NFT Owner Attempts to Pay Restaurant Bill With an NFT
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NFT owner ventures into the real world
Overview
This is a single-panel comic meme using the art style of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, set in a fancy restaurant. A waiter stands next to a table where a male character and his female date are seated, telling the male customer his bill totals $110.83. The male character, framed as an NFT owner, holds up a printed copy of an NFT graphic of a house and confidently states he believes the NFT will cover the cost, while his date looks on unimpressed. The top text of the meme reads 'NFT owner ventures into the real world', and the joke satirizes the common criticism that NFTs have no practical, accepted tangible value for real-world everyday transactions.
Origin notes
This meme is a derivative work using the Diary of a Wimpy Kid cartoon art style, edited to create a satirical joke about NFT utility. It was sourced from an RSS feed of X (formerly Twitter) user @meme.jpg, and circulated widely on social media platforms during the 2021-2022 peak of NFT public hype as a popular joke mocking cryptocurrency and NFT use cases.