This had to be the most short-lived tech trend I’ve ever seen in my 41 years. Tamagotchi lasted longer in its heyday.
Same. I’m getting to the age where I say “I don’t get it” when it comes to a lot of popular things these days. I said it loudly about NFTs, glad to see I didn’t misunderstand it.
And yet crypto is back up again for some dumb reason. Are we sure NFTs are truly dead or are we going to see that grift in a new form soon? One can only hope it’s the former.
NFT as ape pics are dead, yes. But crypto as a form of value exchange for transactions where you don’t want too many eyes looking at it has not stopped since its invention in 2008. It’s just going to become a normal staple of the internet, like Bittorrent and VPNs, just existing and being used without anybody really caring too much about the technology itself. I still use it to pay for some online services where I basically just want to hand them the internet equivalent of a wad of cash without giving anyone any account details of any kind. I’ve been doing that since 2013, the NFT thing just kinda came and went and I didn’t care too much about it.
Keep in mind that buying photos isn’t the only application of NFTs. People stopped buying valueless photos, but other implementations of NFTs kept on being used.
That was one feature that was actually useful. Immediately you knew if you should just block someone and move on.
Continuing removal of all features not related to showing ads alongside Nazis.
Even a broken clock, eh?
I would imagine the sheer embarrassment of having an really ugly monkey NFT profile picture is enough of an incentive.
Credit to where credit is due, good for X Formerly Known as Twitter, though this is mostly because Musk only used crypto as a grift, whereas Jack Dorsey is a True Believer in crypto.
