Woman in Disaster Girl meme sells original photo as NFT for $500,000
by Edward Helmore from Technology | The Guardian on (#5H958)
Zoe Roth says she plans to use proceeds from sale of 2005 image of her smirking in front of burning house to pay student loans
Zoe Roth, the woman whose picture was central to the 2005 Disaster Girl meme, has sold the original photo for $473,000 - the latest addition to the cryptocurrency-linked, digital image NFT craze that is sweeping through the art market.
The image was taken of Roth, then aged four, by her father in front of a burning house in Mebane, North Carolina. Firefighters had intentionally set the blaze as a controlled fire.
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