Zoë Roth, popularly known as the girl in the “Disaster Girl” meme, has sold the image of the popular meme as an NFT (non-fungible token – a unique unit of data) for almost US$500,000 (more than NZ$650,000), the New York Times reports. The image was bought by a Dubai-based music production company known as 3F Music, which spent US$411,000 for the image from the Overly Attached Girlfriend meme in April. Zoë smirked at the camera, and the meme was born. Roth, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said she will use the money to pay off her student loans. Zoë and David will keep the copyright to the image and by “minting” the NFT, they’ll be able to receive 10 per cent of any profits earned from a sale of the image as an NFT in the future.

Source: Stuff April 30, 2021 09:00 UTC