I like how people are able to pay 5+ etherium for a fungible ape but COMPLAIN over a 25$ art comission

@100acatfishandwillbreakyou2

2 жыл бұрын

"I'll pay you in exposure"

@jordanloophole

2 жыл бұрын

i think because that 5+ ethereum will give them more in return while that $25 commission is just an investment not an asset

@potatomanboooi3105

2 жыл бұрын

Stop giving me ideas

@cecilenaught

2 жыл бұрын

Its because they dont care about art, and especially dont care about artists. They are making an investment in themselves, and their egos.

@potatomanboooi3105

2 жыл бұрын

@@cecilenaught you can say that with traditional art.thats how a fucking red canvas can make more than a professional artist who spent years mastering the craft.lots of the people who buy them resell it for more to make a profit the next year

The most simple way I’d describe the majority of NFT’s appearance is if thousands of people had the same page of a coloring book and were told they needed to make sure it was unique. Quickly, a lot of the good looking ideas get taken, so in order to make it unique, you have to make it ugly.

@funninoriginal6054

2 жыл бұрын

@@MikyleY Wasn't that what op said, though?

@lamptowel

2 жыл бұрын

the coloring book itself is shitty as well

@Angel3x111

2 жыл бұрын

i personally would compare it to some kind of dress up game from 2010

@runakovacs4759

2 жыл бұрын

@@Angel3x111 It's basically picrew art but for cishets.

@ihateyankees3655

2 жыл бұрын

@@MikyleY sure you can still make aesthetically pleasing, original art, but if you're making 10,000 slightly different variations of the same template, you're going to quickly run out of ones that don't look ugly or uncanny

"Calling NFTs a phenomenon would be a hilarious understatement" meanwhile a year later and i hear almost nothing about NFTs or discourse around them anymore

@heavensgate2245

11 ай бұрын

Good ending

@catboy6451

10 ай бұрын

To call them a phenomena is wrong, they were a fad

@ninjaydes

10 ай бұрын

It is important to recognize that the NFT market is still alive, since the environmental impact and harm to artists continues. ... but yeah, thank goodness the NFT market is not necessarily succeeding.

@astralclub5964

9 ай бұрын

NFT’s = The pogs of the investment world!

@donpollo3154

7 ай бұрын

Watching this after the recent news is funny

NFTs are just like going to a grocery store, getting a bunch of groceries, but all you take home is a receipt that says you bought them, and the store keeps the groceries

@bakaneko6639

5 ай бұрын

And the groceries have no uses, and have risk of getting wiped out if the store decide to shut down

@Numbabu

Күн бұрын

Not even, it’s the “you wouldn’t download a car” thing. The actual good isn’t kept by the grocery store, it’s kept by everyone XD.

Solar has re-emerged after sensing a disturbance in the force of art.

@Sly_Fella

2 жыл бұрын

True

@xton4561

2 жыл бұрын

once every new moon

@BlueGreenGlobe

2 жыл бұрын

@@xton4561 I’m gonna be that guy and say a new moon occurs every month

@bluishwolf

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlueGreenGlobe I though that was the intent. He posts videos once a month or so.

@BlueGreenGlobe

2 жыл бұрын

@@bluishwolf kind of kind of not, it’s not super inconsistent though which I’m glad for. But yea I just thought it was a *error* with the “once in a blue moon” phrase and not intentional so my bad.

The whole idea behind most NFTs is that art's greatest value is how much money it can make. This might be why so many of them feel corporate and lazy.

@sunbleachedangel

2 жыл бұрын

well, thats kind of everything today "how much money can it make", videogames, art, medicine, prisons, people, EVERYTHING

@Lenn869

2 жыл бұрын

The whole idea behind most NFTs is that it´s a scam

@MrMinecraftGamer456

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lenn869 Most NFT’s don’t even store the picture behind the NFT on the blockchain. They just store a hyperlink to where that picture is on the regular internet.

@GwyndolinOwO

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, that's the biggest turnoff for me. even if i make good art and put it on there, if it doesn't have some kind of valuable rareness to it, its still worthless to the people on those sites. So often times you either need to be famous, or offer something that proves it can make money (bored apes, crypto punk ect ect). It reminds me a lot of other art circles that already exist where artists will charge a lot for their art simply because millionaires like them (you should charge a living, but I do think its possible to overcharge on purpose). It also doesn't help that as soon as NFTs got talked about, literally every company i can think of has jumped into it, so it feels more like a marketing gimmick to me at this point then a thing that helps out artists. I don't think that this is inherently bad but something just feels weird when its literally all of them doing it at pretty much the same time, trying to sell something. The last thing i want in an artist space haveing to compete with multi-million and multi-billion dollar companies. It definitely works as a marketing idea, but its for sure not fit for all types of artists. and there's also other things about i don't like but this is already long, lmao.

@gplgs4640

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to capitalism, baby. Where art comes to die in favour of profits.

I fucking love how this man pulled out furry art as a good example - they're almost always really well-drawn.

@Axl-ng1yj

Жыл бұрын

Hate to say it, but you´re right. I don´t like furry art but I have to admit it is always really high quality and it looks like people put a lot of effort into it

@lafireteamplx3400

Жыл бұрын

@@Axl-ng1yj it's made for zoophiles unfortunately, people want to have sex with the poor foxes

@Coelophysis-yv9lj

Жыл бұрын

It’s a pity it’s used for such a degenerate purpose

@WillatHastings

Жыл бұрын

@@Coelophysis-yv9lj Not all the time, but then again, it is peoples interests.

@xthee_0nly_1x11

Жыл бұрын

@@WillatHastings Gross

A year later nfts and blockchain died.

@BoxOfToasters

21 күн бұрын

Yay :D

@claudia-uy5gk

4 күн бұрын

lol

i find it ironic that NFTs are supposed to be "non-fungible" so that owners can uniquely identify their token, but so many of them consist of mass-produced algorithmic art that all blends together and is meant to be sold in bulk

@SenhorAlien

2 жыл бұрын

That is a problem with the consumers, not anyone else.

@L3X1N

2 жыл бұрын

@@SenhorAlien "American politics is a problem with the voters, not anyone else." _God forbid_ someone calls the system *bad,* because it's easily exploitable! The gall! The _audacity!_

@DoodleZoo

2 жыл бұрын

@@L3X1N hammer and sickle solve all

@mordekaihorowitz

2 жыл бұрын

And there's still that issue of being able to copy or even screenshot them. "Non-fungible" my ass

@selenium3447

2 жыл бұрын

Ngl those monkey/lion nfts look like they were made with dress up apps

The people that get NFTs are the same people that get Supreme shit. It doesn't matter how stupid it is, it's the hype and inclusiveness of it

@kevinf8439

2 жыл бұрын

I own more than 1000 NFTs, none of them are those expensive ugly apes. You have no idea what you are talking about

@joshlewis5065

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinf8439 you just proved my point

@kevinf8439

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe try to think for yourself or at least do research. You know, you don't have to have an opinion about everything, especially if you know nothing about it.

@croutondotnet

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinf8439 Ok, Kevin.

@kam5944

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinf8439 is this a troll or is it someone who wasted money for some ugly picture that you can screen shot lol.

I almost became an NFT artist. Everything said here is absolutely true. At first, it seemed like a dream gig, and in many ways, it was. I was brought onto an up-and-coming design team and was a tad overpaid for creating small assets to fit on these UGLY, simple bases. But hey, easy money, right? The characters were "raunchy" weed-inspired mascots meant to promote brands, they looked like throwaway designs for cereal boxes, honestly. Each new piece of clothing, which were simple and never took me more than an hour to design and make, was for an above-average rate. I was happy, and the learning curve wasn't too bad as far as having a general understanding of NFTs and Photoshop goes. Everyone who was working with me was nice, until I heard about the environmental impact and spent some sleepless nights thinking about whether or not this was me selling out. Didn't feel right, didn't feel fun, didn't feel art-forward, so after a few weeks I quit. Glad I did.

@atherissquimera5778

Жыл бұрын

i was literally looking for this to talk me out of it because i've been thinking about it lately since i had the opportunity and i kinda know it would be quick needed money but all this environmental stuff is to heavy and it make me feel so uneasy, i'm pretty sure i don't want this for my art

@aur9035

Жыл бұрын

Glad to get the perspective of someone who didnt immediately hate nfts the second they heard about it :)

@furthings

Жыл бұрын

PROUD AS HELL OF YOU!!

@DHCR-core

Жыл бұрын

Speaking as an artist myself, it is a morally and creatively bankrupt field. Glad to watch the market crash and burn.

@xona9223

Жыл бұрын

@@atherissquimera5778 I'm an NFT artist on 2 chains : one is entirely carbon neutral, the other's energy usage is the same as the average american house hold. :)

Coming back here after the NFT market is now completely worthless

I like how the concept of “rare pepes” somehow satirized NFTs before they even existed

@beesindisguise5375

2 жыл бұрын

Rare pepes were also just cooler and funnier

@awe9217

2 жыл бұрын

also their carbon footprint doesn't twist the atmosphere's balls to cause testicular torsion, so that's a plus too.

@hellohuman9993

2 жыл бұрын

@@awe9217 That is a sentence I never thought would hear

@marianokaz1503

2 жыл бұрын

@@beesindisguise5375 Just wait until they make NFTs out of them, I can guarantee they're gonna happen

@danang5

2 жыл бұрын

@@marianokaz1503 actual rare pepe collector dont want to decrease their collection rarity by making it an NFT

The true reason NFTs are ugly is to that it can deter people from screenshotting them, as they would then regret clogging up their storage with such vile images.

@DragonRagovi

2 жыл бұрын

As I mentioned before the original video got taken down, they're the equivalent of those flash games that allow you to design and dress up a blank figure into a character of your own, but completely lack the charm that made those types of games work in the first place.

@Queer_Nerd_For_Human_Justice

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonRagovi Oh, you mean dollmakers and avatar makers. I use those all the time. Yeah, I agree, it's like that, mixed with the vibe of ai generation like artbreeder.

@pouncelygrin6699

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonRagovi woooaahh you're right it is like that, oof, times they are a changin'

@Limacinablues

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonRagovi *RinmaruGames flashbacks*

@EtamirTheDemiDeer

2 жыл бұрын

@@Limacinablues now that’s a name I haven’t seen in years

The people using the dead for money really grinds my gears. If you want money, make it yourself. DON'T USE DECEASED TO MAKE MONEY. LET THEM REST IN PEACE. When my grandfather passed in 2021, he had an open casket at the place where Bob Ross was buried. And after being there then seeing FUNKO POP NFTS completely tramples on graves of the dead and desecrates them. Fucking Disgusting.

