<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="1610034" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Chris-Crocker">Chris Crocker</keyword>, the creator of the "<keyword id="11102903" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="leave-britney-alone">Leave Britney Alone</keyword>" video, spoke to Insider about <keyword id="9785853" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="free-britney">Free Britney</keyword>.</li><li>"I was defending her as a person, not a pop star," Crocker said of their <keyword id="14710" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Britney-spears">Britney Spears</keyword> video.</li><li>Crocker said they believed homophobia and transphobia played a role in the video's reception.</li></ul><p>When Chris Crocker's viral "Leave Britney Alone" video was released in 2007, Britney Spears appeared to be having a personal crisis, which at the time was recorded by aggressive paparazzi and an eager tabloid press. Crocker's plea - to think of Spears as a human first - is widely credited as one of the first (and most famous) viral videos on YouTube, though it was frequently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiqkDm9UoKo">mocked</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Quv42iE68">parodied</a>.</p><p>It has since emerged as a battle cry of sorts for the <a href="https://www.insider.com/inside-britney-spears-conservatorship-freebritney-movement-2020-12">Free Britney movement, as Spears remains in a court-ordered conservatorship</a> that began around the time of Crocker's video. </p><p>Spears' conservatorship has been re-examined with fresh eyes after The New York Times released its "Framing Britney Spears" documentary on Hulu in February.</p><p>Crocker, who spoke with Insider after the recent sale of their "Leave Britney Alone" <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-crocker-leave-britney-alone-video-youtube-nft-free-britney-2021-4">video as an NFT,</a> or <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/non-fungible-tokens-nfts-have-taken-over-heres-why-theyre-important-2021-4">non-fungible token</a>, for over $41,000 said that though the <a href="https://www.insider.com/inside-britney-spears-conservatorship-freebritney-movement-2020-12">Free Britney</a> movement is gaining traction and becoming more mainstream now, their initial video with the same message was at least partially dismissed due to transphobia and homophobia.  </p><p>"Because it was such a different time, no one could understand why I would make that and be sincere," Crocker, who is transgender and uses "they" and "them" pronouns, told Insider. "I was just defending her as a person, not a pop star and I just wanted her to be happy, that's all."</p><p>They posted a statement on Instagram following the documentary's release and said that people crediting them with being ahead of the curve on supporting Spears doesn't feel as satisfying as some might assume.</p><p>"Maybe people reaching out to tell me, 'Chris, you were right,' would feel good, if I knew that people could unpack that the reason no one took me seriously was because I was a gender-bending teenager and the reaction to me was transphobic," they said in the post's caption. </p><blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><p style="margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLana8srSLh" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by Chris Crocker (@itschriscrocker)<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime=""></time></p></div></blockquote><p>The 33-year-old content creator told Insider that the same year they made the "Leave Britney Alone" video, their mom had returned from Iraq with severe PTSD and became addicted to meth. Their mom didn't raise them, they told Insider, but they still cared for her and fought to get their mom back on her feet.</p><p>Crocker said they felt protective of Spears because they watched their own mother struggle with mental health issues.</p><p>"There was this weird parallel because I was just going through that with my mom, so I was very defensive over any woman I cared about that was going through a tough time," Crocker said. </p><p>When asked how it felt to be among the first people to start the conversation surrounding Spears and her mental health, Crocker emphasized the importance of these issues being taken seriously by the public at large.</p><p>"It's more like I'm happy that like as a whole, people are talking more about mental health and how we treat people in the public eye, especially because we think they deserve it, when they don't."</p>

'Leave Britney Alone': The creator behind the 2007 viral video reflects on why people ignored them

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="1610034" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Chris-Crocker">Chris Crocker</keyword>, the creator of the iconic "Leave Britney Alone" viral video, sold it as an <keyword id="4668945" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="nft">NFT</keyword>.</li><li>The auction ended Monday night, and the NFT sold for 18.69 ether, or over $41,000.</li><li>Crocker told Insider they would use the money to care for their grandma and fund their transition.</li></ul><p>Chris Crocker, the creator of the iconic "Leave Britney Alone" viral video, auctioned off the original 2007 footage as an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/non-fungible-tokens-nfts-have-taken-over-heres-why-theyre-important-2021-4">NFT, or nonfungible token</a>, a unique digital asset purchased with cryptocurrency. The bidding for the NFT ended Monday night - it <a href="https://foundation.app/ChrisCrocker/leave-britney-alone-21947">sold for 18.69 ether</a>, or over $41,000, to an anonymous buyer.</p><p>The video, in which Crocker cried and pleaded with tabloids to leave Britney Spears alone, became a cultural touchstone and early marker of how the internet would spill into the public consciousness. "Leave Britney Alone" has been credited as one of the first viral videos on YouTube.