Analyzing the value behind the emoticon pack NFT: "Glanced Chloe" emoticon pack was sold for 20 ETH
In 2017, "Side-eye" was included in the English dictionary as a word derived from emoticons. You must have seen all kinds of side-eye expressions on social networks. When this emoticon appears on your mobile phone On screen, glances often convey contempt, contempt, or suspicion.
On September 25, "Side-eye Chloe", one of the most famous squinting emoji packs on the Internet, was auctioned in the form of NFT non-homogeneous tokens. A music production company in Dubai bought the emoji at a price of 20 ETH Bag, valued at $58,000 at auction.
The original source of "Side-eye Chloe" is a video uploaded to Youtube, shot by a mother, and the owner of this squinting expression is her daughter. One day in 2013, when the mother told her two daughters that "I will not go to school today but go to Disneyland", the eldest daughter cried out excitedly, while the younger daughter Chloe glanced calmly.
This glimpse was captured by netizens who watched the video, and the clipped emoji went viral on the Internet, and gradually became known as the "Side-eye Chloe" emoji package. When this emoji encounters the NFT craze in 2021, the value spread on the Internet in the past 8 years has been realized.
This is not the first real emoticon package realized through NFT. In April of this year, the NFT of the emoticon package named "Disaster Girl" was auctioned at a price of 180 ETH, which was worth more than 495,000 US dollars.
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"Glanced Chloe" meme pack sold for 20 ETH
A popular meme in 2013 sold for 20 ETH in the form of an NFT, worth $58,000 at the time.
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The "Glance at Chloe" emoji went viral in 2013
This glance later became a well-known emoji "Glanced Chloe". It was widely disseminated on the Internet through the Youtube video site. So far, it has been played more than 20 million times. Chloe's squinting glance has attracted netizens to imitate. Has appeared on T-shirts and bumper stickers.
Today, the Clems are reaping financial rewards from their youngest daughter's memes. On September 25th, the official tweet of Foundation, an NFT creative economy platform, showed that the NFT emoticon pack of "Glanced Chloe" was sold at a bidding price of 20 ETH, worth $59,000. The emoticon pack was purchased by a Dubai-based music production company. 3F Music.
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Multiple real-life emoticons are realized through NFT
"Glanced Chloe" isn't the highest-selling live-action emoji NFT.
On April 4th and 17th of this year, also on the Foundation platform, two emoticons of "Disaster Girl" and "Overly Attached Girlfriend" were photographed for 200 ETH and 180 ETH respectively. Price, according to the different exchange rates of ETH, the two emoticons are worth $411,000 and $500,000 respectively.
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The evil smile in front of the fire camera made the "disaster girl" emoticon pack
Like "Glanced Chloe", "Disaster Girl" and "Overattached Girlfriend" are emoji pictures widely circulated on the Internet. The former became popular in 2005, in a picture with a blurred background of a fire scene , the little girl Zoë Roth smiled evilly at the camera. This expression was interpreted by netizens as a sense of fear, and the little girl's smile was often PS into the scene of the disaster. In fact, this is just an unintentional snap taken by the photographer's father as his daughter watched a controlled fire.
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After 9 years of imitating the expression of the idol, it turned into an NFT and sold at a high price
People can probably conclude a rule - not everyone's emoticons will become valuable NFTs, only those real emoticons that have been virally spread on the Internet have valuable potential.
You may not understand its value, but you may be able to get the economic model in it if you bring it into the internet celebrity economy. Like the works of Internet celebrities, emoticons rely on the acceptance of fans or audiences to condense their value. The spread of emoticons is like the praise of Internet celebrities’ videos. When they accumulate to a certain extent, there is the possibility of realization.
Of course, compared to photographic pictures, paintings or video works that condense the creative process, the hard cost of emoticon output is really not high, which is why the high price of emoticon pack NFT has been controversial.
However, some NFT enthusiasts told Honeycomb Finance that the popularity of an emoji represents the empathy of the audience, and empathy will spread, and the emoji that can empathize with everyone and spread on a large scale often occurs at a real moment, capturing It is often unintentional. The public resonance brought about by this kind of unintentional retention is the preciousness of the emoticon pack NFT. , Viral copying has brought about network effects, and some people even seek commercial value from their expressions, but the person who created the expression gets nothing from it.”
Fashion model Alison Harvard is the creator of the creepy emoji "Creepy Chan," which she became popular for filming and often making up as creepy creepy girls, which she also made into NFT Series, "Scary Emoticons Money aside, minting Creepy Chan NFTs allows me to authenticate and claim my likeness. They've been circulating the internet for years and I've never been told how they're being used. I think I'm taking my power back today...it means a lot to me."
For creators, NFT provides a way to confirm the rights of works. Some NFT auction platforms charge a certain handling fee and share the subsequent transaction proceeds of the work with the author. The business model of the traditional Internet celebrity economy is still the realization of advertisements brought by traffic. NFT refers directly to the original works themselves. Under the current market frenzy, there is no shortage of buyers for works with traffic advantages. This is the current market dividend and also the market Still immature performance.
