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Nike is preparing to enter the Metaverse with virtual sneaker NFTs
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And when their stuff is sold on Opensea, are you going to make them whole? Can someone pay bills with moral purity? I've spoken with artists who've lost customers/publishers after publicly getting into NFTs, but entering the field has opened up new sources of revenue, because there is a demand for 'legitimate' artists. There are also artists who segregate their NFT activities to avoid the social media backlash. And if all the legitimate artists abstain, then the field will have no one who cares about art and the crooks will just keep on stealing anyway. What has been gained by abstaining?
I mean I'm not a stranger to the anti-crowd.
Why NFTs are bad: the long version
This is the in-depth follow up to this brief article:
antsstyle.medium.com
Don't get into NFT art!｜swmr
Preface Hello, this is a page made to briefly explain the dangers of NFT art, which is rapidly spreading in Asian countries, under consideration and discussion by individual parties with an interest in this topic. (This article was originally written by swmr (@sawamuradacun) in Japanese, prima
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“BUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WITH CRYPTOART WILL BE SOLVED SOON, RIGHT?”
Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are an absolute disaster for so many more reasons than the ecological.
everestpipkin.medium.com
I'm just skeptical of this strategy of "we're going to get really mad online, and cancel anyone who supports NFTs". It does not seem to have made a noticeable dent in the development of the industry, and these arguments have been floating around for years. I believe a strategy of entryism will be more effective in the long run.
The NFT future is coming regardless of what you do, you can try to influence it or leave it to the techbros and venture capitalists.
lol you have to be trolling me at this point. Bravo, good troll.
The nice thing about NFTs that I can tell is that (outside of the environmental impact) you can completely ignore them if you want to.
Of course, the problem very much is the environmental impact. I will not stop beating that drum, cause it is not okay. It will have to be addressed one way or another, same as any major environments impact.
Once/if that is taken care of, I will stop complaining about it and let people continue to waste their money on whatever they want. It very much feels like a grift to me, but whatever. Exploring the concept of digital ownership and transference over time might end up being good long term and lay down some more concrete grounds for consumer rights and whatnot since it still very much feels like the Wild West sometimes.
Of course, the problem very much is the environmental impact. I will not stop beating that drum, cause it is not okay. It will have to be addressed one way or another, same as any major environments impact.
Once/if that is taken care of, I will stop complaining about it and let people continue to waste their money on whatever they want. It very much feels like a grift to me, but whatever. Exploring the concept of digital ownership and transference over time might end up being good long term and lay down some more concrete grounds for consumer rights and whatnot since it still very much feels like the Wild West sometimes.
Some are hoping the resellers and social media hypebeasts will flock to this and leave physical shoes alone. I personally don't think that will happen.
Your repeated whataboutism and feigned ignorance at the difference between tangible items with real-world benefits and JPEGs of shoes or whatever are getting pretty disgusting.
Corporations diving head first into a revenue stream that requires almost no effort will have consequences that can't be ignored. I wish what you said was true.
all of these are serving a purpose, while the extremely expensive, ethically questionable, world polluting serial number in the worst database ever made, losely associated to something that may or may not be available anymore next week doesn't.
Snake oil salesmen have been around a long time, and this is even less tangible of a benefit to buy to a lot of people. They have the right to make shitty "products" like this, environmental concerns notwithstanding.
Edit: I will say this though. The ability of large corporations to move collateral around that isn't properly regulated and thus can (attempt to) avoid regular consumer protections IS a problem that is likely to come up.
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I wish I had the money and energy to read up on that shit, because it seems like there will be easy money made on these NFT sneakers, with how huge this sneaker collection market seems to be.
if only this people was smarter than this...
no wonder companies are foaming at the mouths whats better than MXT .....MXT that are nothing not even and ingame item....
and ppl are stupid enough to buy "nothing" and think they bought something...
Well it was bound to happen. It's consumerism at its ultimate form. People don't buy stuff because they need it, they buy stuff to show off. It's the same as collections really if you think about it.
NFTs are sad sure but think about all the huge piles of crap we collect and feel good about them while they just shit there without benefiting us in any way.
Soon I guess. Gamestop is preparing to get NFTs into the gaming sector in the coming weeks.
Others will follow soon, only a matter of time.
- The same type of people who went bonkers for Beanie Babies / comic books.
- Other NFT enthusiasts just shuffling money around to make the system look functional to outsiders.
- Literally the same person buying something they already own from themselves at a higher price to artificially inflate the value and maybe get in the news.
While that's a good explanation of what NFT *are*, there's the perhaps more important part of what they are *doing* (to the planet):
“BUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WITH CRYPTOART WILL BE SOLVED SOON, RIGHT?”
Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are an absolute disaster for so many more reasons than the ecological.
everestpipkin.medium.com
Yeah, a couple of dumb Hollywood movies are exactly in the same category of things to be concerned about as a booming technology that is literally speeding up the ecological collapse of civilization. /s
NFTs aren't even the instructions for the pixels, though. Those are stored on a regular old server.
If the prospect of these people getting the future they want doesn't terrify you then you might not have looked into it enough.
The NFT metaverse people are advocating for will amplify all of the problems with trend chasing, social media and commodification, and we're having enough problems with them as it is.
Update Nike acquires studio RTFKT
https://www.instagram.com/rtfktstudios/
https://clonex.rtfkt.com/
Wow, we are going to be seeing some crazy af Nike NFT shit
https://www.instagram.com/rtfktstudios/
https://clonex.rtfkt.com/
Wow, we are going to be seeing some crazy af Nike NFT shit
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