The article "'The Most Expensive GIF of All Time' Is Being Sold for $5,800" is a fine enough piece on what is ultimately an uninteresting topic. For one, the piece(as of the writing of the article) hasn't been sold, so, not really the most expensive GIF of all time. Secondly, I don't think the piece is all that clever. I'm honestly horrendously tired of the idea that making an uninteresting piece of art interesting by selling it for whatever is considered outrageous for the piece. For one, it's unoriginal. They are pretty much all the same. I see "balloon dog deflated" as basically the same thing as the banana taped to the wall which is the same as "white painting" which ultimately is the same thing as Duchamp's fountain. We've gone through pretty much every permutation of this tired idea. Can we move on?
I also find it just horrendously wasteful. In a world where there are so many suffering over the lack of just a few hundred dollars the idea of someone spending thousands on a publicly available GIF isn't funny or thought provoking it's just tremendously upsetting. It's why I am frustrated with NFTs. It's simply money being moved around for nothing. It just seems like the ultimate form of consumerism, where, instead of buying something you don't need, you are just... buying. Doesn't help their image when one of the most popular NFT series' has a logo literally based off of the logo for Nazi death squads.
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