RANT - Why NFT Cartoons are a SCAM

It just keeps getting worse

Buying an NFT is like that episode of The Amazing World of Gumball when Richard explains that he spent his life savings on a star certificate.

I'm in art school right now and any time NFT's are brought up, my classmates burst in laughter or complain that a family member told them they should get into them. Literally the entire next generation of artists I know are against NFT's

I remember I went to Comicon once. Only time I've ever gone. Ran into an anime fanartist selling Broly art he drew/painted himself. But he didn't have any art of classic Broly. So me and my brother commissioned him, and two weeks later we got a gift for my brother. Cost us I think $20, and it looks fantastic. You won't find it anywhere except hanging in my little brother's room. That art is very special, since it's personal. We even got a thank you email from the artist who made it thanking us for commissioning him to make it, since it challenged him to make something a bit different, and still unique. NFTs cannot, and will never have that same level of personality and value that our $20 painting will have. And it will stay that way forever.

4:38 There was an artist who was dying of a serious illness, and they made beautiful drawings of their experience. They later passed away, and some guy just took her art and made it into an NFT. 🙁

Here is a fun fact: The NFT bubble has gotten so out of control that the inventor of NFTs, Anil Dash, has disowned them. It is so bad that even the guy who first invented them hates them!

whats annoying about this whole nft cartoon diboacle is that there are actual cartoons made on the internet made by smaller creators that are not even getting HALF the recognition of these cartoons. these need to stop.

"NFTs can help you support your favorite artists!!" Art commissions, prints, art workshops, art instruction videos, merchandise, and lots of other ways to support artists work just fine. Plus, they don't encourage art theft. "NFTs can be used to verify your ownership of a car!!". Ever heard of a car title, VIN, or license plate? Those (legal) methods of car ownership exist. "NFTs can be used to verify your ownership of an item you bought from a store, sports tickets, etc!!" Receipts work just fine. Plus, you can text or email them to yourself, too if you lose the paper receipt. "NFTs can be used to verify your ownership of a piece of real estate!!". Purchase and sale contract. Look it up. In short, NFTs are pointless.

I also like that when The Red Ape Family cartoon came out some guy involved in it tweeted something like "This is truly something great, it's a better pilot than Family Guy" and as someone who hates Family Guy, HOW DARE YOU say that about Family Guy.

NFT's in general are scams, just another way to launder money.

NFTs are an insult to art itself. It reduces art from something creative to a mere currency, and is built upon scams to steal said currency while luring artists into it promising them a career. It's so scummy.

Thing about it is that even if they start making “good” NFT cartoons, it still won’t make NFTs good because the whole idea of manufacturing scarcity is ridiculous and bad for the creative community.

Aside from the art theft, exploitation of dead artists, and environmental impact, you know what hurts the most? That THIS bullshit is what kicked people in the pants to animate random shit. Like Stoner Cats? If that was a kickstarter or a youtube project? Man I'd have fun watching it, the art is cute! Even the fucking... Red Ape Family. If some goofy amateur animator made something that looked like that and put it on youtube, I would think to myself "hey this doesn't visually look great but holy shit some person put hear and time into this and I commend them." But no it's a cashgrab for rich fuckwits! THAT'S WHAT GETS PEOPLE TO INDEPENDENTLY ANIMATE I GUESS!!

About the Pokémon thing, there’s three main differences between that and NFTs 1. They are physical things that you can hold in your hand and feel like you own it, rather than just a digital photo 2. The art looks cool, and each Pokémon is individually drawn, while most NFts are just randomly generated faces that look ugly 3. Pokémon Cards actually have a function. They have abilities, you can play against other players, people win and lose, and cards that are more rare are actually stronger, while the only function NFTs have are that you can send them to your friends on discord or something, and maybe get a quick chuckle out of them

May I also add: No, 99% of artists see no opportunities or value in this trash, in fact many are closing down their online galleries because of rampant theft and minting, and others, even total amateurs, are forced to create entire agreements with anti-NFT clauses which discourages both ends and makes it more difficult to take commissions. If they want to spend thousands of bucks on unique personalized art, commisions have always been there.

As a small artist on DeviantArt who needs money. I would still avoid NFT to keep my reputation clean.

I'm a digital artist (also do traditional) and so glad you are talking about this topic. The amount of those damn NFT bros message me to make art for them is too high to count. Once I heard about this, I knew this thing was never about the Artist. Reminds me of those people who purchases art for the millions. Its just laundering, but they making it sound fancy.

NFTs are literally making me afraid to post art. Turns out, people like to steal artwork and make them into NFTs.

This is honestly kind of terrifying. From what I’ve read in the comments, it seems like literally ANY piece of digital art nowadays can be stolen and sold as an NFT. Even if a small group of people animates something and it takes a few months to painstakingly make and polish the content, all it’d take is for one person who saw it to put it on what is basically the intellectual property black market and make potential MILLIONS off of it without doing any work themselves! It’s insulting. It’s disgusting. It’s scary. It's amoral. But think about it this way - those of us who aren’t as well off and can see NFTs for what they truly are know how to avoid them and can simply laugh as the idiot elite bring everything crashing down. The night is always darkest before the dawn.

I remember once my mom sent me a video called "How to make NFT's and sell them." since she knows I make art, I told her and my dad about how bad NFT's are and why we shouldn't support them, I'm really glad they understood how bad they were and didn't just yell at me.