Rare pepes being sold for actual money was the proof of concept for NFTs.
Nooooo....you don't understand. Rich people like it, and since WHEN were rich people EVER WRONG!?!? You clearly just don't understand it [paragraph of shitting the poors].
…isn’t it?
Collecting things is also just owning stuff and that’s definitely a hobby
Yeah sure but with collecting stuff at least there's the fun of looking for it or whatever and then showing it off. With NFT you just pay some money and anyone can look at the same shit on their cellphone whenever they want. Like I like NES games but I go to thrift stores and garage sales to try and find them and I also still play them. What the hell you supposed to do with an NFT. All there is is ownership.
I used to work with a rare sneaker dweeb, and one time when he was showing off his new kicks, I "accidentally" stepped on his foot with my dirty boots. He took a swing at me and got suspended and put on probation. :soviet-playful:
I need to actually do some math but I have a terrifying suspicion that if we convinced every collector of funko pops to switch to being really into NFTs it might reduce over all carbon emissions. That does not make NFTs less dumb it's just a bad thought I've had
EDIT: I did the math! I found papers on CO2 output and everything! And an NFT still produces >25 times as much CO2 over its lifetime as a fucking funko pop, a literal hunk of useless plastic!
EDIT 2: I did more math! The factor might be as low as 15 but still
All that energy wasted on some stupid meme fad. The internet is the millennial/zoomer equivalent of lead poisoning.
Sounds like all these "freedumz" aren't very efficient.
Gazing upon the internet, a tool that enables the easy production and proliferation of information and thinking, "What if we restricted access to some of that information to make a quick buck? And what if the information we restricted was ugly-as-sin procedurally-generated cartoon monkeys?"
ugly-as-sin procedurally-generated cartoon monkeys
Never in a million years would I have guessed that would be what they love and crave. Although I did know of the Japanese clothing company A Bathing Ape even though I'm no fashionista.
I always thought the company's name was sort of odd. Japan has monkeys. Photos of them "bathing" in the hot springs in winter are awesome.
The truly rare JPEGs are the ones that Epstein burned to the CD-ROMs held by the FBI.
This guy seems to be the sort of person that gets pleasure from rare JPEGs.
pissing away your disposable income into artificial scarcity commodities is worthy of derision regardless of whether the items are digital or not
"you think collecting NFTs is dumb? well it's actually like collecting overpriced gaudy shoes"
not really the epic argument they intended it to be, i feel
Imagine having that amount of money and then wasting it on a jpeg.
Rich people are fucking stupid. You could feed several homeless people you fuckbag think about your community.
I really want to write an update to Benjamin's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction for algorithmic production. Both NFTs and deep-learning algorithms present such weird commodification of art, a commodity of the simulacrum of art, that they're representing a new kind of relationship to it. Their valueless money buys valueless imagery which only exists as a speculative asset to prove that something can be bought with the monopoly money. If r/modernart would grow already I'd do a whole megathread series about it.
My hobby is I own rare sounds. Blublubuk. That one cost me one hundred thousand dollars
Someone good at economy please help me budget, my family is dying
Rent $800
food $300
TIM_ALLEN_AEUE.mp3 $100 000
utilities $150
How did we get the reality in which the rare pepes meme from a few years ago became something serious?
I too can own that rare jpeg by right clicking and selecting save.
