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Student Accidentally Becomes Millionaire Selling NFTs as a Joke (ft. Dante Basco)

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0:00 [Music] finally something good uh an indonesian student accidentally becomes a millionaire good for him accidentally accidentally because that's great he sold his selfies as nfts as a joke wow as a joke and he made a million dollars what do they look like wow you don't see him now we're late literally this is how they look just like that i could do that yeah oh wait was he the kid that compiled like every single day yeah so this kid he was gonna make like a time lapse of his face uh he took a photo almost every day for i think five years he earned that man i think it lasted three days that's a five-year project that's that's some utility there you know and then just literally as a joke he um and this is he

0:50 actually tweeted it like i'm gonna sell these at nft's lol like this was a literal joke he wasn't hiding the fact that it was for a joke he posted them for like three bucks which is like point zero zero zero zero one ethereum and then in one day i don't know if it was the same day but in one day the price jumped all the way to 12 grand whoa per picture for the ones that we're selling he sold about 200. at that time well i guess they were like well it's within that five year period it's finite what does that mean so it's like it's it's like you could get the collection from one to five right one year to five and then it's like it's finite it's like locked in yeah i guess somebody um i guess like a celebrity chef caught wind of it and then he he bought it as a joke kinda and then i guess after he publicly

1:42 did that and tweeted all these people started jumping on it and then it just became a crazy thing this was like the dogecoin of nfts wow yeah that's a good way just looks funny so we gotta get on it regardless yeah and now it's legit and every now and then somebody's gonna get lucky i'm just waiting for our turn yeah yeah indonesia i know dude yeah and what's his name by the way his name is sultan gustav al-gozali he's a sultan i might just be my name oh his mom knew his mom knew he was going to be a millionaire yeah your name is sultan yep he's 22 he was uh he's taking computer science in school so that's kind of nice i wonder how you become a sultan like what the title is the teacher of that class how he even figured how to mint it by himself like with no money yeah he said he did it just to have a bit of a laugh and then it blew up and now uh the collection that was bought is

2:32 worth 374 ethereum 1.2 mill wow that that money is going to go a long way what do we got what kind of nfts what if we all take a ████ and put it together in the center i think it was going to buy it she'd have t's yeah and then we just get to mint it we just have it there fudgeable turds yeah we all take a dookie non-flushable and then we just throw like mints at it y'all can end up tea your greatest hits you know we're like we mention it right now what's up i don't even know how it works i don't know how it works i heard people can do it do what if you like jk news the greatest hits you nft them ████ i think if joe did his own version of the bored ape yacht club but joe's face but just different like variations of joe's face pretty cool yeah yeah yeah

3:23 you got to put like not financial advice next to it when you buy it though you know you don't know what's gonna happen with this i wonder if it seems like when someone does it very openly as a joke if it's more motivating for people to i think so because it's like endearing yeah otherwise you look like you're on your ████ too hard check my ████ out if you look at if you look at the entire entity space right now right it's like a whole ████ flex game anyway it's just big dick club right everybody's like i got this we got the illest this here's the road map here's utility check out my website all these people are gonna blah blah blah right so when you see like this indonesia this guy's got every ████ ingredient and variable to make it endearing you know what i'm saying right yeah it's like what's your thing i took a selfie of myself every day for five years the ████ like and it's cool because he was really gonna make a time lapse for his graduation like he thought it'd be a cool thing to do see really just keep everything he says it's just

4:13 more endearing graduate to a goddamn millionaire you did it hell yeah in indonesia you get one million dollars free it's cool because they asked him what do you what he's gonna do with that money he said he wants to open an animation studio this dude is the best i hope i get to work with you someday i'll voice one of your characters let's do it yeah you're assaulted let's go ████ salta vision dude i think if you're like a quote-unquote celebrity or have a following like ain't no one want to buy your ████ because they already think you got it yeah like even though you may not have it like i'm not bawling they're like no you balling something they're like you're doing better than me yeah you don't better come out of nowhere people just like it's like liking hazbollah you know what i mean he's like as well as a little ass dude he's talking ████ like i don't beat you about but it's like everybody likes because you you didn't

5:04 go beat me up nobody wants to say it he challenged logan paul that's what i'm saying like he'll get murdered but it's cute do you think haas bulla has some nfts yeah his name is isn't his twitter like hospital nft now is it what ████ i think so i think he literally look is let's let's real talk for once is nft real or is it beanie baby it's real wrong beanie baby feels like ████ are buying beanie babe like this is gonna be worth 10 grand did you see that price guide the price guide from like the early 2000s for the beanie babies showed the product the projected 10-year value of each one and they were like in the tens of thousands right so it would be like the 2008 price of this 2018 is like 20 000. but they're nothing now you guys are idiots i'm gonna scoop up all the ████ beanie babies and in 10 years what are you gary vee i'm gonna be

