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The World Knows Her as Disaster Girl She Sold an NFT of Her Meme for $500,000
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The world knows her as Disaster Girl She sold an NFT of her meme for $500,000
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Roth, then 4, was wandering around her North Carolina neighborhood when her father took a picture of her flashing a sly smile while firefighters put out a house fire. While she may not be an arsonist or a pyromaniac, that soon became her alter ego.
The image turned into a popular meme re-shared millions of times over the last decade, but the family never found a way to make money off Roth s internet infamy until it was suggested that she sell the original image as a non-fungible token (NFT). Being able to sell it just shows us that we do have some sort of control, some sort of agency in the whole process, Roth said, speaking to the Raleigh News and Observer.
“Disaster Girl cashes in.
Zoe Roth, who has been a meme since childhood, sold the image as an NFT for 180 Ethereum that s equivalent to about $473,000 to @3fmusic. pic.twitter.com/xRj0AKULlS The Recount (@therecount) April 28, 2021
Once she placed the NFT online, on April 16, an auction commenced. With just minutes to go before it ended, the highest bid was about $25,000, but every bid that came within the final 15 minutes extended the auction by 15 minutes.
“Being able to sell it just shows us that we do have some sort of control, some sort of agency in the whole process,” Roth said. “Nobody who is a meme tried to do that, it just ended up that way. Is it luck? Is it fate? I have no idea. But I will take it.
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