>3 years ago people were justifying paying $20,000 for a jpeg of an ape
No, they were justifying you pay $20,000 for a one-off immutable crypto token that had a comment field with a URL to someone's google drive holding a picture of a jpeg of an ape.
>>106550762>>106550540I still can't believe this is the thing. Like I know people who bought the shake weight exercise thing off of infomercials at 2 a.m, And I know people back ridiculous tech kick starters for things that aren't even possible to make, but I still to this day cannot believe truly that people paid thousands for a JPEG.
>>106550540I have a folder with 1GB of screenshots of NFTs. Some day they will become very valuable and I will be rich!!
>>106550762They were justifying paying $20,000 for a one-off immutable crypto token that had a URL to someone's google drive holding a jpeg of an ape that entitled them to purchase a $10,000 ticket to a party where unshielded UV tubes in the bathrooms gave them welder's flarehttps://x.com/0xTangle/status/1721123004451557548get it right
>>106550792It was a money laundering scheme.
>>106550792you cannot fathom human stupidity, our greatest and worst weapon.we live in a system build on our own suffering.
FYI before you dunk about someone paying $20k for that photo, the minimum cost of one of those things right now is $39,635
>>106550841Yeah, that's literally what I just said.
>>106550540speculator deserved to get scam.
>>106550852Yeah nice ok, now tell me how many buyers are bidding for that.
>>106550792The world is such a dismal shithole that people are willing to buy into get rich quick schemes. Doubly so "tech" ones, since most missed the boat on crypto and hear about how they could have bought $100 of Bitcoin in 2010 and be a retired millionaire right now, so are looking to get in on the ground floor of the next hot new thing heading for the moon. Ultimately, it's a mixture of stupidity and greed mixed with desperation, which the grifters are all too happy to feed and take advantage of.
>>106550874based.money and greed doomed us all
>>106550838I guess you could call it a monkey laundering scheme
>>106550896should I take the Depardieupill?
the top standing bid (meaning anyone can sell their nft into it) is 37639 right now
>>106550874You don't get rich by being part of the herd, you get rich by selling retards the shovels.
>>106550540Funny how quickly the NFC craze ended.I think bored apes and a few other most hyped jpegs are still worth something since there are still enough morons to keep a semblance of a market, but 99.99% of NFCs are just dead data weighing down the blockchains.
>>106550911he's one of the few that didn't follow with the time, still an old classic Frenchman.Drink good and eat good my friend, love women and let yourself go down the path of lechery
>>106550870Hundreds of them!!!
>>106550920I actually met a web dev who did just that and he was making hundreds of thousands per week, so much so that he moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes on it. He was fully aware that it's a huge grift and told me years ago that the NFT market would crash hard. But who can blame him for making bank off idiots?
>xhe doesn't know
>>106550981>hundreds of thousands per weekDollars that is, not monkey pictures.
>>106550920Ok FINE. What's the next grift to sell shovels for?Or is that it, now that The Secret (tm) is out, the history of shovel selling is over. From the California Gold Rush to NFTs, this is the end of the line, the gravy train has reached its last stop. Is that it? It's over?
>>106550987>monke picture, but alt-right!Wow, that changes everything!
>>106550954>Drink good and eat good my friend, love women and let yourself go down the path of lecheryWait, isn't this also the mantra of Trump?
>>106550540Tropico 6 let's you buy world wonder NFTs. I think it does nothing
>>106551071don't know, i don't really care what happen in prison
>>106550942I use NFC every day bro. The craze never ended.Tap tap tap
>>106551071Trump doesn't drink.
>>106550792People are idiots and will buy stupid shit then will froth at the mouth to defend their retarded purchases.
>>106550540They weren't buying a picture of an ape you fucking retard they were buying the promise of a better life that was offered to us through NFTs they were buying a project that would quadruple in value untill the naysayers and edge lords of the world said no. They said no you can't have wealth and then the rest of us smart investors suffered. We were offered infinite possibilities through a one of a kind non fungible algorithm but the WEF and naysayers said no
>>106550870People didn't stop to be stupid, anon.
