{"id":38827,"date":"2021-03-12T14:50:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38827"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:33:21","slug":"bad-luck-brian-meme-sold-as-nft-for-20-eth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bad-luck-brian-meme-sold-as-nft-for-20-eth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Luck Brian meme sold as NFT for 20 ETH"},"content":{"rendered":"

The author of the ‘Bad Luck Brian’ meme, Ian Davis, and Kyle Craven, depicted in the image, resold<\/a> the original photo as a non-fungible token (NFT) on the Foundation platform for 20 ETH ($35,760 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n

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The lot went under the hammer to an unknown bidder as part of a series of 2010s meme-themed NFT auctions. Earlier the creator of the rainbow cookie-cat, Chris Torres sold the Nyan Cat animation<\/a> for 300 ETH (about $536,000 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n

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The ‘Bad Luck Brian’ meme. Data: lot page<\/a> on Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In March, NFT-copy of the burned Banksy artwork titled \u00abMorons\u00bb<\/a> went under the hammer for 228.69 ETH. Former DC Comics artist Jos\u00e9 Delbo earned $1.85 million<\/a> from selling non-fungible tokens featuring Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n

As noted, the British auction house Christie\u2019s sold<\/a> Beeple’s NFT titled \u201cEverydays: The First 5000 Days\u201d for $69.3 million.<\/p>\n

Earlier, an unknown bought<\/a> one of the nine Alien CryptoPunk 7804 NFTs for 4,200 ETH (about $7.5 million at the time of writing). The NFT was released in 2017.<\/p>\n

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The author of the ‘Bad Luck Brian’ meme, Ian Davis, and Kyle Craven, depicted in the image, resold the photo’s original as an NFT on the Foundation platform for 20 ETH ($35,760 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[526,1161,1213],"class_list":["post-38827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-auction","tag-memes","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"48","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38829,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38827\/revisions\/38829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}