RANT - Why NFT Cartoons are a SCAM
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The NFT trend is a scummy plague and it's infecting everything. It needs to STOP
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It just keeps getting worse
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Iâd rather trade my phone than an NFT
If you want real art, ask people for art commissions and support your favorite artist because youâre helping the culture. Say no to NFTS
@oh no nah Iâll pass
If you want your fursona drawn just ask a furry artist
I'm so happy whenever ppl commission me đ like, having a suspiciously wealthy furry as a regular customer is so much more worth than any NFT ever will be.
THANK you for defending us artists everywhere
Most of the time..its genuine and definitely cheaper than some of the NFTs. Of course its custom made as well
NFT's in general are scams, just another way to launder money.
1 minute and there's already bots...
@Silviaa who cares?
@mr nobody ky
@mr nobody so are you lol
@@mayateeemm5728 Thereâs infighting⊠These bots are more effective in recognising each other then CZcams is.
I remember I went to Comicon once. Only time I've ever gone. Ran into an anime fanartist selling Broly art he drew/painted himself. But he didn't have any art of classic Broly. So me and my brother commissioned him, and two weeks later we got a gift for my brother. Cost us I think $20, and it looks fantastic. You won't find it anywhere except hanging in my little brother's room. That art is very special, since it's personal. We even got a thank you email from the artist who made it thanking us for commissioning him to make it, since it challenged him to make something a bit different, and still unique.
NFTs cannot, and will never have that same level of personality and value that our $20 painting will have. And it will stay that way forever.
Thatâs an awesome story, friend! Makes me want to further support local artists!!
I also like that when The Red Ape Family cartoon came out some guy involved in it tweeted something like "This is truly something great, it's a better pilot than Family Guy" and as someone who hates Family Guy, HOW DARE YOU say that about Family Guy.
They set themselves a bar so low it sits on the ground. Then proceeded to dig underneath and triumphantly conga line their way to failure.
I'm in art school right now and any time NFT's are brought up, my classmates burst in laughter or complain that a family member told them they should get into them. Literally the entire next generation of artists I know are against NFT's
That's encouraging to hear.
Good.
I'm also in art school and all of us are against NFTs. We are going to make a living out of it (some want to be actors; some want to paint, draw or sculpt; some want to compose; etc.) and DAMN if I told you how much I hate NFTs.
Same kinda happened to me a month agođ
My friends dad said i should get into NFTs and we both yelled "NO". It
Was funny because they probably didnt see all the negatives and just heard about how "successful" it is, so i wasnt mad, but honestly yeah barely any new gen artist like nfts in the slightest.
omfg, this. my parents are telling me to get into NFT and I just die inside as I don't feel like arguing with them about something so uncertain as this NFT bs thing.
Buying an NFT is like that episode of The Amazing World of Gumball when Richard explains that he spent his life savings on a star certificate.
Whatâs sad is that âbuy a starâ organizations were a very real thing not too long ago, and were exactly that
@@alexsiemers7898 Imagine when we do invent interstellar travel, those old certificates actually entitle you to ownership of a star system.
@@lionsoldier1179 would be hilarious with al the joke names
More apt comparison.
Owning an nft is like having a marriage certificate but everyone is sleeping with your other
@@rokusho6667 NFT ownership = being a cuck. Hmm, not sure that's 100% accurate, but it's close enough and I'll defend this comparison to the death.
4:38 There was an artist who was dying of a serious illness, and they made beautiful drawings of their experience. They later passed away, and some guy just took her art and made it into an NFT. đ
I've heard about this before and it makes me, oh so furious about it. At the end of the day that person who sold her art as nfts is seriously going to burn in hell.
EtikaPunks much -.-
What the fuck
What the actual fuck is wrong with people, whoever fucking turns art made from someone who died into an NFT deserves to get beat up mercilessly.
Man that sucks
"NFTs can help you support your favorite artists!!" Art commissions, prints, art workshops, art instruction videos, merchandise, and lots of other ways to support artists work just fine. Plus, they don't encourage art theft.
"NFTs can be used to verify your ownership of a car!!". Ever heard of a car title, VIN, or license plate? Those (legal) methods of car ownership exist.
"NFTs can be used to verify your ownership of an item you bought from a store, sports tickets, etc!!" Receipts work just fine. Plus, you can text or email them to yourself, too if you lose the paper receipt.
"NFTs can be used to verify your ownership of a piece of real estate!!". Purchase and sale contract. Look it up.
In short, NFTs are pointless.
NFTs are just pump-and-dump scams. They hype it up to others to make them seem like they are worth of big money (that they rly arent).
@@GenetMJF They can be sold for big money if you're the 0.00000001% of investors who has the money to buy it from yourself for $1 million or sell it to some celeb you know personally.
Everyone else just flushes their money down the toilet.
literally everything cryptobros pitch already exists or would make things worse. NFTs in games would just be more expensive loot boxes, paid to play is literally just capitalism and the flaws it has made even more apparent.
NFTs and nft bros are just another layer of capitalism that tries to make scarcity happen where it doesn't exist or needs to. Imagine if memes become "minted" and you need to buy a license to share it.
@@KenanTheFab The best part is when these types insist that there must be use-cases for NFTs and that some Einstein will figure it out some day. That always cracks me up.
I'm thinking, "If you're desperately trying to figure out a purpose for a product that you released because its price and sales revenue have plummeted, then either it didn't have a purpose to start with or it failed miserably to fulfill that purpose."
@@TheDr502 buying it from yourself? so⊠money laundering?
NFTs are an insult to art itself. It reduces art from something creative to a mere currency, and is built upon scams to steal said currency while luring artists into it promising them a career. It's so scummy.
NFTs are not only an insult to art but an insult to poor people. These people throw their money away on funny monke picture while some people would do anything for that money. Not to mention they are trying to literally trying to claim an island nation. Truly trashy
â@@hostomelhorsehoarder I don't see how or why people spending their money on things they want (even if its stupid) is an insult to poor people. Do you consider it an insult to poor people when you purchase junk food, PC parts, video games, etc that you don't need? NFTs are stupid, but people have spent their money on dumb things before.
@@PilotTed everything else you listed has a purpose. Junk food can be eaten and add joy to bad days, pc parts help your pc run better, and video games provide entertainment. Everything of those, though unneeded for survival technically, provide something, nfts dont
lotta falsehoods here
@@krimpfugly prove it
The whole "it helps artists" thing is so hilariously false at this point solely because you either have your art stolen by a third party and minted with your only recourse being either DMCA striking the image or privatizing your gallery, or you become ostracized for participating in a technology that's both destructive to the environment and heavily steeped in unrestricted greed
Not to mention it takes over a hundred dollars to mint an NFT, and if you aren't in on some kind of grift, you'll never sell one for that amount. An artist attempting to mint their entire collection would be thousands in the hole. NFT's only "protect" art from theft in the same way the Mafia "protects" stores from arson.
Apparently the artists behind bored apes and lazy lions weren't even fully paid for the original commissions to begin with.
i just litterly had a little textwall rageout speaking about exactly that before reading ur comment, feels good there likeminded (i mean the what it means for artists&and licenses not the eviroment part as i cant judge that yet)
Yup, literally the most expensive watermarks in human history.
Yeah, art theft was always a problem. But now people can get PAID for art theft, while the original artists don't get a dime from that.
Someone please explain to me how that helps the artist in any way. Cuz I only see that benefitting the thief.
Thing about it is that even if they start making âgoodâ NFT cartoons, it still wonât make NFTs good because the whole idea of manufacturing scarcity is ridiculous and bad for the creative community.