5:54 ████ boneless is nftb we're in the middle of it so we don't know i think we're in the middle of it we don't know this is a bear market it can be but the second it's not is like ████ we missed out but let's look at this but let's look at this way all the beanie babies put together in the world and all their market value was nowhere near where nfts are at right now right impossible inflation though yeah i mean you gotta account for the inflation price people thought of that way with the dot-com stuff too right like or people just making personal websites and putting their resumes on there and then it went you know so you don't know utility you're in the middle of it at least the cool thing is a lot of people so far around me that i know are buying into this thing with the notion that i don't know let's just see right but the beanie baby fad was like they swore it would be wrong what about beanie babe where are we at with beanie baby we're in the middle of it

6:45 i think it's over well you know what beauty babies did it like gave birth to the idea that things could be like that of value it's a collectible exactly right so so it's it's just like with the dot-com era you don't think like dot dot com air is like almost a blanket statement for many things but like at the time was it like netgear yahoo aol but none of those are around now really it's like google and all this other ████ right earth link exactly but at that time it was like all of them were hype and popping so even now with nfts it's kind of like this it could be hot but something else might be born from it sneakerheads is still hot like the stockx like certain sneakers are still like it's actually hotter than ever it's actually hotter than him killing it yeah beanie babies could have

7:36 been sneakerhead wait i'll tell you this though right pokemon was like super super poppin and then it died out for a bit and now back yeah and and once pokemon go hit next revolution and then it chilled out and now pokemon is doing the metaverse and i'll guarantee you the second they're going to still have your magic the gathering cards i have some yeah but you know i ain't gonna i ain't gonna sell them because you know i'm true fans look at him of course he plays magic i play magic digital like a hearthstone hearthstone yeah that's that's tied too i hate a lot until you get to a level where like you think you're doing good and someone has some ████ that you and they're like six from ukraine or something yeah all these cards and lastly throw some cards out there and he's just like oh guess what got all your ████ that ████ hurts so bad what the ████ you're younger like baseball or basketball i've had them but i got basketball cards you still have them any of them i got a hell of a basketball i have an album of like 36 kobe rookies

8:29 somewhere at my parents house you got to go you got to find them you better not say that on camera bro how much is that oh yeah you're right it's a lot of money it's something i can't find it no one else will be able to find that ████ so david was over david was over and i had just one of my binders and we're just looking and i don't even know what goes into the price of each so like i went to like let's say like the jordan section had like maybe like two or three pages of those right yeah some of them it's 20 cents some of them's 30 cents and one of them i typed it in and it was three g's and i'm like you're gonna get that you have to get that like like approved and all that ████ yeah they're just so random the time frame that it was printed like the block at which it was like you know printed and stuff like that like how many they were made at what year what place is it difficult to get a high rating on the card and it's it's a huge drastic value difference between like 10 and nine and eight and the crazy thing is in that era you got to pay somebody to go approve it you

9:20 got to spend a lot of money in order to see if it's even valuable whereas the crazy thing with nfts is you already skipped that middleman prospect it's on the blockchain that's forever it's already there all the info is there you know what i'm saying it's right there unless you ████ up your wallet and when and when you're getting and when you're getting a kobe rookie uh basketball card or whatever at the time it's not worth anything because there's always rookies every year you don't know something right you don't know who's gonna be so same with now with the end of tease is crazy because you're getting stuff and you don't know if it's gonna pop off it's all speculation too that's what happened to me because out of a thousand of them 999 are going to not be tight ready collector types y'all just grew up and kind of like became but you're just collecting bigger things now and i made my mistakes i had 57 deadly shrimp rookies as well and yeah that's what you would definitely see he's got a crazy favorite

10:10 basketball player your haircut look kind of like his ████ right now i don't know there's a little bit of him in there a little bit deadly i was never a good collector i actually back in the day i won from nestle quick i won like the whole gobot collection how did you do that because it was like they were giving away one or two in the whole country tonight and i won it i don't never once before the transformers and they're all metal and ████ yeah the whole collection my house my dad was like don't open those i've been like i got four brothers we're like what by the end of the month we were shooting those s████ with bb guns and ████ i was like what the ████ were we doing but a collector mine's like oh i'm not i got the whole collection i'm not going to open this ████ i'm just leave this ████ yeah you can sell it one day no uh back in the day on the radio stations

11:00 they would pass out like free concert tickets uh geo would get like 10 of them in a row and then she found out that she were calling in yeah she was the only one calling because no one else believed they would get it yeah so she would get all these like oh i go to ████ pennywise concert i go to wherever concert just constantly just getting all these concerts because no one was calling wow you just gotta do it she was lucky no she just no one was calling she was like she hacked the system maybe her says maybe her phone line went directly to the radio station i know someone like that too my father lost him you ever listen to the radio and you hear your friend on it like yeah like they're like hey i gotta get a shout out to someone so i'm like oh ████ people actually do this ████ that happened to me when me and my friend were driving in separate cars in cerritos and i was listening to the same station as her and she called in and i heard her on the thing and i turned around and she was going

11:51 oh that's tight yeah and she wants some concert tickets i guess it does happen that's dope man [Music]

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