@TowerArcanaCrow

Жыл бұрын

These people wouldn't know decency and integrity if it bit the square in the ass

@mjxbb1983

Жыл бұрын

I’m sorry

@wolfetteplays8894

11 ай бұрын

Don’t care. I use John Lennon to market my work, fuck my life. I’d rather use all of the Beatles as Fucking skin puppets on stage than wind up as another fruitless slave to the system

@wolfetteplays8894

11 ай бұрын

@@TowerArcanaCrowintegrity is doing the same thing if no one is watching. I don’t give a fuck who watches, I do what I do.

@thomasfisher4833

Күн бұрын

Sure, everyone can agree that using the deceased for personal profit is in bad taste, but it's hard to explain *why* it's bad, how it harms anyone. Saying "let them rest in peace", seemingly appealing to some idea of life after death, isn't a satisfying explanation for me.

And now approximately 95% of these things are worthless. NFTs are a solution looking for a problem - all of which have already been solved in better ways.

@Aaa-vp6ug

6 ай бұрын

How ironic that Non Fungible Tokens are perhaps the least true to their name of any “token” there is. Why did I phrase it like that? Anyway, what I mean is they are NOT anywhere near true to their name.

Honestly, the fact that someone was enough of a coward to impersonate someone who died of a terminal disease completely broke my heart Its not only an insult for her family and her, but also for everyone who supported her. Simply disappointing, crazy how people can go that low just for money.

@AxxLAfriku

2 жыл бұрын

GAGAGAGAGAGA! I will now count to 3 and then I am still the unprettiest KZreadr of all time. 1...2...3. GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! Thank you for your attention, dear ide

@Nightmare43262

2 жыл бұрын

@@AxxLAfriku I love to see you here, Lord AxxL

@nise6699

2 жыл бұрын

@@AxxLAfriku I'd say you're annoying for promoting your shit but you don't justify art thieves stealing art from a dead person and profiting them, at least not publicly.

@paxshmitz2665

2 жыл бұрын

STAN LEE WAS DONE WRONG!

@megamaggotman7025

2 жыл бұрын

@@AxxLAfriku ooooh typical axxl :)

I think the quality of NFT art is a reflection of its intent. People don't buy NFT's because they like the art, they buy them in the hopes of selling them for a higher value. No one wants to be the last one holding onto an NFT, which causes those people to be so vocal about it online. This, in my opinion, is textbook definition of a pyramid scheme. And as an artist I see its current state more as a concern than a value.

@rainbowcraft2694

2 жыл бұрын

Someone asked me if they could sell some of my pixel art as NFTs. I said no. They said nothing after that. I'm worried they'll ignore my saying no. NFTs are an unregulated lawless wasteland and art theft is rampant. The weasels that use NFTs will use whatever asset they can get their grubby hands on to make quick money, with no respect for the buyers, the artists, or even the dead.

@JSSMVCJR2.1

2 жыл бұрын

While you see this as Pyramid Scheme, I see it as Speculation.

@WobblyBits_X

2 жыл бұрын

@@JSSMVCJR2.1 It's both.

@SanderAgelink

2 жыл бұрын

​@@JSSMVCJR2.1 Whoever made the NFT art gets royalties every time their art gets sold. They need to find a few people to buy they art. Then those people need to find more people willing to buy their NFT's to sell them at a higher price. Etc, etc. "Invest in my NFT! All you need to do is find more people to sell it to and you'll be rich in no time!" Especially with the increase in fractional ownerships of NFT's, this makes it textbook definition of a pyramid scheme in my book.

@felicien2045

2 жыл бұрын

Okay, so I have one question regarding all of this. If your art isn't for sale and is uploaded online, do you have an issue with someone making it their profile picture?

qinni was a beautiful soul, and her art still touches me today. thank you for covering her and emphasizing how sick it is to steal others work, especially from artists who are no longer around to defend themselves.

For years random nerds on the internet were able to create communities where they could discuss what they love, post pics, draw fanart, write fanfiction, speculate about things, show off their carefully cultivated collections or their latest attempts at transformative art. These people keep mentioning "the community" but all they seem to do in post endlessly about how good NFTs are and how everyone else is gonna be sorry they didn't get into the NFT craze and how good it is that so and so bought their first or fifth hundred NFT. A lot of them fully admit it has nothing to do with the art itself. Feels kind of hollow. I get why sports nerds like sports. I get why fanart and fanfic exist. I get why people got obsessed over how they thought GOT was going to end. I get why there's 8 shitmillion video essays about ATLA. I don't get why these NFT people care about collecting these NFTs or getting other people to.

@oldtimegames96

6 ай бұрын

Simple answer : hoarding a 'limited supply' token means that anyone wanting to buy the token will have to buy from the previous owner, at a higher price than the hoarder paid for it, in essence, making the hoarder rich. This is just a greater fool scheme, where profit of any person depends on finding a 'bigger fool' who is willing to pay increasingly exorbitant price for the useless good

My main issue with the whole "it allows digital artists to be paid for their art" angle is that it ignores one pretty major point, YOU CAN JUST PAY THEM BY COMMISSIONING THEM.

@BlazingKhioneus

2 жыл бұрын

And it has the added benefit of letting your srt be effortlessly stolen and being robbed of the money you should have gotten for it! :D

@fromhell11112

2 жыл бұрын

and its more original and cheaper,

@silvermushroom-gamifyevery6430

2 жыл бұрын

Paying people for their labor =/= paying people for their art.

@BlazingKhioneus

2 жыл бұрын

@@silvermushroom-gamifyevery6430 what labor do you pay your artists for besides creating the sodding artV

@silvermushroom-gamifyevery6430

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlazingKhioneus - The service of creating art to the client's specifications, in contrast to scarce art products that the artist doesn't have to create each and every instance of, that NFTs allow for in the digital space.

I personally find NFTs to be very overtly anti-artist The entire concept is about ownership and bragging rights, not about the art in question, and more often than not the people behind these projects steal the art assets used from others to make a profit, because no artist with any self respect wants to associate with it They try to claim it's the art of the future and that it's only here to help artists, but it's done a lot more harm than good in that regard already

@mjfromjersey

2 жыл бұрын

ownership is something that i think art is naturally at odds with - art is about freedom, inspiration, and often about spitting in the face of our current copyright system. Trying to make art less free and more about money is not good for artists in my opinion.

@xxoticgaming

2 жыл бұрын

When the trend started, it SOUNDED good, great even. But now it morphed into this fucking abomination that i cannot come to terms with. some of my seniors actually sell individual pieces for like 50k+ as NFT tho, so good for them i guess.

@JoniWan77

2 жыл бұрын

@@mjfromjersey True that. The copyright system was once important to enable the existence of artists in a free market and shifted power over art from the nobility (which acted as patrons) to the bourgeoisie. The internet and modern forms of art transactions like commissions or crowdfunding have enabled artists to exist beyond the necessity for copyright and shifts power away from the markets to the actual recipients of art. Especially musicians and artists are thereby freed from their extreme dependence on the good will of the market keepers, who take their power from being able to mass-produce or mass-market products and are a side-effect of the copyright system.

@mordekaihorowitz

2 жыл бұрын

@Mark O'Brien I totally agree, I think people are too obsessed with copyright law and ownership of art, especially since it's digital

@SomniRespiratoryFlux

2 жыл бұрын

Ultimately to me the fundamental issue with NFTs and crypto/blockchain in general, even beyond scams, art theft, environmental damage, toxic "communities", unregulated speculation, and all of the other negative externalities that are already enough to make me refuse to touch any of this with a twelve-foot pole, is that none of the benefits being touted hold water. Either they're things that can already be done without blockchain, things that need some shift in how things are done beyond just adding blockchain to the mix, things that are just a worse version of an existing thing, an outright falsehood that NFTs don't actually do in any measurable way, and/or things that aren't even desirable to begin with. It's all an attempt to commodify and make money off of the vague idea of ownership, a giant name-the-stars scam that even if some people can turn a profit it all comes from something even more fake than the actual economy (which is still fake, but crypto just leans into the fakeness instead of doing anything to fix it). You can't fix the problems of capitalism with more capitalism, you can't solve the issues with fiat currency by making a new fiat currency with more problems baked into it and no safeguards to prevent the issues you're claiming to avoid from just staking in at less risk of losing the investment if the new system fails than the people you claim to want to empower. Blockchain is a solution in search of a problem; crypto/NFTs invent and exaggerate problems and then completely fail to solve even the real ones they identify. It's all less than worthless, even if it fizzles out and has a negligible greater-scheme impact, because it distracts from actual attempts to solve these problems, poisons the well of further attempts that might be more altruistic in intention with the stain of an-cap idiocy, and even if we only use more "eco-friendly" crypto, it's all an energy drain that makes it harder to effectively shift the power grid to renewable resources than it already is. Just... I hate it all and I'm tired.

the funniest thing about the Bored ape logo is that the skull is literally an ape skull version of the the nazi's 3rd SS Panzer Division skull logo. Literally the same thing.

13:40 dude I miss her art so much, she was my favourite artist when I was a little kid (bc I had Instagram way too early), and I followed her art and progress through my whole life, even since she had like 10k on Instagram. I actually cried when she died, it’s so gross that someone did that to her art, image and reputation.:’/

@connerwills6802

3 ай бұрын

I feel bad saying this but I just found out about here through this video. I instantly went over to Instagram and looked at everything she made. And God it's so beautiful 🥹

The issue with NFTs is that they don’t do anything AND they look ugly. The value is decided pretty much arbitrarily, and there is no benefit to owning one. NFTs are an incredible technology, used for exploitation and harming the art community.

@randomboii9166

2 жыл бұрын

Yep currently there isn’t much utility in them exept as a status symbol but as we see crypto games that use nfts I think it will change for the better

@mambaramba

2 жыл бұрын

@@randomboii9166 There will be use for the technology, sure. But those tokens purchased with no real purpose in mind? Why should they gain value?

