--- title: "By the numbers: Phony Warhol drawings, font-opolies, windowless dorms, and more - The Hustle" description: "Plus: Retail battle bots and a massive Roblox outage." image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/831850935-News-Brief_2021-10-31T232407.176Z.webp --- # By the numbers: Phony Warhol drawings, font-opolies, windowless dorms, and more ![Jacob Cohen](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png?width=48&height=48&name=IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png) [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/jacob-cohen) [Jacob Cohen Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/ImJacobCohen) Published: November 01, 2021 Updated: October 11, 2023 *Source: MSCHF* ![By the numbers: Phony Warhol drawings, font-opolies, windowless dorms, and more](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/831850935-News-Brief_2021-10-31T232407.176Z.webp?width=595&height=400&name=831850935-News-Brief_2021-10-31T232407.176Z.webp) **1) **Call it a *font-opoly*. The world’s largest font seller, Monotype, recently bought Hoefler&Co, makers of Gotham (the font). Monotype now owns [**30k+ fonts**](https://qz.com/2068310/what-monotypes-purchase-of-hoeflerco-means-to-font-designers/),** **including heavy-hitters Helvetica, Times New Roman, and Arial. **2)** Viral art collective MSCHF’s latest project involved buying a 1954 Andy Warhol drawing for $20k, making 999 copies, then selling them all — including the original — [**for $250 a piece**](https://www.cnn.com/style/article/warhol-art-mschf/index.html). By that math, they made ~$230k in profit. **3)** *Battle of the bots: holiday edition*. Akamai, a software firm that helps online retailers fight off buying-bots, found bot use in India is [**up 55%**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-25/how-bots-are-buying-up-all-this-year-s-hottest-christmas-gifts?sref=3Ac2yX40) in the weeks before Diwali. 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