Remember the “Disaster Girl” photo? The one that sparked a thousand memes? Well, that meme is the latest to make it big all over again, this time as an
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Everydays The First 5000 Days by Beeple (graphic designer Mike Winkelmann) was sold to Singapore-based technopreneur Vignesh Sundaresan at a Christie’s auction for $69.3 million worth of the crypto-currency Ether. The South Carolina graphic designer and motion artist creates a picture every single day for 5,000 days 13 years creating the first purely digital artwork to be auctioned by a major auction house. MAKERSPLACE.COM/BEEPLE
IN MARCH 2021, a collage of images called
Everydays The First 5000 Days by Beeple (graphic designer Mike Winkelmann) was sold to Singapore-based technopreneur Vignesh Sundaresan at a Christie’s auction for $69.3 million worth of the crypto-currency Ether. The sale positioned Beeple as among the top three most valuable living artists, after English painter David Hockney and American sculptor Jeff Koons.
Zoe, who is now a university student, decided to sell the picture as a Non-Fungible Token, which have become a craze in digital art during the pandemic.
Zoe Roth, Face behind the “Disaster Girl” Meme, Sells Meme for $500,000 in Online Auction By Pablo Luna / Saturday, 01 May 2021 06:57PM
Zoe Roth, a 21-year-old girl whose photo as a 4-year-old child has taken the internet as a meme storm has earned $500,000 from the sale of the photo. The photo which has come to be known as the “Disaster Girl” shows Zoe grinning at a camera in front of a burning house.
Although the meme has gained notoriety worldwide, and it has been modified several times to portray suffering and disaster, no one knows the name of the 4-year-old girl in the photo until the recent auctioning that fetched half a million dollars.