- The '
Bad Luck Brian ' meme sold for $36,000 on March 9 as a piece of digital art. - The meme first appeared in 2012.
- Now it's part of a series of non-fungible tokens containing internet
memes and other historic digital artifacts.
'Bad Luck Brian' hit a stroke of good luck this week when the creator of the schadenfreude-fueled meme $4 as a piece of crypto-art for 20 ethereum, or around $36,000.
The auction took place on $4, an online marketplace for non-fungible tokens that has hosted several other high-profile sales of crypto-art. The winner of the auction, which closed on March 9, is identified as @a on the Foundation platform.
@a will have a digital signature, or proof of ownership, inscribed on the
The subject of the "Bad Luck Brian" meme, whose real name is Kyle, shot to fame after an awkward yearbook photo of him went viral in 2012.
At the time, selling the digital ownership of the meme as an
The NFT meme market is red-hot. The Nyan Cat meme $4 as an NFT in February. Jack Dorsey $4 of the first-ever Tweet to benefit charity.
And elsewhere on Foundation, another early internet joke is up for sale. Sadly for "$4," nobody has yet bit on him.