</p><p>Crocker's sale of the famous video as an NFT followed the sales of other viral digital content, including <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ethereum-nft-meme-art-nyan-cat-sells-for-300-eth-2021-2">a version of the Nyan Cat meme</a> that sold for over $600,000 in February.</p><p>In an interview with Insider, Crocker, a content creator and online personality who is now 33, said they'd wanted to sell the content as a way to reclaim it and its significance after years of taking "hits" from the frequently parodied and mocked video.</p><p>"I felt like a lot of people might misconstrue why I wanted to sell it," Crocker said. "But the real reason is because I felt like I took a lot of hits - you know, literal hits," they said, adding that they had been "physically assaulted at gay clubs," received death threats, and felt as if the gay community was "embarrassed that I was a representation for them."</p><p><em><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nft-startups-non-fungible-tokens-the-art-world-2021-3?">Here are 4 NFT startups transforming the way we buy art and sports memorabilia</a></em></p><p>Crocker said there was a misconception that they'd made money off the original video, as it was first posted on MySpace and gained millions of views on YouTube, where multiple versions now live. But Crocker said they never made any money off the video, which was not monetized on YouTube.</p><p>Now, as digital-media NFT sales sometimes bring in <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nft-market-outlook-huge-risk-beeple-buyer-bubble-vignesh-sundaresan-2021-4-1030282090">millions</a> of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/grimes-nft-art-warnymph-sells-for-millions-20-minutes-2021-3">dollars</a>, Crocker felt that this was the moment to get "retroactive" payment for the video that changed their life, they said.</p><p>"I didn't really get anything from [the video] other than to be put in a box for the next 14 years," Crocker said, adding that they were never able to do anything authentically without being seen as attention-seeking, particularly regarding adult-entertainment work.</p><p>Crocker said they had been curious about the NFT space and spoken about it with a couple of people in a room on Clubhouse, an invite-only audio-based social-media app. Crocker said they weren't sure how to start the process, and someone in the room suggested they reach out to Ryder Ripps, an artist who'd <a href="https://www.insider.com/azealia-banks-ryder-ripps-nft-sex-tape-resold-275-million-2021-3">recently sold an audio sex tape</a> with Azealia Banks, now his ex-girlfriend, as an NFT. Ripps helped Crocker upload their file as an NFT, Crocker said.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Chris Crocker  (@ChrisCrocker) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1381684874306813960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2021</a></blockquote><p>Crocker said that the money they made from the sale would first go toward helping their grandmother. But if they end up with additional funds, "I would absolutely put that towards, like, me being able to become myself" and live openly as a woman, Crocker said.</p><p>Crocker, who told Insider they identify as transgender, said that they wanted to fully present as a woman but that because they live in a rural Southern town - Bristol, Tennessee - they don't feel safe doing so in public until they can afford a full male-to-female transition. For now, they're "not picky" with pronouns but mostly use "they" and "them," Crocker said.</p><p>"And that's why I've always been scared to do the baby steps very slowly, because I was like, well, if I can't afford the full [transition], my safety is really gonna be a concern," they said. "People are very backward, and I already stick out for being feminine. So I've always thought if I am going to do it and still be here and live around my family, I have to go, like, all the way."</p>

The iconic 'Leave Britney Alone' YouTube video by Chris Crocker sold as an NFT for over $41,000

<ul class="summary-list"><li>On TikTok, McDonald's customers say the Filet-O-Fish looks smaller, blaming <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/shrinkflation-tiktok-cost-of-living-2022-8">"shrinkflation."</a></li><li>McDonald's maintains the sandwich — served with half a slice of cheese — hasn't changed in decades.</li></ul><p>Amid larger conversations about the cost of living and "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/tiktok-baker-accuses-betty-crocker-shrinkflation-smaller-boxed-cake-mix-2023-11">shrinkflation</a>" — or the practice by brands of reducing product sizes to hide rising costs — several McDonald's customers have taken to TikTok in recent months with a resounding complaint and observation: their Filet-O-Fish sandwiches look smaller than they remembered.</p><p>"It was already small, but the Filet-O-Fish has shrunk by I'd say 20%," the user <a target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@neilybob/video/7295841383414271278"><u>@neilybob</u></a> said in an October video with 920,000 views.</p><p>"That's the new McMinnow," one commenter echoed. "It's now a slider," another said.</p><p>Though @neilybob's clip garnered the most viewership, other creators have come forward with similar observations. "This not a optical illusion," <a target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@pauldesousa/video/7296145278166666542"><u>said Paul De Sousa</u></a>, who held up his own sandwich quizzically, estimating it had shrunk by roughly 25%.