Now, Anime Expo is held at the LA Convention Center, which everyone knows as the Staples Center. But the naming rights were bought up by crypto.com, so it is the crypto.com arena. Everyone still calls it the Staples Center. You have seen those pernicious ads with Matt Damon, who reminds up at “Fortune Favors the […]
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