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Re:Why would anyone spend millions on what's essentially a l... by ALittleLight on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:27PM (#26495036)
Beeple isn't completely unknown, but even now he has only a few hundred thousand followers on twitter. If you look on Google trends you can see the search interest in Beeple, prior to the NFT thing, was substantially less than for relatively unpopular things like pogs or zip drives.

Given that pogs are 2-3 times as popular as Beeple, would you expect that if the inventor of pogs started selling an image of the first slammer as an NFT that it would sell for at least 70 million too?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2021-01-01%202...

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Re:Why would anyone spend millions on what's essentially a l... by arisAlexis on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @04:51PM (#26496642)
No I don't think so because being first always pays more. Beeple was the first on Christie's and that's it. Some people were first in North Pole and the people after them were not as important. Basic stuff in my opinion. It just weird people out but again as I said, art is weird for the uninitiated (me included).
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