Nobody cares if you download their NFT, it is a joke on crypto twitter

The people getting angry if you tweet at them using their “special” NFT profile picture suggest otherwise.

*the minority of people

Nobody cares.

There is more value in being the owner of the thing everyone has, than the thing no one has.

Keep right clicking, we love it.

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/156418/my-collectible-ass/

> There is more value in being the owner of the thing everyone has

Everybody has a Yankees logo on hat or on a cup or a scarf somewhere.

Small detail is that everybody who does has to pay royalties to the Yankees and as a consequene to Yankees' owners : the Steinbrenner family.

What you claim the NFT crowd is enthusiast about is basically what Gucci, Ray-Ban, LVHM and all the other luxury brands have been fighting for ages now.

Chinese copies not paying any royalties selling on the street for 5$ whereas the original sells for 5000$.

Luxury brands fight it with lawsuits and holograms, whereas the NFT crowd aims to fight it with blockchain.

But images are images and outside the lunatics of the NFT community if I right click a cool piece of art and show it to somebody, they'd reply that it's cool and would not ask for proof of ownership. The thing being on my computer or on my wall is all the proof of ownership they need before complimenting me . Very much like people would compliment my 5$ Ray-Ban shades and my GF 25$ LV handbag and nobody is going to check the hologram on either

The “owner” part is the issue though. The NFT owner's is just that: they own the NFT and nothing else. There can be infinitely many NFT pointing to the same art asset.

as in, there's been a few examples on Twitter maybe and people love to pretend that everyone thinks like that because they like to feel superior.

I'm immersed in this world all day and I've never seen this happen. I've never seen them do anything but laugh about it.