Brooklyn Man Cashes in on Farts, Sells Audio Clip Recorded in Lockdown for $89
A Brooklyn based film director is attempting to sell a year’s worth of fart audio clips recorded in quarantine to profit off the cryptocurrency gaining popularity non-fungible tokens (NFTs).36-year-old Alex Ramirez-Mallis,while talking to NY Post, askedif people are selling digital art and GIFs, why one can’t sell farts. The film director is trying to capitalize on the craze by selling his NFT names, One Calendar Year of Recorded farts.
Ramirez-Mallis and his four friends used to share recording of their farts on a Whatsapp group since March 2020, at the beginning of the global lockdown. On the anniversary of the global lockdown, the five group members compiled all recordings into a 52-minute “Master Collection” audio file which is up for auction, with a top bid of $196 for the file with two days remaining.
However, individual fart recordings are available for 0.05 Ethereum (a cryptocurrency), or almost $89 a fart. The group has sold one to an anonymous buyer.
In conversation with NY Post, he saisif the value keeps increasing, they have extremely valuable farts on their hands. He told the media outlet that ‘the NFT craze is absurd as it puts value on something inherently intangible.’
These NFTs aren’t even farts, they’re just digital alphanumeric strings that represent ownership. The art is just an avatar for value,"he added.
He sharedthe recordings were not made keeping the profit in mind but as the recent NFT craze grew, it gave them the ‘perfect outlet to share’ their large compilation of audio recordings.
Various abstract digital art or assets have been sold for sevenor eight-digit price tags. Comparing the NFTs to wealthy art collectors who buy expensive works to put it in a storage and only display its ownership certificate then selling it again for profit, he described NFTs as a bubble which has been around forever.
Grayson Earle, a friend of Ramirez-Mallis and creator of cryptocurrency project bail Bloc, explainedthat one “becomes part of the in-crowd of a technology novelty that masquerades as revolutionary but operates in the same tired old way of the existing art market by buying NFTs.”
Ramirez notedthat people behind this craze are art lovers but people simply trying to make money. He mockedthe market by stating an old saying, "Why don’t they just frame the money?"and stated,"this really is the embodiment of that."
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