South Park excoriates NFTs as investments in latest vision of post-COVID-19 future
Apparently, it solely took a pandemic for the writers behind the animated TV sequence South Park to supply their tackle nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrencies… and it’s not a optimistic outlook.
In its “Publish COVID: The Return of COVID” particular that aired Thursday, South Park depicted one of many present’s protagonists, Leopold “Butters” Stotch — also referred to as “Victor Chaos” — locked away in an insane asylum for years after it’s found he has a sure energy to wreak havoc on the world.
That energy? Gathering traders to place all their cash into NFTs. When he manages to get out of his cell, the result’s comical violence, comparisons to drug use and the doable downfall of society:
“He escaped as soon as earlier than. In only a few hours, he managed to get hundreds of individuals to spend money on NFTs, similar to he nearly did you. […] One other 30 seconds in that room and you’d have began contemplating NFTs as a viable funding.”
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— edgar.eth (@EdgarAronov) December 16, 2021
Although referencing elements of the crypto house in mainstream media has turn out to be considerably frequent, South Park — which frequently tackles topical points with a comedic twist — appears to have averted mentioning token initiatives with seemingly absurd names for the final 10 years. Bitcoin (BTC) solely made its first look on the present in November, and although everybody in South Park’s fictional way forward for the 2060s nonetheless used the cryptocurrency as a medium of alternate, additionally they described it as a “fly-by-night Ponzi scheme.”
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South Park’s imaginative and prescient of a world roughly 40 years from now implies the frenzy round NFT drops is unlikely to subside for a lot of traders. This week, Wikipedia entered the house for the primary time, promoting a tokenized model of the primary message posted to its web site in 2001 for $750,000. Nevertheless, some NFTs have been auctioned off for tens of millions of {dollars} and traded for useful real-world objects, together with automobiles.
