Tesla CEO Elon Musk is promoting a song about NFTs — quick for “nonfungible tokens” — as an NFT. On Monday, the billionaire entrepreneur shared the song on Twitter, exactly where it has turn into a viral hit with more than 5 million views currently. The music video attached to the song shows the words “Vanity Trophy” orbiting about a golden orb. The word “NFT” gets repeated more than and more than once again in the techno track, and a vocalist sings lyrics like “NFT for your vanity” and “computers never sleep.”
Also in the video are golden “doges” – the meme on which the dogecoin cryptocurrency is based. Mr Musk’s current promotion of dogecoin on Twitter has also lifted the value of that cryptocurrency.
“I’m selling this song about NFTs as an NFT,” Elon Musk wrote though sharing the song on Twitter.
I’m promoting this song about NFTs as an NFT pic.twitter.com/B4EZLlesPx
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 15, 2021
Since becoming posted on Twitter, the video has received more than 5.3 million views and practically 20,000 ‘retweets’, along with thousands of amused reactions.
Just noticed the Shiba Inu DOGE’s circling this, take all my dollars ????
— ???????????? (@itsALLrisky) March 15, 2021
Many Twitter customers joked about the issues they wanted to sell as NFT.
I’m promoting this screenshot of Elon’s song he’s promoting about NFTs as an NFT as an NFT pic.twitter.com/NcQK7N1jdf
— greg (@greg16676935420) March 15, 2021
This is a non-fungible Tolkien. Hardly any mold whatsoever! pic.twitter.com/xyWUnfMDUe
— Rome Strach (@romn8tr) March 15, 2021
The reputation of NFTs has exploded throughout the pandemic, as enthusiasts and investors scramble to invest massive sums of dollars on things that only exist on the internet, reports news agency Reuters.
Last month, musician and artist Grimes, who is dating Elon Musk, sold some animations she created on a web page known as Nifty Gateway for more than $6 million.
It was not promptly clear if Mr Musk in fact intended to sell the video or the song.