Thread by @FoldableHuman

I find it very funny that such a high % of NFTs are just appeals to the navel gazing myth of NFTs.

Because, surprising no one familiar with how online works, it's a marketplace, and a particularly insular one, so to be competitive you need to appeal to the interests and sensibilities of the patron class

And what are the patron class of NFTs interested in? NFTs and crypto.

So what do you make your NFTs about? NFTs and crypto, of course.

If you scroll down any of the various marketplaces, you'll be greeted by a long string of embarrassingly self-referential artworks

The common theme, of course, is to place the entire concept of crypto, and thus the patron by extension, in proximity to wealth.

The content speaks for itself, the principal interest is money, the motives for engaging with crypto and NFTs are as a financial vehicle. This is why people who paid $7000 for programmatically generated lions tailspin when you don't take their ownership seriously.

The sheer number of entires that amount to "I animated the Ethereum logo" is

well

cringe-worthy