@arrestedsolidyhe77sp

2 жыл бұрын

That's not an issue. In fact, everything is like that

@novaangle2183

2 жыл бұрын

@@randomboii9166 Crypto games are just the same thing. They are quickly made cash grabs that are for idiots who buy into making money fast with their *unique* things. We already have thousands of ways to sell and buy game assets and tech without the need for nft stocks.

@kaleilakrebs1566

2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know what the difference between and NFT and a commissioned digital art piece? Besides the fact that the commission is better in every way?

God the qinniart thing is heart breaking. I was following her twitter during her final days. Such a sweet and loving person who never gave up fighting for her life no matter how painful it got. To see the disrespect of stealing her art and trying to profit off it is disgusting. Though I know she is not the only artist that will be stolen from. Too many opportunistic scumbags trying to make a profit.

@jusonali

2 жыл бұрын

same situation here, i legit want to cry rn, remembering everything... but also seeing ppl do this.

@paulmahoney7619

2 жыл бұрын

I'd call them vultures but vultures actually are ecologically important. I'd call them body snatchers but at least body snatchers contributed to the advance of medicine. Even graverobber somehow seems too good for them

@Moon_in_Flames

2 жыл бұрын

What an absolute b***h move. Surely someone could get in legal trouble for impersonation of stuff like that. Hope whoever that guy is, gets in serious trouble. I'll be praying on their downfall.

@screwyourhandle

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulmahoney7619 Preach

@lardball976

2 жыл бұрын

i didnt know anything about her or her art until i watched this vid and i legit want to cry rn

qinni… died? i found her art when i was maybe 11 or 12, when i was just starting to take art seriously, and she was one of my biggest influencers. i haven’t been keeping up with her, but i had no idea… and to see someone stealing her art and likeness to make a profit is sickening

@PJ_Wendigo

7 ай бұрын

Sickening is a gruesome understatement.

Nfts sadden me greatly... as a very young artist of 13 capable of art worth selling... I am also a victim of nft abusers. When I got a dm on discord about someone wanting me to do a commission for them I was super excited. He asked me if I knew what nfts were and I didn't. He didn't really wanna explain but either way he proceeded to tell me to draw a human base and draw crap tons of clothe accessories on separate layers on the model. He payed maybe 100 dollars or more in total but at some point I was stupid and sent him the files with a lot of unpaid art. He then ghosted me. Later on I learned what nfts are and can't bring myself to do any other commissions. It was my first ever commission. Generally I have a distaste for nfts in general because of that experience and with quinni (dunno how to spell it) plus a game I loved called Feral had only been out for a year before the creators duplicated the game and made it nft based because feral originally didn't make the money back. That's all...

@reazulzannah738

2 жыл бұрын

Awh, sucks to hear that had happened to you, but don't give up on it. Just be more cautious. I think at your age these kinds of mistakes are more frequent, but remember that each mistake has the potential to make you a stronger person as long as you have the right mindset! Also, it may help to have adult/parental supervision if you're in some kind of business, even if it's art. Someone who can more easily spot something suspicious about a commission and understands the web trends would go a long way.

@FrozenPasta

2 жыл бұрын

@@reazulzannah738 I live in poverty and the people in my life capable of that work 24/7. I'm 14 now also haha. I've been on the internet my entire life really and am actually working on using things like blender to sharpen my skills. In the past month I've really been learning about suspicion offers ect. Nfts were newer on my fyp when I got that offer so that's why I didn't recognize it sadly. Not to mention I still don't understand them completely.

@FrozenPasta

2 жыл бұрын

@@reazulzannah738 ty for commenting :)

@Gigachad-mc5qz

2 жыл бұрын

Just make your own nft?

@FrozenPasta

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gigachad-mc5qz whatttt?....

The fact that Bored Ape is genuinely the "high class" NFTs really shows how fucked up this market is.

@sebastian2072

2 жыл бұрын

they are high class because they were one of the first nft collections to be made. there is a reason. Why some things are valuable if they are ugly? bcs they are old or rare. Take any old painting that is worth millions. you dont have problem with that?

@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12

2 жыл бұрын

@@sebastian2072 both arguments works on bored ape, its a fuckin mass produced program-made products that are not good enough for it to be sold in tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars, heck atleast commission some artists to do it like card game makers like pokemon or vanguard or gacha game companies with their hundreds of characters. however i also understand that the community stuff like the yacht club and the community system behind it is the one that makes the value of the "art", and it took a lot of effort to make the community grow. but please can't you guys atleast just pay a team of artists to make your arts? ofcourse it will cost some money but you can still profit from those arts and it will legitimize the fuckin cost of it (heck it maybe can make the value much higher than these program made stuff). program made "arts" like that is just too greedy and is putting a bad name on yourself and is like spitting at artists who hone their skills their whole lives on their craft. and by paying a whole team of artists you are also making a good contributions to society by providing more jobs to others too.

@sebastian2072

2 жыл бұрын

@@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12 its not greedy, it would take years to make 10k pictures individually. Its not about the art. People are in this market to make money. People buy bored apes for 200k bcs they believe they will be in x amount of time worth y amount of money. Its not greedy. And btw ,who said that those actually good artist cant make collections. You clearly dont understand this market. Its not all about the art. You just sound stupid trying to argue about things you dont know. Why the first edition charizard is worth 200-400k dollars? Why arent u hating them? They didnt make some good art. Its a fucking printed picture on a paper that goes for hundred thousands of dollars. Go hate them. Nft is a technology thru y can finally prove ownership of something. There was no way until now to prove something that u own it. Now there is. Thru blockchain. You understand that in 10 years crypto/nfts blockchain technology will be everywhere.

@thebandofbastards4934

2 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is I don't see the Ape as being bored but more rather as something that's so dead inside it's like you are looking at the one who orginally created and spread the idea of NFT's.

@sebastian2072

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebandofbastards4934 keep hating bro. U will regret that u didnt get in sooner

as an artist it seems truly disappointing the direction that the media takes our carrer. it simply is deappreciated, the value put into genuine work and effort overcame by masses which gained recognition, regardless of how bad they are most often. greed takes part in most projects which involve a large number of mass, but getting it to the next level ruining both something so beautiful as art and nature alike is truly ugly

@tonyrandall3146

2 жыл бұрын

That's the thing.. those in media - that is often _their_ art too. No one is actually undermining your artisticness, but because you seek some sort of other validation and reward you are liable to be victimised by that or victimise yourself by it.

@PixelPalettes

2 жыл бұрын

​@@tonyrandall3146 I get where you're coming from but besides drawing the assets for it it's just randomly generated and depending on how many there are, less work. Not to mention they're getting way more money than a small commission-taking artist gets in a year with one drawing :/

@Bone_guy

2 жыл бұрын

"Art"s primary purpose today is money laundering, NFTs let poor people do that also.

@helloworld4990

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bone_guy are you....? You do realise.....???????? You know what I'm not even gonna tell yah

@SpectreMkTwo

2 жыл бұрын

I feel bad that modern art makes people believe that people in the modern age can't make good art. I've seen so many amazing artists on Twitter and am blown away with the art people can do with modern tech. I sympathize with you and all artist. This entire monitized modern art craze is spitting on art entirely

"I want to be a unique individual so I'll buy a bored ape like everyone else, but mines is special." Next Level

As an artist, I think that the worst thing with NFT’s is how many artists are getting their stuff stolen. I remember hearing about an artist who died, and her stuff immediately being turned into NFTs like the minute the news dropped. Sad stuff.

@margaesperanza

6 ай бұрын

This was Qinni, her brother had to ask people to share who stole his sister’s works. And her close friend? Started selling NFTS……and flopped anyway. It was sad.

As someone who loves drawing, it's really disappointing to see these low effort reskins getting so much money rather than commissions with lots of efforts

@Lucyfer1012

2 жыл бұрын

As a NFT artist. I agree. I wish there was more creative mind sets in the NFT community. That’s why I draw my NFT different and not some ugly patterns. I’m just starting out but still.

@Lucyfer1012

2 жыл бұрын

@@ConductorWeHaveAProblem can you please explain to me why? Also I want a peaceful conversation. Please don’t call me a problem if you have no idea who I am.

@Lucyfer1012

2 жыл бұрын

@@ConductorWeHaveAProblem and I ask a genuine question.

@user-nf1bz3sn4z

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lucyfer1012 Hi problem

@kartikmalhotra1035

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lucyfer1012 hi problem

it baffles me how people put "mass produced" and "valuable collectable" into one thing and don't see anything wrong with the idea

@VB-92

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact. A car (The 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO) was sold for over 70 million dollars at an auction. Supposedly there are only 39 of them in existence. It makes sense, you and 38 other people own that car, no one else can ever hope to get it, and few will even be lucky enough to ever see it. So out of 8000000 only somewhere around 0.0004875% of the population, owns one. And that's only gonna grow in value the older it gets, since it surviving and being functional for that long ups the rarity even more. But of course, this isn't really about making money, unlike the pictures of apes ... it's about putting money in something where you're so rich that you can toss away 70 million on a single car. Do I think something that isn't a rare and very high quality item should reach such values? Like a coin that doesn't even exist? No, never, it should have more justification to the worth. But maybe I'm just missing that justification.

@sankkakeiinc7855

2 жыл бұрын

fr, strange times

@CBRN-115

2 жыл бұрын

It's double think from 1984

@danielaponte4054

2 жыл бұрын

Thank Fortnite for ruining a generation

@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12

2 жыл бұрын

heck card games like pokemon and vanguard has better justifications for valuable collectibles because they actually commissions real artists to make their stuff and some even have lores and science about it. not something that are mass produced by programs just so they can earn money, atleast put some effort on making it "rare" bruh.

I added this video to “watch later” approximately one year ago and now, after I watched the video I went to the google and the first result is “nft selling dropped to 97%”

Watching this 1.5 years after it was made is hilarious. I can't believe we used to be like this

The thing I don't get about the "cutting out the middleman" argument is that, when you normally buy or comission art, there is no middleman. Most artists are freelancers or self employed. On top of that, minting an NFT *creates* a middleman, because minting and trading them costs crypto. In some cases several hundred dollars worth of minting and transaction fees.

@NJdaniels96

2 жыл бұрын

These people have no idea how artists actually work and make money. They always bring up the fine art gallery system when 99% of artists don't go anywhere near it.

@SleepyAdam

2 жыл бұрын

Think they're probably talking about services like PayPal and Patreon, which have been known to screw artists over from time to time.