</p><blockquote class="tiktok-embed" cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@neilybob/video/7295841383414271278" data-video-id="7295841383414271278" data-embed-from="oembed" style="max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;"> <section> <a target="_blank" title="@neilybob" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@neilybob?refer=embed">@neilybob</a> <p>McDonald's Fish Filet is the latest victim of <a title="shrinkflation" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/shrinkflation?refer=embed">#shrinkflation</a>  <a title="food" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/food?refer=embed">#food</a> <a title="fyp" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed">#fyp</a> <a title="mcdonalds" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/mcdonalds?refer=embed">#mcdonalds</a> <a title="eating" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/eating?refer=embed">#eating</a> <a title="eat" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/eat?refer=embed">#eat</a> <a title="money" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/money?refer=embed">#money</a> <a title="thisiswhywecanthavenicethings" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/thisiswhywecanthavenicethings?refer=embed">#thisiswhywecanthavenicethings</a> <a title="inflation" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/inflation?refer=embed">#inflation</a> <a title="fastfood" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fastfood?refer=embed">#fastfood</a> <a title="new" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/new?refer=embed">#new</a> </p> <a target="_blank" title="♬ original sound - neilybob" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7295841420644338474?refer=embed">♬ original sound - neilybob</a> </section> </blockquote> <p>Another user, @cheekygoblin, was outraged that her sandwich only came with half a slice of cheese. "What in the shrinkflation is going on here?" <a target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@cheekygoblin/video/7282124372175752491"><u>they asked</u></a>. (That said, the McDonald's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/filet-o-fish.html"><u>website</u></a> notes that half a slice of American cheese is canon for the sandwich — which also includes a patty of fried pollock, signature tartar sauce, and a steamed bun.)</p><p>The fast food chain rebuffed any speculation that the Filet-O-Fish has been altered.</p><p>"The size and build of the Filet-O-Fish, including a half slice of American cheese, has not changed in decades," McDonald's USA told Business Insider in a statement.</p><blockquote class="tiktok-embed" cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@pauldesousa/video/7296145278166666542" data-video-id="7296145278166666542" data-embed-from="oembed" style="max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;"> <section> <a target="_blank" title="@pauldesousa" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@pauldesousa?refer=embed">@pauldesousa</a> <p><a title="shrinkifcation" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/shrinkifcation?refer=embed">#shrinkifcation</a> <a title="filetofish" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/filetofish?refer=embed">#filetofish</a> <a title="mcdonaldssucks" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/mcdonaldssucks?refer=embed">#mcdonaldssucks</a> <a title="boycottmcdonalds" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/boycottmcdonalds?refer=embed">#boycottmcdonalds</a> </p> <a target="_blank" title="♬ original sound - Paul DeSousa" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7296145414405868331?refer=embed">♬ original sound - Paul DeSousa</a> </section> </blockquote> <p>This isn't the first time that the chain has denied claims of shrinkflation. A company spokesperson told <a target="_blank" href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/mc-donalds-responds-to-claims-its-popular-burgers-have-shrunk-055245468.html"><u>Yahoo Australia</u></a> in August of last year that the size of its burgers hadn't changed.</p><p>In fact, the company may actually be heading in the opposite direction. CEO Chris Kempczinski <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/business/mcdonalds-growth-plans/index.html"><u>told CNN</u></a> earlier this month that "having a larger burger" is something that the chain is working on. "That is something that you should expect in the future."</p><p>The Filet-O-Fish, for its part, became the chain's first non-hamburger item, introduced nationally in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-mcdonalds-filet-o-fish-2018-1#he-guessed-right-after-the-second-vatican-council-ended-in-1965-the-roman-catholic-church-slackened-its-rules-on-fasting-meat-on-friday-was-allowed-except-during-lent-23">1965</a> and originally priced at <a target="_blank" href="https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/filet_o_fish_journey.html"><u>29 cents</u></a>. (Today, prices vary by location, but sit at about $3-4 for most US chains.) It was the brainchild of a Cincinnati franchise owner to serve Catholics abstaining from meat during Lent.</p><p>Rising supply costs in the US have pushed several national brands to sneak reductions to their products so that they can keep retail prices the same. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/shrinkflation-grocery-stores-pringles-cereal-candy-bars-chocolate-toilet-paper-cadbury-2021-7#general-mills-shrunk-its-family-size-boxes-from-193-ounces-to-181-ounces-a-drop-of-nearly-10-14">Hershey, Burger King, Doritos, and General Mills</a> cereals are only some culprits of this practice. On social media, customers are often the first to notice and sound the alarm on these changes. In August 2022, a  TikToker went viral comparing <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/shrinkflation-tiktok-cost-of-living-2022-8">two of the same</a> Quaker granola bars side-by-side, but purchased at different times. Last month, a TikToker <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/tiktok-baker-accuses-betty-crocker-shrinkflation-smaller-boxed-cake-mix-2023-11">noticed Betty Crocker</a> had decreased its boxed cake mix — but had kept its wet ingredients the same, invariably changing the composition of the cake. </p><p>Better Crocker confirmed it had made the alteration in an effort to keep its products "affordable," the company told BI. </p>

TikTokers claim the Filet-O-Fish sandwich is noticeably smaller, citing 'shrinkflation.' But McDonald's maintains its 'size and build' hasn't changed in decades. 

