NFT sharks doo-doo, doo-doo
One can buy that Toys "R" Us NFTs are for adults looking to reminisce about good times at their favorite childhood toy store. But what's the deal with these Baby Shark NFTs?
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Baby Shark became a viral hit song for children through a version uploaded in 2015 by the South Korean kids entertainment brand Pinkfong. It inspired a never-ending line of products ranging from toys to TV shows. There's no nostalgia effect here. The kids who grew up listening to Baby Shark are very much still children.
Yet, in November, Pinkfong announced it was partnering with Toekenz, which bills itself as a "kid-friendly" NFT platform, in order to create a blockchain-based Baby Shark game "for kids age 5 to 9."
According to the announcement, Toekenz turns buying and selling NFTs into a game for kids. Children will be able to earn "licensed digital tokens" while learning about cryptocurrency and NFTs.
Translation: Kids under the age of 10 will be speculating on securities. What's next? Baby's first day trading platform?
Your favorite '90s music apps sell NFTs now
Who didn't use '90s-era media player Winamp? I bet just seeing that name takes you back to the good old days of Windows 98 and AOL dial-up.
Fast forward decades later to March 2022, and Winamp had a moment in the spotlight again. But not for a good reason. Winamp announced via Twitter that it was launching an NFT collection based on Winamp skins.
But no take was more biting than one from Justin Frankel, one of the original creators of the Winamp software.
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Frankel went further on his website and derided NFTs as a "negative-sum ecosystem" where people are told to buy-in just so NFT promoters can dump on them and cash out.
Unfortunately, Winamp wasn't the only beloved old-school internet audio relic to turn to the NFT-darkside.
Remember Limewire? Sure, you may have downloaded numerous viruses while illegally downloading your favorite music. But, you also probably discovered a slew of unsigned indie bands that wanted you to listen to their music.
Well, Limewire's basically just an NFT platform now. Bummer.
RadioShack goes edgelord to promote crypto
Speaking of zombie brands, RadioShack made waves over the summer, years after the company went bankrupt (twice) and essentially closed all of their retail locations.
Why? The official Twitter account for RadioShack, the electronics store which once sold ham radios to your grandpa, started tweeting like a little 4chan-wannabe edgelord.
"If you find a squirter marry her," RadioShack posted in June.
People quickly started speculating that the RadioShack handle had been hijacked by hackers. But, no, that wasn't the case. Its new owner, get-rich-quick internet marketer Tai Lopez, was just doing a little guerilla marketing for his re-branded RadioShack.
What is this re-branded RadioShack? Well, it still sells some electronics in its e-commerce store. But that doesn't seem to be its only focus. RadioShack hawks NFTs and crypto now. The company has rolled out its own cross-blockchain bridge to swap crypto and launched its very own NFT collections.
What a bizarre turn of events for the store where you used to get Duracell batteries for your RC cars.
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