This article perfectly captures the ridiculousness of NFTs.
What the Hell Is ‘Right-Clicker Mentality’?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgzed/what-the-hell-is-right-clicker-mentality
"Right-clicking a JPEG, saving it, and displaying it back to the NFT owner is a way to point out the Emperor has no clothes. Meanwhile, the NFT fans make millions off their naked Emperor. Round and round. "
Do you remember the "Million-Dollar Web Page"?
@mcfate
I must have missed that one.
It's still there. I suppose it will be in perpetuity.
In 2005, Alex Tex, an English uni student, came up with an idea for funding his schooling by setting up a homepath with a thousand-pixel square grid and selling it off for a dollar a pixel.
@mcfate @voltronic Oh yeah I remember hearing about that, that was crazy and brilliant.
As I was told several times at a young age, there's "funny always" and there's "funny ONCE".
You can't do that twice.
@mcfate @voltronic Indeed. There was also that guy that set up a GoFundMe for $10 to make potato salad and ended up with over $60k and someone tried doing the same thing at the same time with coleslaw trying posture as an attempt at a meme to jump on the bandwagon and got shoved the fuck off it.
@mcfate @voltronic Ducked out right before the lawsuits piled on. Bit off more than he could chew but at least he got smart about it and bailed.
This is the sort of thing that makes me feel like I'm living in John Brunner's novel "Stand on Zanzibar".
He predicted people who were famous for being famous for being on the air every single second of the day.
@Tail @voltronic
My personal favorite is the poor "Flappy Birds" guys, who said, "Oh, fuck THIS shit, I'm out."