Published Apr 30, 2021 Updated May 3, 2021, 10:40 am CDT
Zoë Roth, the 21-year-old college senior whose younger self is at the center of the Disaster Girl meme, sold the photo as a non-fungible token (NFT) to help pay off her student loans. Featured Video Hide
In 2005, Roth was just 4 when her father, Dave Roth, photographed her smiling in front of a controlled fire in their North Carolina neighborhood. Dave Roth had won a photo contest with the photo in 2007, and in the years since, the photo of Roth has become so ubiquitous that it’s often Photoshopped into photos of other disasters or used as a shorthand.
‘Disaster Girl’ Makes Nearly Half Million Dollars Published by GulteDesk April 28, 2021
A young girl smiling in a cunning manner as a house burns down behind her, is one of the popular memes on social media. Now the young girl Zoe Roth, in the meme made $430K dollars with that photo.
Zoe Roth was four when her dad took the picture in January 2005 and entered it into JPG Magazine’s ‘Emotion Capture’ contest and then quickly became the favorite meme of many. Roth is now 21 and is a senior at the University of North Carolina. She recently sold an NFT (Non-fungible token) of her original image for $430,000.
NFT Craze Heightens As ‘Disaster Girl’ Meme Sells For Over $430K
Last Updated: 28 April 2021
It seems meme owners are now embracing the Non-fungible tokens (NFT) industry more as a meme dubbed ‘Disaster girl’ just sold for $430,000 in an auction.
Meme Gets Sold For 180 ETH
The Disaster girl meme, which features a four-year-old girl smiling slyly into a camera as a house burns down behind her, sold after it was listed on April 16 for a 24-hour auction.
The 24-hour auction for the NFT yielded nearly $458,000 or 180 ETH (Ethereum) after multiple biddings.
The image of the Disaster girl named Zoe Roth, who is now aged 21, went viral after it was taken in 2005 by her father.
Published April 28, 2021
Zoe Roth, the girl who became an internet meme thanks to a photo of her in front of a burning building, has just sold her meme as an NFT, and has made a hefty couple of dollarydoos for it too.
Roth, now aged 21, was only 4 years old when her photo became a viral meme sensation. The meme was aptly titled ‘Disaster Girl’, and features Roth giving a sly smirk in front of her North Carolina home as it’s burning down in flames. It sounds wild, but hey, it’s an iconic pic, and 2005 was a very different time.
La niña del meme Disaster Girl ha conseguido recuperar su propiedad y ganar dinero gracias a los NFT gizmodo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gizmodo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.