why yes this link to an image has value because it used 500 megawatts of electricity to make and is special and unique, it's definitely not like the literal millions of .jpegs that are exactly identical to it :very-smart:
Why does this make me feel like it's somehow just money laundering like how a lot of obscenely overpriced paintings and pictures are.
couldn't agree more, if i was a one or two hit wonder meme i'd also cash in. I mean that cash my outside girl made millions, and a fuckton of money on her onlyfans as well. like, why wouldn't you? especially if you could really use the money.
why wouldn’t you?
because it's a devastatingly environmentally destructive way to make that money hence making it an extremely unethical method?
The same kind of people who bought tulip bulbs for astronomical amounts in the 1600's: Speculants hoping to cash out before the bubble burst.
I think it's more money laundering. Or for money laundering. You buy one of these at $X then it has that value within bourgeois circles and can be used as a sort of currency. Physical art is hard to store and transport, so having a digital one that you can just zap to someone increases turnover on illicit deals.
There's also a large amount of goobers that have too much money that buy them because their brains are maldeveloped by capitalism.
Going to NFT a all your base are belong to us meme from 2001 and become a millionaire, just you watch.
Do the girls and the cup get an NFT each (3 total) or is it gonna be one NFT for the lot of them? Not sure how technology works these days
No idea, but if you figure it out then let me know so I can appropriately divvy up my Lemon Party NFTs if needed.
Fun story! In high school, a few mates and I had to make a video brochure based on the "Lord of the Flies" island. We named our island "Goatse Isle" and wrote "GOATSE" on my little brothers forehead for one scene. My mom got home from work eventually, saw my brother's forehead, and freaked out.
"GOATSE!?!? Get that off his forehead!!"
I have ZERO idea how/why my mom knew what Goatse was, she wasn't very online back then and I certainly never sent it to her. It remains a mystery to this day as I am unwilling to ask her about it lol
I guess whoever bought the rights to Zero Wing from Toaplan who bankrupted will do that soon enough.
capitalism has run out of unexploited people and land to conquer so now it's conquering the digital meme frontier. Feel like this is not sustainable direction of growth
So like now we have digital landlords and shit, so playing second life is going to become a new source of income? Shit, I should have got in on that game back in the day, I could be rich right now.
to me it almost seems like digital tourism? if you can scam some rich guy into buying your digital house like its an expensive nick nack you can be making dough
What you need to do is get in on second life's weird fetish market and make a furry vore inflation island for some rich sex pest to buy up.
capitalism has run out of unexploited people and land to conquer
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