@apollo8447

2 жыл бұрын

I also dont get the decentralization point as a pro. Like, how is making it with little to no accountability a good thing

@SleepyAdam

2 жыл бұрын

@@apollo8447 I think ideally it would mean the art would be uncensorable, unable to be taken down if it was banned in a country that censors art. Just like torrenting tho, bad actors abuse it to the point where it's more prevalent than the people using it for good, whistleblowers, archivists, etc. Then again, artists could just make torrents of their art to make it uncensorable so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@JacobthePoshPotato

2 жыл бұрын

It is a bullshit PR lie. The internet already cut out the middle man for artists.

As an artist, I remember when NFTs were booming, my dad told me all about it, convincing me to do NFTs because of our financial issues. I refused because it was sketchy and harmful to the art community. You can even tell that most of these NFT users are solely there for get rich quick schemes from how lifeless and effortless their ""work"" looks, as well as stealing other people's art and using dead people as product. *sigh* I strongly hope this NFT shit fades in the future, it does nothing but make a lot of struggling artists close accounts out of the stress of waking up to DeviantArt notifying them about their work being sold as an NFT for the 500th time.

@NovaDraconis

2 жыл бұрын

It will sure fade away. NFTs are a scam and scammers always find a new way to scam each other once the trend is over. This thing’s, or cult if we have to be more accurate with the definition, probably will last not for too long, even because of the environmental issue.

@Draggobuttboi

2 жыл бұрын

I know this sounds weird suggesting this on youtube of all places, but couldn't artists start filing DMCA claims to the google drive links stolen art NFT's rely on and utterly break them? All of a sudden it would be shown how truely pointless they are and NFT owners would realise that they don't actually own the art of the NFT, they didn't comission it from the artist or anything and just have a glorified image link.

@novaangle2183

2 жыл бұрын

@@Draggobuttboi Hard to fight something unregulated and skirts around the law. That's why scammers and pyramid schemes are ripe and everywhere in these things.

@arinrxn

2 жыл бұрын

im pretty sure something similar to this NFT thing happened in the past, it was a tulip bulb. this tulip bulb became very very very rare since it was "different" and "unique than other plants/flowers a.k.a making it more expensive, the people that got their hands on it would sell it with a higher price and cuz people want to get their hands on this rare and valuable thing, they buy it and sell it with a MORE higher price, rinse and repeat all of that. at the end nobody really wanted the actual tulip bulb and was buying solely for the money and ownership, but then one day the value for this tulip just goes down the hill so fast that the people that own it at that time can't do anything with it since its not that rare and valuable anymore. it was called "Tulip Mania" there is more than this, so feel free to look more about it in the wikipedia page. Also, big thanks to Venerable Bastard206 for correcting me on the item, i remembered light bulb instead of tulip bulb got them mixed up and somehow ended up with a lamp. TLDR: something similar happened in the past, and faded into thin air. history is pretty much repeating itself right now and so yes, NFT will infact fade into obscurity sooner or later.

@lullaby_honeymoon5918

2 жыл бұрын

@@arinrxn Holy shit, I did not realize something similar to NFTs occurred! Good to know that it has died down along with the fact that NFTs will die off not being valuable anymore

It's so funny getting this video in my feed _now_ after 97% of the value in them is gone because people caught on to them being a scam, along with blockchains.

Problem is, those "finer details" are where the scams lie. Such as the fact that you actually own an url pointing at an image hosted in a server, rather than the image itself, and if the server goes down or stops hosting, your NFT is bricked.

To understand NFTs, although I don't remember the author: "When I was very little, someone purchased a star for me. Like, a real star... out somewhere in the galaxy. I had a photo of the star framed on my wall, with hand written coordinates of the star's location, and a little blurb about how it belonged to me. The company that sold this "to me" no longer exists. In fact, many companies were in this business, selling stars, keeping registration of who owned what stars. There was no way of knowing if your star had already been sold to someone previously, no way to prevent it being sold again, and there was no way to physically claim your property. Virtually all of those companies are now defunct, and their ledgers are buried in the sands of time. So, anyways, enjoy your NFTs."

@XG417

2 жыл бұрын

Worst part is: You don't even know if some of those stars are even still burning out there. Could've been long dead for all we know and that "star" was simply its light from way before With these NFTs, they could be snuffed out _instantly_ - Not even leaving a trace of its existence

@aesyamazeli8804

2 жыл бұрын

Nice analogy.

@CBRN-115

2 жыл бұрын

To me, NFTs seem like an elaborate(or just blatant) scam

@YugiMomo

2 жыл бұрын

Was that from Josh Strife Hayes?

@Riael

2 жыл бұрын

@@YugiMomo Close to impossible, wouldn't be surprised if he ripped it off from somewhere else though.

My biggest gripe with NFTs is the desire to create artificial scarcity. A huge reason why the internet was, and sometimes is, so cool is the lack of scarcity. But people have such rigid frameworks of ownership that they see something that can be enjoyed by everyone as an issue. It's like the opposite of Star Trek

@drlemon7729

2 жыл бұрын

Same. If you're building a 'metaverse' why would you make it possible to be poor there

@planescaped

2 жыл бұрын

Never has the phrase a "a fool and their money are easily parted" been more applicable.

@dylangergutierrez

2 жыл бұрын

@@aduantas Yep! The early internet was great because it was necessarily communistic; there was no real money to be made, so people did cool stuff for the joy of doing it. Now that it has been monopolized and commercialized, though, people see it as an extension of their current material conditions. It's turning into just another big market now.

@dylangergutierrez

2 жыл бұрын

@@drlemon7729 Because that's not how you make money on consumers of your alternate reality

@memepolice6624

2 жыл бұрын

...NFT's don't have the desire to create artificial scarcity, that's what the currency behind it wants, and it's not even artificial. The technology behind crypto ensures a finite amount. Secondly, the internet was never "necessarily communistic". It was always privately own. In order for someone to even access the internet, especially in the early days, be economically well-off to afford a computer. The money made was in the machine you purchased. Lastly, the internet STILL has the means to and continue make things without economic incentives entirely without commercialization. Just because product consumers created their own space doesn't mean that's all there is. By all means, there is nothing stopping anyone from accessing some backwoods anachronistic websites entirely void of economic benefit. PS: The ever increasing corporatization of the internet by publicly owned companies is what makes the internet "necessarily communistic" now more than ever.

Simple answer to a simple question: They aren't art, they're money pits. Someone figured out they could sell something that is intrinsically worth less than dog shit for a boatload of money, and all they had to do was convince new money idiots that its rare and unique and everyone will see that they own it on a website. I maintain that the best case scenario is that NFTs are money laundering schemes for criminal organizations or shady corporations. The fact that art is stolen is just the cherry on top.

It’s interesting how NFTs have become the opposite of the Traditional Economy they were meant to represent. Instead of being artisanal goods, each one unique and hand crafted, they’re churned out representations of randomness with arbitrary value and no real way to decide their worth.

qinni's death absolutely SHATTERED me, as someone who had taken inspiration from her art for years, her passing completely ruined me as well as others like me. the only kind of person who would pretend to be her and make fucking nfts of her art is a monster, an absolutely vile vermin of a person. i cant believe someone would disrespect her that much, they may as well have pissed on her grave..

@lebitelexie9350

2 жыл бұрын

Trying to peddle NFTs using people who passed away should have consequences in my oppinion. How severe and harsh I leave up to debate but defiling someone's legacy this way is utterly disgusting.

@sonetagu1337

2 жыл бұрын

Y'know you could just make a tree in her grave and let it grow there (Jk thats impratical)

@rafaelgarcia1392

2 жыл бұрын

I see more negatives than positives with the misuse of this tech. Seeing despicable people across the fucking sea in a little fucking den pull this kind of shit is infuriating, the straw that broke the camels fucking back

@KoffeeSlider

2 жыл бұрын

You know, there was a scene from wall street that reminds me of all the art theft, especially stealing a well loved artist who inspired many. The guy that made the speech stated "Greed is good, greed works" and stuff like that. I guess that was the foreshadowing of the creation of nfts.

@jigsaw2253

2 жыл бұрын

Man up you 😺

Misconception: NFT's are not "files" a majority of the time, most NFT's are hyperlinks, which means that the centralized website that is hosting the image of said NFT will one day shut down and the NFT will become a 404 error, or simply a broken link.

@the11382

2 жыл бұрын

Worse, they can pull the rug on you and simply take your NFT away. This actually happens.

@jhonataaraujo6228

2 жыл бұрын

Anyone with a basic knowledge about NFTs knows this, I don't understand why so many people keep repeating as if it's something "hidden" or unknown Most NFTs store media files in IPFS and only store the metadata on the blockchain, including the hyperlink or IPFS hash code for the files

@walter3934

2 жыл бұрын

@@jhonataaraujo6228 In the first place computers can't simply make a random number, much less random web server. We can guess what "random number" a computer will spout out. No reason to not be able to hack into "random" web servers.

@SherrifOfNottingham

2 жыл бұрын

@@jhonataaraujo6228 And yet the video this comment is posted on used vocabulary that illustrated their ignorance of this fact, so it bears repeating here. Whether they knew this fact or not, they stated "associated with digital files" ANYBODY saying that an NFT is owning of a "file" of any kind is likely forgetting the fact I stated, or is obstinately omitting the quite important asterisk that people seem to forget. NFT's usually point to a hyperlink, the ones that do you do not actually own the image in any way shape or form. You own the hyperlink to that image and nothing more. The ones that are NOT hyperlinks are a bit different, checksum NFTs you don't actually own the image/file either, you own the verification OF that file. All it takes is for that file to undergo any kind of back end modification for it to be considered not yours, for the sake of art, that means that as long as I make the file slightly different enough for the numbers to match up, you hold no ownership of it. So when I right click and save as a different extension, you don't even have a way to identify that image that was stolen, as your checksum would be different or easily altered from the original without it visually changing a single pixel. The ONLY NFTs that seem to be actual ownership of an image are the files small enough to fit into the code of the NFT, so pixel art at best. But this is an outlier, pretty uncommon for NFTs to be used in this way, and while they exist, he showed an image that would be too large to encode directly into the block chain while saying this (and the content of the rest of the video) for this to be understood.

@lookatmyfacern

2 жыл бұрын

@@the11382 i forgot who did it, but im pretty sure its the EvolvedApes case right?

