The suspected-bot buyer also paid very high "gas" fees - which determine how quickly the Ethereum network processes a transaction - of 8 ETH ($32,000), to ensure the sale went through almost instantly.
Imagine if money charged you $32k on a $3k purchase to process that sale "almost instantly". NFTs should be an opt-in card for organ donation.
That's where all the real value comes from. Mainly cartels. There are thousands of people who have like 100 eth they got for $100 to buy drugs years ago that have been "investing" their earnings on that and are worth "millons" now, but they can't actually pull it out.
I definitely think the whole ecosystem is basically a ledger for large scale drug and arms transactions at this point.