Viral TikTok of Man Skateboarding With Cranberry Juice is Up for Sale as an NFT for $500,000
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What can be an NFT? Well – at this point we’re more like to ask, what can’t be an NFT? Elon Musk may have opted out, but the curve is just starting – the first NFT artwork to be auctioned, the first Oscar-nominated movie to be released as an NFT, the first tweet by Jack Dorsey, the first NFT album. After art and auction houses, (and billionaires) news organizations and galleries also seem to be joining in on the trend. Quartz has converted an article into an NFT, a digital asset that essentially serves as its own certificate of ownership and authenticity. They’re, however, not the first. Associated Press sold its non-fungible token artwork on March 11 for a hefty sum only eight days putting it up for auction. And now there may be a TikTok being sold as an NFT.
A TMZ report stated that viral video star Nathan Apodaca is listing his popular skateboarding TikTok as a non-fungible token, with bids starting at $500,000.
If the name Nathan Apodaca doesn’t ring a bell, his viral video will – in the 23-second long TikTok posted in Sept. 2020, Apodaca (aka @420doggface208) lazily skateboards down an empty street while drinking Ocean Spray cran-raspberry juice and lip-syncing to Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 song “Dreams.”
The video went viral, amassing 12.6 million likes on TikTok alone. It was so popular that thousands of others posting their own versions, including politicians even Fleetwood Mac members, Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks recorded their own versions, and Ocean Spray gifted Apodaca a new truck. He also got his own line of laidback merchandise, reports Mashable.
Currently, the video may not have as much appeal as it aims to – It won’t have the iconic Fleetwood Mac soundtrack since Apodaca does’t have rights to that music, and the Ocean Spray logo will be blurred out for the same reason. Instead, the clip will probably show Apodaca silently skateboarding to work, chugging a nondescript red drink.
An NFT for the $500,000 clip is actually a downgraded product to the one you can already watch for free on the Internet.
Apodaca hopes to use the proceeds of the sale to buy his parents a house, as well as fund an event centre in Idaho Falls, reports Mashable.
When the video had first gone viral, Apodaca, 37, had said his vehicle broke down Sept. 25, so he skated to work, singing, filming and drinking as he went. He almost didnt post the clip, but broke into a smile when all the views and likes started to roll in more than a million after he’d ended his shift that day.
“Ive just been getting flooded with everybody, even just a little boy drinking juice, he said from the RV where he lives in Idaho Falls, Idaho. I think Ive even seen a dog on a skateboard rolling around with some juice taped to him or something. Its insane,” he had added.
He’d also mentioned partnerships and collaborations then and said “I hear of things coming up. But if this just stops right now, Im fine with it. … I’m blessed that everybody’s just happy about this all, just to vibe out for even just 15 to 30 seconds.”
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