By Marisa SarnoffApr 29th, 2021, 7:54 pm
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The child in the viral “Disaster Girl” meme – the one smiling knowingly at the camera as a house literally burns in the background – is now a college senior, and has sold the original copy of her meme as a non-fungible token, or NFT, the
New York Timesreported Thursday.
“Disaster Girl,” perhaps one of the most recognizable members of the unofficial meme hall of fame, is now an NFT worth half a million dollars. The 4-year-old girl from the photo, now a college student, plans to pay off student loans and donate to charity. https://t.co/cmJrm3qMbA
Why bodycam footage is released quickly sometimes and sometimes not at all
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Police shooting of Andrew Brown
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, under state of emergency ahead of the possible release of body camera footage in fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown.Columbus Police Dept. via WSYX/AP
Disparate responses to law enforcement shootings of a Black man and a Black teenager within 24 hours of each other demonstrate the conflicting need for transparency and privacy and the sometimes murky policies at play behind releasing body camera footage to the public.
On the afternoon of April 20, a police officer shot 16-year-old Ma Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio. Within hours of the incident, the Columbus Division of Police publicly released footage from the officer s body camera, with more footage following.
Zoë Roth was internet famous before many of us knew what that was.
When she was 4, her dad took a picture of her standing in front of a burning house and a firetruck. She s looking back at the camera knowingly, leaving the viewer to suspect she had something to do with this disaster.
But in reality, the fire scene was part of a training exercise for firefighters in Mebane, N.C., near where Zoë and her father, Dave Roth, lived.
After he entered it in a photo contest in 2007, it soon became the stuff of internet legend, launching disaster girl memes around the world: Zoë looking back as the Titanic sinks, Zoë looking back as a mushroom cloud rises, Zoë looking back from the burning house saying, She Should Of Made Me Cookies!!!!
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Zoë Roth was internet famous before many of us knew what that was.
When she was 4, her dad took a picture of her standing in front of a burning house and a firetruck. She s looking back at the camera knowingly, leaving the viewer to suspect she had something to do with this disaster.
But in reality, the fire scene was part of a training exercise for firefighters in Mebane, N.C., near where Zoë and her father, Dave Roth, lived.
After he entered it in a photo contest in 2007, it soon became the stuff of internet legend, launching disaster girl memes around the world: Zoë looking back as the Titanic sinks, Zoë looking back as a mushroom cloud rises, Zoë looking back from the burning house saying, She Should Of Made Me Cookies!!!!