no literally like no one can convince me this isn't a fever dream. I feel like everyone is lying to themselves about how cool they think their monkey looks
@@glowvxn They bought these monkeys for an absurd amount of money while drunk/high/on a dare and how have to justify it to themselves, lmao. Nobody can genuinely think they look cool.
Metagirlfriends are just the free to play dress-up games. Except you can never dress her up in other outfits, so...... worse than something that exists for free.
I mean.... There seems to me a genuine sex work aspect with real models being involved too. Despite what Kurtis said.... They probably are getting private chats with that one girl. Paid, private sexting is both common and legal. It's like the restaurant where people are taking a service that already exists and throwing nfts in for no reason.
Also, how does "randomly generated" sound appealing? There's no personalization in it to ensure everything is coherent, it's just RNG on what you'll get (or what they look like).
@@ashendude3394 If I'm not wrong, assholes use it to produce anything like scripts, books, essays without needing an ounce of talent, effort or time. Therefore, taking away jobs from actual writers who could have taken those requests.
Oh, that's nothing. In Japan there are actual AI girlfriends that you can marry. There are actual people "married" to the 21st century equivalent of tamagotchis.
@@somedudeok1451 at least it probably doesn’t need like 300 washing machines worth of power I mean there was that one dude who married a ds and those are rechargeable lmao
"each of these meta girlfriends has a unique personality, like wearing a pastel pink hoodie and a thong while sneering! a personality *is* what a person looks like, right??"
Then they put some bullshit description of their "personalities" and it's basically the same sentence, like Mad Libs "insert personality trait here" "insert favorite food here" then hate real women for having opinions
yeah they make these pathetic little ornaments that kinda look like women because they hate actual real women. they desire our bodies but they don't want to treat us like human beings, metagirlfriends are a reflection of that
i can't believe they're selling kids dress up games to dudes and calling them digital girlfriends. 😭 those look like something straight off of GirlsGoGames that i'd play when i was 7
Buying an NFT is like going to an art gallery and instead of buying the painting off the wall, you bought the information placard describing the painting.
What offends me the most with NFTs is that people are willing to pay more for a drawing that is randomly generated from an AI and isn’t even unique (same pose, reused assets, unpleasant aesthetic) but will get angry when an artist asks for 20$ to make a fully custom art piece that is unique to them and made by an actual person who knows how to put elements together in a pleasing way.
this! i genuinely cannot understand why people are paying millions of dollars for art that was literally generated at random, but then freak out when an artist who put actual time and effort into creating a unique piece asks for money. also, a lot of artists need that money to pay for like… basic needs. the money people are paying for nfts is, in a lot of cases, going to already rich companies
NFT guys: Stop screenshotting, that doesn't work NTF guys: ravenously screenshotting the work of actual artists and selling it for thousands. yeah, that tracks
Months ago, when I first heard of NFTs, I got irrationally angry about them. Since then, I've learned more about them, and now I'm rationally angry about them.
The term meta verse was originally used in a dystopian book about there being a better world that you could use to escape from the real world but then it just became the same place that you wanted to escape from. So the idea of paying for a house in the meta verse with real money honestly makes sense
The idea that someone would spend millions of dollars on some ugly Picrew knockoff monkey when they could just use a bit of money to buy themselves Kurtis Conner merch is heartbreaking.
The fact that there is such a thing as Meta girlfriends, but (apparently) not Meta boyfriends, really says everything you need to know about this NFT movement.
The worst part about the whole "bored ape club " is that they are just generated images...... Like they are not unique neither aesthetically pleasant.. Is just a get rich scam and seeing celebrities take part on it ...ouch
ikr? it´d at least be kinda worth it (apart from the technical stuff at least) if the art was personal and each one made by a person instead of just random gen.
they would, that is what pisses me off why not pay a talented artist to draw them unique and amazing art, but instead they buy those ugly computer generated images, I simply don't understand
@@mrman991 no no, it's also important that a woman stay pure and ALWAYS cross her legs... otherwise she's going to go to hell. You don't sleep with a guy who buys you dinner? Hell. You have sex before marriage? Straight to hell. You wear revealing ehhhsweaters, shirts? You go right to hell. You wear top too low? Believe it or not, hell. You wear croptop _too high?_ Also hell! Overboob, underboob. Edit: well that comment really got away from me at some point, didn't it
Apparently the applause in the Paris Hilton interview was added in post. Someone in the comment section of that interview said they were there and the audience was silent during that part.
Someone tried to make an NFT dating app, and then it got cancelled because there weren't enough women on it. Glorious. Edit: I have been informed that this was a joke and didn't actually happen. However, i think it's actually even funnier that the entire internet heard that and went "yeah, that tracks."
I've never seen an NFT that wasn't a procedurally generated piece of trash. Like you can go to any artist with open commissions and they will draw whatever you want for a FRACTION of the cost of an NFT. An NFT is basically a Picrew but every time you create a character they burn down a part of the Amazon rain forest
I could literally hire an entire animation team to create a completely original character in an animated short and specify that that animation is mine for less than the price of one ridiculously priced art of an ugly monkey or a basic Picrew 'girlfriend' aimed at horny guys with too much to spend. Hell, I'm willing to bet that I'd be able to hire an entire animation studio to create a feature length film about my character for less than the price of an NFT collection. It's just mindboggling to me that people settle for less than mediocrity. EDIT: To the NFT bro comically missing the point below: yes, NFTs can have good art. It's still more environmentally friendly and supportive to artists to just commission them the normal way. Studio Ghibli films cost anywhere from 11 million to 34 million dollars to make. This is actually pricey in terms of animation already, but Ghibli created absolute classics that stand the test of time, and it didn't involve ruining the environment. Just imagine this: for the price of 24 NFTs valued at 1 million dollars each, you could have funded the making of Howl's Moving Castle. For the price of 19 similar NFTs, you could have funded Spirited Away. Just because you slap a piece of technology on some decent art does not mean it's worth a hefty price tag, especially if it's just a single fucking image that you don't even actually own.
It's because the cost comes from "minting" the NFT, which is taking x Ethereum, and binding it to the NFT token though proof of work. Aka They taped a 20$ bill to the back of a receipt that says you own this receipt and that's supposed to give it value, even though it takes away the use abd purpose it had beforehand.
but they already do that with barely any consequences. The only "consequence" is that sometimes people outside of their (worryingly growing) online circle make fun them on RUclips
@@eldritchcupcakes3195 I'm honestly okay with this technology if it's mean we get to keep these types of people into one corner of society, and away from the rest of the world. Well, if it doesn't involve scam money that is...
@@samarnold5531I would love to see some actual data about whether men with abusive or pedophilic tendencies, if their tendency to commit crimes are less if they have a realistic sex doll, or if it causes them to commit more crimes. I don’t think this is something you can philosophically agree or disagree with, we need actual information before we decide. If you find a study, let me know
“Your digital presence means more than your physical presence”. I feel sorry for that guy. His whole life is on a screen. We all spend too much time online. But that’s ridiculous.
As an artist, seeing people will pay thousands of dollars for a badly drawn NFT but not 60 for a personalized art commission breaks my heart and makes me cry more than them when they realize their JPEGs can be stolen
They are literally randomly computer generated and people are paying millions. But reL people actually making and creating real art struggle to make ends meet. 🙄
This is like such a minor point but it's so weird when Fallon says "I got into this" and Hilton goes "I know. I got you into it." because they're.... supposed to pretend to be having a normal, impromptu conversation. We know they're not- they do rehearsals and stuff- but the idea behind a talk show is to avoid it looking like you just memorized a conversation. This is like telling your friend that watched a show with you to get you into it, that you're now into that show. Like, yeah, they know. They were there.
Those ape NFT's gotta be the most hilarious scam in history. Just multiple iterations of the same ugly piece of art. Whoever hyped those things up is the best salesman ever.
That one guy saying “no matter how many screengrabbed NFTs you have you can’t sell them” is pure gold bc that’s exactly what happens to artists who have their art stolen and sold as NFTs
The IRONY of the image you choose for the cheating girlfriend being the background for a night core version of a song called “I’m sorry i stole your girlfriend” is ASTRONOMICAL
The worst thing I’ve seen was multiple accounts selling “NFT Slaves” or “Meta Slaves. Photographs of black people to “own”. They had George Floyd as an Easter egg. One account went as far as to doing 8-but style renderings of him in different outfits. It’s really sickening. I dislike nfts and the bitcoin stuff but it was only a matter of time someone did something like this w nfts :((
Holy fuck wth that is revolting what sick fuck does this? Im so sorry you had to see that man.
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Does anyone else want to scream because people in our country literally don’t have proper drinking water and people are spending THOUSANDS of dollars on a jpeg????
As an artist i feel like NFTs as a concept are fundamentally not about art. This is about money and this is the most insane way capitalism has ever interacted with art. I even understand paying a zillion dollars for a solid blue painting with a line on it more than paying tens of thousands for a png. At least there's something to be said of owning art that is personal, customized, or tangible.