>>106551142with lying abilities like that, you should concidere politics or influence mein nigga
>>106550987That video he did was great. Stochastic terrorism at its finest.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpH3O6mnZvw
>>106550792a girl I know lost 17k to this. A guy told her he'd make money creating NFTs together and she sent him thousands at a time to create them...
>>106550792The most baffling of this situation were celebrities who unintentionally rug pulled their audience. Hyped up their coin, it goes nowhere, the celebrity reaps their profit.
>>106551163Normalfaggots still don't know Milady started out as an anorexia child grooming cult.
>>106550540yes, because this ugly jpeg ape opens doors to vip clubs and parties, with actors, singers, sport celebrities, beautiful people...
>>106551239>beautiful people...India detected.
>>106551239So you're telling me if I buy a magic picture of a gorilla I'll be invited to parties full of successful people?
>>106551260thats what the brochure of the sect said
>>106551260dunno if you'll be, but that's why top models, soccer players and others did it
Nowadays they want you to invest all your bucks into what they call "Artificial Intelligence".Which really just is a fancy search engine.
>>106550992The current craze is AI, with the shovel-seller mainly being Nvidia. Actually training your own model isn't worth it, so your best bet is to either act as a middle-man leeching money off of API calls to someone else or, perhaps, just take something like DeepSeek and finding a cheap-enough data center you can run it out of and charge people to use it.The bubble's getting wobbly, though, so be careful you don't get stuck with the bag when it pops. 95% of AI orgs are making zero profit and existing at the mercy of investors.https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ai_report_2025.pdf
can someone justify why we don't use NFT's of some form for houses or cars?there can be thousands of dollars per car/house to verify and maintain proof of ownership, why is this technology not being utilized by local governments to satisfy this need?
>>106551397Proof of ownership for physical things? LMAO. Property can only be defended by force.
>>106551420defended yes, but how to prove it ?and like anon said, the most retarded and fucked up way we could do it is through nft
>>106551430Who the fuck cares? What you're asking for is a mechanism for enslavement and control. This shit only works in the digital world for specific use-cases.
>>106551443nop, ntf is trash and every one who relly on tech for anything like playing with fire,fire arms and an officials signatures by local authorities should be way more than enough to prove anything
>NFT
>>106550954You forgot grope interns, don't pay taxes and lick Putin's dick clean.I mean I like the guy, he really is a good actor and his no fucks given take on life is refreshing but he is no role model.
>>106551611the world is fucked, at least, lets go down with panache
>>106551186These jpeg monkeys showed up on Jimmy Fallon lmao
>>106551741>like ohhhh my god Jimmy you're so funnay!!!>audience roars in laughter>so is that like a.... monkey?????? he's got a cool hat, better style than most men i've met i mean am i roooiight?>Audience: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>106550540It wasn't even a jpeg, it was just an encrypted URL pointing to a jpeg. I wonder how many of those NFTs are still accessible, lmao.Imagine paying a million for this shit and it now points to a dead imgur link
>>106551847yu dun no nuffin' bout m ape yat klub bru mmm teln u wut i no u aint one of them in the crib u no w im sayin bro
>>106551847don't a lot of them point to IPFS links, though?
>>106551186>unintentionallysure goy everything is unintentionaltee-hee
>>106552063I don't think we have anything to base that assertion on.
>>106551186>unintentionallyLolehttps://beincrypto.com/porn-star-lana-rhoades-makes-off-with-1-5m-in-apparent-nft-scam/
>>106550792>>106550762it's not in the past, it's still going on. never stopped
>>106551333>fancy search engine.that also makes shit up on the spot
>>106550540>>106550762>the future of digital rights and ownership>a very energy intensive receiptGrifters used to get so mad when you pointed this out. They'd try and brainwash you with information about the crpyto tech but ignored the real issue was that the core idea was stupid>>106551142Is this meant to be a stereotype of MLM cope?
>>106550540Justin Bieber (Canadian Vaxxtard/Singer) paid 1.3M for his ape.