Aside from the art theft, exploitation of dead artists, and environmental impact, you know what hurts the most? That THIS bullshit is what kicked people in the pants to animate random shit. Like Stoner Cats? If that was a kickstarter or a youtube project? Man I'd have fun watching it, the art is cute!
Even the fucking... Red Ape Family. If some goofy amateur animator made something that looked like that and put it on youtube, I would think to myself "hey this doesn't visually look great but holy shit some person put hear and time into this and I commend them." But no it's a cashgrab for rich fuckwits! THAT'S WHAT GETS PEOPLE TO INDEPENDENTLY ANIMATE I GUESS!!
"If that was a kickstarter or a youtube project? Man I'd have fun watching it, the art is cute!"
I doubt it'd even get to 10% of the funds needed to even consider pitching a pilot. Good animation is expensive, risky, and ultimately premium. CZcams's ad revenue system is hostile to how animators work, and it's value to coporate is very thin (basically, the animation industry and no more). There's virtually zero way to grassroots such a project without you yourself just spending ungodly amounts of time doing it yourself, because you sure can't pay a team.
It's a rough industry, and attempts to automate this so solo animation is financially feasible is still in its infancy (in fact, it's cutting edge computer science ATM).
@@raze2012_ Sure it's hard, but not impossible! And animators on youtube often team up to make projects, I know of several in the works and several that have been done before. Even solo ones. They're labors of love, not for profit most of the time. They do exist though!
I wish it was better for animators, though. I really, really do.
Someone made technoblade nfts I donât know why
Here is a fun fact: The NFT bubble has gotten so out of control that the inventor of NFTs, Anil Dash, _has disowned them._ It is so bad that even the guy who first invented them hates them!
y'know if he wanted to redeem himself (more so than he has by disowning this glorified ponzi scheme) he COULD create anti-nft tech
@oh no what does that have to do with anything?
@@thenerdbeast7375 It's a bot.
It sounds like the guy who made pop up ads. He too hates what he created.
@@zaynedickens2450 I feel bad for him, he had no way of knowing that in 2022 we would have to click so many things (cookies, close ads, don't allow notifications, etc) before entering a webpage
As a small artist on DeviantArt who needs money. I would still avoid NFT to keep my reputation clean.
I'm a digital artist (also do traditional) and so glad you are talking about this topic. The amount of those damn NFT bros message me to make art for them is too high to count. Once I heard about this, I knew this thing was never about the Artist. Reminds me of those people who purchases art for the millions. Its just laundering, but they making it sound fancy.
Yeah, this all seems like some kind of major fraud going on! Lots of people are cashing in while people are still trying to figure out what fungible means in order for something to be non-fungible.
A job came to me and asked if I can do NFT and I denied them. I wouldnât mind if it was safeâŠ
@@hirahiro2331 It just doesn't even sound pleasing to me. The mere existence of crypto and nfts is nothing more than a business. No one will be appreciating the art cause it's good, they'll appreciate it because "oh wow it's one of them new fangled nfts"
May I also add: No, 99% of artists see no opportunities or value in this trash, in fact many are closing down their online galleries because of rampant theft and minting, and others, even total amateurs, are forced to create entire agreements with anti-NFT clauses which discourages both ends and makes it more difficult to take commissions. If they want to spend thousands of bucks on unique personalized art, commisions have always been there.
It could be useful in the future (don't see how though at the moment). Your right though this "technology" has little to none usefulness. The community is plagued by scammers, theft, malicious practices and etcetera. The average consensus is everyone hate it rightful so for the reasons I stated and more. When the reputation of your "technology" is this bad you think you want to distance yourself or something but literally only the creator has done that. Honestly with all that going for it unless there's a massive clean up in the NFT space I see no future with NFT'S. (It sad though since it was created with good intentions but got corrupted easily)
Damn, as someone about to get into making commissions, I never even considered anti-NFT clauses. This is giving me a headache and wish NFTs were never a thing to begin with (I had a bad feeling about the whole thing even when it was used legitimately by proper artists last year).
NFTs are like cheese. Sure, there are some meals where cheese adds to the taste, but that doesn't mean I want liquid hot cheese to be pressure-blasted at everyone from large power hoses mounted on large tanker-trucks.
@@spiderace7994 NFTs will probably never be good unless you get rid of the cryptobros' main point which is decentralization. All the stolen art and scams can never be deleted if it's turned into NFTs unless it's not decentralized but I think that'll just turn NFTs into FTs so might as well just use other services that monetize works
The most popular ones like BAYC and Cryptopunks are algorithmically generated, they're not even art.
The stoner cat thing is super interesting đ€ so the cartoon is exclusive and builds a community... everything else is đ€ą
Hi shugurr
I sniff Gorilla Glue.
Hi shugrr đ„°
shgurr you are amazing
I believe there is a small game being backed by NFTs but they might have limited the amount of investors to keep it exclusives.
Sadly, there are copy cats doing it without even having a CONCEPT for the game. "Once we get funded we will brainstorm it!" Like omg
This is honestly kind of terrifying. From what Iâve read in the comments, it seems like literally ANY piece of digital art nowadays can be stolen and sold as an NFT. Even if a small group of people animates something and it takes a few months to painstakingly make and polish the content, all itâd take is for one person who saw it to put it on what is basically the intellectual property black market and make potential MILLIONS off of it without doing any work themselves!
Itâs insulting. Itâs disgusting. Itâs scary. It's amoral.
But think about it this way - those of us who arenât as well off and can see NFTs for what they truly are know how to avoid them and can simply laugh as the idiot elite bring everything crashing down.
The night is always darkest before the dawn.
I remember once my mom sent me a video called "How to make NFT's and sell them." since she knows I make art, I told her and my dad about how bad NFT's are and why we shouldn't support them, I'm really glad they understood how bad they were and didn't just yell at me.
whats annoying about this whole nft cartoon diboacle is that there are actual cartoons made on the internet made by smaller creators that are not even getting HALF the recognition of these cartoons. these need to stop.
Ikr? You immediately made me think of helluva
So, it's taking advantage of the stupid. And it's a shame because they think, because someone is getting rich, that it's good.
It's like gambling. 100 people play, 1 person wins 50% of the pay in as the pot and then the organizer keeps 50% of that money.
Except, in this case, it's literal laundering. People are putting value into these so that it can't be traced, can't be taxed and if they're not outright stealing the art, they're paying stupid kids like the Baluga whale artist (I mean, come on, her art's pretty shit) millions so that they can transfer MORE millions to other people without it being recorded by the government or taxed.
Further to the scam, because of the amount they put in, other people believe there's more value so they put in more money. It's like the trick with strippers who put in $5's and $10's into their outfit to make other people think they need to pay $5's and $10's instead of $1's. Now that they invested a little to make it seem valuable, these idiots are putting a lot of money on these images and what do the 'organizers' do? Immediately cash out.
And that's the same thing with Crypto. And I'm tired of seeing smug shits going "you just don't get it" Oh no, I get it more than you
They're so cultlike. "It's bridging the gap between the haves and the have nots" No, you're just the new 'haves'. Everyone else joining crypto is the have nots and will stay that way. Again, 100 people play, 1 person wins, and since they won, they seem to not attribute it to being in the lucky position to win, that it's an actual business model.
And I shit you not, one of the top crypto farmers in the world described how it works like this
"You use energy to create heat. That heat makes your computer solve math problems, for each math problem you solve, you work your way up to earning a bit coin. Solve enough, you get a block chain, which gives you more bit coins. THE VALUE OF BIT COINS IS SAFE BECAUSE THERE CAN ONLY BE SO MANY AND NO MORE WILL BE MADE" Note so far that contradictory statement, you make bit coins, but there can be no more bitcoins? Huh.
