Publications about the relationship of a 26-year-old Hollywood actress with a 30-year-old Canadian programmer originally from Russia began to spread en masse across the RuNet since March 30. Many similar posts appeared on VKontakte. For example, in the public “Obi“(1.2 million views at the time of writing this analysis) wrote (spelling preserved): “The 30-year-old creator of the Ethereum crypt, Vitaly Buterin, began dating the popular American actress Sydney Swinney.” However, in most posts the news is still presented as a rumor - this is what the communities did "Gentleman Club"(638,000 views), "Shame"(540,000), "Rhymes and punches"(389,000), "ZSH"(327,000), Fitness & Sport (224,000), "Decent films"(210,000), "Did you know?"(207,000), Chop-Chop (201,000) and Fitness & Bodybuilding (108,000). April 4th author of the public Empire (8600 views) reported that Sweeney confirmed her relationship with Buterin: “What was a rumor is becoming reality!”
The Russian media also reported on the rumor. For example, on March 31, with a link to The Sports Grail (TSG) portal about the romance between Buterin and Sweeney wrote publication "Gazeta.ru". The second one came out on April 2nd material - O comments producer Yana Rudkovskaya on this topic. On the same day, the publication Spltnk with reference to TSG reported, as if Sweeney was noticed on a date with Buterin. In his public page on VKontakte, the TV channel “360"(65,000 views). Similar posts are found in publications Elle kz, msk1.ru And Men Today, as well as in Telegram channels "Ax 18+"(2.5 million views), 4ch (180,000) and QC (177,000).
As correctly stated in many of the publications mentioned above, the first about the actress’s affair with a crypto-billionaire reported on the social network X there is a blogger under the nickname shah - his post was published on March 27 at 01:00 Moscow time. At the time of writing this analysis, the post has received 2 million views. On the same day about this tweet indeed wrote publication TSG, which, according to the article "Newspapers.ru" And others Russian-speaking resources, cited rumors from several popular crypto bloggers. In fact, only shah's post was mentioned in this material, and his tweet was named fake - Sweeney has been a member for several years (according to media publications, or with 2017, or with 2018 years) in a relationship with businessman Jonathan Davino.
Moreover, on March 31, under the blogger’s original post, Community Notes - On social network X, this tool allows users to add important context to posts containing manipulation or false information. There it was saidthat shah's tweet was satire, and a link was given to article According to People, Sweeney has been engaged to Davino since 2022. It was not possible to find information about the couple’s separation in the gossip column “Verified”.
In the note "Gazeta.ru" There is information about Sweeney’s relationship with Davino, and about the conclusions of the TSG publication, and about the message from the X moderators, but this did not stop the author from giving his material a clickbait title: “Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin is dating actress Sydney Sweeney.” Moreover, on this and some other Russian-language sites (for example, Men Today) it says: “Shah himself did not provide details about where he got the information about the novel. He did not give a clear answer about how serious his statements were.” In fact, a few hours later, at 03:45, the blogger explained in replays that his post was a joke. “I don’t know, is this becoming a meme or do people really believe it?” — wrote shah. On the afternoon of March 27, to the question “What?” under the original tweet he is ironic replied: "Real news."
Sweeney spoke about her personal life in December 2023 in interview for Glamor magazine. “I’ve never talked much [about my relationship], so the press loves create drama" - noted star. Also actress complainedthat the media and social networks often publish facts about her personal life that are completely fictitious, and called this situation madness.
In response to the interviewer's offer to tell how things really are, Sweeney confirmed that her partner's name is Jonathan Davino, he is 38 years old and at the time of the conversation with Glamor they were familiar about six years. At the same time, the girl denied the information spread on the Internet that her lover is a restaurateur (this is stated, in particular, in the Russian-language “Wikipedia» and on the magazine’s website Elle kz). “I have no idea where this came from. He's not the heir to a pizza company either. He is a businessman from Chicago. We've been watching this story for six years now and I'm like, 'What the hell?'" Sweeney said. In 2022, the actress filmed with a ring that journalists considered to be an engagement ring, but Sweeney in a conversation with Glamor refused comment on publications about her alleged engagement. This did not stop the publication Spltnk from reporting on the actress’s possible romance with Buterin writethat two years ago the actress herself announced her impending wedding with Davino.
“Verified” was unable to find information about Buterin’s personal life in open sources. By the way, in the above posts about his alleged affair with Sweeney, there is another mistake regarding the biography of the co-founder of Ethereum: some authors called him a native of Magadan, although a programmer was born in Kolomna, and later moved to Canada.
Thus, Sydney Sweeney and Vitalik Buterin did not start an affair. The author of the X post, which served as the original source, clearly indicated shortly after publication that he was joking, but the owners of numerous Telegram channels and public pages on VKontakte, as well as media employees, actively disseminated the humorous tweet under the guise of real news.
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