Published Apr 30, 2021 Updated May 3, 2021, 10:40 am CDT
Zoë Roth, the 21-year-old college senior whose younger self is at the center of the Disaster Girl meme, sold the photo as a non-fungible token (NFT) to help pay off her student loans. Featured Video Hide
In 2005, Roth was just 4 when her father, Dave Roth, photographed her smiling in front of a controlled fire in their North Carolina neighborhood. Dave Roth had won a photo contest with the photo in 2007, and in the years since, the photo of Roth has become so ubiquitous that it’s often Photoshopped into photos of other disasters or used as a shorthand.
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The world knows her as âdisaster girl.â She sold an NFT of her meme for $500,000
By Marie Fazio New York Times,Updated April 29, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
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The name Zoë Roth might not ring any bells. But chances are youâve seen her photo.
One Saturday morning in 2005, when Roth was 4 years old, her family went to look at a house on fire in their neighborhood in Mebane, North Carolina. Firefighters had intentionally set the blaze as a controlled fire, so it was a relaxed affair: Neighbors gathered and firefighters allowed children to take turns holding the hose.