When asked what do these math problems do, instead of knowing what real value it has just says "Creates heat"... ya know when we already have a global warming environmental problem, there is no VALUE in creating heat.
Now, once upon a time, the value crypto farming had was tied into things like banks not wanting to pay for a server so the 'math' was using your computer as a server to do the computations of tons of bank transactions so they were paying to rent your computer to do this. This has since been illegal in the USA so this whole 'heat' thing is just them being scammed.
And those cartoons are for free too.
Just so's ya knows, it's spelled "debacle". Hope that helps.
â@@dragames That "top crypto farmer" must have been a blithering buffoon. Any heat generated during farming is a byproduct. Just waste, like any other intensive processor operation. More BTC is being made and will continue to be made until it's no longer profitable for farms, likely when GPUs can no longer solve the ever more complex blockchains fast enough to offset the electricity they draw. Let no one tell you otherwise.
Sides, money's better with Forex and silver and they both have applications outside fund storage.
NFTs are literally making me afraid to post art. Turns out, people like to steal artwork and make them into NFTs.
Yeah at least deviant art has things that notify artists
Honestly the best way to combat them so far, is to make NSFW Furry art.
Though I would only do this if you're 18 or older.
Me too, Iâm scared of my Art getting stolen
@@kurros1270 nope, I've seen those stolen too. just cropped. nothing is safe, nothing is sacred.
Iâd say beat them to the punch and make it a nft yourself
A - itâs gets out there like you intended
B - they canât profit of your work
C - you might money for it
Itâs might not be what you intend for your art to become but you shouldnât let scammers steal your work for their personal as well as stifle your creativity in fear of its misuse
Who's here after the "saber-fart", 5 year old comeback they did, by featuring Saber in the second episode of Red monkeys or whatever that show is. He lives rent free in their heads đ€Ł
The red ape family? Yeah, I remember.
It's crap like this that can crush artists, wether it be the fear of art theft or people buying low quality jpegs with slight edits instead of going to an actual artist who is actually passionate about their work and comissioning an original piece.
I'm sick and tired of people saying "NFT's help artists find an audience" because one, I've yet to see a single NFT bro be upset over the rampant art theft going on in the community and two, these people aren't buying it because they actually like these crappy drawings. They're buying it for the receipt above all else!
Nah, NFTbros instead blow a casket if you call out on the concept and threaten you instead.
Yes this
NTF websites just steal art and sell it. Qinni's artworks were just stolen by NFT cultists because she's dead. And there's no oversight You can just freely steal any art and nobody can stop you. It's completely amoral.
Half of them donât even know the artist that they are buying the art from! Iâm positive that more than half of the people with those dumb monkey nfts donât know and donât care about the artist that makes them.
a lot of them use a computer generation software, randomize colors and asset on a dummy avatar. Kinda like a character selection screen but like auto generated
About the PokĂ©mon thing, thereâs three main differences between that and NFTs
1. They are physical things that you can hold in your hand and feel like you own it, rather than just a digital photo
2. The art looks cool, and each Pokémon is individually drawn, while most NFts are just randomly generated faces that look ugly
3. Pokémon Cards actually have a function. They have abilities, you can play against other players, people win and lose, and cards that are more rare are actually stronger, while the only function NFTs have are that you can send them to your friends on discord or something, and maybe get a quick chuckle out of them
And you canât copy it the way you can an NFT. You canât right-click a physical object. Limited truly means limited.
Point 2 and 3 doesn't really hold any water, if pokemon cards was translated into a nft, it would still be able to keep those attributes. The art looking "cool" doesn't hold much water if the ones who made the nft gave a shit. The only requirement for an image to be a nft is for it to have a digital form. Saying these cards have abilities is like saying nft has real world value. They're just pieces of cardboard that was given an "ability". Its like saying a pawn piece can't be a king piece because it's a pawn piece. A round rock can be a king piece if I deem it so, it isn't because king pieces are readily available and that it's simpler to use a premade one. But if I somehow lost that piece I can always use basically everything as a substitute.
@@caidalee1994 Ha ha printer goes brrrrr
@@iqbalindaryono8984 I mean, some of them are limited and doesn't reach mass production. Your logic is like saying that buying a Ferrari 250 Grand Turismo Omologato is the same as buying any other car.
(While yes, I agree that NFT are worthless)
@@iqbalindaryono8984 also about the printed thing, I'm pretty sure it somehow has a protection against a printer, like how you can't just print money on a printer. And the fact that well it's Nintendo, they're gonna copyright anyone who's using their intellectual property to makes money.
What I find silly about about NFTs is that it separates buying ownership from the actual item. In most cases, the copyright of the actual images still belongs to the company or poster, but the person bought the idea of the ownership. Its insane. That's why so many people are ripping off others content. They are not selling the item, but the concept of ownership.
Damn, you know Saberspark is serious when he says âfuckingâ uncensored.
You know whatâs even worse about NFTs is itâs starting to invade into gaming. A game called Highrise has recently been getting into NFTs and the game has been going to shit because of it. I wouldnât be surprised if itâs entire user base is completely gone in a few more years.
Additionally, itâs SO BAD FOR ARTISTS! I originally thought âoh maybe this will help digital artists sell their work as âoriginalsââ but no, it hasnât, itâs only made it 10x worse for us!
We must stop nfts before it's too late.
Get ready to screenshot every single one you see.
It's invaded even tf2 and they started using a CZcamsrs content, they died of leukemia. Not to mention the people who hacked stan lee's Twitter to promote nfts
@@KillShot_Studios *pulls out super shotgun*
Time to rip and tear.
Ugh, the amount of pay to win and micro transactions this will promote is ridiculous! Also all the corporations and whoever is behind the bored ape things definitely have enough money, how many independent artists are really making a reasonable amount of money vs just already rich people?
@@KillShot_Studios Haven't it always been in TF2? I remember playing the game years ago, and some items would be randomly locked inside crates with low chances of being acquired, and people would sell "buds" on the markedplace for insane amounts.
It doesn't surprise me how many companies piled on the band wagon when they found out they could make an absurd amount of money from overy-hyped, low effort, cookie cutter, garbage JPEGs.
Now hold on! Don't be unreasonable! Some companies are actually shaking things up by selling over-hyped, low effort, cookie cutter garbage *GIFS* instead! Or hell, look at the greedy fuckwi-- I mean savvy entrepreneur behind the Charlie Bit my Finger video! He's turning a beloved classic CZcams video into an over-hyped, low effort, cookie cutter garbage .MOV file!
And so the bot invasion begins
@The Real Princess Daddy ok
*Overly
Can agree.
Guys, these people aren't spending $20,000+ on shitty art.
They're spending $20,000+ on a LINK so they can say they own the art
The best way I've heard someone describe this is that it's a scam to figure out who the stupid people are in society and put a spotlight on them
I was looking at horrible NFT's and saw that someone was stealing fanart of Markiplier and other youtubers and selling them. I even found some art of my own friends in there, it sickens me as an artist to see people trying to prophet on fan made things made by other people with absolutely no respect to the wonderful people who created the art. I am absolutely paranoid of my own art, that I spend days and sometimes weeks on, being sold off on these scams.
I uploaded a reference sheet for my OC and I got a stupid NFT world bot comment, I really hope he doesnât get sold, heâs a very personal OC of mine. :(
@@wafflesthearttoad6916 hope he doesn't either, no artist deserves their work being stolen and sold off like nothing. We put time and effort into work just for stupid people to try and steal them. Like as if we didn't work hard on them or put our heart n soul into them.
