“Indonesian student’s selfie NFT collection ‘Ghozali Everyday’ sells for nearly USD 1 million”.
Hold up.
Why would anyone want to buy a total stranger’s selfie?
Is he famous?
Can he rap?
Does the NFT sing a special song or is he a secret shiba inu billionaire?
“Now, a 22-year-old Indonesian boy managed to sell almost 1,000 selfies that he took over the past five years as NFTs on OpenSea.”
“As of 14 January 2022, the collection’s total traded volume on OpenSea stood at 314 ETH, or more than USD 1 million.”
From 2017 to 2021, he took thousands of selfies in front of his computer.
The photos are literally just images of Ghozali sitting down and having a deadpan expression.
The background, type of tee he wears, earphones and facial hairs changes as the days goes by.
If this doesn’t sound familiar, I am literally describing every other NFT images out there in the wild world of NFTs.
Take Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) for example.
One of the most expensive NFT collection there is, some BAYC goes for millions of dollars.
Justin Bieber recerntly paid $1.3m for BAYC #3001 — which features a cartoon ape in a black T-shirt with tears in its eyes.
Paris Hilton, Steve Aoki, Eminem, Steph Curry, The Chainsmokers, Shaquille O’Neal and Logan Paul all own BAYC.
It is a powerful status symbol.
A crazy, mind-bending flex in the crypto world.
But back to Ghozali and why people are going crazy over his selfies.
Here is my theory.
Let’s compare BAYC and Ghozali Everyday.
Both their background colors, tees and so on changes.
But the same structure of the ape with the same deadpan expression is universal.
There are 10,000 of the apes out there.
There are only 933 Ghozali’s selfies.
That makes it more scare and hence more valuable.
See!
When BAYC’s prices shot to the moon and made headline everywhere, everyone wanted one.
But it is too expensive for the common man.
Now when they discovered Ghozali and his deadpan expression, they saw the similarities and the hype started to build.
Ghozali might just be the real-life bored ape we have all been looking for! I’m just teasing, he’s not an ape.
But maybe that is why people wanted to get their hands on Ghozali’s real-life NFT!
Seriously, this theory deserves some merit.
Go think about it!
In all seriousness, kudos to Ghozali for being so enterprising and seizing the moment to capitalise opportunities on Web3.0.
May he do another Ghozali Everyday Part 2 and do some good for his community!
So, can you really make money selling your selfies on the internet?
How much do you think your selfie is worth?
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