I honestly just don't get / understand it.
Why would someone want to own some form of digital art or meme, that, let's be honest, often aren't really unique anyway.
I get people wanting to own actual art, hang it in your house, make your surroundings look better.
Half of these meme's being sold on dapps or listed on opensea are just awful or aren't even unique, I'd literally rather find the image on Google and just save it to my computer. I honestly don't get the rage of these or why they're taking off so much.
Are they supposed to be some novelty type of digital pokemon card?
I get stuff like GodsUnchained because it's a game, it has a purpose, but then you get the likes of memefactory, where you can buy a digital meme and claim ownership of it just for the hell of it?
I don't get it?
Don't get me wrong, there are times I see a place for it, I purchased a lot of the digital collectables from freeross.org/digitable because it was for a good cause and I believed in it, but honestly people paying CRAZY money to the digital right to a meme that isn't even unique is absurd. I'd get it if it was a bit of fun and cost pennies but people are literally paying hundreds for this stuff.
I don't get it, am I missing something?
I like the idea of collectibles, imo, we are moving to a digital age, so why not digital collectibles?
Protocols like Eth's ERC-721, actually are a really interesting way to have cryptocollectables and buy/sell trade them
Some people still like old cars too, and people will always like physical collectibles i think as well, the board here is as active as ever, prob more active then ever really
Maybe its hype, but check out ERC721, it's a pretty sweet idea