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Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after... by tailspin2019 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @03:04PM (#27280981)
NFTs are like the modern day equivalent of Tracy Emin’s unmade bed [0]

It’s funny to think back at how many people were horrified about that being considered “art” at the time.

Compared to {what I see as} the complete lack of *actual value* in some of these high profile NFTs, I’d say that bed now looks like the highest of high art.

I appreciate I might be missing something, but I do not understand one bit of the psychology behind NFT sales like this. I don’t understand where even the perceived value is.

Unless it was bought by that guy that refused to sit in the front of his Tesla, perhaps to watch on his headrest display while streaming the cops chasing him…

[0] https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-my-bed-l03662

Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after... by 1cvmask on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @06:36PM (#27283625)
And how about Duchamp’s Fountain and Piero Manzoni’s Artist’s Shit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit

Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after... by B1FF_PSUVM on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @06:54PM (#27283815)
Truly, it goes back quite some way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece

And that's what we have on record today.

I can imagine some hominid tribe prized the perfectly straight banana, or whatever, beyond belief.