A few days ago, at the 94th Academy Awards in 2022, you may not remember who the best actress spent, or which movie the best picture and the best international picture were, but you must remember the "wonderful moments" of this year's Oscars.
After Will Smith took the stage to play chris Rock, a comedian who participated in the awards, it caused a sensation and "revitalized" many fields.
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This slap not only made the declining Oscar awards ratings rise sharply in recent years, but also spread pictures, GIFs and videos on various social media, and the various memes produced by the resulting memes also appeared in an endless stream. On the blockchain, there have also been "Will Smith Inu" cryptocurrencies and "Will Smith Slap DAO" series of NFTs.
On the NFT trading platform OpenSea, an account called "Slap DAO" has released a series of NFT titles called "Will Smith Slap Dao", which currently has nearly 2,000 projects.
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These NFT works are basically pictures with text added to them, and not only are there a variety of tricks, but the prices are also "frugal", ranging from 0.001 ETH (about $3.40) to 69 ETH (about $234,831.15).
At present, more than 700 people have purchased this series of NFTs, and the value of the NFTs sold has reached 13.7 ETH, more than $47,000, and it seems that these days have been "enriched" not only by the topics when people chat, but also by the assets of the owner of the "Slap DAO" account.
In addition to NFTs, the "coin circle" is also moving rapidly, the cryptocurrency named "Will Smith Inu" rose rapidly after its launch, and the CoinMarketCap website shows that its price has risen by more than 3700%, but the price is not high, currently 0.000003796 US dollars.
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Will Smith's beating has brought many things to new heights, such as the number of spectators watching the Oscars, people's entertainment talk, various news reports and analysis articles, and even the talk show tickets after Chris Rock, another party in the event, and the price and sales have soared.
But some people feel that this event seems to have also made the "meme economy" a new low. The Oxford English Dictionary defines meme as "the basic unit of culture, transmitted through non-hereditary means, especially imitation". All kinds of memes that quickly spread throughout the network this time belong to meme.
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However, the meme economy, which is rapidly being "hyped up", is not like the NFT or cryptocurrency that people want to invest in. People flock to it and quickly lose interest, and these memes and blockchain products can quickly lose their value.
For example, the previous Netflix TV series "Squid Game", after the global popularity, CoinMarketCap also quickly appeared related cryptocurrencies, and even rose nearly 310,000% a week. Soon after, however, it quickly collapsed, falling from $38.27 to $0.0030.
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A wave of rapidly setting off and rapidly receding boom, making people think that investment has become a scam, leaving only the data on the blockchain that has been uninvited, and the bottom line of the "meme economy" that has been pulled down again and again.