Woman In 'Disaster Girl' Meme Sells It As An NFT For More Than $450,000
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Zoe Roth was 4 years old when her dad snapped a photo of her smirking in front of a burning house. Now 21, she's reclaimed ownership of the resulting meme.
The woman featured in the popular internet meme “Disaster Girl” has reclaimed ownership over the image and made quite the profit: It sold as a non-fungible token for more than $450,000. The meme itself came into existence when Zoe Roth, now 21, was merely 4 years old. Her dad snapped a photograph of her outside of a home in their North Carolina neighborhood as it burned down in 2005. The resulting image, which appeared to show Roth looking upon the house as though she were responsible for the flames, ended up winning JPG magazine’s “Emotion Capture” contest and later made the rounds on Flickr, Zooomr, and beyond. Roth’s smirk in front of the fire has since become internet shorthand for chaos and has been shared millions of time. Knowing this, the UNC Chapel Hill senior decided to auction the image off as a non-fungible token (or NFT) after receiving an email suggesting she do so, according to the Raleigh News & Observer.More Related News