'Charlie Bit My Finger' video to officially leave YouTube after selling for $760K as an NFT

[queenursula]

'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

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[robertsbox_xo]

i will never understand nfts and this is not an invitation to try and explain it to me

[belle_chouette]

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[stillglows]

lmfao same. i've tried but i just don't get it.

[jessickah]

When you have $760,999 and you choose to spend it on this... good for the family though!

[acidosaur]

the family are making money from destroying the environment, so not really

[mayjailer]

i have to say, someone shelling out this kind of money for a video of two young children makes me very uneasy

[therearewords]

This is all so dumb.

[trancexperiment]

There has to be money laundering involved bc why would you buy this old ass video?

[evilgerbil]

It reminds of the movie Brewster's Millions where he has to spend $30 million to inherit $300 million, but can't have anything left to show for it to win.