@@mkat8505 I would disagree to be honest, I feel like commissioning an art piece would be way more supportive of artists rather that paying for a randomized PNG. Also, with commissioned art, it can have value according to many factors such as skill and whoever drew it; with nfts it has nothing ‘special’ about it as most of the time they’re generated randomly. That’s my opinion- feel free to disagree,
@@sybo59 she said it's the MOST INSANE way capitalism has interacted with art, the popes and nobles of Italy (not to mention elsewhere) would regularly commission architects, artists and sculptors to work on churches or just flights of fancy. It really is a strange interaction, ripping off actual artists to sell nothing
@@vincentadultman6226 Yes, but my point was more getting at the false dichotomy implied between good art and money, as if money was a corrupting influence. “It’s not real art bc there’s money involved!” I pointed out that idea is nonsense, which in no way defends NFTs. I hope that clarifies my stance.
the “if u bought a painting and just received a certificate of that painting” actually happens with conceptual art all the time, when people bought the banana taped to the wall they received a certificate of ownership and that was it lol
that's actually epic tbh. getting some rich person to pay for the concept of a banana taped to a wall? incredible. i respect that. getting everyday people to squander their money on something just as pointless under the guise that it's gonna shoot up in value and make them rich on the other hand just feels scummy
I’m an art student in college and me and my friends have had a lot of NFT bros from the school trying to get us to make NFT art for them and harassing us on social media. They kept spam emailing out entire art club during finals. They are offering little to no money, calling it an “investment opportunity” and even tried to have a NFT competition where you submit art, and only the “winner” gets paid. NFTs do not support artists, they are just another way people exploit artists for money.
I’ve commented this on a couple posts, but I think it would be useful in this thread as well! As an artist myself who is pursuing a degree in fine arts, NFTs can be incredibly useful for artists’ control of their works. Many times artists will sell a piece to someone for a cheaper price, but once the artist becomes popular, the person who bought the original work can resell it for up to 10 times the buying price. While it’s awesome that the artist’s work increases in value, they receive absolutely no percentage of that resell. In the fine art world, NFTs are becoming an incredibly effective way to control the percentage that the artist gets from every resell of that piece. Say they sold the original work for thousand dollars, and someone resells that for a million, they can decide on the royalties that they get off of that piece. While I get the ridiculousness of buying memes for a shit ton of money, there is definitely a benefit for artists if they are able to use the system correctly. My professor is actually doing research right now regarding the fine art market and the use of NFTs, and the stuff that she’s finding out is incredibly interesting and a value to people who want to make a career out of selling their art. Just thought it would be cool to share some of the benefits of NFTs! I know that the first time I ever heard of them I thought it was stupid, but after learning a little bit more about how they can actually benefit the art world, I think they’re pretty cool! You can definitely use NFTs on physical works as well, it just acts as sort of a title that a person owns, and that title gets transferred whenever they sell the piece!
@@ninadefendi how about try being ethical when it comes to putting your art out there without killing the planet even more??? it’s already dying and i, as a working class, don’t wanna contribute more to the environmental damage. i’m from an art school as well but i push everyone away from convincing me to join nfts to earn more money.....it does nothing to artists anyway because they steal other people’s art and/or take credit for it.
I am not a furry, but as long as the people are putting warnings on their art, do not draw underaged animals (you know what I mean) or very uncomfortable glamourized grapey stuff, I am absolutely fine with them drawing that.
"But I can have her naked" RULE34 BUDDY! Porn site! People do it for FREE! GET AN ACTUAL GIRLFRIEND WHO WANTS TO HAVE SEX! NFT bros are literally dumb.
Well, they pay for a place on the “blockchain”, which they believe is valuable/ will be valuable one day. The ugly artwork is literally just a receipt.
@@SixtySecondYoga Even worse when you think about the example, basically buying an online "girlfriend" just to ship them off to the highest bidder a few weeks later-
As an artist, NFT are just bad - people say that they want to support artists, that's why they spend so much on NFTs, yet they don't want to pay 20 buck for a full custom made artwork. If people really cared about artists, they would commission them or buy their gadgets; and if you can't afford to pay for stuff, you can always support them sharing their artworks and liking their post (especially with smaller artists like me this truly helps a lot). Overall this is just a big and more complicated pyramid scheme.
What an entitled person you are. You want people to pay you some arbitrary amount of money for work they demonstrably don’t value at that level, purely as some sort of charity meant to “support artists.” Which artists? You. Good god, how bleak.
@@jevilcore Yet you support price controls for things like apartment rent. Should the government force you to hold your prices lower than you like, so that more people can benefit from your work? If that happened, would you produce nor work or be more creative? No.
"every randomly generated girl has a unique personality" [They all have the exact same base with like three possible expressions] My metagirlfriend-sona's personality is 'turquoise boat captain squinting a little bit!'
its so crazy because commissions exist. like you can get a custom drawing of almost anything you want, but sure, a randomized picture of an ape is good too
"Meta Girlfriends are coming to the Metaverse. Each one is randomly generated and beautifully crafted using over 600 traits, across 20 categories." - all of them have massive breasts...
@@morganfaire5684 Well yeah, that's how they are made. It's a template with a few assets that get swapped out at random. It's just churning out bullshit
I may be wrong but I think alot of celebrities are actually forced to talk about them because the people that contract them have ties to the nfts so they make the celebrities talk and buy them to artificially inflate the price of them
People have started minting MY art without my consent, it's getting sold for a LOT more than the commissions I did it for. Not only is it bad for small artists, but it's also HORRIBLE for the environment, NFTs have created enough energy to power a small country. It's horrible.
I got into making NFTs back in early 2022, was just drawing them on my iPad and giving them similiar but different characteristics, made a ton of money. But now it sucks and everything about them sucks. Never going back to it
the meta girlfriend line is actually like, really scary. just reminds me how predatory men can be and how they still feel like they can OWN women and femme people.
@@vozaviazoa “waifu pillows existed since the dawn of time” no they didnt lmfao.. they were made by incel weirdos who are predatory and never interact with real women
I like the meta girlfriends all having their “unique personalities” and multiple of them are just in outfits from well known characters like Dva or Marty McFly
What really annoys me about the meta girlfriend NFTs is, that they are marketed as sexy even though they have the same art style as half of these hyper sexualized mobile game ads, that have nothing to do with the actual game. If you wanted to pay a lot of money for unique NSFW art, why not commission an artist. There are a lot of people who will draw stuff that’s way more appealing and you can actually tailor the artwork to your taste.
It’s just weird because it seems like they’re trying to play up the utility of the NFT itself (if you can call the ability to jerk off to something utility, which i feel like you can). And NFT’s just have no fucking utility. They never have, not even the utility of just being nice to look at. I mean, there’s nice art that’s been minted, but as evidenced by the fucking apes, the quality of the art is completely irrelevant. NFT’s literally just serve the purpose of indicating that you spent a shitload of actual money on theoretical money so that the galaxy brains who think that shit’s “the future” will invite you to their circle jerk. Like if NSFW NFT sellers actually wanted to compete with actual NSFW digital artists, they would never fucking be able to. The whole thing isn’t based on any functional product, it’s just based on hyping up cryptocurrency and block chains. They’ll never be able to compete with people who have actual functional products and when people like metagirfriends try to their product is just comically sad.
Yeah I don’t get it. Men have different tastes but EVERY SINGLE one of these NFT girlfriends looks the same, the body type and the face. You can commission an artist to draw you the “perfect” girlfriend and it would actually look decent, unlike this.
my issue with the meta girlfriends isn’t even that they’re not real, or that the dudes can’t get laid irl or whatever. to me the problem is the fact they view women that way in the first place…literal commodities? they want to buy “girlfriends”? they think buying the girlfriend means they can see her naked? I mean I’m not saying they all view real women the exact same way but that raises some fucking massive red flags. like unpopular opinion here but I don’t care if you date anime girls or whatever. but buying them? to be entitled to exclusive viewing of their naked bodies? that’s weird. really fucking weird
no that is literally correct, they literally do view real women the same way. There's a SUPER popular "relationship" podcast on spotify where the main host has said some wild shit that all points to him literally thinking of women as property. He thinks its cheating for a woman to have an instagram if he's dating them, and thinks because "I buy you things, only I get to decide how things go."
I think the comparison to Pokémon cards is still being generous to NFTs. you can get people inflating prices but if a card is expensive it's usually because it was a rare print and/or is a desirable one. more recent cards have been known to intentionally run short stock to inflate prices but even still they're physical items with meaning. NFTs are entirely not unique and their "rarity" is completely artificial while being completely destructible because you can screenshot and repost that image anywhere
Dan Olson from Folding Ideas made a fantastic two hour video about NFTs for anyone who wants to know more. The "rarity" is just as meaningless as it seems. A fantastic watch.
coming back to this video after the hype for nft's have died down and seeing how everyone who invested into it has either lost a ton of money or has had their nft's stolen is so so sooo cathartic and satisfying
The way that the artist for the bored apes (shes known as Allseeing Seneca) wasnt even compensated or credited for her work really proves how obsessed nfts are in fucking over artists
Wow, that’s so ironic. Nfts weren’t designed to benefit artists, they were designed for greedy people to make money off of art. The ape nfts are just about the least creative thing I’ve ever seen, and they all look the same. This isn’t doing anything for art or artists.
I agree and I hate how its marketed to artists as some digital thing made specifically for them. It's not. This is just like buying junk of Gaia online or Neopets that's limited. It has nothing to do with the art of the neopet-it's just the fact that its exclusive and rare. NFTs are just trying to bet on which Neopet everyone wants before they know the market. As all these rich people are showing-it has nothing to do with they actual artistic value of anything. The most popular ones have super simplistic designs and are marketable.