@@kevinzhechair The SEC needs to get off its ass and bring the hammer down on these grifters.
I think it's funny (in a depressing way) that people don't care to steal a real artist's work to sell, but those same people lose their minds if you steal their auto-generated butt-ugly monkey.
Apparently there are also sellers who impersonate dead artists and repurpose their art as NFTs. Disgusting. đ€ą
I canât believe Paris Hilton tried to help promote a frieken NFT cartoons. Last time I saw her she was putting up this front that her âdumb blonde chickâ personality was just a facade and she wasnât as dumb as she portrayed herself in public and I actually believed her. Now I see her voicing a character for Dink Doink coin. Now I feel stupid believing her.
Or it's possible that if that WAS the case and she was putting on a dumb facade, it would make sense she would jump on the bandwagon and try to scam people to make more money. She's rich so probably has no perpective on how these scams hurt people (or she doesn't care)
There are three phases of a person's life:
1. He hates Paris Hilton for being a bimbo.
2. He respects Paris Hilton because he's above such petty things.
3. He hates Paris Hilton for being an NFT shill.
Freakin'*
I mean Paris Hilton did NFT since the beginning.
Including the Among us Drip Space is hot NFT
Idris Elba also purchased one, as well as Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and many other famous women such as Reese Witherspoon, Eva Longoria, even Serena Williams. My heart is in tatters. As well as the aforementioned Tara Strong.
Paris probably wants to have the facade of a smart businesswoman.
I'm constantly in fear that someone will steal my art and or characters and try to sell them as nfts due to all the art theft from ether DeviantArt,toyhouse and or ect and it scares me a lot as a small artist whom dose commissions for well not even a liveing
NFT stands for
No
Fucking
Thanks
You know itâs bad when the PERSON WHO INVENTED THE TECH BEHIND NFTS knows itâs all gone downhill and hates what itâs become.
Reminds me of Hugh Darrow from Deus Ex Human Revolution.
Made cyborgs a thing, saw all the issues that happened and then decided to turn all cyborg people into rampant zombies, just to show how dangerous such tech could fall into the wrong hands.
So did the guy who made the TV.
@@dallanledford6364 Yeah I think we can agree that most stuff on TV these days is garbage.
Just like crossfit.
You mean the ETH core devs, oh I wouldn't be surprised,
They have standards, NFTs don't cut those standards, but nothing they can do
People back then: *Spend hours making a painting that overtime are worth millions*
People now: *Just put more hats onto ape, then sell for 10M*
Fun fact: this might have all come about from those "Million dollar paintings". In 2020 the IRS or someone important declared that art pieces are tax deductible. And wouldn't you know what got popular RIGHT AFTER THAT?
So now folks are able to put in even less work for crazy money. Hopefully it doesn't take government agencies years to catch on.
@@JabbaTheHutt-ic4xl truly a masterpiece, the Mona Lisa canât compare to that
"Definitely worth millions", It wasn't evaluated like that not until some - OH WAIT - Tax Evaders wanted to throw away money :)
monke with hat vs good art what will win
Even back then paintings weren't worth much. Usually they became expensive long after the artist's death
As a wildlife photographer I despise NFTs. I spend hours in wildlife refuges to capture moments with native wildlife. I'm still trying to figure out what is a fair price to sell my photos.
Just to see some trash jpeg sell for absurd sums.
...aww man. I liked Tara Strong. This just ruined my respect for her. A friend of mine is an artist, all she wants to do is paint and draw beautiful, realistic artwork, but the market is full of this...tripe. To think Tara could support that is just...disappointing.
What these people should actually do:
- Commission an artist to make them an OC (Original Character)
- Make a story for that character
- Animate that story for that character
And boom. It's already 6000 times better than any of this NFT shite
It's that simple. And on top of that?
- You're not destroying the environment to the same degree
- You're supporting an artist
- You get something that only You can have, it was made and tailored specifically for You. What's not to love?
Yeah exactly. In this day and age you can produce, host, and sell things online with a very small team at minimal costs to you. Just look at what people like Louis CK and Aziz Ansari are doing with their stand up specials. Like them or their comedy or not, their model of selling directly to their fans via the internet assures the artist is getting paid the most without middle men studios and networks needing to be involved. This works the same for painters, crafters, material artisans, etc.
More over, movie production companies proved in the early 2000s that if you make content hard to buy, artificially rare (eg: Disney), or absurdly expensive people are just going to pirate the content. NFTs and NFTs cartoons are no different and nothing about the technology prevents pirating of the thing that is suppose to hold value (the artistic content). No one cares about the placeholder/hyperlink on the blockchain except maybe the owner trying to flex on twitter (which no one cares about except the other NFT owner fanboy/girl zombies). On a side note, if you want to see an example of toxic positivity lurk some of the NFT threads on twitter. Circlejerk isn't even a powerful enough word to describe it.
Yeah it's normal to love paying someone sub-slave wages for something no one will ever see, rather than a silly, attention-grabbing cartoon tied to a unique token, which can be resold at a markup
Which one is more cringe though đ€
both seem pretty atrocious
@@Smile4theKillCam456 The one that pays less, of course
@@mangcho_media6974 NFTs are not unique. Yes the code may be unique, but the art itself is usually just the same image with a few changes. You may buy it because you see it as a unique token and everything, but others can literally save that âtokenâ without having to pay a dime. Besides, itâs really hard to resell NFTs nowadays, as itâs just an overpriced image that is essentially worthless. So, youâd just be wasting money on something that you can literally download for free, and is nothing but a cash grab with the promise of getting a profit. With paid commissions, you at least know you are supporting an artist who actually cares about their work, and not some random person who just wants to make some quick cash. You will also know that you will have a truly unique piece made for you. Not a copy and pasted image made with little effort, but an artwork that an artist spent days, or even weeks on, and was specially made for you.
I explained NFTs to my family, and my dad had a good point, it was like a line from a TV show he watched, where the character said 'Basically I just sell air space'.
It's like the Lorax, that guy selling air in a bottle. Lol.
It just hit me. NFTs are that joke from Team Four Starâs FF7 Abridged, the one about buying space.
Cryptoland really falls into the "Uncanny Valley" style of animation. First, the animation is flawed in some places, Conny moves with too much squash and stretch, and the whole CGI just feels like a Pixar movie Rip-off. Christopher and all the other humans look like they came straight out of the Metaverse. The writing is really vague and cheesy, the setting looks like something you would see in a new building project poster, and the characters' lip-syncing doesn't always align with the voice audio, and the voices of the Lamborghinis are just awful and high-pitched. There are many things wrong with the Cryptoland cartoon it's not even funny.
I just watched a video that did its best to explain NFTs in understandable human language. It hurt my brain anyway.
All I can say is the 1st-World better get to work on legally banning this stuff sooner rather than later. It hurts real artists.
I frankly feel the same about cryptocurrency (minus the artist bit) and always have.
Every point in this video is what Iâve been trying to explain to people about why NFTs are really bad. Thank you for articulating these frustrations in such a clear (and furious) fashion, my dude đ đ đ
I am here to say I totally agree with you, good sir.
NFTâs can go die in a ditch
Unrelated to your comment, but your Sona is absolutely adorable. :D
@@manowa3395 Check out his (or her IDK) channel. Silva Hound made a lot of the songs from Helluva Boss and among other things.
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The cryptoland people claiming they can OWN and GOVERN an Island that has already been specified to form part of Fiji's territory, down to the point of putting up illegal casinos and making their own age of consent (wtf) is hilarious. It's like the "Reddit Island" dumpsterfire but a hundred times more cringe.