“NFTs are in something of a Wild West stage” and now they’re in universal heat death

@RoryRose_

14 күн бұрын

praise be and may they never come back!

One year later, this NFT topic did not age well

I remember when NFTS were meant to be “the new income for small artists” before we realised they were just extra assets for the already rich 🤡

@rajs4719

2 жыл бұрын

This. I'm a photographer but I'd have way more luck selling prints as a small photographer than selling NFTs. The people who are already big are the ones that can sell their NFTs

@Odrikah

2 жыл бұрын

Yeahh this pretty much. I got into it briefly when my other online artist friends told me about it, and then watched as my actual art pieces that I was really proud of just sat there while everyone just started buying bored apes. It was never about the art, and it's really disappointing.

I find it astonishing how people talk more often about how useless owning an NFT is rather than how stupidly ugly and without artistical value those NFT "brands" are.

@chillfactory9000

2 жыл бұрын

and also how horrible they are for the enviroment

@memepolice6624

2 жыл бұрын

@@chillfactory9000 Actually, thats seemingly the first thing most people will mention in discussions, but that could just be my experience. Now that im thinking about it, even when it's being brought up, no one really brings up exact numbers or analogous examples of how much energy is consumed. They'll just say "it's bad for the environment" and never expound on it, like they're just being a mouth-piece for some rhetoric, which in turn, disengages my interest in that part of the issue. I had no idea that Ethereum consumed more energy than a small country.

@cralo2569

2 жыл бұрын

@@memepolice6624 it's hear-say really, but it's seems to be true...

@nise6699

2 жыл бұрын

I mean since most of these NFTBros don't care about the artistical value and just in it for the money(and they're the most annoying), people tend to go against that idea first to show their actual argument and purpose of profiting from a flawed system and sugarcoating it up with the idea of owning digital assets, I mean that's how I go about it anyways

@Blankult

2 жыл бұрын

@@nise6699 I just find it funny how people meme about screenshotting NFTs but they're not even worth that lol

NFT: no fuking thanks

And now noone hears anything of these things anymore

That one about Qinni was a slap across the face. It's been a wild couple of years, so I haven't been following my interests at all. I hadn't even realized she was gone. I found her back in highschool and absolutely fell in love with her art. I'm so incredibly sorry to hear this. But also absolutely disgusted by those who would use the names of the dead for a quick buck.

@user-ts1kp5dj9q

2 жыл бұрын

Qinni was such an inspiration for all artist in the 2010s im happy her name is always spoken and remembered

@96tax

2 жыл бұрын

and she was such a good digital artist, I felt my heart cracking

@hereiampercylover

2 жыл бұрын

I relate. I don't know she was dead until i saw this video and i had been following her on KZread and Instagram for years. I can't believe it slipped passed me

@salemcrow5078

2 жыл бұрын

God, I had even forgotten it's been a couple years since she died. I never really followed her, but I recognized her work when I first heard about her death. I'd heard about the NFTs before this but didn't automatically connect the name Qinni to her, though I recognized it and suspected it was likely her. Also, her brother who now manages her artwork commented on this video.

NFTs are proof we are living in an era of validation and dopamine addiction. " - Master Oogway

@intensivecareunitpee5838

2 жыл бұрын

You’ve taken valid points from others and butchered them. The fuck is “dopamine addiction”

@ozyisgoated

2 жыл бұрын

Master Oogwgay is better

@flushed8510

2 жыл бұрын

@@intensivecareunitpee5838 It's what those weird Twitter junkies are addicted to, causing them to spend 9+ hours a day being reply guys and retweeting hundreds of things per day to their 17 followers. You can laugh at the concept of a dopamine addiction (and a dopamine detox) but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

@Artificial_Idiot

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen this copied comment in different video for hours ago Doesn’t mean I hate copied comments, only if they consistently copying comments

@lacabraasada2326

2 жыл бұрын

You're everywhere

remember when people actually thought nft's would have any future? lol

The issue isn't that NFT's have so many bad actors... its that NFT's were made by bad actors, it's an entire technology built by bad actors, for bad actors, to scam people with not massive amounts of money into feeding their own greed. NFT's will never ever solve these issues, because it's not designed to, it's designed to be exploitative, greedy, destructive and to steal from genuinely hard working people, again to feed the greed of those who have built and maintain this system. NFT's are honestly one of the worst inventions in the 21st Century, and hopefully, they'll die inside the decade.

people won’t commission artists for full, custom illustrations saying they’re overpriced but will opt for more expensive and worse looking nfts

@Hevii_

2 жыл бұрын

Literally, you could get some of the most gorgeous art of ANYTHING you want, a character, a landscape, a game, a fucking animation, WHATEVER YOU WANT for like $200? Orrr you could get a shitty looking ape for $50,000

@awkwardllama0509

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hevii_ truth

@Nekusa

2 жыл бұрын

you're only sseeing when celebities spend cash for highly minted pieces that's inflated with value. most of these start out as cheap as 30$ and eventually inflates based on the same method forex traders uses to get rich from stocks or crypto

@x420weedkillaSmOkA69

2 жыл бұрын

Its an issue of liquidity! you can unload as easily as you acquire. this is why people love stocks!

@matheussanthiago9685

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nekusa aka ponzi scheme

I've heard about Qinni (and several other deceased artists) having their art stolen for NFTs. It's really relevant to the topic, and illustrates the point really well. The art theft that goes on over there is so disgusting, on top of everything else, and I'm glad you included it in this video

@iamjustkiwi

2 жыл бұрын

Even worse, someone with access to Stan Lees Twitter account has been using it to push superhero NFTs. The culture around them and the ghouls who love them seriously gross me out.

@brianthepyromancer924

2 жыл бұрын

Just in someone has been making bad pixel art of deceased KZreadr etika and selling nfts of it to "commemorate him"

@iamjustkiwi

2 жыл бұрын

@@brianthepyromancer924 fucks sake. The shit people will stoop to in pursuit of money they likely don't even need is disgusting.

@clev7989

2 жыл бұрын

Legit it made me almost cry, not just the nft part but the story up to that point as well.

@arataki4417

2 жыл бұрын

I never even heard about Qinni and such until this video, I don't participate in the art world though I am studying cyber security which crypto currency has to do with. I honestly don't understand crypto currency at all but whatever. I'm upset to hear about Qinni (I don't know if she died so) I hope she gets better somehow and that her art stops bring stolen for this damn garbage.

Honestly I think that the only reason why so many people (myself included) hate the idea of NFTs is cause they are so blatantly disrespectful. disrespectful to artists who actually give a shit disrespectful to people who actually work hard to make a living and oh for heaven's sake, SUPER disrespectful to the dead. If they genuinely looked good, then I think the NFTS would be so much more respected. And yeah even I like some kinds of nfts, search the Azuki Nfts, those looke genuinely nice, and aren't blatantly disrespectful to the dead.

NFTs are ugly so that people won't bother downloading them.

The argument that you can't make money without NFTs is so stupid. Commissions? Prints? Merch? Do people really believe there's no way at all to make money from your art? You're far far less likely to make one huge chunk of money from a single buyer on a single artwork than you are a stable flow from traditional means unless you're already insanely popular. NFTs aren't going to help small artists.

@rolandp.6133

2 жыл бұрын

Don't you know, artists did not exist prior to NFTs?! /s

@-rcrc-r7624

2 жыл бұрын

Yea.., all method u just mention, still will not work for small artists, as an artist, u have to know how important that is to have reputation instead of only skills.

@dreamrabbits5072

2 жыл бұрын

It's so annoying because now non-artists and laypeople who know nothing about it, but probably heard it on some article or video once now think this is a way for artists to make SO MUCH MONEY! Little do they know it has nothing to do with art at all, it's a total scheme.

@rockocandyeye

2 жыл бұрын

@@-rcrc-r7624 Still, having great skills are better than reputation since it's much long lasting more. Many NFTs are from those who can't draw a decent thing

@daanabbring5409

2 жыл бұрын

@@rockocandyeye I saw someone who had made NFT's for charity to save penguins or something like that. First of all, it looked like the work from a 10 year old and secondly it's a fact that NFT's are *very* bad for the climate. I wish they made better use of the electrical power and the space that data centers take up for this stuff no one cares about.

It really feels like when NFTs were first coming onto the scene, a lot of people tried to get online digital artists into doing them - it's the new hot thing! Don't you wanna get in on the trend? (I remember hearing a lot of buzz, especially on Twitter where people were trying to convince struggling artists that minting NFTs would suddenly make their art worth lots of money and make them popular.) When that failed, startup-type tech guys took over and are basically in it for the business side of things. The reason so many NFTs are so goddamn ugly is because only a really desperate or shameless artist would want to be the front for some techbro's newest scheme. Combine that with the whole thing about artists' work being stolen or minted with a fucking Twitter bot, or deceased artists' work being minted against the will of their families, or dead celebrities a la Bob Ross and Stan Lee being used to push NFTs posthumously. It really isn't about art anymore, if it ever was. The facade slipped as soon as the vast majority of digital artists gave the entire concept a big fuck-you. Basically, the version of NFTs we see now is the techbros trying to keep the concept alive when actual artists all decided they wanted nothing to do with it. It's the epitome of soulless corporate art.

@ceasarcruz8312

2 жыл бұрын

just because those uglies are most popular, doesn't really mean proper artist don't want to have anything to do with them, there's lot of artists with legit talent and skills that stayed in NFTs... I found a lot of artists I previously had no clue about because of NFTs... there's always some good to be seen...

@ERAeternal

2 жыл бұрын

@@ceasarcruz8312 I mean yeah, I was more generalizing than anything. This video alone has shown there are actually talented artists minting their own artwork, but it seems like that's the outlier. I see job listings on websites like ArtStation almost daily from companies looking for artists to make artwork for their NFTs. Basically, they put the cart before the horse, making NFTs without images to associate with them. I think that shows who's most invested in this concept. If it was REALLY about artists making their own money without a middle man, there wouldn't be so many NFT companies BECOMING middle men.

