I realize I should probably make a pinned tweet like all the cool kidz, so uh, I draw, follow Halo accounts, and some other neat stuff. Art below I guess
'why the fuck would anyone pay for a receipt?'
because it's a scam. they want you to think the receipt is valuable because it's the only one in existence, and you can resell it for more than you bought it for.
'who the hell is buying receipts?!?'
the people running the scam
oh I forgot
a lot of the time the artist may not even know their art is hanging in the gallery and didn't consent to having planet-destroying receipts made of the 'sale' of their art
this is what an NFT is.
I walk into a gallery and ask to buy an NFT of a painting.
I pay the asking price and they print a fancy receipt and give it to me. also the receipt printer uses more electricity than a small town.
they keep the painting. I just get the receipt.
common thing I'm seeing:
person A: doesn't know what an NFT is
looks it up, reads accurate description
A: that can't be right, that sounds like complete bullshit. I must be missing something.
dear reader: you are not. it is bullshit.
Whenever I see people talking about the “skyrocketing” rates of people saying that they’re trans, I think of this chart. They used to punish children for being left-handed and force them to write with their right hand. Guess what happened after that stopped?