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The "<keyword id="1990795" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="doge">Doge</keyword>" meme, which emerged online in 2013, sold as a nonfungible token (<keyword id="4668945" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="nft">NFT</keyword>) on Friday.</li><li>The $4 million sale marks the highest bid for an NFT meme thus far. </li><li>"Doge" joins the ranks of other viral videos and <keyword id="1605152" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Memes">memes</keyword> to earn their creators money via NFT sales.</li></ul><p>The iconic "Doge" meme smashed the record for the most expensive meme nonfungible token (NFT), selling at <keyword id="1639" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Auction">auction</keyword> on Friday for more than $4 million.</p><p>The sale of the famed image of an excited Shiba Inu was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/iconic-doge-meme-nft-breaks-records-selling-roughly-4-million-n1270161">first reported by NBC News.</a> Friday's sale made "Doge" the highest-earning NFT meme of all time, NBC <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">News</keyword> reported. </p><p>The meme was put up for <a href="https://zora.co/0x337071a7e907f5a599747a2c9baf6efdf7eb4bcc/3366">auction on Tuesday on the auction site Zora</a>, and the winner, @pleasrdao, was named on Friday with a bid of 1,696.9 Ethereum cryptocurrency, which is worth about $4 million.</p><p>The meme was sold by Atsuko Sato, the owner of the eponymous "Doge."</p><p>"Doge" emerged online in 2013 as a meme using overlaid Comic Sans text to describe the dog's fictional inner monologue. It quickly became one of the internet's most ubiquitous images, with others sharing the meme with their own spins on the dog's internal monologue.</p><p>Text used over the "Doge" meme typically <a href="https://the-toast.net/2014/02/06/linguist-explains-grammar-doge-wow/">uses an improper modification structure,</a> crafting phrases like "much hungry" or "very NFT."</p><p>After the meme became popular in 2013, two software engineers created a cryptocurrency called Dogecoin as a joke in the meme's honor. But, <a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/dogecoin-started-as-a-joke-now-its-too-important-to-laugh-off-51620229273">as Barron's reported in May</a> of this year, the crypto is "too important to laugh off." </p><p>"Doge" joins the ranks of several other memes and viral videos whose creators have cashed in on fame through NFT sales.</p><p>In April, the <a href="https://www.insider.com/disaster-girl-made-half-million-selling-her-meme-as-nft-2021-4">"Disaster Girl" meme</a>, a 2005 photo that became one of the most famous memes on the early internet, was sold as an NFT for nearly half a million dollars. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ethereum-nft-meme-art-nyan-cat-sells-for-300-eth-2021-2">The Nyan cat gif was sold as an NFT</a> for close to $600,000 in February. Other viral images like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bad-luck-brian-meme-nft-crypto-art-blockchain-ethereum-foundation-2021-3">"Bad Luck Brian"</a> have sold for tens of thousands of dollars.  </p><p>NFT sales are helping some online creators finally earn additional money off of their famous content. The creator of the "David After Dentist" YouTube video from 2009, which depicts a boy experiencing the side effects of medication after a dental procedure, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nft-david-after-dentist-viral-youtube-video-sold-2021-5">told Insider he would use the money</a> from that video's NFT sale to help finish paying off his two sons' college tuitions. </p><p>Chris Crocker, an entertainer whose famous 2007 "Leave Britney Alone" video sold for over $41,000 in April to an anonymous buyer, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-crocker-leave-britney-alone-video-youtube-nft-free-britney-2021-4">told Insider in a previous interview</a> that the video, which defined his online persona, made him no money at all. </p><p>"I didn't really get anything from [the video] other than to be put in a box for the next 14 years," Crocker told Insider.</p>

Famed 'Doge' meme NFT sells for record-breaking $4 million at auction

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Coinbase is set to go public today, and analysts say excitement is driving bitcoin's surge. </strong>The cryptocurrency climbed to an all-time high above $63,000 yesterday <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/coinbase-ipo-predictions-expert-analysis-direct-listing-bitcoin-crypto-2021-4-1030290743">ahead of the hotly anticipated IPO</a>. Here's how the anticipation of the <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/bitcoin-price-all-time-high-btc-stimulus-institutional-coinbase-cryptocurrencies-2021-4-1030297319">largest-ever listing of a crypto company is pushing bitcoin's rally.</a> </p><p><strong>2. For $3 million, you can be a VIP guest on this nuclear-powered superyacht. </strong>The ship, known as Earth 300, is scheduled to set sail in 2025 with 160 of the world's "brightest and smartest" scientists and 40 VIPs. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/yacht-tickets-cost-nuclear-emission-free-climate-change-earth-300-2021-4">Check out the Earth 300.</a></p><p><strong>3. America's top work-from-home expert is bracing for turmoil. </strong>Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford, said employees will be unhappy with the arrangements their companies offer as they try to balance remote and in-office work. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wfh-expert-economist-nick-bloom-says-future-of-work-messy-2021-4"><strong>His warning of the turbulence to come - and how to navigate it all.</strong></a></p><p><strong>4. Remember the "Leave Britney Alone" viral video from 2007? Well, now it's a NFT. </strong>Chris Crocker, the creator of the iconic video, just sold it for more than $41,000. In an exclusive interview with Insider, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-crocker-leave-britney-alone-video-youtube-nft-free-britney-2021-4">Crocker told us about the sale.