@Cinskix

2 жыл бұрын

@@ERAeternal Yeah, it's annoying to see that instead of trying to change and make the business more decentralized so it would be more fair to everyone, it still seems like its going the same exact direction, and it's about people exploiting others for the profit. And those who get the most are not the most skilled/ hard working ones, but those who are best at marketing and with most connections..and it's so clear to see that instead of helping creatives they're just using them for making more money and crippling them. And majority of people who buy it don't even do it because they appreciate the art itself, but rather because they see it as opportunity to make more money. Like..well, this one looks decent enough so maybe I'll be able to re-sell it for much more. Yet, I believe the whole concept of NFT isn't that bad, but it still lacks some things to make it more useful. They already work on an AI that will mint a token within a picture pixels so then you could scan it and get all the info about who's the owner, the history of transactions etc. So that would prevent people from stealing other people's arts since the artists ownership would be embodied into the art itself. Kind of like invisible watermark. Also , I believe it's a very nice concept that the original artist will get some % of the money Everytime their NFT is resold by others. So there's lots of good that can come out of it, but in current state it's still very chaotic and it probably need some time to develop.

@ceasarcruz8312

2 жыл бұрын

@@ERAeternal opportunists always show up when there's money to be made, I hate it too...

@katie_cant_compute

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!

The fact this video is about why NFTs are ugly and the second i clicked it i got a ad about flipping NFTs is very convenient.

10:23 is when I checked out. Blockchain has no advantage over just using a database. It doesn't take +10 years for a usecase appear. Most NFTs have bad art because they're not about art. They're thinly disguised get rich quick schemes.

What bothers me the most about most NFTs is that they're worthless. Even if it's good art, owning it means nothing.

@PrecociousFriand

2 жыл бұрын

What bothers me most about the majority of people commenting here, is they are happy to be completely voluntarily miseducated about Crypto, NFTs and blockchain. Yet they are happy to 'cherry-pick' their opinions, presented as information, and foist it on others as if it's fact.

@clipsdjttv3910

2 жыл бұрын

How many people are buying it is worth for some people

@loyalty5207

2 жыл бұрын

@@PrecociousFriand Hate to break it to you NFT Bro but no, the current state of 99% of NFTs are literally worthless. A Bored Ape, Lazy Lion, etc only has value the second you purchase them and then they drop to valueless until someone decides to spend money on it. A shitty computer generated jpg does not have a copyright to buy and has absolutely no intrinsic value.

@Lycaon1765

2 жыл бұрын

@@loyalty5207 nope they ain't my guy. You need to understand something, if people are paying money for it then that shit ain't worthless. It literally has worth because someone paid for it or is willing to pay for it. If a lot of people want something, such as people fighting over a rare shoe, then the worth is higher usually. That's what defines the value of something. If nobody wants it, then it is indeed worthless no matter how much money you put into producing it. The worth something has is the worth the owner or buying-public gives it. YOU yourself don't think it has value. But that's just it, that's what YOU think, that's YOUR opinion. There are other people out there who see these NFTs and say "that has value to me", and thus they have value.

@darklazerx7913

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lycaon1765 Yes but eventually that bubble will burst, because people only buy nfts cause they think they will go up in value. As soon as there is any indication that nfts will go down in value everyone will sell and nfts will be worthless.

Quinniart case really hit me to the core, she's my senior who graduated from year above us and her art really inspired my works when I was in school. I'm now working at the same studio that she used to work with (Titmouse) and they even show her thesis film on their Raffle two year ago. You know how a good and nice she is by just seeing how her passing really effect everybody I known. So when I saw those NFT. It really made my blood boiled, really put a very bad taste on my mouth and you can guarantee not just me who feel that.What a new low.

@dazaisart2406

2 жыл бұрын

right? i believe quinni inspired soooo many people in the 2010´s, theres probably no one i know who havent seen her art. i was really upset when she passed away, and seeing what theyre doing now is just utterly disgusting.

@noelvalenzarro

2 жыл бұрын

@@dazaisart2406 Did she work on a lot of adult swim shows? I remember always seeing the titmouse logo come on during the credits.

@sunstrike2738

2 жыл бұрын

@@noelvalenzarro I also work at titmouse, around the time quinni was working there we were doing a bunch of dreamworks shows. Not much Adult swim though. There was a small art exhibit that was put on at our studio after her passing

@noelvalenzarro

2 жыл бұрын

@@sunstrike2738 Yhen you’re still both probably responsible for some great stuff I’ve enjoyed. Thank you both.

@Callaxes

2 жыл бұрын

Artists like her are the only real celebrities in my life. I feel a stronger connection to people like her or Loish than anybody the media deems as being "famous". I study their artstyle and use it to develop my own. They've played a big role in my life, just by sharing their art. So, hearing that she went to the same school and worked at the same studio as you, seems a bit surreal for me, i guess famous artists are just normal people.

The fact that so many people could get scammed, and that so many scummy acts have been done just for NFTs, hijacking a dead person's twitter account, stealing art from dead artists, is just so degrading. The upsides just cannot compensate for the damage people like that have already done.

message from the future: NFTs are essentially dead, oh the surprise

I don't get the obsession with ownership, or more specifically, being told you own something on their servers, as apposed to downloading it. Is it an obsession based on needing to deprive others of it? What is the reason somebody would want to pay a large sum of money so a server somewhere says they own something? To protect their "valuable" asset?

@dirtydan2721

2 жыл бұрын

Scarcity is the number one thing that decides how "valuable" something is. If there's twice as many dollars out there as there were yesterday your dollar is worth half what it was. Silver and gold were used as currency because they were rare and lasted forever. Historic paintings have value, as do paintings made by artists. There is value in scarcity and being the "first" or "only" of something, nobody denies this with original pieces of artifacts, money, or historical paintings but suddenly it doesn't make sense for NFT's?

@planescaped

2 жыл бұрын

This seems like the very definition of a fad.

@TheRedCap30

2 жыл бұрын

Human greed is so pathetic

@puffer_frog

2 жыл бұрын

@@dirtydan2721 problem is how the fuck can you create scarcity out of something intangible like digital art or an encrypted string of text leading to the image. People can right click save them and there is this guy who literally downloaded all the NFTs at that time and put them online to be downloaded for free. And 'scarcity' is a joke in the NFT space when everyone is flooding out low value crap day by day. Yes, they may be unique, but so is every piece of rock out there. They may be shaped differently and come in various sizes and weight but ultimately have little to no value. Historic paintings are valuable because of their cultural/religious/historic/emotional significance they may carry. NFTs are valuable because of speculation and the amount of money people pump into them.

@angeldude101

2 жыл бұрын

People who buy NFTs don't even really "own" the image. The image itself is just a very long number that can be copied freely. What they really own is a receipt that _says_ they own the image.

Ngl kinda disappointed that NFT's aren't part of the dictionary's synonyms for the word "scam".

@onlineguy4442

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like Nft was created for abuse

@teneleven5132

2 жыл бұрын

Well that wouldn't be a very useful synonym, in the vast majority of contexts swapping out "scam" with "NFT" would change the meaning of the sentence way too much to be useful for writers.

@deathlydashi

2 жыл бұрын

Did you even watch the video?

@nameq

2 жыл бұрын

funny

I first knew about NFT, because my friend got her artworks stolen she posted on twitter and put on NFT, and no one can do anything about it. We hate it.

I remember hearing that a Gravity Falls short called “Mabel’s guide to art” predicts NFTs. It has Mabel draw the same cat over and over again and just change up the hat and sell them like they are cat versions. Yet those had more thought.

I genuinely can't see how NFTs are remotely better for artists than, ohhh I dunno, normal commissions? If these people actually cared about artists, they'd commission artists, not purchase ugly and low effort picrews, and engage in scams Also, on the topic of dead people's likenesses being used for NFTs, the brand Tokidoki apparently made Marilyn Monroe NFTs, they posted about it on Instagram and it's gross to see that she's still being taken advantage of even in death It's honestly gross that ANY dead people are being used to peddle this nonsense, let them rest in peace

@Vale-jb9dr

2 жыл бұрын

That's my point. I've seen a lot of people prasing NFTs for being a way to "support digital artists" -- and it's clear to me that those people had never thought about artist support until they needed an excuse to justify pouring millions of dollars into glorified files. If you really care about owning a unique piece of work from an artist, what's better than a commission? You have complete control over its inception, and it is far more personalized than any randomized layered image will ever be. Oh right, I forgot. Commissions are actually generally affordable and you can't brag about being "rich" because you own one. Silly me.

@krismarshall3803

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vale-jb9dr Like NFT bros also point out that with commissions "doesn't mean I own the piece. I pay to own all rights to it to do whatever I want" to which I will go "Well pay me an extra $200 and we are gucchi. Do whatever with your commission, hell, even say you didn't even know the artist cuz you know in the end it will all come back to me with you being a total asshat and ignoring my name." But even THEN that's not good enough because the whole NFT thing they need an official receipt of them being able to do whatever the hell they want with it with full ownership. To which I can only respond with "Grow the fuck up you man-child"

@johnsalchichon777

2 жыл бұрын

"Please commission me i'm Literally Dying Of starvation"

@nihilego3634

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnsalchichon777 "Haha, Kemono Party goes brrrrrr"

@ryuuthefrog3775

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vale-jb9dr Exactly. The only way to support digital artists is to.. actually support them. Using character generator and selling them for millions isn't support. It's a blatant fucking insult. It really fucking hurts. I did digital commissions for friends. Hell, I don't care how they use the art, as long as they keep my artist signature on the drawing and don't claim it as theirs I don't care how they use it. They paid for it. NFTs could have been good (hear me out... I swear I'm not crazy) if they just weren't a lazy scam. It's highly insulting to artists. Hell, there are probably artists out there who have something similar to NFTs that were creative and fair but are now overshadowed by other NFTs and the stigma of those NFTs. It's especially disgusting how a lot of the art is fucking stolen from alive and DEAD people, as well as sold based on dead people (for example, Stan Lee and Bob Ross.... disrespectful), as well as just... made from character generators??? One-Of-A-Kind things are super fun. I'm one of those people who love to collect things. But it shouldn't've come to this. Maybe in an alternate universe, NFTs are just digitalized one-of-a-kinds with real effort. I just could not agree with you more. NFTs are an insult to traditional and digital art.... as well as the environment. How sad.

“Liberating artists”, “letting artists monetize their works” One word: Commissions.

@birchbirchwoodiii9285

2 жыл бұрын

RIGHT?!

@joe____

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like this is a really two dimensional answer, as there are a lot of roadblocks and limitations that aren't immediately apparent when you say "just commision lol"

@chocolizard678

2 жыл бұрын

If these guys spent a portion of the money they would spend on commissions rather than these the commission market would be so much better.