I feel like the worst thing about NFTs actually is the environmental impact. Yeah, they're weird, and pointless, and depressing, and creepy, and probably represent the beginning of the end for our lobotomite species, but all of that stuff would be just another horrendous internet trend if it weren't for the fact that every single fucking one of those things is killing the planet for no reason
i feel like people talk more about the other aspects as well to discourage people from nfts bc anytime anyone talks only about the environment aspects randos pop up talking about more eco friendly nfts while not actually addressing any of the other issues
The fact that people are also stealing existing art is especially troubling. I remember QinniArt, one of the first big artists on DeviantArt and IG, passed away in 2020 due to illness, and her existing art is still being stolen and minted as NFTs. Her brother had to post on Twitter asking people to report any NFTs of her art. It's so sad and disturbing.
Watching this now two years later knowing how NFTs are barely talked about now is so funny. I wonder how all those NFT bros insisting it was a great investment feel now
Literally I know of people who've spent house mortgages on furry art, and I personally will say that's more respectable than an NFTbro trying to grift on an environmental hazard.
their money is supporting artists more than nfts ever will. like damn if I’m gonna spend money I’d rather help out people rather than waste my money on a link of an environmentally-damaging ugly icon
If I get a comic commission of my furry OC zalithar, the conqueror of stars and sower of nations, getting hard vored by a Lesbian salazzle polycule, then not only did I get something I personally wanted, I also stimulated the economy by giving money to a laborer and value generator that will go out into the wider economy, brought something entirely original into the world, and brought a new form of enjoyment for multiple other people too. Meanwhile, spending that much on NFTs just gives that money to leeches who will hoard it all between themselves, and I get a worthless hyperlink that might not even work if the DMCA takedown notice goes through.
Oh yeah definitely gross. I can think of many aspects of late stage capitalism that are far more disgusting... but this is definitely one of the weirdest though.
@@highdefinition450 because people prioritizing profit for a quick buck over everything else isn't at all why we're in these situations in the first place lol i agree let's all join in, what is there to lose right?
I love how almost all NFTs look like piccrew characters. Like especially the meta girlfriends and apes, its literally the same drawing with different pasted on accessories. probably 5 minutes of work goes into each one
@@fart63 Not advocating for the B.S. that is NFTs, but there is work put into the designs, and as someone deep into art and an aspiring artist, I feel it necessary to point that out. Each accessory and/or hat and/or all of the other shit that can be swapped in and out had to be created by (an) artist/s. I actually have seen someone point out one of the artists behind BAYC and how that person talked about how it's cool it wen famous, but the lack of credit kinda sucks. I don't think NFTs are AT ALL good, but they were created, so there is work put into them. At the very least to make them possible to mint. If anything, that makes it worse, because those artists don't get credit. Sorry to ramble, I just don't feel comfortable insuing that there's no work put into the art itself, and can't comfortably like ignore you saying that, I'm not trying to be hostile or anything, just kindly bring up the logistics of that part of it. Much like picrews, each piece does have to be designed, and usually there are a good few hundred different accessories, leading to at least thousands of combinations. So while the minting is effortless in regards to human effort, (it definitely does have work put into that part too, but that's on the strain of computers and cooling systems that drain electricity) the NFTs do have designs and work and effort put into them, and as much as I hate NFTs, ignoring that effort is only harmful to the people who took that time to create that shit.
@@kiralonely the art itself, yes, work went into it. But the actual nft as I said is a shameless (former) money hole, with absolutely no effort put in by the people selling it. The “meta-girlfriends”, maybe someone slaved away creating the assets, but as you said art theft runs rampant and they likely didn’t receive the deserved compensation anyway. So I will still say no work went into the nft as it is. Buying an nft will not be supporting any artist that worked on the assets.
@@fart63 Oh, I certainly agree. I just wanted to clarify the art does deserve recognition of the work put in, even if the use is as assets for something with no human effort put in. (Poor computers slave away to mine that shit, but nft bros don't give a fuck about them. Or the environment.) I most certainly agree with everything you said above. You explained that better than I did, by far.
The metaverse already exists...Roblox is one of the most popular & was launched 15 years ago. Zuckerberg acting like he invented the concept when he literally duplicated Rec Room (est.2016) but approached it in a more polished fashion to attract older users & reach a mainstream audience. The definition of metaverse is “a space where users interact with computer-generated environments,” the internet alone can also be considered a metaverse to an extent...
Club Penguin and Habbo Hotel were also a thing like ages ago and I remember using a bunch of other websites similar to those as well. The concept isn’t new at all and it’s so embarrassing that they’re selling it as the new coca-cola or something.
the only way I understood what NFTs were was someone describing it as everyone banging your spouse and you only having the marriage certificate to prove they're your spouse and I think thats a beautiful way to put it
Eh, to me it just seems like another version of the whole waifu thing that happens in the anime community or one the 1000s of self insert fanfictions on the internet that are often times adult in nature, which is in my opnion not that bad you're not hurting anybody, there are always people who take it too far to the point that their appreciation of that character is an unhealthy obsession although that is not unique to this kind of content people will always find something to obsess over if they feel the need to. (Still don't like NFT's though)
@@JT5555 basically the whole reason they're risking their lives by playing death games is because they're all in severe debt and need money, so it's really ironic that people are making nfts based on squid game
@@JT5555 the show is essentially a critique of capitalism and class disparity and everything, and they're using imagery from said capitalism critique for their capitalistic cash grabs
Thinking about all the dedicated non-profit organizations, scientists, engineers, and all the other people who are doing EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER to find solutions to the deteriorating state of the environment, trying to create hope for themselves and other people. And then they find out about NFTS; people making things needlessly worse, and for what? For a trend, basically. It makes me so upset. This is literally "evolving backwards". We're literally ruining the progress we've been making as humans.
Some people are so insane they think money is more important than people, their lives and our planet. I think it should actually be considered a disorder, if someone is so split from reality that they put all their hard work into making more money that they don't need, they should get cognitive behavioral therapy or institutionalized if it's a severe case and the rest of us could have a chance at a liveable future.
The people who have the money to make a difference decide to spend it to get richer, instead of contributing to society. Buy an ugly ass ape. People starve to death, but sure, pal, invest in bitcoin. I hope that this all crashes and burns to the ground, leaving this people wirhout the money they clearly didn't deserve
@@prayingmantis8148 100% agree. These people are so deluded that their actions are ruining *all* of our future ('our' meaning humans, themselves, other animals, plants, and the planet) and should be locked away or rehabbed. Money is just an object and doesn't have any value when we no longer exist/assign value to it (or society collapses).
It's just "Imma spend thousands of dollars on a hyperlink that leads to a randomly generated jpeg of a fictional 2D girl that isn't even protected by law and everyone will be able to download it the moment I put it on a social media site for free."
I think the funniest part about the “fake estate” joke is that he had to add it in while editing. I can imagine him getting to that part and being like “Oh, I could have made a fucking AMAZING joke here”, and quickly filming himself saying it.
I was already laughing my ass off from the video- and then I get an NFT ad in the middle of it and I just straight up died. My soul just evaporated and I died- Oh my god
oh my god the dude saying that having an NFT profile picture on twitter makes people think you're cool is a kilometer deep in denial i have never seen someone with an NFT pfp be respected outside of conversations about how good NFT's are.
"can we normalize being a fucking idiot?" yes because i have listened to countless explanations on nft's and i still don't really understand exactly how they work. i think i get it though. i think.
The way that NFTs work is that they don't. They just straight-up don't do the things that people say they do. It's a scam to make you buy crypto currency.
Try watching folding ideas video called "the problems witv nfts" its over two hours long and I had to watch it in multiple sittings but goddamn it's such a great explenation. I highly, highly recommend it.
Here’s my understanding: The blockchain is just a record of all the transactions that have happened. Each crypto currency has its own blockchain. The blockchains are backed up on many computers at once, so there’s no one “master” copy. Anyways, that’s why art associated with nfts are separate from the nfts. How things are written on the blockchain is way too inefficient. Large images can’t be put on the blockchain, but urls can be (and like really tiny pixel art images).
Literally every NFT ive seen just looks like one of those old deviantart dress up games from like 2013 where you would click the arrows on the left or right side to change around the items on her, and then people would screenshot their outfits theyd make and reupload them.
i heard someone define NFTs as buying a painting in a museum but the plaque saying its yours is in a storage closet thats off limits to everyone besides staff
An NFT girlfriend has to be the saddest thing I've ever heard.
Their body proportions look so fucked too💀💀💀
@@kys2049 mfs heard hourglass and took it literally 😭
Plus they don't even look realistic😭
My girlfriend is also non fungible (she takes medication for athletes foot)
From the “waste” up lmao
the idea of selling an imaginary monkey for 20 million dollars that doesn’t even mean anything, is literally the funniest thing i have ever heard.
no literally like no one can convince me this isn't a fever dream. I feel like everyone is lying to themselves about how cool they think their monkey looks
@@glowvxn They bought these monkeys for an absurd amount of money while drunk/high/on a dare and how have to justify it to themselves, lmao. Nobody can genuinely think they look cool.
They don't even own the monkey, they own a receipt and someone placed a monkey next to that receipt. I am not kidding it is actually that stupid.
even worse imagine destroying an actual priceless piece to turn it to an nft (real story using a bankzy piece)
Well I heard rich people are using these nfts for money laundering and tax evasions which wouldn't be surprising at this point
Metagirlfriends are just the free to play dress-up games. Except you can never dress her up in other outfits, so...... worse than something that exists for free.