</a></p><p><strong>5. Spotify quietly removed more than 40 episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. </strong>The music-streaming platform appears to be removing controversial episodes, including those that featured far-right activists Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Gavin Mcinnes. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-rogan-experience-podcast-episodes-removed-spotify-2021-4">More on that here.</a></p><p><strong>6. Mark your calendars: Apple's first major event of the year will take place on April 20.</strong> The company sent out invitations for its virtual event after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/siri-reveals-apple-next-launch-event-april-2021-4">Siri revealed the date</a> earlier on Tuesday. Apple is expected to unveil new iPad Pro models - <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-event-april-20-new-ipad-pro-expected-2021-4">here are some of the specs.</a></p><p><strong>7. Facebook is testing a video speed-dating service. </strong>The new app, Sparked, will offer "video speed dating for kind people," where users must pledge to create a safe space, be kind - and not ghost. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-testing-sparked-video-speed-dating-service-2021-4">Here's how it works.</a></p><p><strong>8. Deepfakes are on the rise. But the more we learn about them, the more dangerous they become. </strong>Experts say the public needs to know the threat, but as people get used to them, it'll be easier for bad actors to dismiss the truth as AI forgery. That paradox is called the "liar's dividend." <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/deepfakes-liars-dividend-explained-future-misinformation-social-media-fake-news-2021-4">Here's how it works - and why it's so dangerous</a>.</p><p><strong>9. Microsoft's $16 billion purchase of Nuance is an attempt to beat Google and Amazon to the ground floor of healthcare. </strong>As healthcare workers struggle with outdated technology, big tech companies have sensed an opportunity - and have for years been competing for healthcare business. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-spending-16-billion-beat-google-amazon-healthcare-2021-4"><strong>The acquisition could place Microsoft at the forefront of care delivery data.</strong></a></p><p><strong>10. Here's how Grab's cofounders turned it into a $40 billion "super app."</strong> After they won a $10,000 business school prize, the cofounders transformed the Singapore-based startup into a $40 billion company that's expected to be the largest SPAC deal in history. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/grab-valued-at-nearly-40-billion-in-blockbuster-spac-deal-2021-4"><strong>Our exclusive report shows how they did it.</strong></a></p><hr /><p>Have an Amazon Alexa device? Listen to this update by searching "Business Insider" in your flash briefing settings.</p><p><em>Compiled by Jordan Erb. Tips/comments? Email </em><a href="mailto:jerb@insider.com"><em>jerb@insider.com</em></a><em> or tweet </em><a href="https://twitter.com/jordanparkererb"><em>@JordanParkerErb</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><strong>Sign up for </strong><a href="https://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/free"><strong>more Insider newsletters here.</strong></a></p>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="5156608" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="David-After-Dentist">David After Dentist</keyword>," the viral video from 2009, was auctioned off as an <keyword id="4668945" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="nft">NFT</keyword> on Thursday.</li><li>The auction closed on Friday afternoon and the NFT sold for over $11,000.</li><li>Several other creators have cashed in on viral digital content through NFT sales.</li></ul><p>"David After Dentist," one of the most memorable viral YouTube videos of the 2000s, was <a href="https://foundation.app/davidafterdentist/david-after-dentist-33172">sold as a non-fungible token (NFT)</a> for 3.30 ETH, an amount of cryptocurrency valued at roughly $11,500 on Friday. </p><p><keyword id="11219800" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="david-devore-sr-">David DeVore Sr.</keyword> and his son - the titular star of the video - became internet sensations in 2009 when <keyword id="11219798" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="david-devore-jr-">David DeVore Jr.</keyword> was seven years old. In the video, a young DeVore Jr. experiences the effects of medication after a tooth extraction. He asks his father numerous questions, including the now-iconic line, "Is this real life?" shortly before letting out a primal scream.</p><p>The video has since garnered over 140 million views on YouTube and is known as one of the first major viral videos on the website.</p><p>The DeVore family joins a group of other internet creators who have cashed in on viral digital content through the sales of NFTs, unique digital assets purchased with cryptocurrency.</p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/txqiwrbYGrs" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>The DeVores told Insider in an interview Thursday that they were working with Views, an NFT-creator program founded by Jukin <keyword id="6354777" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Media">Media</keyword>, a video licensing company, and Night Media, a talent management company, to complete the sale.</p><p>The creator program has also begun working with other digital content creators to help them release their viral videos as NFTs in the subsequent weeks, but "David After Dentist" is its first sale. The auction for the NFT began on Thursday and closed Friday. </p><p>DeVore Sr. told Insider in an interview that when he saw headlines listing how much money was made from selling viral content NFTs, the large sale prices piqued his interest. He said he is also looking to bring more exposure to the NFT market and what it can do for digital content creators.