The “Charlie bit my finger” viral video sold as a nonfungible token for more than $760,000.
Anonymous user “3fmusic” came away as the winner of the auction Sunday, forking over $760,999 for the NFT to the Davies-Carr family, which created the video.
The 2007 video, which has received more than 880 million views, depicts baby Charlie Davies-Carr biting his brother Harry’s finger, with Harry’s response causing the video to go viral.
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“Ow, Charlie! Ow! Charlie! That really hurt!” Harry exclaimed after Charlie bit him. “Charlie bit me. And that really hurt, Charlie, and it’s still hurting.”
The family will delete the video as a part of the deal, according to multiple outlets.
“Bid to own the soon-to-be-deleted YouTube phenomenon, Charlie Bit My Finger, leaving you as the sole owner of this lovable piece of internet history (while also getting the chance to say Charlie bit your finger, if you want to see what all the hype is about),” the auction description read.
The family hopes the money will be able to help the children, now ages 17 and 15, in the future.
“It means that Harry goes to university and has a nice place to stay and doesn’t have to have a bar job,” the boys’ father, Howard, told CBS News.
“Education takes priority,” Charlie added.
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An NFT is backed by a proprietary digital signature, which acts as a public ledger, allowing internet users to verify the asset’s authenticity and ownership. The ledger exists on the blockchain, which serves as a digital record of transactions, and multiple computers on the internet validate each transaction added to a blockchain.
Others have sold digital content as NFTs in recent months, with a Florence gallery selling Renaissance masterpieces as NFTs to recover pandemic losses, “Disaster Girl” selling her popular meme for more than $400,000, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey auctioning off the first-ever tweet for nearly $3 million.
