Back in 2007, the internet has yet to earn its own culture. At that time, people were yet to understand the internet's capacity in creating "memes" and empowering people to create viral things for the world's entertainment.
However, that year saw 'Charlie Bit My Finger.'
The 56-second video that was uploaded in May 2007, features Harry Davies-Carr who was three years old, having his finger bit by his brother, Charlie Davies-Carr, aged one.
As the two brothers sat together on a chair, Harry said "Ouch" repeatedly, and his small brother begins to giggle. Afterwards, Harry smiled and repeated "Charlie bit me. And that really hurt."
In May 2021, the video that has received more than 800 million views on YouTube, was listed as an NFT (Non-Fungible Token), and sold for over $700,000.
At first, the owner of the video said that the Charlie Bit My Finger video was going to be removed from YouTube after it is sold.
The plan was that, the video should be removed from YouTube so it could be “memorialized on the blockchain,”
However, the buyer decided to keep it on the streaming platform after all, and this news was delivered by the father of the two boys.
“We contacted the buyer after the auction, but the buyer eventually decided to leave the video on YouTube,” Davies-Carr said. “Buyers felt that the video was an important part of popular culture and shouldn’t be removed. It’s not only recorded as an NFT on the blockchain, but also published on YouTube so that the public can continue to enjoy it. Will be. ”
“It will now live on YouTube for the masses to continue enjoying as well as memorialized as an NFT on the blockchain.”
Charlie Bit My Finger was one of the most-watched video on YouTube during that time, and was the most-watched video on YouTube in 2007. It has since taken over by the likes of 'Baby Shark Dance.'
After receiving the money, the Davies-Carr family plans to use some of the earning to pay for the children’s university education while donating part of it to charity that offset the "carbon-intensive process of adding cryptocurrency transactions to the public ledger."
Read: NFTs, And The Environmental Cost To Power The Crypto Arts Inside Blockchain
NFT or “non-fungible token,” is the hype that caught the world by storm, and gained lots of traction.
After Elon Musk's partner, Grimes, managed to sell some of her artworks for million of dollars by making them NFT items, the NFT craze continued with a bunch of others.
It also gained the attention of Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder and CEO, when he made the first-ever tweet as an NFT item for sale.
And among other NFTs that went up for sale, some cryptocurrency enthusiasts even went as far as burning a real art piece, to make its NFT worth higher, and a hacker was reportedly selling the first NFT for software exploit.
The craze the continued when someone sold a digital house for the equivalent of $500,000, the first artwork made by a robot sold for $700,000.
The most staggering, was Beeple, who sold his collage of images as an NFT for $69 million.
