Nearly two years ago, Eminem and Snoop Dogg shared a music video for a new collaborative song called “From The D to tha LBC.” The visuals featured characters in the style of the Bored Ape Club, a Web3 collective that had become synonymous with the NFT craze that saturated popular culture.
For some, the digital tokens and their cryptocurrency marketplaces were the next stage in the intersection of art and commerce.
For others, they were ugly and exploitative harbingers of some hyper-transactional future; every cringeworthy celebrity plug and memed scam unlocked a new level of schadenfreude.
For many, NFTs might feel like a relic of the pandemic era, a confusing and upsetting trend from a confusing and upsetting time.
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