ABOUT MAXIMILIAN SCHMIDT
Drug dealer and pop culture figure who inspired the Netflix series How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast). While serving his sentence in 2023 it was discovered that he founded a second drug trafficking site while he was incarcerated. This landed him an additional 4.5-year sentence.
He worked in a restaurant before founding the drug trafficking dark web site Shiny Flakes.
The legal exposure has led to him amassing more than 380,000 followers on his verified Instagram account. He posts primarily lifestyle content on the shiny.flakes_ Instagram page.
He was born in Germany.
Both he and Pablo Escobar are international drug traffickers who ended up with Netflix shows based on their exploits.
