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. "
@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
Oh wow. It's like the entire ad department of Geocities exploded.
It's a literal historical landmark in the development of the Internet.
Ain't that a shame?
@mcfate
This is my personal favorite Internet landmark.
@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.
My personal favorite is the poor "Flappy Birds" guys, who said, "Oh, fuck THIS shit, I'm out."
@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.
This really is entertaining.
The need for gold-plating a steak completely aside, I suppose if you really wanted to "flex", you could make YouTube videos of yourself setting hundred dollar bills on fire with a blowtorch.
I mean, it's nothing new. Buy a Ferrari, it'll spend more time in the shop than it does on the road, and you'll pay for it again every five years.
I remember DeviantART used to make it so you couldn’t right-click and save images on their site, dunno if that’s how it is now anymore. But that still doesn’t stop screenshots.
@GlytchMeister
Not only that, you can often disable overlays like that through the console.
NFTs make less sense than pet rocks.
NFTs are bragging how public your private is.
NFTs are bullshit. imo.
NFTs are like buying London Bridge.
@voltronic
Do you remember the "Million-Dollar Web Page"?