Hyderabad: Do you remember the four-year-old girl who became famous overnight after her father took her two blocks from her own house smiling in front of a burning house?
Zoe Roth, known as the ‘Disaster Girl’ on the internet, has now earned an almighty $ 500,000 by selling the original copy of the meme as a non-fungible token (NFT).
Currently, a 21-year-old senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Zoe received an email in February asking her to sell the meme. With an NFT, she can create a string of unique computer code for the original photo and store it on a blockchain, which tracks all future transactions. While initially worried, Zoe and her father, Dave Roth, did research, turned to advice from other meme celebrities, hired a lawyer, and the idea continued.
Originally, the meme was made in 2005 and the famous fire in the viral photo was in fact a controlled fire that was purposely set in a nearby piece of property to clean up the country. The Roth family lived near a fire station and sirens were common in their area. Only this time, the girl’s father decided to test his new camera with the fire in the background.
Zoe has now decided to use the auction money to fund her university education and donate to charity.
Source: Telangana Today