This NFT is beyond appalling. And WTF at the price and the likes??!!! What is wrong with people????
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Gamestop's NFT marketplace selling a 9/11 victim NFT
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If people didn't realize after BAYC and George Floyd NFTs that this "community" MIGHT be fucked up, I don't know what to tell you.
Fucked up is an understatement. I wasn't even that NFT even existed.
When I tried that DALL-E thing on Discord to try generating AI art, I noticed quite a few requests including the keyword "NFT". There's nothing they can't ruin.
This is fucking disgusting, but I feel like people who are into NFTs probably think it's the most hilarious thing of all time.
"Editions:2/25 available"
Can someone explain...? Doesn't that kinda defeat the "purpose" of the nft?
Can someone explain...? Doesn't that kinda defeat the "purpose" of the nft?
The purpose of an NFT is to grift dummies out of money.
Why just limit yourself to one sale?
I thought I was losing it when I saw this! Seriously, who the fuck made this and what possessed GameStop to approve it for sale?
That is full on The Magic Christian finale where people are diving into a massive vat of shit for money. I hope Gamestop goes under and stays dead.
Literally. Plus you can them claim the first edition as more expensive.
Similar to buying prints of physical art. You could for instance buy an artists first edition print for $500, but the original costs 25,000.
An entire economy built around artificial scarcity, except without even the pretense of an object that has any intrinsic value. It's like commercializing the sale of fine art, but without the "fine" and a bare minimum of the "art".
If a company has decided that providing a marketplace for the sale of this existential emptiness is their best move, then I have no further use for said company.
If a company has decided that providing a marketplace for the sale of this existential emptiness is their best move, then I have no further use for said company.
Gamestop should manadate a verification system when you have to send it to your mom and then explain it to her before you can post it.
"I'm very disappointe in you Jules. I raised you better than this!"
"But mooooommm! My tech bro friends are making it rich off these I want to be an ape too!"
"Jules I raised you human you will not become no damn monkey!"
"I'm very disappointe in you Jules. I raised you better than this!"
"But mooooommm! My tech bro friends are making it rich off these I want to be an ape too!"
"Jules I raised you human you will not become no damn monkey!"
On top of everything else about this imagine thinking a dumb 4chan shitpost could appreciate in value.
I tried to use their report function, but it looks like you need to make a wallet for it to go through? Not that I think they'd do anything about it anyway.
There is a report button. Reported.
Wait, I need a wallet to report? I guess no report.
Also people are fools. It was minted for $30 and is being traded for a thousand now. Are people this stupid?
Wait, I need a wallet to report? I guess no report.
Also people are fools. It was minted for $30 and is being traded for a thousand now. Are people this stupid?
You can type out a report, I did that. I don't know if it actually sends though.
Kind of fitting for an NFT market, anyway. Remember when OpenSea took down the ability to report art theft because there was too much of it going down for them to bother dealing with?
Fucking disgusting. I remember seeing this on TV at some point back during 9/11 growing up and to this day it still haunts me. For whatever reason I have pretty limited memories of my childhood and early teens but this one plagues me. Fuck this piece of shit.
It will be a nice moment of schadenfreude when gamestop inevitably fails, doing literally anything but making a better business.
Just gross. So many gaming companies looking to get in on these scams based on investors willing to turn a blind eye to this stuff as long as they get in on the ground floor.
The last 24 hours of transactions look super sketchy. Almost like laundering.
Disgusting, but I can't say I'm that surprised. We have a generation of people who grew up with the internet and weren't alive when 9/11 occurred.
Tbh I dont know if anyone needs to step up nationally. I'd prefer if we got more secondhand gaming stores akin to vinyl shops and used book stores. Probably a bit to optimistic though.
If limited run wanted to expand out of Raleigh I'd be all for it. You need bespoke shops to carry some of the more niche things the big chains won't .
So what happens to the money and the nft people bought.
Justified. But now curious.
So the buyer can't sell the expensive thing that they probably hoped would gain value off of controversy, but Gamestop still pockets their money. Nice.
Most nft sales are either between friends or someone with multiple wallets to artificially create value.
They can probably sell it using some other marketplace by listing it there. They own the token (NFT) and can do whatever with it.
You pay crypto for NFT's, no chargebacks exist.