@AnonymousGentooman

2 жыл бұрын

Commissions sound like a good use for crypto, imagine having the guarantee that both artist and commissioner stay anonymous. Shame most crypto goes into people speculating

@TheWizardMus

2 жыл бұрын

Legitimately I've commissioned artists around 10 times now, just coming across their open comms announcement on my dash on Tumblr, and every time I've done it I've been super pleased with it. It's nice being able to directly support artists I follow and maybe get a picture of a minor video game character that only I like dressed as a pirate.

I really appreciate this video. Probably one of the most well rounded videos I’ve seen on these topics.

This is my biggest gripe with NFTs. the idea of non fungible digital art is neat, but this is clearly a soulless money grab by talentless market predators. They fucked a perfectly good medium for unique, one of a kind media. Imagine being able to actually sell a piece of art digitally in a non fungible form.

@LightningMo3

Жыл бұрын

Well it is, it's like, why don't people just make good artworks in that form and post it on there? Seriously, I get a lot of the environmental stuff, but to whine about them making talentless work when talking about 'art' is ridiculous, there isn't a more subjective thing imo than art so it's not really anyone's to say whether this art is good or not. We have some sort of stat at least in that it sells, although tbh I think it has a lot to do with money laundering so that data is skewed to me. My point is, why aren't artists adapting? We are the most made-fun-of field there is, especially when it comes to degree, and we are letting this marketplace flood with just about everything but aesthetically-pleasing, well-made material and it's artists and graphic designers alikes' fault that it's happened.

NFTs are going the exact same route as beanie babies. everyone bought them up like crazy thinking they'd be worth a fortune but that meant that there were so many in circulation that they were worthless.

@auqustfire

2 жыл бұрын

I never understood the beanie baby thing. Like, what gave people the idea that they'd be worth money in the first place? With NFTs connection to cryptocurrencies, it's not crazy that people would expect them to be worth money (dumb but not surprising), but cloth animals filled with pellets???

@naota3k

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. This. If _everyone_ knows how "valuable" they are at retail and buys a shit ton of them, the scarcity in which their high value comes from is stripped away.

@FranNyan

2 жыл бұрын

@@auqustfire Collectibles are a weird market where you're basically gambling on the future having nostalgia for the past and being willing to pay high prices for them. With beanies, it was the *LIMITED RUN!!* thing that made people lose their heads. But something being limited edition only increases in value if there's a want for that thing after the production run is over. (Plus "Limited" when it comes to mass produced products is another thing entirely...)

@dr.wyverstone8418

2 жыл бұрын

@@FranNyan The same thing happens with Funko Pops (of which, the company Funko has started making NFTs themselves as shown with the Bob Ross thing). Certain pops get a limited amount or limited time to be sold, so a lot of people in the community lose their minds trying to wait in line for the newest releases for one of two reasons; 1) That they really want this pop for their personal collection for multitudes of different reasons (such as completing a set, favorite character, nostalgia reason, etc.) or 2) They think it'll be worth something and buy it at retail to sell it much higher right after, or after waiting for awhile. The difference with those is that pops have kept this up for over 10 years now, but like anything eventually popularity will wear off and prices for highly sought after pops will also drop no matter how "limited" any of them are.

@AssassinKillua15

2 жыл бұрын

At least you can hold Beanie Babies in your hands. Not that they're worth 30k or whatever..but at least its a psychical thing that you can't have taken away from you by it being deleted.

The more I learn about NFTs the angrier I get because it's like watching the world go insane in unison

@urfavmorigirl5968

2 жыл бұрын

It makes me want to mash my brain like potatoes

@hauntr416

2 жыл бұрын

Can't wait for the day when the market drops and all these NFT supporters can't sell their assets lmao, that would be hilarious 😂 I might be psychopath for wishing ppl to lose money, but idc

@tomkrawec

2 жыл бұрын

Financial bubbles are a hallmark of capitalism and I can only hope people become annoyed wtih them in time to enjoy a more controlled human society for at least a while before this planet becomes significantl less liveable.

@urfavmorigirl5968

2 жыл бұрын

@@hauntr416 it’s fine, in this case it can be excused

@fandroid6491

2 жыл бұрын

@sotuur aeei They're even worse than toxic fanbases

It’s very funny to find this video a year later following the market crash of NFTs as the scammers have moved on to the next grift

I am grateful you made this video because my semiotics teacher did not know what NFTs were and thanks to you I was able to explain it to him.

Hearing about Qinni's art getting stolen is just a massive punch in the gut. I only learned of her the day she died, but it was obvious that she deserved so much more respect not only for her craft, but for her gentle spirit and fighting strength when it came to her situation. I am monumentally furious, this is absolutely disgusting and I hope the person who did it gets their karmic punishment.

@user-lq4ct6dr5m

2 жыл бұрын

Man my rage is boiling at this moment , shit does happen when you sell a signal of one’s life and hardship for a quick buck !

@neuralmute

2 жыл бұрын

Same. Total rage. I'm also an artist who happens to be chronically ill, currently waiting to find out a potentially dangerous diagnosis that would require brain surgery. If my surgery went wrong, or my condition is worse than my doctors think, I *HATE* the idea of some greedy tech bro stealing my work for an easy buck. The thief isn't the one who's worked their entire life to hone their skills, or put hours and hours into every piece that they created with their own hands, which are calloused and scarred from pencils, pens, paintbrushes, power tools, sandpaper, solvents, every sort of sewing needle, stitched up, and burned. Hands that have IV scars in the backs. All for a labour of love, because you *don't* go into this field for the money! I would come back and haunt that guy's ass like the girl from The Ring, You don't rip off an artist who's been working through the pain.

@dataexpunged6969

2 жыл бұрын

I had been following her for years and had a few interactions with her in her ig comment section. When she posted about her illness it broke my heart. I cried bitterly the day she passed away. To hear how someone took advantage of her memory in such a horrible way makes me furious beyond words.

@dataexpunged6969

2 жыл бұрын

@@neuralmute While your comment at the end is hilarious, I do hope for things to get easier for you. You're awesome and if you're an artist and are comfortable with sharing your Instagram, would you share it with me? I'd love to support you!

@neuralmute

2 жыл бұрын

@@dataexpunged6969 Thanks for the support! Working with chronic pain isn't something I'd recommend to anybody, but it's better than doing nothing. I'm hoping that at least one of my problems will see better treatment over the next year, and the hope keeps me going. I apologise, but I don't feel comfortable sharing identifying info on here, especially in the comments of a video about NFTs, where art poachers might be hanging out. Right now especially, while I'm trying to put together a portfolio for an advanced degree, I can't afford to have my work plagerised. I'm sure you can understand that! Take care, and all the best to you.

Seriously, why spend so much on an ugly monkey/stolen art when you can spend that same money to find an artist you like and buy a custom piece? Directly benefitting the artist, you get art in return (not just a hyperlink). It's beautiful, it was handmade for you, totally one-of-a-kind. Isn't that more special?

@paulmahoney7619

2 жыл бұрын

And it takes far, far, less energy.

@Lycaon1765

2 жыл бұрын

Think of something really fucking stupid you've bought before. Something others might judge you for getting in the first place, but you still enjoy anyway. Maybe you bought something to go along with a trend or to be part of some community. Maybe that trend/community was/is mocked a lot online for being seen as supposedly worthless or dumb. But you still enjoy your purchase anyway. Now realize that people buy NFTs because they want it. You yourself may not see value in it but that doesn't mean that other people have to agree with you nor defend their like of it (as long as it's not something morally repulsive or actively harmful, obvi). It's like saying "let's play channels shouldn't exist! Why would you ever want to watch someone play a game when you can play the game yourself?!?" They exist because people like it.

@pureevil9496

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lycaon1765 Let's Plays are more entertaining than playing games myself (which I don't do because video games are stupid) Getting custom art is purely better than buying some random garbage for loads more money in the hope you can make a profit

@Lycaon1765

2 жыл бұрын

@@pureevil9496 Again, that's your opinion man. Very clearly these NFT folks disagree.

@TheSameYellowToy

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention that if you buy art or a collectible because you genuinely like it, then its monetary worth doesn't matter. But collecting ugly NFTs you don't actually enjoy in the hopes of them making you money someday is even more risky than buying NFTs you actually enjoy, because if you like them and they're worthless...well, at least you like them. But if you don't even like them and they're worthless, then you're SOL even on a sentimental level. You're no different than people who don't like plushies/toys but thought buying Beanie Babies would pay for their kids' college, or elderly people shocked that their Precious Moments figurine collections kept untouched in dusty boxes in the attic for decades they only bought for the sole purpose of funding their retirement are now completely worthless.

The one detail of NFTs that always angers me is when celebrities get into them. It usually goes like this: Celebrity announced they're releasing NFTs of their "image". Fans give criticism to this, especially when NFTs can go against what the celebrity stood for. Then, either the celeb ignores the hate and carries on, making some money OR the celebrity releases a bullshit statement that they've "looked more into it all" and realised how bad NFTs actually are. Which just admits that they didn't even know what they were getting into or supporting, they just did it because it was the most talked about thing and wanted part of it. Then most cases they can't even cancel or undo the NFTs because it was in a contract with another company, so it just comes off as trying to get sympathy even though they're still pushing out NFT shit

Aaaaaaaand they've been forgotten already

I just realized that shiny Pokémon are theoretically more valuable than NFTs(cheating nonwithstanding) because if I have my shiny Crobat from may 2009, it will be the only Crobat like that: individual values, moves, ribbons, etc(again, cheating and cloning nonwithstanding) and it has the additional sentimental value of being one that I found naturally. With this scarsity and ownership of this specific Crobat, I have free reign to do what I want with it, including destroying it. With an NFT, you dont get the power of ownership besides being able to sell it. Someone who owns THE mona lisa has the power to set it ablaze, paint over it, make it a paper airplane, or touch up faded spots and noone else can just hit undo on that. The power of ownership isn't in the receipt, but in the power to affect your possession.

@abdallababikir9154

2 жыл бұрын

that is a bunch of nonsense. What will you do, force me to delete it?

@BlazingKhioneus

2 жыл бұрын

@@abdallababikir9154 wtf? did you miss the entire point of my comment? I was saying if I truly owned something nonfungible, then I get to do whatever I want with it, even if that means permanent destruction, but because an NFT can be replicated and the only part of it I own is a reciept, then I do not have this power and thus ownership is less valuable.