I find that weird that a crytocurrency that is adding to global warming, which is in turn threatening island nations like fiji by rising sea levels, wants to buy a island. Isn't it a little counter intuitive? Just saying.
@@Sadaj Maybe global warming has some upsides. Other than finally giving America an appendectomy.
@@vylbird8014 Too bad it doesn't kill only those cryptobros, so we have to prevent it and shit
@@thunderbird3304 agreed. If Global warming was just a "stop NFTs" thing, then it would be fine. But it's actually fucking up our environment and will most likely squad wipe everyone, NFT lover or not, off the planet. đ°
A bunch of people who have no fucking idea how to lead, govern groups of people, nonetheless manage the purchase of an entire sovereign island are always the ones saying LET'S BUY AN ISLAND GUYS! I'm almost positive it's been more than jus these guys and Reddit but those are the most high profile ones I know
I remember hearing someone stole a dead artists work and sold it as NFTs
Yup. Had to rewind, but around 23:15 I noticed Conny sliding to the side because they were too lazy to animate him walking there!
I'm a professional illustrator, designer, and colorist. I went to school for it and all that fancy shit, and I've been working at a professional capacity for 15 years now. My work has been stolen THREE TIMES on that same damn site for this bullshit and I'm already sick of it. I got the listings removed via DMCAs but now I hear that site isn't even responding to them anymore, so _that's fantastic._
The only thing I'm more sick of than NFTs themselves is all the dudebros trying to tell me how my own industry actually works and saying I just don't like NFTs because I'm "boring and old" and don't understand them. My dude, you told me I could claim ownership of my work by _taking a picture of my paint and brushes._ I'm not the one who needs some educating here, you doorknob.
New age art
@@jinchuriki7022 NFT isn't art,its nowhere near to be called that. Actual art takes time and talent,everyone has their own style and own story to tell with it or just doing it for fun,meanwhile NFT's are the same shit generated over and over again with different hats and mouth,nothing much changes. Calling it art is insulting to actual artists..
@@csokissuti7343 to each their own
@@csokissuti7343 feels like we should spam whole NFT communities with
"NFT is trash i make better art than that"
My art still shi- but you get what i mean
@@jinchuriki7022 You just managed to tell me a metric shit-ton about your knowledge of art and the graphic art industry in only three words. That's rather impressive.
The people who buy NFTs are idiots, but those who sell screenshots of NFTs as their own on OpenSea earn my respect.
thanks for your respect sir
Didn't OpenSEA ban the horizontally flipped bored apes?
@@mattwo7 what about upside down ones
Being someone who loves making pixel art >w> before I was scared of making any art and posting it... But now you dear AMAZING Sir~ have given me amazing ideas and inspiration to make some side ~passive~ money to help pay my rent.
Collectables is like that. You pay money for it, and brag to others what you paid for it. This makes them think that somehow it has value, when in reality the value is just what someone else would pay for it. Typically Mona Lisa is worth money because people talk about how it is famous and worth money. But you could do the same with any painting by any person. Oh this Lady on bed made by artist who is dead, is amazing and I'll pay a million to own it.
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My big complaint with it as well, because of the art theft. Hell I posted an art piece (lower res ofc) on twitter with art related hashtags and had a NFT account bots retweeted my image, when the rest were NFT related on their profiles. FUCK NO!
God damn I'm so glad Saberspark not only is speaking out about this, but is speaking PASSIONATELY about it. Openly saying "fuck you" to these shitty corporations is a genuine joy to watch. Mad respect.
Seeing level headed creators enraged with righteous fury will always be top tier content
And then there's the famous people who start promoting it heavily lol t ar a str o ng
Why do people want to spend thousands on a JPG?
Because they think it's going to be the new bitcoin
Maybe they just bored
Because we as a society have failed
Isn't it just a hyperlink, not an actual jpg?
For the most part, Money Laundering and grifts.
Honestly, if I was ever in the business of making cartoons and whatnot, I'd prefer to earn my fans rather than buying them. It's much more satisfying, plus an earned fan is the most likely to be a genuine fan.
Yep
one time when I was discussing making money from my art with my mom she suggested I make nfts, neither of us were really aware of what nfts were but I knew there was something bad about them, fortunately she meant making prints or commissions or something like that and not actual nfts.
Saddest part is the NFT doesn't value the art just the coding. Like having a glorified barcode on the butt.
Sounds like a scam to me
Damn,you get the most bots under your comment so far
@@spookynomnoms6751 Yeah.
The art community have been doing this for years. They are called "adopts" or "adoptables" and contain species with designs that are one of a kind. There is a market for them in art communities and they are MUCH more interesting than NFTs. Legit also can support legit artists who make them. Just COMMISSION artists for a ONE OF A KIND piece. Not to mention there is a HUGE art theft issue in the NFT community which should be a reason all in itself to NOT support them as Saber said. As an artist myself I REFUSE to support NFT's knowing a lot of the art is stolen.
Adoptable are better than nfts. Most arenât pumped out just for money, and some of them are just pure passion projects. And they also bring the only positive people say nfts bring artists. We can get good money for those if weâre lucky.
Also free adoptables get snatched up because people like characters that are actually made by people. I made one free adoptable post on Tumblr with five characters I made and people snatched them all up.
Adoptables are...slightly different. Really it depends on the artist and or species being sold and even though you can just save the image its an easy easy for artist's to make money
Honestly even Gacha is preferable to NFT. They might be shallow gambling, but at least they donât pollute.
Also in some games they can be full characters with fun personalities and complete backstories, be used for active playing with a plot and all, and be enjoyed even without spending actual money on them.
Adoptables are definitely different but they definitely have a similar existence but the thing is they are unique and made with love and passion especially in the furry community were adoptables can be various characters made or a species the owner had made I remeber doing adoptables and I enjoyed making them alot and was happy when people adopted them
There's a community who holds art contests every month with themes, and one recently was I think something along the lines of bird warrior?
Yeah, a guy stole ALL of the submitted artwork and put them up as NFTs. Even got his account taken down, but he just made a new one.
What if in the future we are the NFTâs? Think of it, say someone dies and their death is turned into an NFT. Geez it would be scary but idk if itâd happen
Thank god, someone who understands.
A NFT is basically a scam/cash-grab for people who wants someone elseâs art just for the money. I think Logan Paul did this to his suscribers and they got scammed. NFTs got popular more recently and itâs really bullcrap to artists (from my perspective) because youâre bascially selling someone elseâs art without their consent. This is absolutley garbage. Please stop this shit.
at this point I have zero sympathy for logan paul suscribers
there has been enough opportunity to grow out of the gutter
if they're still there they deserve anything coming at them
@fine what is. Your downfall?
@@matheussanthiago9685 I can sympathize with the really young ones who just got introduced to the internet recently enough not to know about the garbage he's done. Definitely not the ones old enough to actually buy things though.
I'd take the owner of the NfT if it was my artist. I'd sue them even if they just bought it innocently for as much as I could. Eve if it bankrupts them I wouldnt care. I'd just say. Go ask the seller for your money back
I do this thing where I COMMISSION an artist for a SPECIFIC picture that we work out the details on. Then, I get the finished picture!
Amazing, isn't it? Artist is happy, I'm happy.
This NFT crap is almost certainly for the woke losers who have no money.
