Overly Attached Girlfried meme minted as an NFT and sold for 200 ETH.

[Kenneth Kopin]

If we hadn't already reached a tipping point for this sort of stuff @Laina, AKA The Overly Attached Girlfriend minted her original meme and sold it as an NFT. She has posted on Twitter about it's progress and seemed shocked when NFT Collector @f3music recaptured the high bid by soundly beating the previous bid of 145 ETH with their 200 ETH winning bid (aprox. value $400,000 at time of sale).

Laina later tweeted about how this was "going to change my life"

As a personal note, I can't imagine a nicer meme person for it to happen to. She's been so good about the whole meme experience for as long as she could be, and then stepped back from the limelight a couple of years ago to become more private again.

 

Congratulations, Laina.

 

Just.. no really stop staring at me.

[TetraSky]

Good for her.

I still think NFT is dumb, but if some people can get rich without much efforts because other people think a certificate saying "you own this", with a link to a third party service hosting whatever it is they bought to be worth that amount of money... More power to them.

[Giganthrax]

I see this as some fan's way of gifting her money. I'm happy for her, she always seemed so nice.

[12345678]

frankly

 

I still think that most of those transactions are money laundering and/or tax evasion 

[tikker]

Personally I think NFTs are weird and are tulips at the moment. Good for her though.

[RoseLuck462]

People have tons of money to waste lol 

[whm1974]

4 hours ago, 12345678 said:

frankly

 

I still think that most of those transactions are money laundering and/or tax evasion 

Or doing other things that are Illegal such Young Women renting out their bodies for money. or Drug dealing.

[OCNewbee]

I think NFTs are wealthy people's exclusive way of moving their wealth without paying the cross-border transaction fee and cutting out the the middle man like investment bankers. If you wanted to move wealth thus far, you have largely 4 choices to choose from: 

 

1) use expensive commercial banks

2) use investment bankers and do a cross currency swap

3) use virtual currencies (very volatile) and government now wants to collect tax on it

4) illegally transfer it out of the country in a tangible form such as gold, artwork...etc

 

Currently, many rich people prefer to hide and move their wealth through artwork. Christie's auction is the biggest network of money launderers. But recently, there's been a rise of resellers that threatened their investments and moving artwork is always a headache with duties and tax. I think NFT could be the future of unscrupulous global asset network that bypasses government regulation. A new store of value and a new method of transferring wealth without getting taxed. Once again, they are playing musical chairs. If one person just cashes out, they all lose. I hope their trust is as strong as their belief in paying taxes. lol. 

[weeblord]

I have a big feeling this is the new Beanie Babies. Has hardly any value outside of bragging rights, and you'd have to be an idiot to pay several thousands just for that.

[Rauten]

Her face has provided a lot of meme material over the years, I see this as the internet kind of paying it back, like a big "thank you for the laughs".

Happy for her.