>>106553625https://pagesix.com/2022/01/31/justin-bieber-buys-bored-ape-nft-for-1-3m/
It just shows how desperate everyone is for innovation. They want the dot com bubble so badly. They'll turn any new technology into the 200x super stock just so they can make a buck. It happened with NFTs and it's happening with AI. When AI stops being hot they'll jump to something new.
>>106550792Investing is for idiots because the only thing these days that works is to find the dumbest investing trend and invest before the flood of retards starts investing, this the biggest idiots have the biggest advantage of idiot trend foresight. This is how Elon Musk became the richest man on Earth.
>>106554043I chuckled. But also I think you've cracked it anon.
>>106554043Musk was pretty smart with peddling electric cars and rockets to gullible retards but he is about 100 times poorer than the richest men on earth, monetarily speaking
>>106553823Quantum.
>>106550540Just yesterday somebody bought my unusual purple energy multiclass hat for 100 keys so, go figure.
>>106553001It's all wash trading trying to find the last gew greater fools. The scam gets less suckers than the nigerian prince at this point.
We're collectively so fucking dumb I'm amazed we've made it this far.
>>106551397Yes, we don't use it because most people are not as stupid as you are
>>106553595You don't even get the ownership of the art. All you get is the claim of what the URL points to... LOL
>>106554043>Not retarded enough to be billionaire
>>106550540funny to think Paris Hilton was on Jimmy Kimmel shilling this absolute scam
>>106550540>people still pay $114k for an imaginary and digital-only "currency"at least the NFT retards got something in return
>>106550540Call me a nigger, but I could never figure out exactly what made such retarded junk allegedly valuable. I can understand regular crypto if it's backed by something, but what was this all about?
It's money laundering, retard. Say you have undeclared bitcoins, your real self then can create an NFT, which you sell to "some anonymous guy online", pay extortion fee to the government and then you can spend your bitcoins on controlled goods without repercussions. Retards speculated on them because you can freely trade them.
>>106556578It's the zoomer version of modern art. There's no inherent value in this junk. It's all literal money laundering.
>>106550792Goyim are cattleMaybe the jews are right
>>106554269surprised i don't see this meme shilled much on bloomberg yet
>>106556624sotheby's was even sullying their brand by hawking nft shit, quite recently
>>106550835holy shit
>>106554269>>106556779quantum was just before NFTs and before that was early AI (like 2016 type complete nonsense image gen) so as much as i want something less boring before quantum bullshit comes back youre probably right
>>106550987>>106551012https://odysee.com/@UpperEchelonGamers:3/the-bored-ape-conspiracy-(theory)-a:4https://odysee.com/@UpperEchelonGamers:3/the-bored-ape-conspiracy-(theory)-a:4
>>106550540they paid $20k in the hope they could sell it for $21k
>>106551186I lost a ton of respect of Eminem for this. You know, the top selling artists of all time if you ignore 60s/70s boomers? Yeah him. I can't imagine how many of his fans got totally fucked for his scumbag monkey business. Him and Snoop Dogg (king jew) even had a fake beef so they could come back with a forgettable monkey NFT themed song.
>>106557596He purchased a NFT for half a mil, he's a retard, too.
>>106556779>>106557001This IS the time. This IS the moment.>what moment?You are being given, unironically, THE answer on a silver platter. You keep missing the train, the hype cycle, somehow "They" always beat you and make a massive 4000% return on their investment, but how, HOW?? How do they know? How did they do it?Well my friend, you need to start scooping up Quantum investments RIGHT FUCKING NOW. I don't need anything from you, in fact I'm not even saying you have to, and you better believe I'm not gonna direct you to a specific stock ticker because when it hits, they will ALL go up. Just like the AI craze.Is it bullshit? OF COURSE IT'S BULLSHIT, IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN. But that's when you sell when you hit that nice 4000% return.>how did they know how did they knowWell now you know. This IS the next grift. START SELLING THOSE SHOVELS TO THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH MANIACS!!!!
>>106557596>I lost a ton of respect of Eminem for thisNigger worship is disgusting.