6:53 as a digital artist, I gotta be honest NFTs have been hurting us more than they could ever help, any respectable artist you find will be strongly against NFTs, a lot of us have gotten our works stolen and sold for ridiculous prices as NFTs and the market is already saturated by rich people who don't care about art and just want to make cash, NFTs have NO place in artist spaces
You know it's bad when even the orignal creator of them (who intended to use the blockchain to protect the art of artists) has spoken against
Yes. As an artist as well I agree. It's a horrible invention.
@The Real Princess Daddy
Reported.
@The Real Princess Daddy what...........................
Honestly I sort of wanna be an artist but I'm too afraid to actually post anything until NFT's kick the bucket
16:09 Even NFT cartoons aren't immune to that.
âHello, NFT artist?â
âIâd like to commission art that actually looks goodâ
The thing with NFTs is that the crypto bros keep saying it "helps artists" but then turn around and steal small artists' drawings and use it to promote their NFTs or straight up turn the art itself into an NFT! Also, the people who are hired to draw NFTs are rarely paid well. Apparently the artist for the apes didn't even know what an NFT was!
Not even only small artists. Qinni had millions of followers and her art is exploited by NFTs after she died. NFTs are scummy and amoral
And the NFTs are now just generated by programs. Removing art, work and even human touch from "artwork"
I can smell law suits against NFTs stolen art is gonna make people who invest into NFT lose a shit ton of money.
@Ezekiel Renon NFT bros also stole from a Warriors Cat manga artist.
@@fasddfadfgasdgs where can I file a lawsuit?
This NFT thing sounds like a way for corporations to cash in on stupid people while others use it to launder money off stolen art
Doesn't necessarily have to be corporations... Obviously it's easier for corporations to get in on the con-job (seeing as they would have the resources), but it's not just them. The average stand-alone con-man could just as easily con people out of money for clout, or cause mass chaos as people scramble in that market to try and get a big pay-off. It's a bubble that's very volatile and will burst, affecting lots of people as the suckers who were taken in suddenly have no money while those who cashed out right before the burst will walk away unscathed.
Pretty much
I got an ad for an NFT while I was watching this vid
People forget that the artist can sign their art and write YOUR NAME so that it can actually be yours. Not this vague whatever special link or chain or whatever jargon they use and in the end it's not even yours.
I am 100% completely against NFTs and I 100% agree with your rant. NFTs are a scam and the NFT cartoon belongs in the trash. Iâm super mad on what they did with Qinniâs beautiful art!
@Mango The CCaique part two Even though Qinni isnât with us anymore, her art and legacy lives forever to inspire new artist to find their style and show people talent and love. Itâs a shame that people fall for the excuse of âNFTs are a next big thing!! Even the future of art!!â which is not. If thereâs something I learned, NFTs are just a fad.
@The Real Princess Daddy reported.
@The Real Princess Daddy I can very much tell that u ate cocaine
@Mango The CCaique part two It just pisses me off that those people could just take other peopleâs hard work and profit them of to an auction containing crypto without their concent and somehow canât take any criticism realizing that what theyâre doing is not only disrespectful, but illegal as well. And as artist, at first we think to ourselves, should we be afraid to publicly show our work without noticing what will happen next, No because we could just call them out and tell them that itâs wrong for putting our art in auction without permission and such, especially with the work of the deceased. Also ignore that comment, itâs just spam trying to get attention.
So many scams in the reply xD
NFT Bro's: "De-centralisation will save us from the evil corporations!"
Also NFT's: * So money hungry and scummy they make ActiVision look like an ethic charity organisation *
They make evil fictional corporation looks like a saints
Also nftards: shills nfts of dead people like Stan Lee
Anyone who spends or âinvestsâ on NFTâs need to be placed in a mental hospital.
After interacting with several nft bros I can safely say that they're a lower form of human life than child molesters.
I make art for a living and NFTs just make me angry because the art I do only costs $100-200 for a full body drawing, and these are just slightly varied templates of an ape that goes for thousands of dollars
As someone who deals with non-fungible items (antique book trade), I can confidently say that NFTs are literally the least non-fungible thing ever invented. Not to mention that the supporters seems to completely missed the point "just because it's non-fungible does not means it's valuable"
On a positive note, it's fun to see all corners of internet (furry fandom, art and art commentary community, gamers, Neopets, Animal Jams and Feral community, Twitch streamers, animation community and many others) united against NFTs, and it's glorious!
I remember Neopets.
as a (former) fer.al player seeing the discord riot after the nft announcement was glorious
Cryptoland being a scam is actually the best case scenario. The actual island would be so poorly managed that people could get seriously hurt.
Then the scammers would get lawsuits and they'd get caught!
All the annoying crypto bros moving away to an island away from the rest of us!? Sounds like a win-win.
@@TheHattOnCZcams Not worth someone dying of tetanus bc they forgot to bring a doctor and tetanus shots.
@@Zephyr_Zeitgeist Unlikely Cryptobros would die, but effectively guaranteed any laborers they somehow bring in would. Right off the bat all their plans make no mention of living areas for the hundreds if not thousands of workers who'd have to run the place, so best case would either be boating or flying workers on and off the island constantly but even then they'd have to rest on the island somehow. No way they'd call for medical aid for a worker, no way any building would be remotely safe to step in, so much would go wrong and none of it would touch the Cryptobros since they'd only be inconvenienced and lose their money at worst and pay for airlift out when things go south. Meanwhile all the workers there when the exodus off starts will be abandoned on a ruined island and have to pay themselves to get off or die trying. It's a horror plot.
Another thing alot of people donât include while talking about NFTS and Crypto is how harmful it is for the environment and even smaller low income communities because of what it takes to make ethrium and crypto currency
23:18
I just realised they used this machine wrong. In a pectoral fly, your forearm goes behind the padding, not in front of it. Not surprising that they got it wrong considering this was done by animators and NFT bros
any respectable animator would look up a bunch of reference before just jumping right in. We don't know everything, so we learn to make sure we do it right.
People behind the shady CryptoLand, they didn't animated the seagull. They actually ordered and downloaded the Maya software of a seagull from the animator's website without crediting her. She said you can use the Maya seagull, but under the condition, you have to credit her. When the animator asked CryptoLand to credit her, they legitimately blocked her on Twitter.
That's the most insane I ever witness of this shady circus rabbit-hole.
By the way, Genie from Aladdin and Long from Wish Dragon are the most lovable characters than Conny the creepy coin.
Thatâs Insane and frustrating
That is straight up awful. Like, just awful.
Would it really be so hard to credit her? What would they lose? Did people think they weren't cutting corners with that crappy ad?
I've also heard that the interior of the house in it might also be stolen from an unrelated virtual tour, since the qr code links to some random guys Twitter or something with no connection to the island.
Any follow-up on this, or it's too soon to ask?
If you REALLY want a unique piece of art that belongs to you, or even an animation, commission an artist to do it. Thereâs plenty out there. Instagram, Twitter, and so many other platforms that want to make art their job, or art IS their job, and you can commission them to create something for you. With the money people are paying for NFTs, they could commission SO MANY small artists, or even one big artist, for something beautiful.
NFTs are a fucking joke, and the fact that they claim to be art is actually disgusting to me. They have no heart, no passion, itâs just for the money. In my mind, thatâs not art. If youâre doing it solely for profit, I donât consider it to be art, even if itâs a drawing or an animation.
If youâre seeing this, commission your local artist, small or big. Itâll make their day.
I wholeheartedly agree with you, but the fatal flaw in your argument is assuming NFT art is in any way designed to benefit the artist. They are not; at best they're some sort of "good boys club" where only people of certain wealth status are allowed into their exclusive communities, at worst, they're money laundering fronts designed to hide criminal activity but most commonly, they're online pyramid schemes run by independently rich people looking to get more rich at the expense of less rich people. The art - and by extension, consideration of the artist(s) - is incidental, which is why so many NFT "artworks" look like dogshit or are minted with stolen assets.
