It's a fucking obvious scam and people not getting it think they're just not too online to get it when NO YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT IT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE AND YOU DON'T GET IT BECAUSE IT'S A SCAM
Sorry but it gets fucking annoying that everything is turning into collectibles.
One of the big ideas among silicon valley neo-libs is pushing the idea of people being able to sell access to their own data. Ultimately it's a scam to undermine any attempts at getting the government to reign in data mining and privacy abuses. I'm pretty sure NFTs are the new way of normalizing that. "Look at all the money to be made selling access to digital information, wouldn't you like to get involved by selling your very own information?"