Along with a new year in the 2020s, comes more talk about how blockchain, cryptocurrency, and NFTs are the future. If there’s one thing that’s true about this “revolution,” it’s that anyone who knows anything about crypto can’t shut up about it.
Blockchain technology may have some legitimate applications, but the popularity of things such as NFTs are potentially the funniest thing that the internet has ever invented. Anytime someone tries to argue the legitimacy of NFTs, it’s pretty hard to take that person seriously. While most crypto enthusiasts are fairly harmless, the “Crypto Bros” of the internet has once again proven that they’re not the sharpest tools in the shed.
We’re only a week into the new year, but the Twitter chapter of the Crypto Bros are out there topping the previous levels of stupidity surrounding the NFT craze. In what feels like a scene pulled straight out of Idiocracy, Twitter user @mattmedved tweeted that “Literature NFTs will change the world.” This, of course, led to a cascade of even worse ideas.
That’s when the Twitter roast began. And when Twitter feels the need to gang up on a singular enemy, boy do they do so in spectacular fashion. Not only does this tweet feel a bit too optimistic for the “medium”, but it also proves how buzzwords like NFT can be muddled, misunderstood, and misinterpreted. The following tweets are evidence that if Crypto Bros are good at anything, it’s coming up with worse versions of things that already exist.
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Fixed it https://t.co/DV6lGjGKfQ pic.twitter.com/Tb0znNaNxQ
— Bam ? (@BamMain) January 5, 2022
https://twitter.com/bighealthyfr/status/1478211579527061507?s=20
holy shit im rich look at all these NFTs https://t.co/LonfUHAxln pic.twitter.com/E7IVYY70Rk
— ᴡᴏᴏᴢʟᴇ? (@_teitokuma) January 2, 2022
tolkien didn't die for this shit to be tweeted https://t.co/SvnuCY7S4n
— Fraser (@JediNabber) January 4, 2022
me after learning about PDFs: https://t.co/mW6gGqZZHG
— Tom Weber (@tomalexweber) January 2, 2022
Hmm, do you mean a system under which a single copy of something is owned by a person or group, and yet can be readily viewed by other people? Because I think that’s called a “library”. https://t.co/dsYhKIwPtX
— Michael Marshall Smith (@ememess) January 2, 2022
The ability to tell the difference between smart people and fake smart people is a superpower in 2021 https://t.co/bCFAF7QHUv
— Mike Guardabascio (@Guardabascio) January 2, 2022
To be fair, covid also changed the world. https://t.co/ezpc3phj8e
— Jeffrey Rowland (@wigu) January 4, 2022
he's THIS close to getting why its stupid https://t.co/1005Uu3kwM pic.twitter.com/C9ar1IwWJD
— アリス? @ reading mahoyo (@tsukihimari) January 1, 2022
https://twitter.com/VulpesOkamis/status/1477405417605058564?s=20
Narrator: They won’t. https://t.co/ESXrN8atVe
— Costanza Bluth (@leftjerkstore) January 1, 2022
interesting point, but unfortunately i have your nft https://t.co/IFywGaNV2g pic.twitter.com/1t8qWFtGEY
— cleo (@cleoofffilm) January 1, 2022
A web site. You’re thinking of a web site.
— The Essence of Woerm Sin (@gothytim) January 1, 2022
This is a movie
— Jim Shilander (@jimmyshi03) January 1, 2022
— AKN+47 (@AKN4710) January 1, 2022
Or even better overpay for a stolen book which is later stolen
— young sprout (@SaraLisbethW) January 3, 2022
I’m certain a book that only sells one copy or where a handful of people own a few random pages and couldn’t complete their collection because the guy with page 53 lost his key will be fantastically huge
— Cadbury Creme Egg Enthusiast (@thx3188) January 1, 2022
I want to write a whole novel for just one (1) guy. This is my passion and my life’s work, my raison d’etre. I wish to die in obscurity with a fat imaginary wallet,
— Eglantine Price’s stunt double (@ewewewt) January 1, 2022
https://twitter.com/haikyoneko/status/1477938965840011264?s=20
