As you know a few months ago, I did a newspost advertising my own idea to make and sell NFTs, as a means of gaining capital to better my projects:
https://cieirmusic.newgrounds.com/news/post/1226363
As you can see with the numerous frowns, shouts and sad emojis, needless to say a lot of other people, including my own fans, thought that was a bad idea.
At the time I didn't know why until one explained it to me and while your views on the matter doesn't hinder my course regarding this as I mentioned in the previous post, I do humbly apologize for shocking and offending all that thought it was a bad idea.
Now at the time I just thought, maybe it was just Newgrounds and that maybe I'd have better luck advertising this thing somewhere else. That is until I watched the second of two South Park Covid Specials. Spoilers at this point. The specials take place after the events of Vaccination Specials. Every kid in South Park has become an adult and leading various lives. Stan is a "Whiskey Consultant", Kyle works at South Park Elementary, Cartman becomes a rabbi and Kenny becomes rich. It wasn't until the next special, that they answered a question that those that watched the first, asked. "What happened to Butters?"
Well, they answered it in the most hilarious way:
By making him a plug for NFTs.
Now that alone is classic South Park, having someone locked up for something that environmental bullshit aside, is relatively harmless. However as the show goes on, there's a perfectly good reason why. Now before I explain, bare in mind. South Park is what's known as an equal opportunity offender. Meaning rather than take one side over the other, they go after all sides, sing their praises and shit on their faults. The NFTs being no exception, they make it perfectly clear you can make money on NFTs, but regarding the faults including the ones that people have told me about, they make them 100 times worse in a hilariously elaborate way. In this case, they poke fun at how expensive NFTs are, by having people sell practically all their assets for one expensive NFT. They poke fun of the environmental impact, by rather than what was explained to me; the increasing carbon footprint caused by servers buying, selling and trading NFTs, they instead, have the craze of the NFTs be the main problem to the point where riots and loots break out not long after Butters teaches them how to buy, sell and trade NFTs. A lot of which was funny as hell, even going as far as using the jargon, jargon which I first heard. But the main punchline of it, is that people are spending thousands of dollars on the more common ones, like pixel arts and gifs.
Part of why I was slow in updating the NFTs was because the two pictures aside, I had no idea how to proceed next. Mainly because I wanted to do something others haven't done. Something eye catching and unique. It wasn't until I saw They Live that I got my ideas. For those that don't know, They Live involves an alien plot in which a drifter discovers a pair of Sunglasses that reveal what the world really looks like. All advertisments, billboards, magazines and even the money in your pocket replaced with subliminal messages like "Obey" or "Consume".
So in the tradition of many antis that came and went, from Anti-Hero to Anti-Humour, I decided to make a series of Anti-NFTs. NFTs, desgined to poke fun at NFTs.
Behold the first of many of what I hope to be the most expensive jokes in the world:
Even those that have a negative view of NFTs, should get a kick out of these. I will make more soon at least when people get the joke. Until then enjoy and send your torches and pitch forks down below in the comment section. I'm pretty sure there's an Emjoi for that.