“Charlie bit my finger”: in 2007, a family records an innocent scene between siblings without imagining that this video will become one of the most famous on the internet and that 14 years later, it will be sold as “NFT” for almost 761,000 dollars (620,000 euros), according to APE.
The video titled “Charlie Bit My Finger”, which has garnered 883 million views on Youtube, sold by the Davis-Carr family yesterday at an auction in the NFT market or “non-fungible tokens”. These “non-exchangeable chips” allow any digital object to be linked to a certificate of authenticity, be it a photo, an image, an animation, a video, a piece of music or even an article.
In this video lasting 55 seconds, we see a little Briton, Harry, holding his little brother Charlie in his arms. The scene takes a “dramatic” turn, when the first one puts his index finger in the baby’s mouth and to his great surprise Charlie closes his mouth, biting it. Then Harry says the two phrases that excited internet users: “uh, Charlie” and “Charlie, that really hurt me.”
Even though this video from the 2000s is one of the most popular in the history of Youtube, it will soon be retired from the platform. The family announced they would delete it after it sold out yesterday, explaining that the auction winner would become “the sole owner of this lovable piece of internet history”, even though the video has certainly been copied, shared and reposted many times on Internet.
During the auction, 11 accounts bid, but all were judged between two users: “mememaster” and “3fmusic”, with the latter prevailing with a bid of $ 760,999. The NFT collection is a trend whose popularity skyrocketed last year as $ 2 billion changed hands in this market in the first quarter of 2021 alone, according to nonFungible.com.
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