I absolutely agree though, supporting local or smaller artists with commissions for one-of-a-kind pieces is a far better use of one's money, as it gets the buyer the same thing (a unique piece of art that may or may not increase in value over time) but avoids the moral, ethical and potentially legal minefield that NFTs have become. I would say, though, if someone does go that route, try to get a physical piece of art whenever possible.
Hell, as a selfish prick I'd rather commission someone; at least then I get something I wanted and can look at for more than 3 seconds without my eyes bleeding.
I have 2 Instagram art pages.
And I hope to do commissions someday
It is the entire modern art scene that is a scam. This time, it's just digital. Blockchain also needs a lot of energy. It has legitimate uses but I have never seen a useful NFT idea. It is a bubble.
Probably shouldâve seen this coming given that weâre aware (through the Internet) of how much rich people are willing to pay for âartâ.
We did make fun of modern art museums for a while too.
People tend to forget that anything is worth only what someone ELSE is willing to pay for it. It's the same way with any collectible. Like Beanie babies. I remember when people thought they could put their kids through college collecting and selling those things. Now I can go down to a 2nd hand store and buy some for as cheap as 25 cents.
Yup. This whole NFT bubble is hopefully gonna burst sooner rather than later, thank god. I mean these NFT guys are always thinking about how they can profit by selling their little tokens off to someone else and take the earnings. But I mean... who is gonna buy this, Especially at such high prices. Their whole system is built upon speculative value. That if they can't gain the interest to get the value to rise, their whole case is busted and they're broke. So thats why they're always trying to garner the interests of famous people or heck anyone with disposable income to invest. Because if they think its valuable, it automatically boosts the value of what they have.
Thank god a lot of people see right through them, even if both the Corporations of the world, and the NFT guys themselves are embodiments of Mr Crabs. I mean I'm sure, or at the very least hope that they'll soon have milked that NFT cow to the point there's no milk left and kinda just have to go bust.
@The Real Princess Daddy Nobody cares Princess.
At least people had something physical after it bursted. Now they practically getting nothing
I still have some beanie babies from quite a few years ago. I remember my most liked one was the beagle one named tracker
Now that's a throwback. My first experience with the idea of collecting things was meeting a friend of my mom's who collected beanie babies. She was super passionate about them too. Good times.
I think the world would be a better place if NFT's became illegal
so true
Damn Right, They Should Be!
making everything illegal is a slippery slope
Crypto and NFTs should be illegal by the very definition of them being a scam.
Or get a tax on'em. Might hinder some folks motivation on those.
I saw there was a student who sold his own selfies into NFTs in my country. His NFTs are big success until he becomes a millionaire. Then, the media glorified him because he made a lot of money through NFTs until people in my country sold photos into NFTs. It was chaotic because people selling object pictures as NFTs and there are some dangerous NFTs like license card and stolen baby pictures.
His personality is nice but I can't make him inspiration because of NFTs...
Nothing triggers me more than utter morons straight up burning their privacy to the ground by selling sensitive information like license cards as NFTs. That just shows how immoral to any society NFTs can be.
Nft community is just a huge middle finger to artists of the world
Itâs sad because genuinely talented and good artist are getting screwed over by stuff like this
When, not if, the US makes a law that takes care of this, Iâm betting 1 billion dollars that Twitter will be filled with whining babies complaining how itâs a violation of their rights, when all of their artwork is stolen. Then when they try to storm Parliament, theyâll all be whining about why they got arrested and are losing all of the money they scammed from people.
how many of them have you given your business to in 2022?
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The worst part is that they are starting to put NFTs on LOL dolls now. I see them popping up at Walmart and people fighting over them every single time they get restocked and not a child in sight asking for them.
It sadly hilarious when an adult fight over a kids toy.
I'm sorry but WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE NFT FOR LOL DOLL?!?!? Lol doll are kid toys, there making kid toys NFTs? Hold on I need to look this up
What the fuck there is. My little sister loves the toys I don't what her or my family involved in this.
Sounds like bean babies or cabbage patch.
I would totally buy one. Look right at a reseller and tear it out of the box in front of them then give it to a random child for free
0:06 SCREAM (insert distorted font here)
Imagine you could put whatever image you wanted on a US Bill, and then every one else got to decide what number to put on it.
pretty funny but kinda accurate way to describe the main part of an NFT
I can't stand how much companies are shoving this stuff down our throats. At one point, all the ads I got were crypto crap and it really made frustrated because people I know started to jump in on it right after. It's disgusting that they're making cartoons out of this stuff.
My mom once sent me an article listing the "benefits" of NFT's and it was the first time I was genuinely angry at my mom.
In all fairness, your Mom is way smarter than you.
@@mangcho_media6974 oh please explain to the masses why this persons mother is OH SO much smarter by promoting a monkey that looks like a piece of shit. Iâd honestly be surprised if you could come up with a valid point.
@@mangcho_media6974 in all fairness, thats not true at all
Show her the song NFT Man.
Iâm sorry for responding to this 2 months later but my mom did the same thing. My brother tried to convince my dad to buy some. I feel bad for our parents
there is a very good documentary online about the dutch tulip bubble disaster (youtube search just that). people dont appear to be learning from history
Dude i just got an NFT ad on this video
I initially joined the anti-NFT party due to the evironmemtal reasons, but now I have even more reasons that are just as bad as the first reason.
That and I don't want to be picked on for being a "Tree hugger*, I am for the environment but I'm not just all about the environment anymore when it comes to NFTs.
NFT "Art" is an absolute disgrace... I went absolutely mad when TWITTER THEMSELVES! The Businsss who OWNS an already scewed up platform, asked for an NFT Profile Picture! And the absolute "Pixel Art" HORROR I saw made me blow up!
I see so many of my art friends struggling for comms sometimes on twitter, and rumor has it that Twitter muted words mentioning Commissions, it drives me mad! Plus, I also hate it when influencer fall into it!
Why don't you support the move to nuclear power then? The power consumption wouldn't be an issue if more people supported true clean energy.
That makes no sense how NFTs affect the environment. Sounds like Musk level lie.
@@bayardkyyako7427 the amount of energy from crypto mining goes up therefore draws more energy from power plants. NFTs don't really add that much more than what was already going on though. Even without NFTs all of the mining rigs people were building suck up more than enough energy. We should be finding new sources of energy, but being anti-crypto because of power usage is a stupid and flawed argument. All blockchain technology gets more and more energy efficient with time. Nothing ever starts out perfect and these morons want to kill it before it reaches its full potential.
@@MrFRNTIK I mean everything is against the environment to some degree anymore, I'm tired of the argument that something is bad for the environment now, we should just work on getting rid of the worst offenders and keep it at that.
@@MrFRNTIK Hello. I'm a nuclear engineer.
If it were up to me not a single joule of energy would be allowed to go through a mining rig. It's a colossal waste of power that we already have a hard as shit time to decarbonise as it is. The energy industry is a bit more complex than waving a magic wand around and materializing new reactors out of nowhere.
We're in deep shit on a global level now: 80% of our energy still comes from fossil fuels, and the remaining window we have left to prevent things from getting extremely dire is closing fast. We don't have time to power stupid bigger fool scams that hog huge amounts of energy and resources just to siphon money out of credulous buyers, especially when the so-called "benefits" of crypto are superfluous if not downright worse than more traditional alternatives.
