Infamous friendship breakup meme sells as NFT for $51,530
NY Post
Apparently, you can put a price tag on friendship: $51,530.
Back in 2015, Asif Rasa Rana of Gujranwala, Pakistan, announced on Facebook that he was no longer friends with Mudasir Ismail Ahmed — and instead was now best friends with Salman Ahmad Naqash. Since then, the post — featuring a crudely edited image of Rana and Naqash shaking hands, accompanied by two photos of Ahmed crossed out and bold text overlaid declaring the change in friendships — went viral, with social media users using the image as a template for memes about breakups, political controversies and even diplomacy issues.
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s.
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.