How would you react if your partner would buy you an $8,000 NFT? Although most collectors would be thrilled, things didn’t go down as planned for a lady who received an ape NFT for Christmas. In fact, an anonymous Reddit user revealed how the ‘investment’ almost ruined her engagement!
Should you buy NFTs as a gift? Maybe not.
Finding the perfect gift for your special someone isn’t easy, but if you’re planning to buy them NFTs, you’d better think twice. Recently, an anonymous Reddit user opened up about a tragic Christmas, all caused by a ‘monkey picture.’
In essence, all the lady wished for Christmas was a $200 bag. However, on Christmas Eve, her fiance gave her a phone in front of both of their families. When she unlocked the device, a picture of a monkey showed up. Although it was a cartoonish one, the artwork had certain traits similar to hers.
Accordingly, her fiance had spent months raising $8,000 to buy the NFT for his dear one, calling it “an investment” for their future together.
“I told him that all I wanted was a $200 bag and he spent 8k on a monkey picture! He told me that he was investing in our future together and that I just couldn’t see his vision,” the fiance recalls.
By this point, some family members were amused, while others were simply horrified. Surprisingly, the man’s own brother pointed out how it was “poor in taste to give a monkey picture to your Black fiance.” That’s because the man is caucasian, and his fiancee is black.
Is the world truly ready for NFTs?
Needless to say, the couple spent the holidays apart from each other and they haven’t spoken ever since. Now, the lady took to Reddit to find out whether she had been overreacting about her fiance’s NFT present.
This Reddit thread raises a bigger question: is the world truly ready for digital assets and everything they mean? Obviously, the NFT market is still in its early stages, and it’s only been in 2021 that it started gaining popularity.
Undoubtedly, big companies such as Nike and Samsung have already embraced the trend. As for average people who barely understand crypto, or even technology as a whole, only time will give us the answer.
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