People used to think that buying mansions, sports cars, and jewellery was a means of splashing your cash and showing off your status.
However, with the advent of digital monkeys, tweets, and even perfume being sold as non-fungible tokens, the approach to demonstrating your wealth has been flipped on its head.
NFTs are designed to give you ownership over a digital piece of art or product, an original piece that can’t be exactly copied.
While some people might not be on board yet with the virtual token, NFT owners reckon it’s a huge ‘flex’.
One Twitter user named UrgentApe reckons that being a part of the Bored Ape NFT community is better than the more conventional ways of showing off your money.
Owning a #BAYC is a bigger flex than owing a sports car. But most women are still not attracted to it. They’d still choose a sports car and think we’re stupid for collecting pictures of monkey. We are still so damn early pic.twitter.com/npWwTWFfCM
— UrgentApe (@UrgentApe) April 24, 2022
They tweeted: “Owning a BAYC (Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT) is a bigger flex than owning a sports car. But most women are still not attracted to it.
“They’d still choose a sports car and think we’re stupid for collecting pictures of monkeys. We are still so damn early.”
I don’t know, a guy owning a .jpeg of a monkey with rainbow coloured hair could potentially be quite irresistible.
Thankfully, not all NFT holders were of the same mindset, with many laying in on UrgentApe.
One tweeted: “Not caring about the flex is the real flex.”
Another said: “In case it needs to be said to anyone reading this thread: please do not buy NFTs to attract women.”
While another commented: “Your ass stinks of misogyny.”
However, other users seemed to be a bit too invested in the NFT game, with a tweet that we aren’t quite sure is a satire or genuinely serious.
bro! so true! my mom is literally in hospice rn but I’ve been so busy trading $APE I haven’t visited. i wanna visit her soon,…
