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ty beanies are infinitely less of a scam than crypto too. even if your beanie baby was worth nothing, at least you still had a physical stuffed animal that you can wipe your tears with. wtf are people doing with their Google drive hosted jpeg?
That's NFT. Not quite the same thing. Built on crypto tech, sure, but just a subset of the tech and how it ended up used was very much a scam.
You also don't own the picture. You own the space on the blockchain that points to that picture, maybe.
There's always some "collector" items than people have to have. Just look at some of the Funko Pop collections people have on Reddit.