@@marievirgo7972 WAIT THAT EAS REAL I THOUGHT THAT WAS A FEVER DREAM I HAD
@@marievirgo7972 Kurtis Conner is a scammer
ruclips.net/video/ByuthfaHpiw/видео.html
Bruh, you’re not wrong XD
I mean.... There seems to me a genuine sex work aspect with real models being involved too. Despite what Kurtis said.... They probably are getting private chats with that one girl. Paid, private sexting is both common and legal. It's like the restaurant where people are taking a service that already exists and throwing nfts in for no reason.
Also, how does "randomly generated" sound appealing? There's no personalization in it to ensure everything is coherent, it's just RNG on what you'll get (or what they look like).
I love rewatching this knowing NFT’s have completely died 😂😂
I want an update on the “NFTs are changing the game” kid
@@emihayabusa324 ten bucks says he's just moved onto the next grift without showing an ounce of awareness, same as most other techbro grifters.
@@w花b Yupyup. The confident spewers of incorrect information.
@@w花b I'm curious, I'm not familiar with all these new technology but how does one profit from chatgpt?
@@ashendude3394 If I'm not wrong, assholes use it to produce anything like scripts, books, essays without needing an ounce of talent, effort or time. Therefore, taking away jobs from actual writers who could have taken those requests.
The fact that “Metagirfriends” exist completely unironically is both hilarious and kinda terrifying
being down bad enough to buy a nft girlfriend be like
It’s like paying to stay single IRL
It's like the "gigachad" NFTS
Oh, that's nothing. In Japan there are actual AI girlfriends that you can marry. There are actual people "married" to the 21st century equivalent of tamagotchis.
@@somedudeok1451 at least it probably doesn’t need like 300 washing machines worth of power
I mean there was that one dude who married a ds and those are rechargeable lmao
"each of these meta girlfriends has a unique personality, like wearing a pastel pink hoodie and a thong while sneering! a personality *is* what a person looks like, right??"
Then they put some bullshit description of their "personalities" and it's basically the same sentence, like Mad Libs "insert personality trait here" "insert favorite food here" then hate real women for having opinions
yeah they make these pathetic little ornaments that kinda look like women because they hate actual real women. they desire our bodies but they don't want to treat us like human beings, metagirlfriends are a reflection of that
And theyre the same people who complains that women dont have personality when they actually met a real person
a personality is scott
Ugh, women don't even have a personality!! They don't even wear a funny hat or have a bread knife shoved through their head!
i can't believe they're selling kids dress up games to dudes and calling them digital girlfriends. 😭 those look like something straight off of GirlsGoGames that i'd play when i was 7
IKR 😭 waiting for the day cryptobros pay 12k for an Elsa dress up game
Girlsgogames had STYLE, though. These look like the crappy knockoff site you'd play when your school blocked girlsgogames.
NO YOU'RE RIGHT
@@ZimLikesPastaAnimation true tho
@Catburry the “comes with a personality” is the funniest part cause it makes no sense! Like u said it’s a FUCKING PICTURE💀💀. This shit is weird
Meta girlfriend? More like "I've never met a girl, friend".
Underrated
*You didn't watch the entire video before commenting.*
wrong if you buy a metagirlfriend you don't have friends
@@placeholderdoeI think nameless faceless text on a screen solely there to scam them counts as a friend to the bros tbh
kurtis made this joke basically
Buying an NFT is like going to an art gallery and instead of buying the painting off the wall, you bought the information placard describing the painting.
😂😂😂😂😩 this comment
it’s like buying a photo of the painting that you took on your phone
it’s like buying the art and getting to go to a dinner ever month with the artist
@@michaelrisi2544 nah...ur just getting the option to be able to pay to go to that restaurant...with other smug idiots
great comment, gonna screenshot it and sell it online now
"Meta girlfriends are fully clothed and visible from the WASTE up" what an extremely unfortunate typo. and yet so fitting.
I didn't see this before my own comment, but it was basically the same thing I thought, except yours is much more clever, lol
@keep rollin Kurtis Conner is a scammer
ruclips.net/video/ByuthfaHpiw/видео.html
i like how they have the crew's thumbnails at the bottom of the page and the one (obvious) woman in there is the "female artist", whatever that means
@@ember9361 I think it just means she drew all the girlfriends
What offends me the most with NFTs is that people are willing to pay more for a drawing that is randomly generated from an AI and isn’t even unique (same pose, reused assets, unpleasant aesthetic) but will get angry when an artist asks for 20$ to make a fully custom art piece that is unique to them and made by an actual person who knows how to put elements together in a pleasing way.
I know right it pisses me off.
yea its almost like its money laundering🙃
oh wait it is
this! i genuinely cannot understand why people are paying millions of dollars for art that was literally generated at random, but then freak out when an artist who put actual time and effort into creating a unique piece asks for money. also, a lot of artists need that money to pay for like… basic needs. the money people are paying for nfts is, in a lot of cases, going to already rich companies
Literally, like the nft girlfriends are just overpriced girl go games
I know it's insane
NFT guys: Stop screenshotting, that doesn't work
NTF guys: ravenously screenshotting the work of actual artists and selling it for thousands.
yeah, that tracks
NTF guys be screenshotting anything tbh
@@0skillgamer The Nine-Tailed Fox units are going crazy
non tungible foken
NTFS guys: hey uhhhh how 'bout you activate windows
I'ma screenshot your comment and turn it into an NFT@@0skillgamer
No matter how many people try to explain it to me I will never understand what an NFT is and I also have no desire to find out.
@RayMoneyy nah
@RayMoneyy shut up
these replies bro
@RayMoneyy embarrassing
ur lucky..
Months ago, when I first heard of NFTs, I got irrationally angry about them. Since then, I've learned more about them, and now I'm rationally angry about them.
LMFAO
@@parappa2360 Hi ilu ❤️
honestly
same
Oh man, this such a good one. I can imagine this at as the set up for a whole standup set.
This made me laugh out loud. Same
NFT girlfriends, NFT restaurants, a metaverse... these people are spending THOUSANDS of dollars to roleplay 😭
shit, i do that for free on a Saturday night lol
@Melody Dimonde they’re only tryna feed the metahomeless :/
@@ithoughtiwascishet1316 STOP OMG THAT WAS HILARIOUS-
@@ithoughtiwascishet1316 they'll probably just use it to buy more metadrugs smh...
And I do it for free. Whos really winning?
The term meta verse was originally used in a dystopian book about there being a better world that you could use to escape from the real world but then it just became the same place that you wanted to escape from. So the idea of paying for a house in the meta verse with real money honestly makes sense
Ready player one?
Snow Crash
The idea that someone would spend millions of dollars on some ugly Picrew knockoff monkey when they could just use a bit of money to buy themselves Kurtis Conner merch is heartbreaking.
Agreed.
there is a picrew of it already lmao, so dumb
I agree
AMEN 🙏🏻
99% of picrews i've seen look a thousand times better than the weed-smoking apes honestly
The fact that there is such a thing as Meta girlfriends, but (apparently) not Meta boyfriends, really says everything you need to know about this NFT movement.
Very good point lol
tht's literally my first thoughts about this as well
For incels 😂😂
Lamo fr I didn’t thinking about that
I've seen it describes as MLM for men
The worst part about the whole "bored ape club " is that they are just generated images...... Like they are not unique neither aesthetically pleasant.. Is just a get rich scam and seeing celebrities take part on it ...ouch
@Ifgia Han🍏 butter
@Ifgia Han🍏 thank you for your input
ikr? it´d at least be kinda worth it (apart from the technical stuff at least) if the art was personal and each one made by a person instead of just random gen.
they're literally just randomly generated picrews 💀
@Ifgia Han🍏 Outta my way folks, i'm about to get it.
My identity has been stolen.
“their own unique personality” they don’t even have their own unique body types dawg
IM CRYING
based comment also nice pfp
@@untitleddocument5231 hell yeah 😎
"their own unique personality" they don't even got different faces man
In the words of a wise person, "It is morally right to bully NFT people"
And stealing their "artworks" is an act of heroism
Yes
@Juan Silva Sir do you not know how to take a joke
@Juan Silva bro it's not that serious
it's an obligation, even
I have a feeling the people who buy nfts would tell me my commission prices are too high
OLIVER! i love your videos (:
💀
100% agree💀..... ppl don't appreciate art unless it's a trend 😀
they would, that is what pisses me off
why not pay a talented artist to draw them unique and amazing art, but instead they buy those ugly computer generated images, I simply don't understand
whoa we have the same name and i put your likes to 444
I like how an outfit change for the metagirlfriends is enough to say they have "unique personalities". I see why they'd need metagirlfriends.
When I heard that unique personalities bit I was almost a little impressed, until i realized how little that actually meant. Silly me.
are you saying that what a woman wears isn't her entire personality?
I'm shook
Basically insane amount of money for three generic cartoon pictures of a woman.
@@mrman991 no no, it's also important that a woman stay pure and ALWAYS cross her legs... otherwise she's going to go to hell.
You don't sleep with a guy who buys you dinner? Hell.
You have sex before marriage? Straight to hell.
You wear revealing ehhhsweaters, shirts? You go right to hell.
You wear top too low? Believe it or not, hell.
You wear croptop _too high?_ Also hell! Overboob, underboob.
Edit: well that comment really got away from me at some point, didn't it
@@idontwantahandlethough it really sounds like you're up selling hell tbh
Apparently the applause in the Paris Hilton interview was added in post. Someone in the comment section of that interview said they were there and the audience was silent during that part.
Someone tried to make an NFT dating app, and then it got cancelled because there weren't enough women on it. Glorious.
