The creators of the famous video “Charlie bit my finger — again!” sold the rights to it as an NFT for $760,999 and promised to remove the original from YouTube. BBC reports.
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The auction began on May 23 and ran for just over a day. The new owner of the video is a user under the handle 3fmusic.
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The video “Charlie bit my finger — again!” [Charlie bit my finger — again !] was published in 2007 by the Davies-Carr family. It has over 884 million views. In the video, three-year-old Harry complains about his one-year-old brother Charlie, who bit his finger.
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According to the boys’ father, Howard, he could not send the clip to relatives by mail and therefore uploaded it to the rising video-hosting platform.
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“When we uploaded it, YouTube was something new, and now what’s new and impressive is NFT,” said Charlie, the younger brother in the video, who is now 15.
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After selling the rights to the video, the Davies-Carr family promised to delete the original from YouTube so the new owner could decide its fate. Also, 3fmusic will have the opportunity to make a parody or remake the original video featuring the grown-up Harry and Charlie.
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The creators have already hidden the clip from their channel, but it remains accessible via the direct link.
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The clip ranked among the top 20 most expensive NFTs.
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Many meme characters have decided to monetise their popularity through non-fungible tokens.
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for 180 ETH (nearly $430,000 at the time of the sale).
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In early May, an American named Connor Sinclair, whose photo became the basis of the meme “I don’t want to, I won’t,” revealed his identity and decided to sell the NFT with rights to the photo.
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