Bye bye Charlie (bit my finger)
Probably the most famous Youtube video ever. Ladies and Gentlemen… I give you ….Charlie Bit My Finger.
This was back when the internet was innocent… 2007… instead of trolls and karens… 2007 Kids and cats were the superstars.
And none more so than Charlie.
Fast forward… the grinning little finger-biter is 14 years old. Thanks to 900-million views on YouTube… you hear me .. almost a billion views… Charlie and his finger bitten brother now go to private school in England.
And the family has decided to get one last payday.
They’ve turned “charlie bit my finger” into an NFT. I don’t want to get into the convoluted digital sorcery of NFT’s… so suffice it to say… that the video is a one-of-a-kind collectible. The family has promised to remove the video from youtube forever. So - at least in theory the highest bidder …would have the only copy of the video … and yesterday… 11 bidders threw serious money at the auction…. and when the digital dust settled…. Charlie Bit my Finger sold to some anonymous internet dude… for $761,000.
Three quarters orf as million dollars… to own a beloved piece of internet history.
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