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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ty beanies are infinitely less of a scam than crypto too. even if your beanie baby was worth nothing, at least you still had a physical stuffed animal that you can wipe your tears with. wtf are people doing with their Google drive hosted jpeg?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's NFT. Not quite the same thing. Built on crypto tech, sure, but just a subset of the tech and how it ended up used was very much a scam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You also don't own the picture. You own the space on the blockchain that points to that picture, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There's always some "collector" items than people have to have. Just look at some of the Funko Pop collections people have on Reddit.