A Digital Collage By The Artist Beeple Just Sold At Auction For $69 Million

Christie’s is now the leading purveyor of high-end memes after an NTF for a Beeple sold for $69 million at auction. Now there’s a sentence that would have made zero sense 10 years ago. Hell, who am I kidding, it barely makes sense now. But it does clearly illustrate what an absolute scam the concept of money is (see also: fine art). This is a perfect example of one of the situations I often find myself in when trying to explain something I’ve written on Dlisted to my aunt who is in her 70s. Where do you begin? How do you explain a Beeple to a woman who still uses AOL?

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