The “Disaster Girl” meme was on sale on April 17, 2021, by a music studio. Also, in South Korea, another meme received a significant sum of money.
NFTs or non-fungible tokens have become a new sensation in internet sales. Its scope has now reached the memes, which are currently on sale in that format.
On the Foundation App platform @DisasterGirl put on sale a popular meme that says, “When disaster strikes… She’s there!” The NFT reached the company on April 17, 2021, by the Dubai Company 3F Music, which paid 180 ether (ETH), equivalent to USD 388,976 at the current exchange rate.
This company, which owns a large music studio, has also acquired other NFTs of lesser value than that of “Disaster Girl”, as observed in its profile on the marketplace. Among them are “Future Proof” (for 4.4 ETH), “The Vault” (for 2.0 ETH) and “Cyrus the Great” (for 1.5 ETH).
The “disaster girl” meme goes with a brief description that tells how the girl came to be the protagonist of the renowned image. In the narrative, there is an explanation for the girl’s name, which is Zoe Roth.
She became famous back in 2005 when her father took her photo in front of a burning house. He asked her to smile, and she did, although the result was a burning house and a girl with a “malevolent smile” posing in front of such tragedy.
Her face became a meme in three years, and she adopted the nickname “disaster girl.” It wasn’t until 2008 that her father submitted the photo to a magazine photography contest and won the extra chance to feature on its cover. It was from that moment that the girl’s face went viral.
That “almost evil” smile in front of the burning house awoke the interest of many internet users, who cut out his face and used Photoshop to put it on many other tragic and funny situations, even historical events.
Memes in NFT Format are Also for Sale through Auctions in South Korea
South Korea is also a leader when it comes to the sale of memes in NFT format. The Mari Kim Foundation launched what it called “10 Seconds of Animated Works of Art,” for which it raised 600 million won (about the US $ 537,837), equivalent to 288 ETH.
The information came to public light through a press release, states that the sale came to fruition through the Pica Project with an initial price of 50 million won (about US $ 44,834) and was bought by a Korean bidder “after fierce competition.”
The bid price was more than eleven times higher than the initial bid and was the highest selling price for an artwork by Mari Kim. It was four times higher than the cost of his 2019 “Tree of Life,” which sold for 150 million won in 2020.
By: Jenson Nuñez
