Chloe Clem, a young girl become famous in 2013 for a photo that went viral is now selling as an NFT for thousands of dollars.
NFTs are becoming a new sensation, previously there were several memes sold in the market as NFTs.
NFTs are digital tokens that are credited to the arts which have no physical representation. Such as digital images.
Chloe Clem is now 10 years old. The image was shared by her mother during their visit to surprise Disneyland trip. At that time, she was only two years old.
Her picture becomes very famous for showing an unimpressed reaction.
What NFTs provide to this picture?
An NFTs provide a digital certificate of ownership for the image of Chloe. However, it bears no copyright. The winner of the auction will own the digital token which represents the meme, but not the meme itself.
Meanwhile, NFTs are traded through Cryptocurrencies, so the transaction is recorded on a publicly available ledger known as the blockchain.
Though, cryptocurrencies are risky, recently china has blocked the use of cryptocurrency. But they are used for NFTs and other purposes.
Environmental experts show concerns over digital currencies, and the vast amounts of energy required for mining, processing transactions, and maintaining the blockchain.
Side-eye girl meme
Back in September 2013, Chloe’s mother shared the video of her two daughters reacting to the Disneyland surprise visit.
One of the girls, started crying, she said, ‘’ but then the camera panned over and Chloe made her cute little buck-toothed side-eye fact and the internet did the rest.’’
The image of this reaction became an internet sensation. The video is share almost 20 million times on the internet.
Her mother told BBC news ‘’ I opened up Tumblr and there was just page and pages of Chloe’s fact,’’
She added,
‘’ It was very weird, very overwhelming. I had my family, friends sending me these memes- till this day they still send me the memes of Chloe they have seen on the internet.’’
Within weeks, a Buzzfeed article had declared Chloe ‘’ the patron saint of tumbler ‘’ and ‘’ the queen and goddess of the internet’’.
Now Chloe family has decided to sell the image as an NFT, bids start at 5 Ethereum- a type of cryptocurrency worth roughly $15000 (£11,000)
Ms. Clem said,
‘’ It’s a cool opportunity, especially if there’s a Chloe fan out there who loves this meme they’ll be able to own it. Even Chloe has said ‘that’s pretty cool’- it’s a typical 10-year-old thing to say.’’
Chloe has a huge fan on Instagram as well as it was featured in a Google advert in Brazil.