The buyer of Roth’s image, a collector simply known as 3FMusic, is believed to be Farzin Fardin Fard, chief executive of a Dubai-based music production company. Sales of NFTs since then have been less successful as buyers intuit that the image itself is not the purpose, rather the underlying or attached cryptocurrency, many of which are currently surging in frothy market for novel currency investment vehicles. The sale price placed Winkelmann in the same price range as reknowned traditional artists like JMW Turner, Georges Seurat and Francisco Goya, leading critics to note that the market had finally been able to divorce itself from traditional notions of art-values entirely. The 17 April sale price, which translates to 180 Ethereum, was reached almost two months after Christie’s in New York auctioned a jpg digital file made by Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, for $69.3m with fees. She told the Raleigh News & Observer: “Nobody who is a meme tried to do that, it just ended up that way. Whether you’re having a good experience or a bad experience, you kind of just have to make the most of it.” Roth, who says she plans to use the proceeds to pay off her student loans and donate additional money to charity, told the New York Times: “The internet is big. Roth, now aged 21 and a university student, sold the image through Ben Lashes, an NFT, or non-fungible token, entrepreneur who has racked up about $2m in sales for sales including Nyan Cat, Grumpy Cat, Keyboard Cat, Doge, Success Kid and David After Dentist. This is part of AP’s effort to address widely shared misinformation, including work with outside companies and organizations to add factual context to misleading content that is circulating online. view, has built up enough firepower to launch an attack on short notice, the Associated Press has reported. Moscow denies it has any plans to invade Ukraine but has massed well over 130,000 troops near its borders and, in the U.S. The two countries have been locked in a bitter conflict since 2014. The photo has begun recirculating in recent days as tensions mount between Russia and Ukraine. Reverse image search results show the photo has also appeared over time on Facebook and Twitter, with captions from 20 asserting it showed “a normal day in Russia.” One Facebook post from March 2020, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, captioned the photo: “Slav Girl in need of social distance in bus.” An April 2020 entry on a blog post headlined “Evolution of a Meme: Girl in Belarus on a Bus with AK,” discussed how the image had been repurposed multiple times by online meme pages. She also posted a story highlight video in March 2020 where she was wearing the same distinctive nail polish as the photo, where one hand was painted with red nail polish, while the other was painted with blue polish.
In other photos posted on Instagram, she can be seen wearing the same beige hat from the widely shared photo. “I live in Russia, not in Ukraine,” she added. None of the passers-by or the guards asked me any questions,” she said. “With this fake weapon, I managed to sit in a cafe and, as you can see, and take a ride in transport. Gladkikh told The Associated Press through direct messages on Instagram that she was returning from a photo shoot when the photo was taken. The image was taken in March 2020, according to Gladkikh, who lists her location on Instagram as Novosibirsk, a city in Siberia. Another Saturday post, calling the photo “daily life in Ukraine,” was also shared thousands of times, though many users took to the comments to dispute that the image was taken recently, or in Ukraine. WERE RE-OPENING Mr Vallum Vista and I have been keeping a. The post was shared more than 1,500 times and gained more than 6,000 likes. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, here at Vallum Vista we have an important announcement, one youve all been eagerly awaiting. THE FACTS: A Twitter user shared the photo - which shows a girl scrolling through a smartphone on public transportation while holding a fake gun - over the weekend, with a misleading caption suggesting it was a recent image of life in Ukraine amid warnings of an imminent Russian invasion. That Moment When Someone Calls You A Good Girl 4. The photo was taken in March 2020, well before tensions began escalating between Russia and Ukraine in recent weeks. When Someone Wants to Know Why Am I Still Single Cause I’m A Good Girl 3. The photo shows a Russian social media influencer, Ekaterina Gladkikh, holding a fake gun after a photo shoot. CLAIM: A photo of a girl on a bus with a rifle shows “life in Ukraine, now.”ĪP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
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