The case alleged that O’Neal acted as the face of Astrals, encouraging investors to “[h]Even as cryptocurrency exchange FTX collapsed in November 2022, O’Neal posted a graphic interchange format (GIF) on The Wolf of Wall Street’s Discord community message board that read, “I’m not fucking leaving,” the court document said. The lawsuit alleged that O’Neal fled the project after that and “the value of Astral’s financial products plummeted.”