Edit: I have been informed that this was a joke and didn't actually happen. However, i think it's actually even funnier that the entire internet heard that and went "yeah, that tracks."
LOL
PLEASE
THAT'S THE FUNNIEST SHIT I'VE EVER HEARD
scott
the gay NFT bros:
Jimmy looks so dead inside while he’s talking about his NFT. It’s like he just realized the path his career has taken him down
He looks like a dad who wants to get along with his kid's company but has no idea what he's doing.
He does look dead inside, but I'm not so sure that it's due to self-awareness.
He just realized his soul left his body
Y’all act like these multimillionaires don’t have autonomy I think you’re picking up on his lack of authenticity
@@Whatlander he’s more self aware than most of the celebrities so I guess that’s something
I've never seen an NFT that wasn't a procedurally generated piece of trash. Like you can go to any artist with open commissions and they will draw whatever you want for a FRACTION of the cost of an NFT. An NFT is basically a Picrew but every time you create a character they burn down a part of the Amazon rain forest
I could literally hire an entire animation team to create a completely original character in an animated short and specify that that animation is mine for less than the price of one ridiculously priced art of an ugly monkey or a basic Picrew 'girlfriend' aimed at horny guys with too much to spend. Hell, I'm willing to bet that I'd be able to hire an entire animation studio to create a feature length film about my character for less than the price of an NFT collection.
It's just mindboggling to me that people settle for less than mediocrity.
EDIT: To the NFT bro comically missing the point below: yes, NFTs can have good art. It's still more environmentally friendly and supportive to artists to just commission them the normal way. Studio Ghibli films cost anywhere from 11 million to 34 million dollars to make. This is actually pricey in terms of animation already, but Ghibli created absolute classics that stand the test of time, and it didn't involve ruining the environment. Just imagine this: for the price of 24 NFTs valued at 1 million dollars each, you could have funded the making of Howl's Moving Castle. For the price of 19 similar NFTs, you could have funded Spirited Away.
Just because you slap a piece of technology on some decent art does not mean it's worth a hefty price tag, especially if it's just a single fucking image that you don't even actually own.
It's because the cost comes from "minting" the NFT, which is taking x Ethereum, and binding it to the NFT token though proof of work.
Aka They taped a 20$ bill to the back of a receipt that says you own this receipt and that's supposed to give it value, even though it takes away the use abd purpose it had beforehand.
Now, that's not fair! Sometimes it's quite nice art that has been stolen by NFT Bros scamming quick cash off of a real artist's hard work.
@@entothechesnautknight1762 to me nft is just some people who want to become rich fast and using this scheme they end up trolling each other.
The description of NFTs you just gave is my favorite one so far
I think Meta Girlfriends just gives incels a free pass on treating women like objects without any consequences
but they already do that with barely any consequences. The only "consequence" is that sometimes people outside of their (worryingly growing) online circle make fun them on RUclips
Like those guys who got ai girlfriends and immediately started abusing them
@@eldritchcupcakes3195 I'm honestly okay with this technology if it's mean we get to keep these types of people into one corner of society, and away from the rest of the world.
Well, if it doesn't involve scam money that is...
@@ashendude3394it still encourages abusive behaviour and so when these people interact with real women they’re very harmful
@@samarnold5531I would love to see some actual data about whether men with abusive or pedophilic tendencies, if their tendency to commit crimes are less if they have a realistic sex doll, or if it causes them to commit more crimes. I don’t think this is something you can philosophically agree or disagree with, we need actual information before we decide. If you find a study, let me know
“Your digital presence means more than your physical presence”. I feel sorry for that guy. His whole life is on a screen. We all spend too much time online. But that’s ridiculous.
Yeah, what if his power goes out?
Dude is so obsessed he buys shower nfts in response to actually taking a shower🚶♂️
Literally chronically online lmaooo
Fr
it's like being a bit of a pack rat then seeing one of those garbage-filled houses on Hoarders.
Like geez, I kinda get it, but yikes my dude.
The "if you have an NFT profile pick people will take you more seriously" guy has got to be the poster boy for being 1000% wrong.
But if it’s an EFT (Extremely Fungible Tokens) then it’s fine
They’re all free
Made for saving and screenshoting
"I dropped twenty grand on _a bookmark_ to something that looks like someone tried to make a Genesis/Megadrive sprite in MS Paint, please love me."
He deserves a spot on r/confidentlyincorrect
As an artist, seeing people will pay thousands of dollars for a badly drawn NFT but not 60 for a personalized art commission breaks my heart and makes me cry more than them when they realize their JPEGs can be stolen
Yeah its something alright, but to be fair I think every sane person thinks these things are so dumb.
Fr, like if you have that money to spend then might as well support an actual artist
@@somrone9236 for real, these nft look like a crappy dress up game, with randomized character accessories.
I think a terrible thing too is that many artists have had their art stolen and sold as an NFT without compensation or permission
They are literally randomly computer generated and people are paying millions. But reL people actually making and creating real art struggle to make ends meet. 🙄
This is like such a minor point but it's so weird when Fallon says "I got into this" and Hilton goes "I know. I got you into it." because they're.... supposed to pretend to be having a normal, impromptu conversation. We know they're not- they do rehearsals and stuff- but the idea behind a talk show is to avoid it looking like you just memorized a conversation. This is like telling your friend that watched a show with you to get you into it, that you're now into that show. Like, yeah, they know. They were there.
Well to be fair he's talking to both the guest and the audience
Those ape NFT's gotta be the most hilarious scam in history. Just multiple iterations of the same ugly piece of art. Whoever hyped those things up is the best salesman ever.
It was Butters
@@tobygarfield402 so real
@@tobygarfield402 who is butters
@@skies947 Just Butters... Definitely not Professor Chaos. Nope.
They're also openly racist using the ss symbol in their logo
Shoutout to all the guys who made fun of girls for playing online dress up games and are now paying nft artists to basically do it for them 🎀
omg YES!!!! also this comment made me want to go play dress up games again it's so nostalgic and fun lmao
@@anah.forrat Honestly, same-
Might hop on Doll Divine or somethin'-
@@ObscureNephilim OMG YES I FORGOT THAT ONE I went straight to Azalea's Doll
I ❤️ this reply section
i'm an enby, but doll divine was where i LIVED when i was younger!!! this reply section makes me happy, too!!
That one guy saying “no matter how many screengrabbed NFTs you have you can’t sell them” is pure gold bc that’s exactly what happens to artists who have their art stolen and sold as NFTs
Literally. There are even dead artists who've had their work stolen and sold as NFTs
That's horrible
The entire community is a kleptocracy. You know, the government model they claim to hate and accuse the US government of being?
@@taylordavison6849 they don’t hate the system, they just want to be the ones on top as well
@@ernestoacosta7918 That's assuming America is a kleptocracy.
The IRONY of the image you choose for the cheating girlfriend being the background for a night core version of a song called “I’m sorry i stole your girlfriend” is ASTRONOMICAL
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The worst thing I’ve seen was multiple accounts selling “NFT Slaves” or “Meta Slaves. Photographs of black people to “own”. They had George Floyd as an Easter egg. One account went as far as to doing 8-but style renderings of him in different outfits. It’s really sickening. I dislike nfts and the bitcoin stuff but it was only a matter of time someone did something like this w nfts :((
That's so fucked up wth ??
oh my god??? oh my god what the fuck
what the fuck??????
no cause what the actual fuck??
Holy fuck wth that is revolting what sick fuck does this? Im so sorry you had to see that man.
Does anyone else want to scream because people in our country literally don’t have proper drinking water and people are spending THOUSANDS of dollars on a jpeg????
Do I look like I know what a jpeg is
@@Sam-ze3hr xddd
@@Sam-ze3hr i just want a picture of a goddang hotdog
Man, I hand out jpegs to my professors for free
@@katiehehehehe i hand out pdfs for a decent understandable price
Edit: Im graphic designer btw… I don’t make NFT’s
idk why but the way kurtis plays the "straight man" in his skits makes me think he'd be good at pro acting lol. the emotions are usually believable
As an artist i feel like NFTs as a concept are fundamentally not about art. This is about money and this is the most insane way capitalism has ever interacted with art. I even understand paying a zillion dollars for a solid blue painting with a line on it more than paying tens of thousands for a png. At least there's something to be said of owning art that is personal, customized, or tangible.
The best art ever created was commissioned art. “Whoa dude … like … capitalism and art, maaaan …” You are not smart.
@@mkat8505 I would disagree to be honest, I feel like commissioning an art piece would be way more supportive of artists rather that paying for a randomized PNG. Also, with commissioned art, it can have value according to many factors such as skill and whoever drew it; with nfts it has nothing ‘special’ about it as most of the time they’re generated randomly. That’s my opinion- feel free to disagree,
@@sybo59 she said it's the MOST INSANE way capitalism has interacted with art, the popes and nobles of Italy (not to mention elsewhere) would regularly commission architects, artists and sculptors to work on churches or just flights of fancy. It really is a strange interaction, ripping off actual artists to sell nothing
@@sybo59 commissioned art u can physically touch and display ≠ buying digital art that you barely actually own for millions of dollars
@@vincentadultman6226 Yes, but my point was more getting at the false dichotomy implied between good art and money, as if money was a corrupting influence. “It’s not real art bc there’s money involved!” I pointed out that idea is nonsense, which in no way defends NFTs. I hope that clarifies my stance.
