NFTs made me dislike humanity more as a whole. A large percentage of influencers were using them to scam the public.
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2025
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tfw what you purchased was not an ape, nor an image of an ape, but a claim to a link to an image of an ape
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Probably should have just downloaded the image.
This is such an obvious thing to happen, I can't spend a hundred bucks without looking into it, let alone a million
:cassandra-flummoxed:
> trend has obvious flaw
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> flaw leads to inevitable conclusion
> surprise
They weren’t putting the image’s base64 encode on the blockchain or something like that? Just a URL?
yes. It's too expensive to put the actual image on the blockchain so they just put the urls
immutable ledger my ass
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Yep people were clowning on it from day 1 for this exact reason
Well, among other reasons you could also put exactly the same image onto the chain as often as you wanted because there's no actual relationship between the NFT functionality and whatever it was linking to or defining.
Moxie Marlinespike had a good bit where he sold nfts that would change to the poop emoji
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I want them to sue and be ruled against because the URL to the dead jpg still exists.
Legally you only own an entry in a distributed ledger that contains the value "https://dumbassclub.scam/18e67ddf-8469-404c-9820-0eab4631c905.jpg".
It's not even really clear if you own that much. What rights would ownership of an entry in a ledger even confer?
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This is just like when my parents sold my beanie babies at a garage sale. Had my shit all figured out. The babies. Pokemon cards. I was gonna live large but look at me now
Pokemon cards are still out there selling for obscene amounts of money. Beanie babies, not so much.
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E) also, underrated subtle detail is the ex-husband representing himself vs the ex-wife who hired a lawyer for the "divvying up the stuffies" civil case
Maple the bear was the first to go
One of the worst #1 picks of all time. Like when the Clippers took Michael Olowokandi over Vince Carter, Dirk Nowitzki, and Paul Pierce in '98
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This is one of the funniest things this site has shown me
I been keeping this one in my back pocket for years :smuglord:
If I were that judge I would quit on the spot. It would send me into an existential crisis about what this society is and how many years of education and training were undertaken for this moment.
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You see any of those videos where adult children were storming costcos to fight over a pallet of cards? Just omg living in this country is a daily humiliation ritual
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Right click --> save enjoyers vindicated again
Now that they don't exist, the law of supply and demand demands that my NFTs are infinitely valuable
I was having a bad until I read this post
They got funged
Even if you did the good old "right-click, save" trick them as the owner and you still have your image on your hard-drive, if the link is dead then you can't prove that your specific image of a baboon's ass is linked into that nft that is supposed to be worth X amounts of fiat.
Oh, this person is genuinely sad about this and big into crypto and username is literally NFT “PicturesOnBlockchain”. The cognitive dissonance has not hit them that the whole thing is a grift and this isn’t a single solitary unfortunate incident.
Should have used the slurp juice smh
most logical economic system
Such a simpler time. When a Paris Hilton could go on Jimmy Fallon and show him her ape. It aged like bejeweled Von Dutch trucker hats.
Those things have the possibility of coming back, unlike a deleted jpg
They also provide shade unlike a jpg
Not if I downloaded it first…
rare
wym "rare" you can literally reupload the same picture into a new NFT
hey its the thing that was extremely obviously going to happen happening
push me to the ETH
all my apes are dead