It turns out that Trump’s crappy NFTs were plagiarized
We are shocked!
Shocking stuff
Remember last week, when former President Donald Trump unleashed on Earth a collection of absolutely grotesque NFT “trading cards?” Well, it turns out that much of the art on the 45,000 digital cards, which sold for $99 each, was likely plagiarized. Cheers.
It’s not exactly surprising news, but damning information nonetheless. In accordance Gizmodoit appears that most of the art is sourced from small clothing companies, and the apparent theft was actually so poorly concealed that a quick reverse image search was all it took to identify the apparent original.
It’s unclear whether the photoshop job was done by a human or an AI image generator, but the similarities between the “digital trading cards” and the seemingly lifted images are nonetheless remarkable. And considering that Trump, who is is currently running as a presidential candidatereportedly raked in $4.5 million in revenue on the hideous JPEGs in a single sold-out launch day, being plagiarized would be a pretty rough ride.
Seems legit
Plagiarism aside, the behind-the-scenes of these cards gets even stranger.
As Gizmodo reports, the company that held the auction, NFT INT LLC, is wildly sketchy — the address is listed as belonging to a UPS box at a random mall in Utah, and their website does very clear that the cards “are not political and have nothing to do with any political campaign,” and that the company is definitely one hundred percent, absolutely not is owned and operated by “Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization, CIC Digital LLC or any of their respective principals or affiliates.” Cool.
The man of the people
Heavy sigh. This whole thing has really just been weird, and given the fact that the whole ordeal feels predatory, it’s all a bit annoying as well.
It’s hard to muster up a ton of sympathy for anyone who dropped $4,500 in change to have dinner with the “grab ’em by the **** guy,” but at the same time, the Trump base probably isn’t that big. hip to the absolutely dismal state of the NFT market. Mix in the fact that these images were not only unimaginative, but very likely stolen? It has scam written all over it.
But alas, the guy clearly knows he has an audience.
READ MORE: Trump’s badly photoshopped NFTs appear to use images from small clothing brands [Gizmodo]
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