I feel like purchasing a body pillow is somehow less embarrassing than owning an NFT girlfriend-
At least you would have an actual pillow
100%, they're cheaper and you have an actual pillow that you can do unholy things with. What are you gonna do, fuck your phone?
@@BaneHydra well to be fair, all phones have a vibration mode...
@@BaneHydra if you're an underwater horse from the 50s, yeah
At least you could Fk it.
"Can we normalize being a fucking idiot? And not wanting to be better?"
Please, this is all I want
I thought this was already normal
@@PMNS1995 Yeah, that's the fucking US right now. It's not great!
me when i try doing academic assignments with the smallest amount of effort
We must fight for dumbass rights✊
I thought we already had 😂😂
the “if u bought a painting and just received a certificate of that painting” actually happens with conceptual art all the time, when people bought the banana taped to the wall they received a certificate of ownership and that was it lol
that's actually epic tbh. getting some rich person to pay for the concept of a banana taped to a wall? incredible. i respect that. getting everyday people to squander their money on something just as pointless under the guise that it's gonna shoot up in value and make them rich on the other hand just feels scummy
All to defraud uncle sam
I’m an art student in college and me and my friends have had a lot of NFT bros from the school trying to get us to make NFT art for them and harassing us on social media. They kept spam emailing out entire art club during finals. They are offering little to no money, calling it an “investment opportunity” and even tried to have a NFT competition where you submit art, and only the “winner” gets paid. NFTs do not support artists, they are just another way people exploit artists for money.
@be good dude, quit spamming.
Graphic design student and same dude. One of my most fav professor recommended us to do NFT and it’s safe to say I don’t like him anymore
@@tergelss Are you being paid for any of your work?
I’ve commented this on a couple posts, but I think it would be useful in this thread as well! As an artist myself who is pursuing a degree in fine arts, NFTs can be incredibly useful for artists’ control of their works. Many times artists will sell a piece to someone for a cheaper price, but once the artist becomes popular, the person who bought the original work can resell it for up to 10 times the buying price. While it’s awesome that the artist’s work increases in value, they receive absolutely no percentage of that resell. In the fine art world, NFTs are becoming an incredibly effective way to control the percentage that the artist gets from every resell of that piece. Say they sold the original work for thousand dollars, and someone resells that for a million, they can decide on the royalties that they get off of that piece. While I get the ridiculousness of buying memes for a shit ton of money, there is definitely a benefit for artists if they are able to use the system correctly. My professor is actually doing research right now regarding the fine art market and the use of NFTs, and the stuff that she’s finding out is incredibly interesting and a value to people who want to make a career out of selling their art. Just thought it would be cool to share some of the benefits of NFTs! I know that the first time I ever heard of them I thought it was stupid, but after learning a little bit more about how they can actually benefit the art world, I think they’re pretty cool! You can definitely use NFTs on physical works as well, it just acts as sort of a title that a person owns, and that title gets transferred whenever they sell the piece!
@@ninadefendi how about try being ethical when it comes to putting your art out there without killing the planet even more??? it’s already dying and i, as a working class, don’t wanna contribute more to the environmental damage. i’m from an art school as well but i push everyone away from convincing me to join nfts to earn more money.....it does nothing to artists anyway because they steal other people’s art and/or take credit for it.
“He likes to play with himself. And I like to watch”. The mayor always delivers. So grateful.
that joke caught me so off guard lmao
The moustached leer that went with it was fucking art
Shane dawson tease 🥴
What if we put that out of context
@@fluxusjpg STOPPPAHAHAHA
The NFT girlfriends are literally the free elsa dress up game characters you would play with as an 8 year old online
i was like twice that age when those became common on the internet…
@@Rabbit_Hill but you still played them..
😅
Is it wrong that i still play these . Idk it's relaxing sometimes
@@drshwetadudi8786 I see nothing wrong. Why would it be?
You may not like Furry art but you have to admit, it's still better and more creative than NFT's
As a furry artist, I second this
No!
@@pep4338NFTs are cringier than furrys.
Furry art looks straight outta the Louvre in comparison to nfts
I am not a furry, but as long as the people are putting warnings on their art, do not draw underaged animals (you know what I mean) or very uncomfortable glamourized grapey stuff, I am absolutely fine with them drawing that.
so the metagirlfriends are just a randomly generated picrew that you have to pay for. man i love humanity and all of our achievements 😀
It's mostly rich people and dumb guys buying them, the worst part though is it's bad for the environment
Pretty much just all nfts
"But I can have her naked"
RULE34 BUDDY! Porn site! People do it for FREE! GET AN ACTUAL GIRLFRIEND WHO WANTS TO HAVE SEX!
NFT bros are literally dumb.
Well, they pay for a place on the “blockchain”, which they believe is valuable/ will be valuable one day. The ugly artwork is literally just a receipt.
@@SixtySecondYoga Even worse when you think about the example, basically buying an online "girlfriend" just to ship them off to the highest bidder a few weeks later-
absolutely love how the meta girlfriends website spelled waist as waste because nfts are a huge fuckin waste of money
i noticed that 2 lmao
they’re both a waste of money AND a waste of energy. id almost be impressed if i wasn’t so disappointed
NO BC LITERALLY
@Joshua EdwinRoehl Kurtis Conner is a scammer
ruclips.net/video/ByuthfaHpiw/видео.html
**sirens that signify and warn of the hot, fresh roast of virgins amplify in distance**
As an artist, NFT are just bad - people say that they want to support artists, that's why they spend so much on NFTs, yet they don't want to pay 20 buck for a full custom made artwork.
If people really cared about artists, they would commission them or buy their gadgets; and if you can't afford to pay for stuff, you can always support them sharing their artworks and liking their post (especially with smaller artists like me this truly helps a lot).
Overall this is just a big and more complicated pyramid scheme.
Agree!
EXACTLY
The Venn diagram of people who tell me my prices are “too high” and the people who tell me that NFTs are “a good investment” is a circle.
What an entitled person you are. You want people to pay you some arbitrary amount of money for work they demonstrably don’t value at that level, purely as some sort of charity meant to “support artists.” Which artists? You. Good god, how bleak.
@@jevilcore Yet you support price controls for things like apartment rent. Should the government force you to hold your prices lower than you like, so that more people can benefit from your work? If that happened, would you produce nor work or be more creative? No.
“Are you an incel AND an NFT bro?”
Where’s that “they’re the same picture” meme from The Office when you need them?
"every randomly generated girl has a unique personality" [They all have the exact same base with like three possible expressions]
My metagirlfriend-sona's personality is 'turquoise boat captain squinting a little bit!'
lmao 😂
SNOW MIKU 2022
@oky Kurtis Conner is a scammer
ruclips.net/video/ByuthfaHpiw/видео.html
I love how they spelt “waist” as “waste” which automatically tells you just how much of a *waste* (or “waist”) of money buying meta girlfriends is
True
And also, that they don't know proper spelling.
Edit:and apparently, I didn't know proper grammar, I forgot the word know.
spelt lol
You mean a waist of money
That was a dumb joke
@@gjkdshgkjshjkgdfg snake eater?!?!?!
“Meta girlfriends are fully clothed and visible from the WASTE up in public”? Do they really have a typo that bad on their official site?!
I would not trust something that pays that little attention to detail with thousands of my dollars.
Maybe whoever wrote the copy secretly hates the idea and purposefully wrote that they're trash. I know that's not the case but it's funny to imagine.
@oky ratio
its so crazy because commissions exist. like you can get a custom drawing of almost anything you want, but sure, a randomized picture of an ape is good too
"Meta Girlfriends are coming to the Metaverse. Each one is randomly generated and beautifully crafted using over 600 traits, across 20 categories."
- all of them have massive breasts...
and the same type of body and face
@@salomeschliomkis7839 and the same pose
Also...what "personality" will they have? They are a bunch of code!
@@morganfaire5684 Well yeah, that's how they are made. It's a template with a few assets that get swapped out at random. It's just churning out bullshit
"beautifully"
That clip of Paris Hilton and Jimmy Fallon talking about NFTs caused me actual physical pain
I told you cause you had beeple. ..... wtfff
dude same i wanted to skip
I may be wrong but I think alot of celebrities are actually forced to talk about them because the people that contract them have ties to the nfts so they make the celebrities talk and buy them to artificially inflate the price of them
@TacticalPolarBears The talent agency that Eric Andre’s in bought a NFT company/brand/whatever-the-fuck. Now he’s suddenly into NFTs 😭
Total Twilight Zone moment. I still can’t grasp the concept of NFTs. Buying a monkey icon?? What??
People have started minting MY art without my consent, it's getting sold for a LOT more than the commissions I did it for. Not only is it bad for small artists, but it's also HORRIBLE for the environment, NFTs have created enough energy to power a small country. It's horrible.
Yeah this is really annoying
Damn
Damn, they can’t really do that though right?
@@GayForklift they can and it sucks :(
@@motherknowsbest1192 That’s fucking horrible
I got into making NFTs back in early 2022, was just drawing them on my iPad and giving them similiar but different characteristics, made a ton of money. But now it sucks and everything about them sucks. Never going back to it
how much did you make?
“What an NFTease” made me laugh way harder than it should have. Much appreciated.
Same LOL Hadn't finished watching, but had to pause to like the video for that
For me it was the “fake estate” one
the meta girlfriend line is actually like, really scary. just reminds me how predatory men can be and how they still feel like they can OWN women and femme people.
This.
