While some of us use YouTube as our “how to” encyclopedia, there are many that keep the site bookmarked for comic relief. In the current age of online entertainment, no doubt you have caught a video on YouTube, but would you pay to keep a favorite video for yourself?
I grew up with “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and always had dreams of catching that $10,000 moment on tape. Well, that didn’t happen. Now the same dream is shared by many when it comes to online videos.
This past weekend the bar of success was raised with the winning bid to own “Charlie bit my finger.” With the distinction of one of the most viewed videos in YouTube history, this memorable clip was auctioned off over the weekend and will soon disappear from the website.
“Charlie bit my finger,” auctioned off as a non-fungible token, or NFT, on Sunday for a stunning $760,999, and is set to be deleted from YouTube, according to a website set up by the Davies-Carr family. An intense bidding war between anonymous accounts sent the price skyrocketing in the auction’s final hours, with “3fmusic” ultimately outbidding “mememaster” for the NFT.
I wish I knew the recipe to get something online that would pay me anything , let alone three quarters of a million dollars. I hope these kids get to put the money to good use.
Check out the video before it is deleted: