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[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago
[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Watching the apes go by, slurp juice underground

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

it was so cool when late night hosts were helping push the scam for like, no reason

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Hardly no reason. They were all getting kickbacks. But it was like... peanuts. $10k to participate in a scam that brought in $10M.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

so little that one must conclude it was for the love of the game / a producer had a good thing going

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm willing to bet guys like Jimmy Fallon do penny-ante shit like this on the reg. Be seen at a local carwash or order a drink at a certain bar, $5k. Do a 30 second walk-on gag for another network show, $10k. Interview Paris Hilton to fill time with sponsored content on a show that has never been particularly entertaining? Lets make it $15k.

How is this any different than all the Morning Show "Trending Christmas Merch" episodes? Or Jim Cramer's entire media career? I'm old enough to remember people doing this exact same shit with Beanie Babies, back in the 90s. Every single TV network in the country, from drive-time talk to late night comedy, was pimping those things.

Its business-as-usual.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Bet they got paid in cash though...

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

If they were smart...

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

My ape shitting jpeg is worthless!

[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago

Nah, friend, it's worth the happiness it brings you...oh wait....

[-] FrogFractions@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

NFTs are a great technology with enormous promise. Once we find a way to stop people being able to right click then it’s to the fucking moon.

[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Off by about 5 percentage points

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

We're always one week of straw purchases heavily hyped on a business network linked to a major investment bank away from them being worth 10x what they originally sold for, though. So, uh... buy the dip!

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago
[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Imagine being gullible enough to pay for a jpeg & seeing it as an investment. One of these apes is going to be on the page in history books describing the death flails of our modern dark age.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago
[-] FrogFractions@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I bought a monkey and the pros told me I had to put my monkey on a usb stick to make it safe but I didn’t know how to do that so I just saved my money to my computer and turned my computer off but then I needed to keep using my computer for things I was really worried whenever I visited a website that the website would steal my monkey.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

i-spil-my-jice no my slurp jice

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

wojak-nooo NOOOOOOO!! ALL MY APES ARE WORTHLESS!

[-] Homestar440@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago
[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know who I actually feel really unironically great for:

The original meme sources like overly attached girlfriend and creators/artists who actually managed to cash in on their own content. Seriously....way to go guys. Intellectual property is just as made up as nfts but that shit is still enforceable by society and it's always a dubious proposition to sell it to someone.

The idiots on the other side of that nft deal essentially paid them thousands of dollars and got absolutely nothing in return. I hope they all laughed their way to the bank and bought something nice for themselves.

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I got worried when every big media corporation started buying into this en masse. I thought they'd use their resources to keep this going as long as possible, but it looks like the whole idea was too dumb to even be sustainable as a grift.

[-] SoloboiNanook@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure the vast majority of NFTs was always worthless. Outside of like 3 "series" or whatever they call them nobody gave a shit about a huge amount of them released

[-] Goblin@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

This is good for bitcoin

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