Im just glad it isnt real women loool
@@poop6914 true, but when those nfts are *based* on real women, it’s even more disgusting
@@vozaviazoa what? 😂
@@vozaviazoa “waifu pillows existed since the dawn of time” no they didnt lmfao.. they were made by incel weirdos who are predatory and never interact with real women
I’m a graphic designer, my boyfriend is a financial advisor and NFT’s are the horrifying lovechild of our careers we can not escape
lmao this cracked me up!
Well you can always send it to boarding school and forget all about it!
I like the meta girlfriends all having their “unique personalities” and multiple of them are just in outfits from well known characters like Dva or Marty McFly
Imagine paying $20,000 to pretend to have a girlfriend when The Sims exists and is regularly on sale for like $5
LMAO FR THO!!! 😂💀
i literally got the sims 4 for free. why would anyone spend THAT much money for a fake girlfriend? at least the sims move
@@ectonyx Heccin yea, Epic Games store frequently giving free games
Also for the NSFW part, just get Wicked Whims? 😅
they could also make an oc to be their gf and its 100% free
What really annoys me about the meta girlfriend NFTs is, that they are marketed as sexy even though they have the same art style as half of these hyper sexualized mobile game ads, that have nothing to do with the actual game. If you wanted to pay a lot of money for unique NSFW art, why not commission an artist. There are a lot of people who will draw stuff that’s way more appealing and you can actually tailor the artwork to your taste.
its a pyramid scheme. the value of NFTs is purely hype to get suckers to buy them so the original "investors" can get payed out. It's MLM to a tee.
It’s just weird because it seems like they’re trying to play up the utility of the NFT itself (if you can call the ability to jerk off to something utility, which i feel like you can). And NFT’s just have no fucking utility. They never have, not even the utility of just being nice to look at. I mean, there’s nice art that’s been minted, but as evidenced by the fucking apes, the quality of the art is completely irrelevant. NFT’s literally just serve the purpose of indicating that you spent a shitload of actual money on theoretical money so that the galaxy brains who think that shit’s “the future” will invite you to their circle jerk. Like if NSFW NFT sellers actually wanted to compete with actual NSFW digital artists, they would never fucking be able to. The whole thing isn’t based on any functional product, it’s just based on hyping up cryptocurrency and block chains. They’ll never be able to compete with people who have actual functional products and when people like metagirfriends try to their product is just comically sad.
@@daltonbedore8396 it's more like a ponzi scheme tbh
they aint even pretty, atleast make them look like actual women
Yeah I don’t get it. Men have different tastes but EVERY SINGLE one of these NFT girlfriends looks the same, the body type and the face. You can commission an artist to draw you the “perfect” girlfriend and it would actually look decent, unlike this.
my issue with the meta girlfriends isn’t even that they’re not real, or that the dudes can’t get laid irl or whatever. to me the problem is the fact they view women that way in the first place…literal commodities? they want to buy “girlfriends”? they think buying the girlfriend means they can see her naked? I mean I’m not saying they all view real women the exact same way but that raises some fucking massive red flags. like unpopular opinion here but I don’t care if you date anime girls or whatever. but buying them? to be entitled to exclusive viewing of their naked bodies? that’s weird. really fucking weird
THIS. something about it feels so creepy and weird
Damn I didn't even think about it that way. Thanks for opening up another perspective on this whole thing.
no that is literally correct, they literally do view real women the same way. There's a SUPER popular "relationship" podcast on spotify where the main host has said some wild shit that all points to him literally thinking of women as property. He thinks its cheating for a woman to have an instagram if he's dating them, and thinks because "I buy you things, only I get to decide how things go."
This is exactly the sort of thing that crossed my mind. It’s just so gross.
exactly!
15:41 “are you an incel and an nft bro?” That’s redundant
If there's one running joke I want so badly for Kurtis to start it would be adding that green screen guy randomly into his green screen sketches.
The new lucky luciano
I think the comparison to Pokémon cards is still being generous to NFTs. you can get people inflating prices but if a card is expensive it's usually because it was a rare print and/or is a desirable one. more recent cards have been known to intentionally run short stock to inflate prices but even still they're physical items with meaning. NFTs are entirely not unique and their "rarity" is completely artificial while being completely destructible because you can screenshot and repost that image anywhere
Also, things like Pokémon cards are part of a game that you can play and compete with other people n such
@@GuntWastelander yep meaning they do have an actual use beyond just owning and collecting them
exactly, someone had to put time and effort into creating the art on the cards, and nfts are literally computer generated
Dan Olson from Folding Ideas made a fantastic two hour video about NFTs for anyone who wants to know more. The "rarity" is just as meaningless as it seems. A fantastic watch.
right click, download the picture and you're the owner
coming back to this video after the hype for nft's have died down and seeing how everyone who invested into it has either lost a ton of money or has had their nft's stolen is so so sooo cathartic and satisfying
Ikr
Ether? I hardly knew 'er
knew'er? I hardly knew'er
It’s so fun to see the amount of mental gymnastics that they’re going through to pretend the trend is still alive
Also coming back to say that a local News Show I watch has also declared that NFTs were dying and fading away. It was hilarious.
It's so beautiful seeing the NFT community crashing.
The way that the artist for the bored apes (shes known as Allseeing Seneca) wasnt even compensated or credited for her work really proves how obsessed nfts are in fucking over artists
Wow, that’s so ironic. Nfts weren’t designed to benefit artists, they were designed for greedy people to make money off of art. The ape nfts are just about the least creative thing I’ve ever seen, and they all look the same. This isn’t doing anything for art or artists.
I agree and I hate how its marketed to artists as some digital thing made specifically for them. It's not. This is just like buying junk of Gaia online or Neopets that's limited. It has nothing to do with the art of the neopet-it's just the fact that its exclusive and rare. NFTs are just trying to bet on which Neopet everyone wants before they know the market. As all these rich people are showing-it has nothing to do with they actual artistic value of anything. The most popular ones have super simplistic designs and are marketable.
This isn’t true at all. All of the artists were paid up front for their work, and then each paid an extra $1 million after the project took off.
@@SteadyStew monkey nft profile picture, comment discarded.
And the people who commissioned her are *allegedly* white nationalist libertarians who make semi-transparent n*zi references
I feel like the worst thing about NFTs actually is the environmental impact. Yeah, they're weird, and pointless, and depressing, and creepy, and probably represent the beginning of the end for our lobotomite species, but all of that stuff would be just another horrendous internet trend if it weren't for the fact that every single fucking one of those things is killing the planet for no reason
Also the tax évasion isnt cool
There's an eco-friendly blockchain called Wax but it's more underrated
i feel like people talk more about the other aspects as well to discourage people from nfts bc anytime anyone talks only about the environment aspects randos pop up talking about more eco friendly nfts while not actually addressing any of the other issues
Yeah, nfts becoming a thing right now just feels severely tone deaf. Climate change who?
they pollute more than entire countries
The fact that people are also stealing existing art is especially troubling. I remember QinniArt, one of the first big artists on DeviantArt and IG, passed away in 2020 due to illness, and her existing art is still being stolen and minted as NFTs. Her brother had to post on Twitter asking people to report any NFTs of her art. It's so sad and disturbing.
Damn dude, you gotta remind me of her. Now im so sad :"
i remember her, bless her soul
Watching this now two years later knowing how NFTs are barely talked about now is so funny. I wonder how all those NFT bros insisting it was a great investment feel now
Literally I know of people who've spent house mortgages on furry art, and I personally will say that's more respectable than an NFTbro trying to grift on an environmental hazard.
their money is supporting artists more than nfts ever will. like damn if I’m gonna spend money I’d rather help out people rather than waste my money on a link of an environmentally-damaging ugly icon
Fr, there’s that one story of the guy who dropped like 20k on an adopt
Money spent on wolf yiff commission > money spent on blockchain digital certificate
At least with the art I can save it on my hard drive and do whatever to it, but GOD FORBID I try to download a $20,000 monkey picture from a server.
If I get a comic commission of my furry OC zalithar, the conqueror of stars and sower of nations, getting hard vored by a Lesbian salazzle polycule, then not only did I get something I personally wanted, I also stimulated the economy by giving money to a laborer and value generator that will go out into the wider economy, brought something entirely original into the world, and brought a new form of enjoyment for multiple other people too.
Meanwhile, spending that much on NFTs just gives that money to leeches who will hoard it all between themselves, and I get a worthless hyperlink that might not even work if the DMCA takedown notice goes through.
This is the most disgusting ‘late stage capitalism’ thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life. I’m gonna cry.
Oh yeah definitely gross. I can think of many aspects of late stage capitalism that are far more disgusting... but this is definitely one of the weirdest though.
I would give you a like, but the number is at 666
@@isthisgeneraltrash1785 it's past it now, if ya wanna give them a like. :)
there are STAGES??
“Let’s take art and make it boring while also finding a way to legally scam people ”
- probably the people who created nfts
"I KNEW IT!" 14:07
As an artist, I can’t even put into words how frustrated NFTs make me
Same
Idk man it's not like being an artist is super lucrative. It's kinda tempting to start making some and profit lol
@@highdefinition450 because people prioritizing profit for a quick buck over everything else isn't at all why we're in these situations in the first place lol i agree let's all join in, what is there to lose right?
@@highdefinition450 doubt that would be called "art"
@@zydiz it was never meant to be art focused, NFT is basically just a cryptocurrency and people are literally going apeshit.
