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6 Weird & Wacky NFT Collections

03.03.2022

The NFT craze has exploded into life in the last couple of years, with unique digital artworks being bought and sold for literally millions of dollars seemingly every other week.

But for the average consumer one way into the NFT world has become the appearance of NFT “collections”, groups of similar artworks but each with their own unique distinguishable features, which are building up online communities of owners, much like owners clubs of VW campervans or Harley Davidson motorbikes.

Here we take a look at this weird world and put the spotlight on some of the most talked-about NFT collections.

  1. Pudgy Penguins

Started in July 2021, the Pudgy Penguins project is best described in the founders’ own words: “Located in the freezing cold, arctic region of the metaverse you can find 8,888 cute chubby Pudgy Penguins sliding around on the ETH blockchain.”

That’s it. There are 8,888 pictures of the same penguin but each with a different set of clothes or background randomly generated from 150 hand-drawn traits.

To date the most expensive penguin has been sold as an NFT for over $55,000.

However, there has been some debate online as to whether these cute penguin pics are really all that they seem, with some claiming that prices have been fixed and it is a dodgy “get-rich-quick” scheme for online influencers.

Either way, the cute bird collection has built up a large and dedicated following, featuring in the New York Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, and even professional NBA player Steph Curry has bought one.

  1. EtherRocks

Want to buy a picture of a rock for over $1 million? Well luckily nowadays you can! In 2017, EtherRocks was one of the first NFT collectible ranges to be launched. EtherRocks are a series of 100 pictures of a rock, each a slightly different shade of gray. Even the website admits that the rocks are completely useless: “These virtual rocks serve NO PURPOSE beyond being able to be bought and sold, and giving you a strong sense of pride in being an owner of 1 of the only 100 rocks in the game”.

Unfortunately all the “Virgin Rocks” (never before sold) have now all been bought, but you can still buy “non-virgin rocks” if their owners put them up for sale, and if you happen to have somewhere between $100,000 and $2.1 billion in cash lying around.

Useless waste of money or clever investment? Who knows…

  1. The “POTUS” collection

All kinds of famous faces are jumping on the NFT train. In February 2022, former First Lady Melania Trump was set to launch her own NFT collection, titled “Official POTUS NFT Collection”, which will include “10 original pieces of digital artwork highlighting iconic moments from President Trump’s Administration”. These will include images of Donald Trump’s controversial 2020 visit to Mount Rushmore, and also Christmas at the White House. Many have pointed out the irony of the latter, with Melania once recorded as saying “Who gives a f*** about Christmas stuff and decorations?”.

This was not Melania’s first foray into the world of NFTs – in January 2022 she attempted to auction off a digital portrait of a white hat she wore to meet the French President in 2018, but apparently had to buy back the NFT herself after it failed to reach the minimum asking price.

Let’s hope it’s second time lucky for her.

  1. Logan Paul Cards

Another famous/infamous face getting involved in the hype has been Youtuber and all-round annoyance Logan Paul. Paul has previously been reported to have made upwards of $500,000 through buying and selling NFTs, and after taking part in some high-profile boxing matches he decided to launch his own collectible cards, based on Pokemon cards but featuring cartoon images of Paul punching. Paul is also known to have once spent $3.5 million on a box of Pokemon trading cards that turned out to be fake. Let’s see if his own card collection causes him any more issues.

  1. Bored Ape Yacht Club

Launched on April 30th 2021, the Bored Ape Yacht Club is a series of 10,000 unique iterations of a similar cartoon primate, each sold as an NFT for an original price of $200. Within 24 hours of the launch all 10,000 images had sold out. If you were lucky enough to be one of the original owners of one of these images, you could now sell your NFT image for many thousands, even millions, of dollars. Or you could choose to keep it and remain in the elite club.

  1. CryptoPunks

In June 2021, someone bought a 24×24 pixel digital image of an alien wearing a Covid mask. Not so special, you might think. Wait til you hear the price they paid: the artwork sold through London’s auction house Sotheby’s for a staggering $11.75 million. The image is named “CryptoPunk #7523” and belongs to the NFT collection CryptoPunks, making it the most expensive image from an NFT collection ever sold. CryptoPunks was launched in June 2017, and is often considered to be the original collection which started the NFT collection craze, plus the NFT craze in general. There are 10,000 CryptoPunks available, and if you own one you’ve got some cred online.