Disaster Girl sells meme as NFT for more than $700,000: How the internet s celebrities are cashing in
Did you miss the boat on cryptocurrency? No worry â there s an even more confusing internet trend that is now making some of the most recognised faces in the world richer than ever before.
They re called Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, and essentially function as a way to attribute ownership to images and assets that are widely shared on the internet.
The Disaster Girl image has been sold as an NFT for over $700,000.(Supplied)
Pictured as a four-year-old smiling in front of a burning house, the meme quickly became a popular online way of describing one enjoying the chaos of a bad situation.
The Straits Times Disaster Girl sold NFT of her meme for $660,000
Ms Zoe Roth has sold the original copy of her meme as a non-fungible token for nearly $660,000.PHOTO: NYTIMES
PublishedApr 30, 2021, 11:31 am SGT
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Disaster Girl Meme NFT Sold $500,000 for Real!
If you know your way around internet memes, then you must have seen the Disaster Girl at least once in your life. This meme officially just sold for $500,000 as an NFT online
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If you know your way around internet memes, then you must have seen the Disaster Girl at least once in your life. This meme officially just sold for $500,000 as an NFT online!
Zoë Roth is best known for her Disaster Girl meme, featuring an image of her younger self smirking at the camera while a house burns down in the background.
Zoe Roth Takes Ownership of Disaster Girl Meme, Sells as NFT for 180 Ether
7 hours ago by Ibukun Ogundare · 3 min read
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The “Disaster Girl” plans to pay off student loans with the raised fund and to donate to charity.
Zoe Roth, the “Disaster Girl,” has generated nearly half a million from her popular meme, which was recently sold as a non-fungible token (NFT). Zoe sold her viral meme for $180 Ether. At the time of the auction, the sale was worth $430,000.
Zoe’s picture, taken in the front of a burning house in her neighborhood, was published in 2008. Her father, Dave, took the picture in 2015, showing Zoe with a devilish smirk in front of the burning building. After the picture was published, it triggered comments among internet users, becoming one of the most recognized images of the 21st century. The image then became a popular meme on social media and has been re-shared millions of times in th
Zoë Roth, the face behind the popular “Disaster Girl” meme from 2005, has capitalized on the NFT trend by selling the tokenized original copy of the meme for nearly $500,000.
What Happened: According to a report from the New York Times, Roth’s NFT sold at an auction on April 17 for 180 Ether which amounts to a little over $500,000 at the time of writing.
The buyer was a Dubai-based music studio, 3F Music, which has acquired several high-value meme-NFTs of late, including “Overly Attached Girlfriend” for $411,000.
“Our management team is always in cooperation with some highly knowledgeable and experienced art advisers who believe that we must grow with technological movements that help us to not only promote our business but also to support artists and the art market,” said 3F Music in a statement to the New York Times.