These are my favorite types of arguments that people use against the prospect of having to learn something new: "We own the high ground by continuing to not understand the subject of discussion."
Pretty much all the counterpoints being made in this thread come from a place of arrogant ignorance, and they largely overlap with the same arguments that no-coiners have been making against bitcoin for years:
- NFTs are a fad
- they're not real
- they're not backed by anything
- they're a ponzi scheme
- they have no utility.
Well, you're wrong, just as no-coiners are often wrong in their attacks on bitcoin. Its just more comfortable to make sweeping generalizations and stick with them forever than make slight alterations to your world view in light of new information.
Conversely, I
do believe that NFTs have some legitimate uses - as art.
Emphasis on the word "art". Anybody can see that Bored Apes and Founders Club and similar high-value NFTs are a small minority of the population, because they were designed by real artists (similar to 14-15th century Renascence artists).
The rest of the stuff being sold on opensea is, in fact, garbage painting drawn on MS paint or just taken with a video camera, by non-artists who are hoping to make a quick buck. I mean, there are literally NFTs that are just GIFs or screenshots of tweets and other stuff and these kind of things make a majority of the stuff for sale.
Even
Adolf Hitler's paintings look better than a lot of the pixelated graphics on OpenSea drawn (or stolen) by amateurs. [And they say he was as bad an artist as he was a leader.]