I usedto think Gary V was a pretty smart dude, back when I used to watch him during his early wine library tv days, I bought into his hustle mentality and up to some point he was the catalyst to push myself to become a professional and study a career. After years of watching his videos and seeing him grow in his advertising company he started pushing sneaker buy and resale (basically scalping) and buying and selling Pokémon cards and was confused but figured “to each their own I guess”, shortly after he started pushing crypto and then NFTs and at that point I lost all respect for this dude because he’s either an idiot and has been lucky all this time, or he’s fucking scamming his followers in some sort of pump and dump scheme and stopped following him everywhere.

Honestly they can keep their pictures. Almost all NFTs are ugly and not worth the space on my hdd.

Why do NFT bros even care that you download an NFT if the token is still theirs on the blockchain. Isn’t that the whole point of the NFT?

One thing I don’t get: How were people convinced that an entry in a blockchain somehow results in ownership. People understand ownership and its limits: They lock their bikes when they leave them somewhere, because if there is no enforcement you can lose property. The NFT scammers never mentioned enforcement once, yet somehow you “owned” some ape picture. How did that happen?

God, and to imagine that people were serious about that shit. I mean, the people not using it for money laundering and scams

I can just see Oprah going, “and now you own it! And now you own it! And now you own it!”

Quoting a podcast: “So you’re saying I own this jpeg but anyone else can still download it and do anything they want with it? Bruh, NFTs are just jpeg NTR”

Nfts are not simply images on the blockchain. The technology is not a scam even if scammers use one aspect of it to sell pixels for ridiculous sums of money

But please, don’t let me stand in the way of a misinformed circlejerk