</p><p>Zoe Roth, known to the internet as "Disaster Girl," <a href="https://www.insider.com/disaster-girl-made-half-million-selling-her-meme-as-nft-2021-4">sold her famous meme</a> as an NFT for around $450,000. The creator of the "Leave Britney Alone" viral video, Chris Crocker, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-crocker-leave-britney-alone-video-youtube-nft-free-britney-2021-4">made over $41,000 on an NFT sale</a>. Even the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ethereum-nft-meme-art-nyan-cat-sells-for-300-eth-2021-2">original Nyan Cat GIF was sold</a> by its creator, Chris Torres, for $600,000.</p><p>The "David After Dentist" YouTube video did generate some income for the family at the time it was published, DeVore Sr. said. "We were actually one of the first viral videos to be part of the YouTube Partner Program when they had just rolled that out," he told Insider. The program, still a staple for creators on the platform, launched in 2008, enabling creators to monetize their videos using ads. </p><p>DeVore said the program "really saved" his family in the early aughts. "We were grateful for the revenue that it produced," he told Insider. "Then the economy took a big nosedive and my real estate business dried up - fortunately, my wife was working, but it really saved us."</p><p>With the money from the sale, DeVore hopes to finish paying for his two sons' college degrees - DeVore Jr. is now a 20-year-old University of Florida student - among other things. "My wife and I will probably put some for retirement. Boring stuff, but it is fun entertaining the possibility of taking some of those financial pressures off," he told Insider. </p><p>They have both been able to appreciate the opportunity to experiment with new technology. "It's really cool that we're able to turn David's video into a piece of art," David Sr. told Insider. "It's like 12 years old and it's part of the early internet culture. It feels like 2009 all over again."</p>

The 2009 viral video 'David After Dentist' sold for over $10,000 as an NFT

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57bb1305dd08956c158b4775-948/port_mor,_muck (1).jpg" alt="Port Mor Muck island" data-mce-source="David Crocker / Wikimedia Commons" data-link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=629171" /><p class="source"><span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=629171">David Crocker / Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p><p class="caption">The Isle of Muck is the smallest of the four islands that make up the Small Isles.</p></div><p></p></div></div>With a population of around 40, the Isle of Muck, Scotland, is not exactly bursting with career opportunities.</p><p>However, <a href="https://www.myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/highland-council/jobs/teacher-primary-muck-primary-school-hgh02627-49708" target="_blank">a position has become available</a> at the island's school that would be ideal for an over-stressed teacher looking for a break.</p><p>The teaching role at Muck Primary School - which is open for applications on <a href="https://www.myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/highland-council/jobs/teacher-primary-muck-primary-school-hgh02627-49708" target="_blank">"My Jobs Scotland"</a> until midnight today (August 22) - is unlikely to be overly demanding, given that it has just seven pupils.</p><p>The job comes with several perks, including a three-bedroom flat located above the school, a "Remote School Allowance" of £2,475, and a "Distant Islands Allowance" of £1,941, on top of an annual salary between £22,416 and £35,763.</p><p>But life at Muck Primary School has its own challenges: there is no supermarket, post office, or GP on the island, and it becomes completely cut off from the mainland in the winter.</p><p>"The island is ideal for nature lovers with many species of birds, including corncrakes and puffins and other resident animals such as otters and seals,"<a href="https://www.myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/highland-council/jobs/teacher-primary-muck-primary-school-hgh02627-49708"> according to the job advert posted online</a>.</p><p>It added: "The community is renowned for its hospitality, and puts on many events during the year in the Community Hall."</p><p>The 2.5 mile-long island is only reachable by ferry.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57bb1305dd08956c158b4776-896/isle of muck.jpg" alt="isle of muck" data-mce-source="Google Maps" /><p class="source"><span>Google Maps</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The island is so small you can see all of it from a distance.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57bb1305dd08956c158b4777-1200/isle_of_muck,_view_from_eigg_-_geograph.org.uk_-_916343.jpg" alt="Isle of Muck" data-mce-source="Chris Downer / Wikimedia Commons" data-link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isle_of_Muck,_view_from_Eigg_-_geograph.org.uk_-_916343.jpg" /><p class="source"><span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isle_of_Muck,_view_from_Eigg_-_geograph.org.uk_-_916343.jpg">Chris Downer / Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p><p class="caption">The entirety of the Isle of Muck, viewed from neighbouring  Eigg.</p></div><p></p></div></div>The job is open to any primary teacher who is registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland.</p><p>The successful applicant will replace Julie Baker, who has decided to leave the role to move to the mainland.</p><p>"I have been very fortunate to be the teacher at Muck primary school for the last two and a half years but we are sadly leaving for family reasons. It is a wonderful place to teach and live," <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/island-searches-the-globe-for-a-teacher-hhjcrtgcj" target="_blank">Baker told The Times</a>.</p><p>"It is a very special teaching job. There is a three-bedroom flat for the teacher and their family above the school, which makes it the shortest commute ever! The flat has stunning views across the sea to Ardnamurchan Point," she said.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/this-island-off-of-yemen-2016-4">This island off of Yemen is the most alien-looking place on Earth</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="R3OWxzMjE67JXvwo4TC4AWL6FVvtgFGN" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'R3OWxzMjE67JXvwo4TC4AWL6FVvtgFGN',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

