Wtf

Lol, true mate.

There no way that’s not the guy …..no way no sir

It IS the same guy. I KNOW that voice!!

yes

BASED

Poggers

same they go hard tho

God. Out of context, this is the most heartbreaking comment I've ever seen.

"If you don't like it, then don't participate in it." This is a highly poisonous form of thought and I am genuinely disgusted that you say this. This primary function of art is to convey or communicate a message about the artists thoughts and feelings. While money should never be a driving force behind art, it is still good in moderation because it is a good pursuader for the artist to make more good art. That's why commisions have been done for art long before the internet existed, that is why people pay money for art they think is good, and that is why the artist should be rewarded for what they do, making good art. And then NFTS come along. Not only is someone's art stolen, and not only are they robbed through someone else selling their work without prior sale to them or consent, but they CLAIM OWNERSHIP of that work when they did squat in its inception, and completely lock out the creator in the process. And on top of all of this, you say that if I don't like having my shit stolen, I should be forced to participate in a cryptocurrency I may not even want to be a part of, but that I am also allowed to completely give up on being an artist online and leave you to steal whatever the hell you want so that the only reason for artists to operate online is for recognition and nothing else. And you tell me this is a form of liberation I should blindly accept. Shame on you.

@@driftman2724 You have such a thorough misunderstanding of what I typed that I wonder if you read it at all. For it to really be theft I have to profit from it somehow, or deprive the victim of economic value. If I go home and tape a banana to my wall, I have constructed a close copy of "Comedian" by Maurizio Cattelan. Now, have I stolen from him? Well, as long as I don't let anybody pay me to see it, as long as I refrain from referring to it as "Comedian", and as long as I avoid competing with his art by allowing potential "Comedian" fans to see mine in lieu of his, then I'm not really stealing. But, as I said before, I have what essentially could be called a copy of "Comedian" on my wall. It's the same with NFTs. If I don't deprive the owner of anything, then how could it be called theft? Now, in a court of law things could go either way, but the online economy of 2021 is built on people doing this exact kind of theft and not getting in trouble. Memes are a huge example. Most memes you see involve copyrighted characters, or pictures of famous individuals, or songs, none of which do the memers have the rights to. And yet, companies have, in general, avoided persecuting memers. Why? Because it's bad PR and it's too much work to sue a potentially unlimited number of thieves, not to mention the Streisand effect, which would probably only accelerate the memeing of their product. Gaming companies are the biggest example of this. It could be argued that watching a streamer stream a game is a competitor for actually playing the game. Many people have never played a game but have watched streamers play. This gives gaming companies a legitimate case against streamers for streaming their game without consent. Gaming companies would never do this though, for pretty much the same reasons as above. How do NFTs fit into this? Well, I don't think memers are really stealing from Nintendo when they put Mario into a meme. I don't think youtubers are stealing when they put a famous song over a goofy video. And I don't think the copy-and-pasters are really stealing NFTs when they do what they do. They aren't going to resell, or use the NFT as a token to get into any of the NFT members-only clubs. They profit in no way from copy and pasting the NFT, they're simply doing it for laughs. Here is where NFT owners mess up. Multibillion dollar companies, famously litigious ones at that, have figured out that suing people making memes about them is a losing game, and there are in fact cases of companies encouraging memes about their product in the form of viral marketing. NFT owners on the other hand have not realized that they only look foolish when they huff and puff about theft with no real intent to bring legal action against the supposed thieves. If they ignored it, and continued to sit in their little bubble and pretend that dropping 1k on a lion or monkey that was ironically a lazy, copy-and-paste design, was a smart thing to do, then people would leave them alone. Instead of doing that they lash out and act like they're being persecuted, which only adds to the fun of antagonizing them. To recap: 1. Nobody is stealing NFTs because nobody is profiting from the copy and paste 2. Even the "theft" of NFTs could be construed as a competitor for buying them, prosecuting NFT thieves would be stupid in most cases 3. NFTs are lazily made, poor quality works of art that exist as a status symbol for dumb people than as good art in their own right 4. If NFT owners were smart, which they aren't, then they would stop whining so much

Chad

Either way I'll just right click and save image L