'Charlie Bit My Finger' video to officially leave YouTube after selling for $760K as an NFT
'Charlie Bit My Finger' NFT sells for $760,999 in online auction and will now leave YouTube for good. https://t.co/gL8ELE9Mj5
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) May 25, 2021
The "Charlie Bit Me" viral video was sold as a nonfungible token, a.k.a. an NFT, for $760,999 with the video being removed from YouTube soon after. The winner of the NFT auction will be the "sole owner of this lovable piece of internet history," as described by the Davies-Carr family. They will also be able to make a parody of the original video with both Charlie and Harry, now grown up.
"An important element to this auction, for Harry in particular, is that we will also be donating to carbon offset costs of mining bitcoins," the boys' family said. They noted that "the rest of the money coming out of the auction will then go to a college fund for the boys."
Despite the original video leaving YouTube there are still multiple copies floating around YouTube.
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