A school with 7 students on a tiny, remote Scottish island is looking for a new teacher

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57efe82cd8872425008b4c72-2400/ap_16267729703557.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz" data-mce-source="AP Photo/Evan Vucci" data-mce-caption="Ted Cruz" /><p class="source"><span>AP Photo/Evan Vucci</span></p><p class="caption">Ted Cruz.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>A historic transfer of internet power was scheduled to occur at midnight Saturday.</p><p>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers became an autonomous non-profit after a contract with the US Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration expired.</p><p>Now ICANN will perform the duties of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority without direct oversight of the US government. </p><p>Instead, ICANN is now accountable to international stakeholders that includes a governmental advisory committee, a technical committee, an industry committee, internet users and other telecommunications experts.</p><p>The organization, based out of Los Angeles, coordinates the Domain Name System that matches internet addresses with their actual numerical computer addresses. IANA functions include maintaining the registry of IP addresses and the allocation of internet numbering resources.</p><p>The entire ordeal sounds extremely complicated - and it did not come without its fair share of controversy.</p><p>That contract, which is now officially expired, had been in place since 1998. Both businesses and members of the international community had been pressuring the US to cede control over IANA functions, deemed by some as a very minor ordeal - likening it to printing the phone book. But others, such as Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, likened it to "giving away the internet."</p><p>Cruz originally wanted a provision in the recent stopgap spending bill in Congress to prevent this transfer from occurring, but that did not happen. Late this week, the attorney generals of four states filed a lawsuit in federal court looking to block the midnight Saturday transfer, but it was thrown out by a federal judge in the Southern District of Texas on Friday.</p><p>"This transition was envisioned 18 years ago, yet it was the tireless work of the global internet community, which drafted the final proposal, that made this a reality," ICANN Board Chair Stephen D. Crocker said in a statement. "This community validated the multi-stakeholder model of internet governance."</p><p>Speaking to Business Insider Friday, before the Texas judge's decision, aides to Cruz called the issue - which amounts to control over the internet address book - a ground zero of protecting free speech online. They also criticized the White House for claiming that, in his fight against the transfer, Cruz didn't understand how the internet works and wanted to keep government involved in the process.</p><p>"I love it when big government liberals try and lecture conservatives about limited government," an aide said.</p><p>Chief among Cruz's concerns is that a government advisory council is part of ICANN. He believes that the foreign governments who have a voice in that part of the group will begin to have a much bigger sway in how it operates going forward. His aides likened it to a form of the United Nations, where each country involved will be on equal footing.</p><p>The problem with that, Cruz believes, is that countries such as Russia and China, both of which maintain strict internet control in their own countries, will be able to exert it on a global stage, possibly even impacting internet freedom within the US.</p><p>But Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware told Business Insider in a Friday interview that the way the Texas Republican is characterizing the issue "is exactly wrong."</p><p>"This is not a handover of control of the internet to some UN body, as much as he tries to make it sound like ICANN, which is an American corporation registered in California, is some international body," the Delaware Democrat said. "It isn't the UN or anything like it."</p><p>"The way that China or Russia could have greater influence over the naming function of the internet is if we delay this transition," he continued. "Lose our credibility internationally that we do intend to privatize this function, and give them the leverage to make stronger arguments at the United Nations that the UN ... should begin preparing to set up their own DNS function. I think there is a very small risk that this transition will lead to any increased role for any country, including those that censor the internet in their own country."</p><p>Cruz's team insisted that, although ICANN has not censored content in the past as a part of their duties, the senator believes they could have that ability moving forward. The group performs only a clerical function, but Cruz believes that could change.</p><p>Using the example of "Free Tibet" group's in China, which have their web content blocked within that country while it can still be viewed elsewhere, a Cruz aide said China could begin to dictate whether that content makes it outside of the country.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57efe83ad887244b078b4b9a-2400/ap_209504489445.jpg" alt="chris coons" data-mce-source="Cliff Owen/AP Photo" data-mce-caption="Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Chris Coons, D-Del., talks on a phone as he leaves briefing on the Administration's response to the Syrian conflict, in a closed session in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015." /><p class="source"><span>Cliff Owen/AP Photo</span></p><p class="caption">Chris Coons.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Coons used the phone book analogy to try and disprove what Cruz has argued. He said that, when he was a kid, the Yellow Pages and White Pages essentially had a monopoly. But by the 1990s, dozens of publishers printed competing phone books.</p><p>"The fact that there is a company that publishes the Yellow Pages that says if you want to purchase from a hardware store in your city, you know, here they all are, here are all of their names, that doesn't restrict what you can say on the phone to the hardware store," he said in his analogy. "It has nothing to do with the content of your conversations with the hardware store. All it does is assign pages to certain names and numbers. That's pretty similar to what the IANA does."