>>106550540>the same people mocking this and calling it out as an obvious scam are out and about shilling aislop with no self-awareness
>>106557920But AI is the Current Thing! Current thing current thing, isn't current thing the current thing? Very current.
>>106557788Eminem is different.
>>106551397It could be used for that but I don't think there generally are issues regarding ownership of houses. We already know who owns which houses with the current contract system so there hasn't been a push to switch to NFTs or other solutions.
>>106551397nigger its like 30$ a year to renew your license and registration
I really wished the locust didn't move onto AI. Compared to crypto it's actually a promising technology but it's completely and utterly tainted by the same kind of grifters
>>106558082"AI" always has been and always will be just "natural language processing" and markov chains and has already been solved for decades. it is not useful, it will never be useful, much like crypto which has been around since the 70s and only enjoys being a financial instrument because today EVERYTHING is a financial instrument
>>106558098>because today EVERYTHING is a financial instrumentHell yeah. Especially Pokemon cards. God I love it when people get mad and call me a scalper. I guess I'll keep on scalping and enjoy my $50,000 in profit from this year alone. Get filtered, nerds.
>>106558144i cant wait for pokemon card prices to crash as people realize that no one is actually buying them for any reason other than scalping themno one fucking plays pokemon nor things Hisuan Typhlosion is worth anything other than fap fodder or will be a "collector's item" down the line. truly pokemon cards are just beanie babies but for zoomers (even labubus are fashion items at least)
>>106550903no thats BLM
>>106551430bullets
>>106550792retards bought it because they thought other retards would want buy it for even more money and they could make it a profit but without realizing the second type of retard didn't actually exist
>there are people on /g/ that didn't make some shitty generated jpgs and flog them for over 100k to chumpsI can understand missing the crypto boom but missing the NFT boom is doubly retarded.
>>106550540>>3 years ago people were justifying paying $20,000 for a jpeg of an apeanon don't google how much pokemon card cost
>>106550540>3 years ago people were justifying paying $20,000 for a jpeg of an apeOP...pokemon cards were that expensive before you was born...NFT weren't the first "OMG WHAT WHY PEOPLE PAYING THAT MUCH" thing
>>106559601The ones in your pic are special limited cards with a very low population that were given at specific events and occasions.This >>106559577 is a free promo card that was scalped by chinks and now it's at 25$ (still too much), has a trillion copies, probably thousands graded 10 (worth a few hundreds, still too much), and that specific example is a fake sale of some seller selling to himself to hype a black label that is the same as a PSA10 but 10x more scam.
>>106559601i feel like historically the first truly retarded one was tulips, but the most egregious "modern but not this year" one was beanie babies
>>106559601>dumbass is actually comparing a limited edition physical asset to a virtual photo a monkey anyone can copy with a right clickyou're a retarded gorilla monkey
>>106551163Are you joking? This video is schizophrenic nonsense. He wilfully mistakes a "monkey's paw" (something that almost everyone knows about and is an easy reference to monkeys) to a "monkey's hand" and congolese slavery? And that's just a low hanging fruit example. I don't give a fuck about BAYC or NFTs but this dude needs to take his meds asap.
>>106551163>>106550987literally troon schizo shitwatching that video made my realize all leftsist are fucking insane
There were people trying to sell 4chan memes as NFTs.
>>106559977>>106560181But the rest of the coincidences were spot on though.
>>106550835holy kek
>>106560518no they werentnot a single thing in that video makes any sense>heres an image>heres a diffrent image>if you squint they kind of look similar, ok, not really, but they both use white color>heres a word>if you add some leters, then remove some letters, it spells hitlertier logici wont even get into the fact both Greg Solan and Wylie Aronow being jews
>>106551333>>106553037>that also makes shit up on the spotthis, whilst giving you 4 paragraphs why the shit it pulled out its ass is 100% accurate. Its annoying as fuck. And then there is also broken record mode where it tells you to perform the exact same incorrect steps like its going to magically fix somethingSometimes it really is just easier to google but of course google not only added a shitty AI to their search engine but also now gives you the shitty results first just in case you dont use adblock so you have ads to scroll past
