'Disaster girl' smiling girl in front of burning house sells original photo as NFT for 50 million yen
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' Disaster Girl, ' a girl with an eerie smile as a huge house engulfed in flames and firefighters working hard to put out the blaze, is a widely known internet meme. Zoe Ross, also known as Disaster Girl, has sold the original photo data as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $500,000 (approximately 54 million yen).
The World Knows Her as 'Disaster Girl.' She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/arts/disaster-girl-meme-nft.html
'Disaster girl' sells meme as NFT for $500,000 - Axios
https://www.axios.com/disaster-girl-meme-nft-500000-c712dbdb-64f0-4d96-9202-f69963a84c89.html
'Disaster Girl' has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500,000 - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/29/22410070/disaster-girl-popular-meme-nft-500000-dollars
The original photo for 'Disaster Girl' was taken by Ross's father, an amateur photographer, at a fire near his home in North Carolina in January 2005. Ross's father uploaded the photo to the image hosting service Zoomr in 2007 under the title 'FireStarter.'
In 2008, JPG Magazine selected FireStarter for its 2008 photography competition, which led to Disaster Girl becoming known around the world and a large number of collages being created.
You can see what kind of collage images were actually created by watching the movie below.
Disaster Girl - YouTube
Ross, who was smiling meaningfully at the scene of the fire, was 21 years old at the time of writing and was studying peace, war and defense at the University of North Carolina.
Know Your Meme, a website that compiles internet memes, interviewed Ross in December 2020. In the interview, Ross said, 'It feels really strange to know that everyone I know is saying they've seen my photos on social media.'
Ross also told the Guardian in an interview, 'My parents have always been cool with the idea of childhood photos floating around on the Internet. We knew it was something we couldn't control, so it didn't bother us at all. Of course, there are people who use my photos in ways I don't approve of, but my parents and I know that just because my face is in an Internet meme doesn't necessarily reflect my views.'
In an interview with The New York Times, Ross said he plans to sell the original photos as NFTs and use the proceeds to pay off student loans and donate to charity.
The FireStarter NFT was purchased by Dubai-based music studio 3F Music, which also bought the meme Overly Attached Girlfriend for $411,000 and a New York Times column for $560,000.
3F Music told The New York Times in a statement: 'Our management team believes that we must not only drive our own business, but also grow with the technological changes that support artists and the art market, and we are constantly partnering with highly knowledgeable and experienced art advisors.'
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