{"id":19034,"date":"2022-02-10T09:05:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=19034"},"modified":"2022-02-10T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T17:05:34","slug":"why-are-nfts-so-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/10\/why-are-nfts-so-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why are NFTs so ugly?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I swear to God, stuff like this makes me legitimately feel like I&#8217;m having a stroke:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/hapebeastgang\/status\/1450431456216588290?s=21\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And that example, curiously, seems <em>way<\/em> more technically &amp; aesthetically sophisticated than the bulk of what I see coming from the &#8220;NFT art&#8221; world. I really enjoyed this explication of why so much of such content seems like cynical horseshit\u2014sometimes even literally:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why are NFTs so Ugly?\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wDtt24RxdLk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear to God, stuff like this makes me legitimately feel like I&#8217;m having a stroke: And that example, curiously, seems way more technically &amp; aesthetically sophisticated than the bulk of what I see coming from the &#8220;NFT art&#8221; world. I really enjoyed this explication of why so much of such content seems like cynical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19034"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19036,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19034\/revisions\/19036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}