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.
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.