NFTs Are Still a Thing, Apparently
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NFTs are still a thing, apparently. So should we buy them in 2026?
A few years after the NFT boom, we check in on the market to see what happened to Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, Beeple’s $69 million NFT, and the people who bought them.
Are NFTs actually worth anything now? Can you still make money with NFTs? And most importantly, are NFT bros doing okay?
Chapters:
00:00 The $69 Million NFT
00:46 Should We Buy NFTs?
01:20 NFTs in 2021
02:27 When NFT Art Was Huge
03:51 What Happened to NFTs?
05:41 The Bored Ape Crash
06:29 The $2.5 Million Bored Ape
07:29 The $28 Million CryptoPunk
08:54 The $69 Million Beeple Buyer
10:59 Are NFT Bros Okay?
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@ryangeorgeplus
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
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@danusuck
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
who up funging their tokens?
@nekot9274
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Non Fuckable Tiramisu, you can't make a bad one.
@dmhendricks
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Your new zoomer haircut is troubling
@jannikf2504
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
NFTs were only really good for the people who first sold them to an idiotic rich kid.
But then again there are real life "NFTs" that people do actually want, like original animation cells. But then again, those are a lot less fungible and a lot more tangible
@trooperscientists2000
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
I think the base idea of NFTs wasn't even bad. Being able to sell artwork ownership digitally sounds fine in concept…..
I practice it meant that people build picrew type generators and pumped out hundreds of images of characters without any artistic intent that they then sold.
@N0neconformist
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
no fucking thanks
@humangravity6928
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Let Elon take a NFT – as a vision of its future value – to the stock exchange and see i become worth a trillion in absolutely no time.
@garlicxlr
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
The guy who bought the Beeple NFT has reasons to be happy.
He's a billionaire. He bought the NFT to generate hype for his own crypto so he could dump it. And he managed to do so.
To him it's mission accomplished.
@RobertPlatt-n4n
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Eyeballically is Neologism of the Year
@HereticalKitsune
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
"Digital art" is great, I do spent money on digital art. But I get exactly what I want, for myself or for friends. NFTs on the other hand? Nope.
@EndingSimple
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
I'd rather battle a sea witch than deal with doctors. … For future reference, read Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay. It's an old book that many investors have profited from over the years, unlike those that bought NFTs.
@psygamez7727
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Jeremy Cuhlan shout out
@brendanwiley253
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
NFTs still have value in their original purpose which was just to create a way to verify who actually made something on the internet where anyone can post anything from any website to any other website and pretend they created it.
The creators of the technology weren't trying to make links to a picture that sell for millions of dollars, they were just trying to make a mark of ownership that can't be faked.
The usefulness of an NFT is miniscule to anyone other than actual artists and the insane prices were only rhe result of the greater fool theory, which is basically that its foolish to buy this at this price, but I'm sure theres some greater fool who's willing to pay more for it.
Its the exact same thing that drove up the price of pokemon cards, but even then the actual use case of the cards is the game you can play with them, not just having a mark that proves you own the card.
@coachleif
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Hey, I remember the thing you YouTubed about from the past times!
@ULTRATlTO
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
NFT was the first attempt to make artists jobless,
making dumb-looking art that most of this people made them selves and putting an unbelievable price tag on it.
Now, with billionaires funding generative AI, they’ve surely done the job.
They really hate Artists huh? 😅
@bdizzle1118
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
2:36 The one almost-positive thing I have to say about these NFTs is: at least they were made by human hands with real digital tools, not generated by AI.
Each terrible looking asset of that stupid shark was made by a human hand using photoshop or some other painting/photo editing program, then an algorithm combined them together in such a way that every version would have a unique, unrepeated combination of those assets.
That's still incredibly lazy BUT AT LEAST a human being actually drew all the parts the artwork is made of.
Imagine how much worse NFTs would've been if AI had been as powerful back then as it is now.
@gregoryferraro7379
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
The real winner of the NFT bubble is Beeple, who legally scammed $69 (nice!) MILLION out of some stupid finance dude-bro.
@walker-snow
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Those NFTs are still priced very expensively
@joeyshappy
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Ryan I love you, but kill your barber please 🙏🏽
@Neelick
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
I just learned you're also Canadian. Now I like you even more. Also, my son and I watch your pitch meetings most nights before bed. Love your content.
@magamus.decimus.meridius
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
I really appreciate that you've decided to support the mentally handicapped by hanging their flag in your background
@tucciproducer
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Jamaica 🇯🇲
@esoqueexiste
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
2:02 Video failed from the start… Get your google searcher dude to return your money
I'm not against making fun of cryptobros for being stupid, but you can't just fail in from the definition of the thing you are talking about
@TheShwiggityshwah
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Of course, a bunch of rich and pretend rich are stuck with them and desperate to sell them off on some rube. The GameStop BBY moass people are still around
@PukeyMcDork
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
BYA nfts are a joke. But, I wanted to buy one as a lark and they are still like $50,000 for the cheapest one. They’re amazingly still around
@jessicascoullar3737
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
It was all a money laundering racket that unfortunately everyday idiots bought into.
@magusperde365
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Legalize euthanasia
@araya-c5z
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
I like to think after ai bubble dies or the market crashes cause of it ai will just become another money laundering thing like nft's
@masterswordwielder
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
2:54 new Spud Hut menu item just dropped
@theunbeknownsthuman
September 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
6:25 The most relatable moment in this video .. I can't get Jeremy Culhane impersonating Tucker Carlson out of my head too 😭😭