NFT owner “Charlie bit my finger” won’t delete video
The non-fungible token, valued at $ 760,999 after the last auction carried out by the family, will stay as published content
The owner of the non-fungible token (NFT) of the YouTube video ‘Charlie bit my finger’, Collector 3F Music, decided to keep the video available on the platform after acquiring the non-fungible token for $ 760,999 at an auction run by the family.
The video is, according to the family of the children who appear init, the most watched viral on YouTube, with more than 885 million views. It was going to be removed a day after the auction organized on May 22 to sell their NFT.
The removal of the material was previously announced to increase its sale price, according to statements made by the children’s father Howard Davies-Carr in an interview with Quartz.
Davies-Carr reported in the same interview that the new owner, 3F Music, a music studio in Dubai, has decided to keep the video on YouTube despite having acquired its NFT at auction on May 22 for $ 760,999 because he felt that “it is an important part of popular culture and it should not be eliminated.”
The 56-second viral video was posted 14 years ago by the channel now called HDCYT, and shows Charlie, a then one-year-old baby, biting the finger of his three-year-old brother Harry.
3F Music has recently also acquired other NFTs such as the psychopathic girlfriend meme (‘Overly Attached Girlfriend’), for $ 411,000; the NYT meta column on NFT, for $ 560,000, and the ‘Disaster Girl’ meme, for $ 500,000.
K. Tovar
Source: USA Today