@abdallababikir9154

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlazingKhioneus ohh my bad, i did miss your point, entirely.

@jamstarr

2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the gayest things ive read but you raise a good point

@dragonmartijn

2 жыл бұрын

It gives me so much emotional value to see other people throw their money away like that.

Love how NFTs were supposed to "support artists" yet they immediately became a way for scummy individuals to speculate with procedurally generated turds that can't look good even by accident.

@GamingWithHajimemes

2 жыл бұрын

Literal bot made shit looks better than the stuff people make on there-

@Horvath_Gabor

2 жыл бұрын

Except not really. NFTs were never meant for artists. This is just the narrative the media and the people invested in crypto tell you to get involved. When you buy an NFT, you don't buy art. You buy a piece of random code verified by an online ledger as unique. The artwork is but a smokescreen. At its core, it's a purpose-made speculative market designed so that there's something people can buy with their cryptocurrency, which can then be sold to speculators hoping to make it big by selling it to a bigger fool later down the line. It is, by the strictest definition, a scam, or rather the new way to pull people into the crypto-currency pyramid scheme.

Dude - I used to watch you a few years ago in law school so I had something to laugh at (the horrible vore on deviantart)… you BLEW UP! Congrats! And great job!!

the most simple explanation is that the "artwork" has been generated by a soulless machine and therefore the art itself doesn't have a soul...

Im beginning to hate nfts with passion. Even more so as an artist myself. And hearing that stan lee and qinniart, artists who’s work that i really like, it saddens and disgusts me that ppl are doing this for monetary gain. It makes me want to delete my art account out of fear that i’m gonna find out that someone stole my art and is using it as an nft for a quick buck.

@skullchimes

2 жыл бұрын

@@sskogsraa as a fellow artist, my idea is to get ahead and steal nft's and repost them in zip folders for everyone to download "make your own nft's" LMAO are you hearing yourself

@DustyB

2 жыл бұрын

Ok bud

@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah

2 жыл бұрын

@@sskogsraa I shouldn’t have to do something I don’t wanna do because other people are assh*les

Even if we took out the environmental part this is still probably the dumbest idea ever. I just don't see how selling commissions and/or setting up a Patreon was a bad way for indie artists to make money, and selling an image file like it's some sort of high brow physical work of art quite simply doesn't make any sense at all. I hope to god this is just gonna be a fad that's gonna die out within 5 years and people don't continue to take this shit seriously

@deliciousdishes4531

2 жыл бұрын

like, literally comissions are better in almost every way. Doesn't require a stupid currency built on ever increasing power usage, makes art theft harder, the buyer can actually own the product, etc. It's just such a profoundly, obviously stupid idea and I have seen not a single benefit to any of it. The comparison to this "high brow physical work of art" is really telling. It's like fine art trade (which already sucks), but worse.

@sharpytown

2 жыл бұрын

With things like this, they fall as soon as they rise. I hope to god NFT's become forgotten at some point and become an obscute footnote in art history "Hey bro, remember NFT's?" "tf are NFTs?"

@BinglesP

2 жыл бұрын

Same, I don’t want this to take off at all

@katokianimation

2 жыл бұрын

Nft is not an imige file, it would be too much prossesing to turn a whole image to NFT. it is just a link to an image file. And if the server is put of service you have a glorious 404 error page for millions

@theywalkinguptoyouand4060

2 жыл бұрын

If you think that then you never had your art stolen. Or never made any real good art that is worth stealing.

3:57 Damn, Scar has fallen on some hard times.

The part about Lazy Lion (beginning before 4mins in, I'm too lazy to lookup timestamp) and weird facial expressions combos sounds like it would make a useful tool for animators, doctors and researchers specially studying human response and interpretation of faces, and artists specifically studying the Uncanney Valley Effect.

I haven't considered myself an "artist" in years. My skills are rusty and my creative motivation comes in very short bursts which life often forces me to ignore completely. That being said, the NFT thing is so soullessly focused on the speculative market that the art is offensively meaningless. Hell, most of it is algorithmically generated noise, one indistinguishable from another. If art is fundamentally a form of human expression, then most NFTs are not art. The theft, plagiarism, scamming, and environmental impacts are all just icing on the turd that is NFTs. They spit in the face of everything noble about art.

@walter3934

2 жыл бұрын

Hey! Robots can have expressions too you know! Just not this one...

@jorgeluz9560

2 жыл бұрын

Very well said! I'm an artist too and those drawings say nothing by themselves. It is all about the value attributed to them not by the art, but by its potential for profit on resale.

@hami4099

2 жыл бұрын

“Algorithmically generated noise.” This is why I came here.

@neuralmute

2 жыл бұрын

I am also an artist, and you just said perfectly what I was feeling viscerally this entire time.

@Br13467

2 жыл бұрын

The contemp art movement have been playing with these notions you talk about for a long time. Nfts are just pushing it to a pinnacle, It’s interesting to watch people play around the irony of what art is and it’s monetary value. I make art for a living it’s my day job and I’m lucky enough to have that, nfts do not affect my livelihood at all and I can’t see it having any real repercussions to any working artist why are people so obsessed with hating them? Every new technology has its growing pains let the space blossom into what it can be instead of shitting on everything new.

I don't like how people say "this is how artists can make money." No, absolutely not. As an artist, the ONLY reason why I'd consider selling NFTs in the first place is to make a quick buck off some shitty soulless "art." I would put 0 work into them and feel no remorse for the idiots who'd buy them. Besides, NFTs are disgusting because you own NOTHING. If you buy a PHYSICAL print from you're favorite artist, you get something you can hold and hang up on your wall, the artist gets paid, and the environment doesn't get even further fucked over. I'd 1000% buy a $30 poster from an artist I enjoy as a way to support them, but I would NEVER buy an NFT. I don't care how much I like the artist, I don't care how good the art looks, I don't care about any of that, I'm NEVER buying an NFT. Don't support these lazy cashgrab NFTs, support real artists selling real, PHYSICAL artworks.

@trash.j

2 жыл бұрын

ALSO, you're not actually buying the original art, because if it's online there *is no original copy of the art.* A good analogy I heard before is that an NFT is basically buying the "receipt" that proves you own something, not the actual thing itself. It's just a giant pyramid scheme

@JSSMVCJR2.1

2 жыл бұрын

​ Why does evetyone classify this as 'pyramid scheme'?

@trash.j

2 жыл бұрын

Here, I'm not very good at explaining things so I'll put a quote from a fellow artist Eriana Ura-Smith "Users invest in something more-or-less intangible, a digital receipt of ownership of an infinitely replicable image or other online object. The general consensus is that they will, in turn, be able to sell this intangible thing for absurd returns. Early investors are paid out from the money coming in from new investors, seeing the success of the early ones. Wash trading inflates the value of NFTs, and original owners slowly cash out by selling off the NFTs they've minted for extraordinary prices. NFTs offer adopters the illusion of quick and easy profits, and in some cases the feeling of community or belonging, coupled with exclusivity. Platforms exploit the "Fear of Missing Out" to attract new investors, or extract further funds from existing investors. Already we've seen multiple examples of projects where the creators were able to extract massive sums of money and abandon them, often leaving the investors with no opportunity to recoup their losses. Look to examples like the CryptoPunk wash trade or the rug pull with Squid Coin. Squid Coin is the perfect example, as it not only was a huge scam cashed out by it's creators, but it relied on stolen intellectual property for its appeal." “My initial impression of NFTs were that the idea of creating artificial scarcity for an infinitely replicable product was a fool's errand at best, and an obvious scam at worst."

@rosinesie

2 жыл бұрын

I prefer buy art commission where I paid the artist and get a masterpiece specially made for me even if it doesn't have to be in a physical format, I can print it later if I want to frame it.

@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t leave out the commissioners

This video loops really well actually

As an artist who post on Instagram, I still receive more comments of NFT scams than real people commenting on my art...

One thing to note about the whole twitter pfp's thing: since the monetary value of your NFT is so closely linked to people's perception of it, it's HIGHLY incentivised for anyone who's bought, say, a Bored Ape, to make it their twitter profile picture and banner. The more of a wave it seems to be, the more it looks like everyone has one (including some celebrities, sadly), the more money you stand to gain, with little personal loss save for your dignity.

@itzel6698

2 жыл бұрын

ooh didnt even think of the twitter pfp incentive nice catch!

@yummyherbicide7296

2 жыл бұрын

It's a pyramid scheme. Eventually the greatest idiot has a monkey picture that nobody wants to buy and he's down 5 million shitcoin.

@SirFaceFone

2 жыл бұрын

@@yummyherbicide7296 shitcoin lmao

@evilweevil58008

2 жыл бұрын

I dont have one, i dont need one, i dont want one

@Henrex2000

2 жыл бұрын

MLM

I hate NFTs with a burning passion for ethical and environmental reasons, but I'm glad your video mostly was about the art itself and not about cryptocurrency. As much as I want NFTs to burn to the ground and for their name to be locked away in the depths of the Mariana Trench, I will admit there are some people who understand the flaws and want to make them better. However, I think if we really do want to make them better, we need to remake them in a way that doesn't screw up the environment and doesn't encourage art theft. I really don't see a future in cryptocurrency, but if there is one, I pray it's for the greater good for earth, life and mankind. If it's only for mankind we're royally fucked.

@Persun_McPersonson

2 жыл бұрын

The thing is that NFTs are flawed on a fundamental level and no matter what parts of them you try to fix you will still be left with a flawed system. It's nothing more than an idea that sounds good on paper but can't actually work.

@0jeej0

2 жыл бұрын

👍agree

@MightGuy15

2 жыл бұрын

Omg it's yoooou X3 your everywhere!

@MrMinecraftGamer456

2 жыл бұрын

@@Persun_McPersonson No NFT actually stores the literal picture at the moment either. All they do is store metadata about the picture and a hyperlink to that picture hosted somewhere ESLE on the internet, meaning that, most of the time, you just purchased ownership to a public hyperlink.

@wynautwarrior2161

2 жыл бұрын

@@MightGuy15 Hello again, bud! :3

I just love what you're doing bro

I wrote a paper about NFTs and Cryptocurrency for a class, and going in, I knew I had a personal bias against them as an artist seeing art get stolen. My bias against them grew even more after all the research, and I would rather die than support them.