A Definitive Diagnosis for NFT Buyers
Description
A three-panel comic strip by artist Tommy Siegel. In the first panel, a man is lying on a couch under a blanket, looking sick. He's looking at his phone, which displays a 'SARS-CoV-2 Detected (Abnormal)' notification. He exclaims in a speech bubble, 'OH NO... I'VE GOT COVID...'. In the second panel, the man, still on the couch, has a look of horror and says, 'OH NO... I'VE LOST MY SENSE OF TASTE'. The word 'TASTE' is bolded for emphasis. In the final panel, the man is now sitting in front of a laptop with a crazed, wide-eyed expression. On the screen is a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT, and he is clicking a red 'BUY' button. The price is listed as '500 ETH (1.2 mil USD)'. The comic satirizes the NFT hype bubble by comically linking the decision to buy an expensive NFT to a loss of taste, a known symptom of COVID-19. For senior developers, this resonates as a sharp critique of the perceived absurdity and lack of intrinsic value in the Web3/NFT space, which was a subject of intense debate and ridicule within the tech community
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Some say COVID causes a loss of taste, others say it's just a new feature in the Web3 protocol for onboarding users to the NFT ecosystem
Post-mortem: senseOfTaste == null, purchaseGuard middleware bypassed, executed BoredApe.buy(500 ETH). Action item - make common-sense a required dependency, not an optional peer
The only thing spreading faster than COVID variants in 2021 was developers convincing themselves that spending a year's salary on a procedurally generated monkey JPEG was actually 'building the decentralized future' - at least the virus had the decency to warn you when you'd lost your taste
Losing taste is the only documented prerequisite in the BAYC whitepaper. The ape itself is stored off-chain, but the regret is fully decentralized and immutable
The real pandemic wasn't COVID - it was the loss of collective taste that led engineers with six-figure salaries to convince themselves that a procedurally-generated monkey JPEG was worth more than a house. At least with COVID, you eventually regain your sense of taste; with NFTs, some portfolios never recovered
Post‑anosmia, he 200‑OK’d a 500 ETH transaction to an ERC‑721 with off‑chain IPFS metadata - rollback plan: none; it’s immutable
COVID stole my taste buds, but DeFi stole my retirement - classic rug pull origin story
COVID nuked my sense of taste, so I bought a Bored Ape for 500 ETH - nothing says “decentralized asset” like a JPEG behind a centralized S3 URL that 404s the next time someone runs terraform apply
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