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NFT Is Taking Over, “Charlie Bit My Finger,” Will Be Auctioned Off And Deleted From YouTube | Kayla

NFT Is Taking Over, “Charlie Bit My Finger,” Will Be Auctioned Off And Deleted From YouTube | Kayla

NFT Is Taking Over, “Charlie Bit My Finger,” Will Be Auctioned Off And Deleted From YouTube | Kayla

Remember the viral video “Charlie Bit My Finger?” Well, it’s officially going to the hands of NFT or non-fungible token.

Let me paint the picture for you. Two brothers sit and giggle on a chair together as their father looks on and records them, then ah! The younger one bites down on his older brother’s index finger, after which he exclaims, “Ouch! Ouch! Ouuuuuuch! Charlie! Ouuuuuch! That really hurt.” Moments pass and the baby brother giggles. His brother resumes, “Charlie bit me, and that really hurt.”

The “Charlie Bit My Finger” Youtube video has been viewed more than 882 million times since it was uploaded in 2007. It landed on the top of Time’s “Youtube’s 50 Best Videos” list in 2010, . Even after 14 years, it’s the most viewed viral video of all time. The two boys, Harry and Charlie Davies-Carr, then three and one, are now 17 and 15.

On May 23 the original video was removed from Youtube and one person will own it, “memorializing them in internet history forever.” According to charliebitme.com, “the NFT winner will also get the opportunity to create their own parody of the video featuring the original stars.” The family, located in the U.K., is calling it not the end of an era, but the start of a “new beginning” as the boys enter a new chapter of their lives.

This is not the first early era meme to be NFT’d this year. Zoë Roth, the subject of the “Disaster Girl” image, recently sold the digital as an NFT for a whopping $500,000. She donated some of the money to charities and used the rest to pay off her student loans.

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