Entrepreneur Sells a Year's Worth of His Fart Sounds on the NFT Market

Source - A Brooklyn-based film director is simultaneously mocking and attempting to profit off the cryptocurrency craze for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by selling a year’s worth of fart audio clips recorded in quarantine.

“If people are selling digital art and GIFs, why not sell farts?” Alex Ramírez-Mallis, 36, told The Post of his dank addition to the blockchain-based NFT market.

His NFT, “One Calendar Year of Recorded Farts,” began incubating in March 2020 when, at the beginning of the global coronavirus lockdown, Ramírez-Mallis and four of his friends began sharing recordings of their farts to a group chat on WhatsApp. ...

Ramírez-Mallis and his fellow farters compiled the recordings into a 52-minute “Master Collection” audio file. 

Now, the top bid for the file is currently $183. 

The most under appreciated thing about the last 40 or so years is that, for the first time in human history, older people do not have more knowledge than the young. Some time around the beginning of cable TV, the invention of the VCR, and the proliferaiton of cell phones, grandparents stopped dispensing their generations of oral history and imparting their decades of experience. And instead, they started asking their grandchildren how to do things. The things we rely on to make life easier have left previous generations behind. And this trend will never reverse itself.

And when it comes to cryptocurrency, that is where I've been left standing on the platform as the technology train has left the station. Bitcoins are nothing new and I still no nothing more than what my financial guy has explained to me. And as he did I gave him that same look I got from my mother when I tried to tell her the bank will give her a card she can put into a machine that will give her cash. Essentially the same look the cat gives you when you speak complete sentences to it. 

And before I'm even up to speed on the last few advancements in cyber currency, now it's blockchains and NBA videos that are supposedly trading for millions and non-fungible tokens that are making savvier people with more business acumen obscenely wealthy while I'm putting my savings into money markets like a schmuck. 

So why not fart sounds? It makes as much sense as anything else I've heard. There's no logical reason why gold or silver, coins or bills, stocks and bonds, rare comic books or old Honus Wagner cards have value. Other than we all have an unspoken agreement that they do. At least everyone can relate to a fart sound. If nothing else, there's entertainment value in 52-minutes worth of them. And it represents an investment of time, so the labor alone should be worth something. 

So good for Alex Ramirez-Mallis and his crew of fart artists. Fartists. As a man of the arts, I'm sure he's seen some painting of a red square or a scribble by a little kid sell for tens of thousands of dollars. And $183 for a mix tape of his ass gas is no less crazy than that. 

But let's all acknowledge at the same time that the idea was stolen from the gang at the farm stand on "Letterkenny." These are the true geniuses who are way ahead of their time.