I love how almost all NFTs look like piccrew characters. Like especially the meta girlfriends and apes, its literally the same drawing with different pasted on accessories. probably 5 minutes of work goes into each one
No work goes into them, they’re randomly generated
Fr
@@fart63 Not advocating for the B.S. that is NFTs, but there is work put into the designs, and as someone deep into art and an aspiring artist, I feel it necessary to point that out. Each accessory and/or hat and/or all of the other shit that can be swapped in and out had to be created by (an) artist/s. I actually have seen someone point out one of the artists behind BAYC and how that person talked about how it's cool it wen famous, but the lack of credit kinda sucks.
I don't think NFTs are AT ALL good, but they were created, so there is work put into them. At the very least to make them possible to mint. If anything, that makes it worse, because those artists don't get credit.
Sorry to ramble, I just don't feel comfortable insuing that there's no work put into the art itself, and can't comfortably like ignore you saying that, I'm not trying to be hostile or anything, just kindly bring up the logistics of that part of it.
Much like picrews, each piece does have to be designed, and usually there are a good few hundred different accessories, leading to at least thousands of combinations. So while the minting is effortless in regards to human effort, (it definitely does have work put into that part too, but that's on the strain of computers and cooling systems that drain electricity) the NFTs do have designs and work and effort put into them, and as much as I hate NFTs, ignoring that effort is only harmful to the people who took that time to create that shit.
@@kiralonely the art itself, yes, work went into it. But the actual nft as I said is a shameless (former) money hole, with absolutely no effort put in by the people selling it. The “meta-girlfriends”, maybe someone slaved away creating the assets, but as you said art theft runs rampant and they likely didn’t receive the deserved compensation anyway. So I will still say no work went into the nft as it is. Buying an nft will not be supporting any artist that worked on the assets.
@@fart63 Oh, I certainly agree. I just wanted to clarify the art does deserve recognition of the work put in, even if the use is as assets for something with no human effort put in. (Poor computers slave away to mine that shit, but nft bros don't give a fuck about them. Or the environment.)
I most certainly agree with everything you said above. You explained that better than I did, by far.
“I need a haircut.” No Kurtis, you don't need a haircut. Although you look like if Freddy Mercury or Dr. Disrespect had a twin brother.
Holy shit HES FREDDY MERCURY!!!!!!!!!
@Ifgia Han🍏 god fucking dammit it hasn't been half an hour
Is that a bad thing tho
He looks like Captain Lou Albano, but without the Mario outfit
That’s precisely why he definitely does NOT need a haircut 😤 🤣
So no one is going to talk about the word waist being spelled as “waste” on an “official” website ????? That should be a clue
The metaverse already exists...Roblox is one of the most popular & was launched 15 years ago.
Zuckerberg acting like he invented the concept when he literally duplicated Rec Room (est.2016) but approached it in a more polished fashion to attract older users & reach a mainstream audience.
The definition of metaverse is
“a space where users interact with computer-generated environments,” the internet alone can also be considered a metaverse to an extent...
Club Penguin and Habbo Hotel were also a thing like ages ago and I remember using a bunch of other websites similar to those as well. The concept isn’t new at all and it’s so embarrassing that they’re selling it as the new coca-cola or something.
minecraft is better either way
if we left all the money laundering and environmental aspects aside, I doubt people would give too shits
This is the first time I have seen Rec Room referenced in the wild. I hate how true that is.
Metaverse reminds me of a mix of secondlife and rec room
the only way I understood what NFTs were was someone describing it as everyone banging your spouse and you only having the marriage certificate to prove they're your spouse and I think thats a beautiful way to put it
Lmfao there are many analogies but this is by far the best one
I understood it after I read the "buying the mona lisa" analogy but this is better lol.
And even in that situation you would have more than you’ve got with an NFT.
@fine Kurtis Conner is a scammer
ruclips.net/video/ByuthfaHpiw/видео.html
There's a function to NFTs. It's tricking people into funneling money straight into the pockets of already rich people
1:21 PANIC AT THE DISCO MENTIONED???????????
As a female, (or just a human being) the concept of the meta girlfriends is really fucking gross, creepy, and makes me feel icky all over
Yes,same here!
ikrr
Eh, to me it just seems like another version of the whole waifu thing that happens in the anime community or one the 1000s of self insert fanfictions on the internet that are often times adult in nature, which is in my opnion not that bad you're not hurting anybody, there are always people who take it too far to the point that their appreciation of that character is an unhealthy obsession although that is not unique to this kind of content people will always find something to obsess over if they feel the need to. (Still don't like NFT's though)
dude as a GUY it makes me feel gross
both genders agree that meta girlfriends are shit
can we just talk about the sheer irony of a squid game nft girlfriend
we could,but i've never watched squid game so i'd have no idea what you were talking about.XD
@@JT5555 basically the whole reason they're risking their lives by playing death games is because they're all in severe debt and need money, so it's really ironic that people are making nfts based on squid game
@@JT5555 the show is essentially a critique of capitalism and class disparity and everything, and they're using imagery from said capitalism critique for their capitalistic cash grabs
@@gremlinwc8996 did we watch the same show? There's no real critique on capitalism in the show.
@@Matt_History give it a re-watch, but with your eyes open this time
Thinking about all the dedicated non-profit organizations, scientists, engineers, and all the other people who are doing EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER to find solutions to the deteriorating state of the environment, trying to create hope for themselves and other people.
And then they find out about NFTS; people making things needlessly worse, and for what? For a trend, basically.
It makes me so upset. This is literally "evolving backwards". We're literally ruining the progress we've been making as humans.
Some people are so insane they think money is more important than people, their lives and our planet. I think it should actually be considered a disorder, if someone is so split from reality that they put all their hard work into making more money that they don't need, they should get cognitive behavioral therapy or institutionalized if it's a severe case and the rest of us could have a chance at a liveable future.
@@prayingmantis8148 I agree on the deepest level. It's not normal to think money is the only way to measure your worth, status and happiness
The people who have the money to make a difference decide to spend it to get richer, instead of contributing to society. Buy an ugly ass ape. People starve to death, but sure, pal, invest in bitcoin.
I hope that this all crashes and burns to the ground, leaving this people wirhout the money they clearly didn't deserve
@@giulioceresini1435 sadly, even if it crashes and the buyers end up scammed, the sellers will still walk out of it with money.
@@prayingmantis8148 100% agree. These people are so deluded that their actions are ruining *all* of our future ('our' meaning humans, themselves, other animals, plants, and the planet) and should be locked away or rehabbed. Money is just an object and doesn't have any value when we no longer exist/assign value to it (or society collapses).
NFTs are like going to a fast food place and only getting the ordering token thing and not the actual meal.
meta girlfriends is the single most depressing thing I have ever heard of, and im saying that as a depressed sack of shit
It's just "Imma spend thousands of dollars on a hyperlink that leads to a randomly generated jpeg of a fictional 2D girl that isn't even protected by law and everyone will be able to download it the moment I put it on a social media site for free."
Hope ur ok
I’ve already customized a ton of meta girlfriends, for free. It’s called picrew. Seriously, don’t waste your money.
omg thisss
picrew also has random generation so if you want your nfts to look cluttered as shit you can still have that
i always knew the whole nft thing felt weirdly familiar when it first gained popularity, and this must be why. look, my pfp is a picrew
LMFAO EXACTLY
i just stole all their sample girlfriends and made them all free to use.XD
I think the funniest part about the “fake estate” joke is that he had to add it in while editing. I can imagine him getting to that part and being like “Oh, I could have made a fucking AMAZING joke here”, and quickly filming himself saying it.
Right 🤣
i'm honestly impressed at how smoothly kurtis does the "no-no" finger movement. like, genuinely.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed this. 😂 I tried to copy the movement as smoothly and I couldn’t.
@@SailorMoonLogic yeah SAME man idk how he does it.
Timestamp?
timestamp?
9:56
I was already laughing my ass off from the video- and then I get an NFT ad in the middle of it and I just straight up died. My soul just evaporated and I died- Oh my god
oh my god the dude saying that having an NFT profile picture on twitter makes people think you're cool is a kilometer deep in denial
i have never seen someone with an NFT pfp be respected outside of conversations about how good NFT's are.
Id do is hillarios when the repiles are filled with screenshots of the nft
you either get people clowning them or posting screenshots of that persons nft in their gallery lmao
"can we normalize being a fucking idiot?" yes because i have listened to countless explanations on nft's and i still don't really understand exactly how they work. i think i get it though. i think.
i get the gist of it. i think.
The way that NFTs work is that they don't. They just straight-up don't do the things that people say they do. It's a scam to make you buy crypto currency.
Try watching folding ideas video called "the problems witv nfts" its over two hours long and I had to watch it in multiple sittings but goddamn it's such a great explenation. I highly, highly recommend it.
theyre basically buying a unique link to an image that also destroys the environment to manufacture
Here’s my understanding: The blockchain is just a record of all the transactions that have happened. Each crypto currency has its own blockchain. The blockchains are backed up on many computers at once, so there’s no one “master” copy. Anyways, that’s why art associated with nfts are separate from the nfts. How things are written on the blockchain is way too inefficient. Large images can’t be put on the blockchain, but urls can be (and like really tiny pixel art images).
Literally every NFT ive seen just looks like one of those old deviantart dress up games from like 2013 where you would click the arrows on the left or right side to change around the items on her, and then people would screenshot their outfits theyd make and reupload them.
So accurate.
So real
i heard someone define NFTs as buying a painting in a museum but the plaque saying its yours is in a storage closet thats off limits to everyone besides staff