An NFT isn't the picture itself, it is just a link, password and receipt for a picture stored somewhere.
A receipt that costs an immense amount of fossil fuel power and generates stupid amounts of heat to feed the computers worldwide that only VERIFY your receipt exists.
A receipt that costs an immense amount of fossil fuel power and generates stupid amounts of heat to feed the computers worldwide that only VERIFY your receipt exists.
You are burning massive resources just so a sea of computers can keep checking to see if you still are a total wanker.
Your art is still utterly copyable, reproducible, hackable and will vanish if the linked resources break- just like any cheesy old web link.
Your art is still utterly copyable, reproducible, hackable and will vanish if the linked resources break- just like any cheesy old web link.
If you would like to support artists, buy the art itself. You can buy the physical original, signed numbered prints, or even buy the rights to reproduction.
It pretty much nothing to keep an actual work of art in environmental impact.
It pretty much nothing to keep an actual work of art in environmental impact.
If you really like artists, rather than buying an NFT of their work, you should try becoming their lover. Artists, in my experience, are amazingly creative fucks. We all love a good sugar daddy or honey momma to keep us in orgasms and rent.
It won't cost the planet.
It won't cost the planet.
In terms of lasting damage, paying an artist to paint you whilst you set fire to actual flock penguins would be more ethical than buying an NFT of their work.
So if your bio says you sell NFTS, I read it like "I want Global Warming to fuck everyone so I can make a buck".
No offence, wait... no, you are an offence.
No offence, wait... no, you are an offence.
God, imagine buying a link to an old mySpace account.
That's you, that is
That's you, that is
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