</p><p>"The IANA maintains the directory for when a string of numbers comes through your computer, it translates it into a bunch of numbers and then connects you to the right computer," he continued. "One of the things that was clearly alluding the critics of this transition, was the idea that there could ever be a second Yellow Pages or a third Yellow Pages. Right now, the internet, which is a network of networks, is not owned or controlled by anyone. That's why it's the internet."</p><p>Coons called the government-controlled contract which just expired a deal for "one version of the phone book."</p><p>"And for 20 years, they've said 'America, at some point, will you turn over this minor role you have in this organization that is printing the Yellow Pages," he said. "And we said in both Democratic and Republican administrations, 'Sure, we'll get around to it. Sure, we're about to do that.'"</p><p>He said that, with many in the international community growing leery that the US would ever end up actually doing it, there was increasing support for a "competing phone book" run by a sub-unit of the United Nations. That sounds a lot like exactly what Cruz does not want.</p><p>"And the entity that would resolve disputes between who owns which domain or which website will be resolved by this UN agency," Coons said. "That is a structure where countries like China and Iran and Russia would have a bigger role. Instead, we have focused on the last four years pretty aggressively, and in the last two in a heightened way, on privatizing a very minimal US government role in overseeing how this phone book contract is administered."</p><p>"Here's the true irony: Sen. Cruz is a tireless advocate for personal liberty and an opponent of federal government control in just about every subject matter area except this one," the senator continued. "What he's opposing is privatization. By opposing it, he's actually putting at risk the possibility that it will instead be taken over by a competing effort led by countries that do not favor free speech in the UN. Does that make any sense?"</p><p>The Delaware senator said the transfer should make "no real difference" for everyday Americans, as there should be no perceivable change in how the internet works, explaining that it has to do with the "wires, plumbing, and piping" of the internet, not its content.</p><p>Coons asked why tech giants would be in favor of the transfer if it posed a legitimate threat to internet freedom.</p><p>"Why would companies like Dell and Cisco and Microsoft and Intel - who rely on a robust an open global internet for their businesses - why would they be so invested and concerned about this?" he said. "Because they need predictability."</p><p>"Because ICANN, this large company in California that is largely run by the internet community, which is largely run by American companies, why would they want that group in control of this internet naming function rather than the UN," he continued. "I think you just got the answer."</p><p>At the UN, countries such as Russia or Iran would have that equal footing to the US, while ICANN, because it is based out of California, is still subject to California law he said. And, it will be mostly under the purview of the private sector, which has a business interest in the internet being open and free.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57efe844d88724640f8b4a41-1544/ap_119216194525.jpg" alt="AP_119216194525" data-mce-source="AP Photo/Tim Hales, File" /><p class="source"><span>AP Photo/Tim Hales, File</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>"If I got to choose between having the phone book published by the UN or by an American non-profit company that is headquartered in California and subject to California law, I know which one I want," he said. "I want the latter."</p><p>The senator called the reason Cruz wanted to stop the transfer a "fringe conspiracy theory," adding that many such theories have gained plenty of traction during the 2016 campaign season.</p><p>"One of the things that has made this campaign season particularly interesting is the number of fringe conspiracy theories that have somehow made their way into the mainstream," he said. "This issue is no exception to that unfortunate trend."</p><p>On Friday, after aligning himself with Cruz's position on the issue, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ripped the "disastrous" IANA transfer during a rally.</p><p>"Hillary Clinton is merely a vessel for the special interested trying to strip this country of its wealth, its jobs, and its status as a sovereign nation," <a href="https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/781985950951837696" target="_blank">he said</a>. "She even supports the disastrous surrender of America's control of the internet - let it be given to the world. What a bunch of people we have representing us. What a bunch of people."</p><p>Coons said Trump's statement shows, "unfortunately," that Trump "is not well informed on internet governance matters."</p><p>"This particular issue was seized upon by a few in order to score some points, by misleadingly suggesting that President [Barack] Obama is giving away the internet," the senator said. "The United States does not own a set of keys to the internet. It's not a physical thing. It's not as if we're taking our dad's Oldsmobile and giving it away at a flea market. It is a network of networks. And that is a hard thing to grasp and an easy thing to mislead people about."</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cuban-trump-pence-gennifer-flowers-argue-front-row-seats-debate-2016-9">Ex-Bill Clinton lover accepts Trump's informal invitation to sit in the front row of the debates, but Pence says she won't be attending</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="VwcDQ0NjE6zIZhH2kbEb4t7LlfOAYDGh" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'VwcDQ0NjE6zIZhH2kbEb4t7LlfOAYDGh',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

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