Bella Hadid sells NFTs of a virtual version of herself

[Teletubby 115,018]

Bella Hadid has joined the metaverse with an NFT collection called CY-B3LLA - featuring artworks based on 3D scans of her body. Inspiration for the CY-B3LLA NFTs came from 10 different countries, with input from local artists.  To truly embrace and celebrate inclusive globalization, the collection incorporates unique regional attributes.

Bella  told Reuters she was intrigued by shared virtual world environments and said that she wanted to make 'cool versions' of herself after becoming obsessed with video games during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Bella said on her Instagram account that she had created the NFTs to 'encourage travel, community, growth, fantasy and human interactions'. 
''It was super fun. They really have my exact facial expressions". The inspiration behind CY-B3LLA was really about building a community to celebrate high fashion, art, tech , women in web3, togetherness, culture and how they all intersect.

Bella's NFT collection comprises 11,111 NFTs and they were made in collaboration with the NFT minting platform reBASE.  source

 

[NATAH 30,637]

tanked and burned bye

[TwistedTeeth 1,069]

And it just took a click and drag for them to be mine in my downloads folder.

[COOOK 76,405]

flopped and forgotten bye

[Cameltoe Chariot 11,792]

That reminds me... what the hell happened to the Chromatica Ball NFTs?

Not complaining but that whole thing clearly flopped thank god 

[VanityQueen 12]

What is it with NFTs? Are they bad? I'm fully lost in this matter

[jsn 1,640]

Celebrities/their teams continuing to try to get money off a market that already crashed and burned 

I'm sure they'll catch up on the news eventually.

[Economy 43,905]

8 minutes ago, VanityQueen said:

What is it with NFTs? Are they bad? I'm fully lost in this matter

Digital art with exclusive rights one can own that somehow sometimes gets really high bids and arbitrary values

 

I dont even know the full details of how such trading works cuz I never got involved in that speculative nonsense

[Guest]

I really cannot wait until this dumb trend is over.

[NewYorkGirl 1,098]

These things are so ****ing lame. I really don’t understand. 

[ProfessionalClown 9,569]

Hate NFT’s but those look pretty cool ngl 

[LateToCult 36,023]

Thank you for the free screen savers Bella ❤️ 

[RahrahWitch 6,893]

1 hour ago, VanityQueen said:

What is it with NFTs? Are they bad? I'm fully lost in this matter

In short it's a scam.

An NFT tries to be the 'original' or 'limited unique copies' of a digital asset like in the OP that by definition of them being made digitally don't have an original copy and can't be limited. 

They try to make them sound original by giving them a kind of web link that says it's unique, The link is the only unique thing and that's what they're really selling you, Most NFTs give you no rights over the art involved. The link also takes tons of energy in keep up.

It's like buying a receipt that takes a huge amount of energy to make to say you own a painting someone posts online but you can't do anything with the actual art and the only people who recognize you 'own' it are other people in the NFT space.

It's no coincidence that it's being pushed almost exclusively by the rich and greedy.

[SadBoi808 1,120]

Her ARTPOP era 

[Economy 43,905]

14 hours ago, RahrahWitch said:

In short it's a scam.

An NFT tries to be the 'original' or 'limited unique copies' of a digital asset like in the OP that by definition of them being made digitally don't have an original copy and can't be limited. 

They try to make them sound original by giving them a kind of web link that says it's unique, The link is the only unique thing and that's what they're really selling you, Most NFTs give you no rights over the art involved. The link also takes tons of energy in keep up.

It's like buying a receipt that takes a huge amount of energy to make to say you own a painting someone posts online but you can't do anything with the actual art and the only people who recognize you 'own' it are other people in the NFT space.

It's no coincidence that it's being pushed almost exclusively by the rich and greedy.

This nonsense in part got started cuz of 14 years of emergency low rates...

 

Bonds, savings accounts and GICs became useless so ppl had to take more risk exclusively on stocks... When those started becoming stretched in valuations and there wasn't as much available left to invest in ppl started seeking out speculative investments like Crypto and eventually NFTs

 

Not surprised that now that interest rates are finally rising all this stuff is crashing down

 

A lot of capital that could have been used productively instead was used on nonsense