Two siblings on an armchair, the youngest bites the finger of the oldest and laughs, satisfied. A piece of family life, daily, which instead of staying on an old and dusty VHS has made the history of YouTube and, more generally, of the web. “Charlie Bit My Finger”, published in 2007 on YouTube by the parents of the two children, was one of the first “viral videos” on the internet: the view count has increased over the years to the current 900 million.
One step away from a billion clicks, the family that owns the rights to the video – and which has built a small fortune on it through advertising and merchandising – has decided to auction it as Non-Fungible Token (nft), a digital content. which allows you to certify the uniqueness of a work of art, of an image, in this case of a film. A user who used the nickname “3fmusic” won it for $ 760.999. And now, according to what is learned on the charliebitme.com site, where the virtual auction was held, the video of Charlie and his older brother will be deleted, forever, from the YouTube servers.
“Charlie Bit My Finger”, one of the first viral videos on YouTube, was sold as NFT for $ 760,000
“The soon-to-be-deleted YouTube phenomenon“The authors of the video write. The two children are now boys: Charlie is 14 and Harry is 17.” You will be the sole owner of this adorable piece of internet history, “adds the Davis-Carr family who still live in today. Marlow, England, in the house where the popular video was shot. Even family memories can become NFT and end up on the plate, in short.
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