Why the fuck is it doing the ahegao face?

  • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    For like 100 bucks you could get a very detailed picture of your fursona, and everyone will know it's yours cuz it's your unique character and the artist will thank you for the commission in the description. Or I guess you could pay 30,000 dollars for this crap

  • CurlyHair [any]
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    3 years ago

    This looks like they ripped off those furry vore artists who will find any excuse to draw an overly detailed maw shot.

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Yes... a lot of money too.

      I don't understand NFTs, but the "Lazy Lions" ones are one of the more famous types.

      https://www.lazylionsnft.com/

      The site is the most vapid shit

    • Owl [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      All the crypto stuff starts making sense if you assume that most of the people involved are stupidly rich. Like an Etherium transfer takes four hours to clear and costs a random amount from $15 to $300, but if you're sending $10k+ overseas, that starts being a better deal than you would've gotten from a bank. NFTs are awful art that nobody cares about, invested in purely as a speculative asset or store of value, but you don't need to hire an expert to validate their authenticity or manage their storage conditions, and the transaction fees are competitive with what you'd get at an art auction, so they have advantages over physical art (as a purely speculative asset or store of value).

      It's like the financialization of rich fucks being so rich that they're fully disconnected from physical reality.

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      3 years ago

      From what I read, everyone under the sun is trying to get in on the scam so on top of a galaxy of shady practices (buying your own NFT yourself to hype them and make people believe they're worth something, running massive bot campaigns on twitter, paying off people with a large follower base to pretend they bought one, etc.), one of the things these people do is try to pretend it's not completely useless to own a bunch of pixels by connecting it to an actual use to be implemented in the future. Having the NFT be an exclusive avatar of your character in an "upcoming" video game is one of the more popular angle.

      This is the case with these ugly ass generic lions, they're promising a game. Of course eventually, this happens.

      • buh [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        one of the things these people do is try to pretend it’s not completely useless to own a bunch of pixels by connecting it to an actual use to be implemented in the future. Having the NFT be an exclusive avatar of your character in an “upcoming” video game is one of the more popular angle.

        So this is what Grimes meant when she said crypto and gaming

      • BtownNobody [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        That's fuckin hilarious, didn't realise the exit scams had started already.

  • Waldoz53 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    i like how these NFTs are just screenshots of a character creator but hitting the random button. and the cheapest "Lazy Lion" is .6 ETH. 1 ETH is like ~4000? usd. some sell for 2+ ETH lol

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Very cool to use the energy output of Argentina and charge a small fortune for an image that looks like something a 15 year old stoner would draw on a school bathroom wall.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They are. I think the point is that there's a large but finite number of them. So they create them by just enumerating combinations of accessories. Cheaper than paying people to make ten thousand actual pieces of art.

  • Shrek
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    3 years ago

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  • commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    I heard that Neopets are doing NFTs now. I didn't even know the site was still updated. Who the fuck is even buying this shit?