I explained what NFTs are to a Sherrif Deputy that works at my hospital, and he immediately said, "That sounds like money laundering."
Based Sheriff Deputy
@@Reeses7501 smart sheriff deputy, he is 100% correct
Chad sheriff deputy
Thanks for doing a video on this, it really articulates the bad gut feeling I was having about NFTs when they first started popping up but I could articulate why
Whether or not any of these shows wind up being good or not, they will never be worth anyone's time because they are, at their cores, advertisements for an actual scam that has, never has had, and never will have any positives for anyone except for the assholes at the top who are making money off of all the poor souls who got duped into buying into the scam of NFTs
Edit: Troy Baker cancelled his partnership earlier
There's now also a "Voice NFT," which is backed by Troy Baker. I'm genuinely amazed that a Voice Actor backs what is essentially a vocaloid for real people's voices. Every other VA I've seen talk about it has started that it could threaten their careers, and it genuinely amazes me that Baker would back it. When he got back lash, all he tweeted was "I'm sorry, hate or create was antagonizing :("
I just... how.
NFT vocaloids?! Wtf?!
And it doesn't even come with the software needed to actually use those voices. The software doesn't fit in an NFT. You jsit have a position in a database that says you can use the Vocaloid.
I believe Baker backed out after having some discussions with people who knew what they were talking about but yeah, that was tough when it was going on
@@who_the_fuck_is_riley5813 Can you tell me where he said that? I checked his Twitter, and he hasn't said anything about backing out
@@blake6210 Looking back I had apparently misinterpreted something I saw, my bad. He didn't back out of the voice NFTs he apologized for some stupid artwork of him drawn like an NFT. Still partnering with the scummy company
I'm glad you used the gold rush comparison-the most shocking thing for me is that I've yet to see anyone bring up the parallels to the 80's/90's speculator boom in comics. Otherwise known as the thing that nearly killed the comic book industry, the reason superhero stuff is the dominant genre, and why so many books are written for shock value. It's a period defined by:
~ hyping up #1 issues that would Very Definitely Be Worth A Lot Someday
~ gimmick covers (holographic, dark light, etc.)
~ shock value, again (NFT equivalent being including "edgy" elements like weed and transgressive humor)
~ artwork of questionable appeal (most Escher Girls can be traced to this period)
~ dudebro energy
~ taking advantage of the nerds vs everyone else mentality
~ framed as artists taking control of their destiny... but mostly it was rich a-holes doing pyramid schemes
~ unsustainability
~ cookie-cutter characters held up as unique
The sooner the NFT craze (and, frankly, crypto in general) crashes and burns the better, though I *will* enjoy reading the essays and theses and academic discourse it inspires in a few decades. I think an argument could be made that NFT culture is dada-esque, but my area of study was art philosophy rather than art history, so....
That's really interesting you bring up the 80s/90s speculator boom. I love reading comics, but 80s/90s was a little before my comic-buying time, so I learned something new today! :) I think your comparison also has interesting correlation to what I've been seeing going on in, what I perceive as, DC Comic's version of NFTs. It's on their own unique platform (similar to NBA Top Shot) called VeVe.
I was honestly a little curious about it when they announced the platform. I love buying physical comics and going to conventions to get them signed, and I love chatting with the writers/artists. Not for any time of speculation, but because collecting comics and getting them signed brings me joy :) If I need to play catch-up on a storyline, compilations and/or digital comics are also a good alternative, although I can't get the digital ones signed at conventions. (I have a few statues too of some of my favorite DC characters, which I also got just because I like them). When I learned about the core technology behind block-chain, I wondered if that tech could create a limited mint behind comics. It could even have the potential of getting a "digital signature" by the artist/creators if you attended a convention. Digital comics were the same price as a physical comic, but I wondered if they could do some fun stuff with variant covers or create rarity with some comics having a limited print-run (which I suppose they do with physical comics as well). Not for any type of speculation, but just as something enjoyable for me to collect, and perhaps (with the proper implementation of technology) get them digitally signed at conventions.
I mostly watched from the sidelines on VeVe, scooping up a comic here and there that I thought might be neat to own - not for any pricing or rarity, but just because I always think it's cool to have an old comic digitized (I love digitizing old materials like photos as a personal hobby of mine, but I digress). It's also really cool to read old comics in general, which digital comics have always allowed me to do, often on the cheap. But then the speculation started happening. And it is literally what you just described from the 80s/90s with physical comics. I'm now seeing people in forums having the same type of culture as I see with some of the more toxic NFT projects. There is an insane amount of hype, a lot of people desperately watching the countdown for a release, in hopes to mint a rare variety cover. And then once the mint occurs, people start selling the common ones at a loss, and SUPER overinflate the value of the rare digital variety covers. I've seen some covers going for thousands of dollars - like, um...what?
As someone who collects comics for pure enjoyment, this over inflation on VeVe has me trippin'. I think people fail to realize that the most accurate value of any object is the relationship between a buyer and a seller. (Quick side note, I've had a good go at re-watching some Antiques Roadshow episodes haha, and it's a really neat perspective on the rise and fall of the price of a physical object, typically based on a market value that fluctuates up or down overtime). As someone who gets a kick out of collecting comics, it floors me that someone would value a digital comic as worth thousands of dollars. I've purchased some fairly desirable cover-art variants online in my day, but it was for like 40-100 bucks. I'm shocked at the speculation that's currently happening over the digital comics.
I know that was long comment lol, but I really appreciate you mentioning the 80s/90s comic book scene! That is so insightful to now know that occurred, and it really puts in perspective what's going on on VeVe right now. (edit: misspellings lol)
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â@@brookewarrington1263 No worries, it's cool to hear about it from someone more in touch with the industry! (I tend to tune in and out of interests and I'm currently not in comic book mode, even though I love them to pieces.)
The speculation boom actually ended, like, a year before I was born XD Most of my understanding of that time comes from the comic reviewer Linkara, who does a really good job at giving balanced, contextualized reviews. A throughline in his work is how speculator nonsense/editorial mandates are responsible for most of the bad writing choices out there.
I didn't even know that DC had its own version! I mean, I assumed the Big Two would get on the NFT train (bc corporations are shameless) but it's kinda incredible to hear they were ahead of the curve for once T.T
crypto isn't going to collapse, you goof. Crypto is The Economy, in that the "actual legitimate" economy is a lot dirtier than anything the crypto folks are doing.
I wouldn't compare it to a gold rush, gold is actually useful and kind pf pretty.
Connie gazes in the mirror, ready to start a day of fun at Cryptoland!
Connie: âZoo wee mama, am I ready for a day of crypto fun with my crypto pals!â
Mirror Connie: âCome ooooon Connie. You know what you really want to do. Cut the power, start the purge. Crypto kill them.â
Connie starts to shake
Connie: âN-no... they're my crypto pals! Why would I hurt them? I brought them to this island to hang out!â
Mirror Connie: âStop deluding yourself, Connie. This island is a deathtrap, everyone expects it aaaallll to fall apart. It's the perfect crime. There are no police, no security guards, and soon enough, no witnesses. Nobody will ever kn-â
Connie smashes the mirror with a twitching fist, bleeding crypto blood on the crypto counter
Connie: âEverything will be. . . crypto FUN.â
Connie forces a smile. His eyes gaze forward unblinkingly. He resisted. He didn't give in, because Connie is good.
For now.
Original by Debra Chambers.
The cryptoland commercial looks like one from the early 2010s, in quality. If Connie was a regular coin, or a quarter, that could easily be a bank mascot in a bank commercial in an early 2010's commercial that would play after watching the news.