Disaster Girl meme NFT sells for $500,000 at auction
2021-05-01 19:13:10 UTC
The trend of outrageous NFT auction sales continues with the sale of the Disaster Girl NFT, which went for over $500,000 in an auction hosted by Foundation.
Even if you re unaware of Disaster Girl s title, you ve probably seen the image if you ve been on the internet longer than 10 minutes. The photo features Zoë Roth, the then-four-year-old who looked deviously at her father s camera in front of a burning house.Â
Image: foundation auction
As reported in the
New York Times, firefighters intentionally set the fire and let children take turns with the fire hose â so it wasn t a real disaster. Still, as an image is worth a thousand words, the internet ran with Disaster Girl and it s now a popular meme. Discovered by internet connoisseurs, the NFT caption explains, it rapidly spread to every corner of the world, becoming one of the most recognizable images of the 21st century.
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