How ugly NFT's are made in MINUTES (and how you can too)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ม.ค. 2022
- Today we're looking at these ugly jpegs and seeing exactly how its done im MINUTES. and how you can too.
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I've read a spot on allegory about NFTs. Here it goes: "Imagine you have a wife, and her picture is on your nightstand. But everybody and their brothers are nailing her, BUT you have the marriage certificate. THAT is NFT."
@Astropathix XIII hahahah, even better!
@Astropathix XIII Also, the wife's not actually a real person, she's one of those chat bots that pretends to be a woman so it can steal your credit card information
Lmao
I think I have read a hentaianga woth this exact plot.
@Astropathix XIII Not only that, but the license may or may not be in the drawer, depending on if whoever owns the web server keeps it safe.
You know the saddest part about that Monkey JPEG is that he's playing the kazoo the wrong way around... :(
OMEGALUL
LMAO if only the author cared more
this guy kazoo
And it also seems to be jammed through their bottom lip.
i know next to nothing about kazoos and i still went "huh, that's not how i remember playing them" but brushed it off because lol how would i know.
The best definition of NFTs that I ever heard was: "artificial scarcity to make idiots feel special"
Folding ideas called the NFT trade "a catfight between the 5% and the 1%". That's the whole game. None of this stuff has any value, mega wealthy people just created artificial demand by drumming up hype and by throwing money around. How the pictures look is irrelevant, which is why the majority of the artwork that isn't stolen looks like absolute garbage. Aside from these NFTs of course, which clearly have a lot of value. If that definitely not nightmare inducing picture of a pink circle with Belle Delphine's face and a propellor beanie isn't worth at least 10 eth, then I guess I have no understanding of value whatsoever.
If you think it has no value then you dont understand nfts. It has a cryptocurrency value. Why would anyone buy one? Well its not that simple since everyone has their own reason, but the short answer is money and status.
It's true that people get conned for lots of different reasons. Money and status are potentially some of those reasons, sure. People buy into scams all the time. Just because somebody paid lots of money for something doesn't mean that it has any value. Look no further than multilevel marketing schemes, where people regularly pour thousands into items that end up sitting in their garages. That's most NFTs.
@@tomd1209 If someone perceiving something has value, it has some value. That's how value works. Money has no inherent value, it is literally the trust in the money that makes you perceive money to have value...
NFT's are silly.
Now these tulips on the other hand! WOW!! I haven't been able to sell any yet, but the guy I bought them from made a mint! These have got to be worth a fortune!
@@SioxerNikita Money has value because it can be used to purchase _actual_ labor and/or consumables. NFTs are no different than art, they have no practical value.
Just got a sudden realisation.
These NFT pictures are considered rare right?
Rare like Pepe. So searching for the Rare Pepes where NFTs but without the scam.
I saw someone realise that 1 year before xD
I miss the rare pepes days
As I was watching I was trying to come up with trash NFT ideas, and after considering some I said to myself, "huh, this is actually a pretty clever one!". I then realized this meant I failed the thought experiment because I already put too much thought into an NFT.
I'm surprised more people haven't gone the pixel art route considering how popular crypto punks are. And they look like dog shit.
@@SkimoStories I love well-executed retro art styles. Crypto Punks however, are an insult to the medium of pixel art.
@@SkimoStories because doges and apes are funny
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You have no idea of what a nft is or why people buys it. Its too complicated for some people. I understand.
@@misterymisterio8778 cope
I think it's important to remember, that the company most people think about when they hear "Atari" ceased to exist in the mid 80s. Since then the trademarks were bought and sold several times.
Yeah, though it has only been sold twice. First to Hasbro in the late 1990's, and then to the French company Infogrames in the late 2000's that adopted the name. They went to bankruptcy only a few years later and sold off the majority of their assets, subsidiaries and IPs. That followed a corporate restructuring when almost everyone in leadership was fired. What rose from the ashes is a pure scam company responsible for Atari Casino, the scam hardware crowdfunding Atari Gameband, the rip-off Atari VCS microconsole, and of course the Atari Token shitcoin.
I always wondered how did such a iconic company die so brutally and fast.
He misspoke though, the Castlevania NFT's were from Konami, not Atari.
@@rustkitty "Infogramme"
That name ...... Oh no, not them, that's not a name I expected nor wanted to see
@@Otakumanu you mean Komoney
Seriously, if you have two hours to spare, the Line Goes Up video is SO GOOD!
And if you don't, just watch it in chunks. That's what I did and I'm glad I did.
omfg I knew these were made with code and a bunch of premade assets but I didn't realise that it was less than 100 lines of code.
Dude there was an "art" piece called 'Dreaming at Dusk' that was just randomly sized cubes on a grid, generated from 12 lines of code, and sold for $2m.
Wait people actually thought these monkeys were drawn by hand?
The assets used to generate them are
I wouldn’t be surprised if they did
@@BloodAssassin Yeah that’s true, but also you only need like 24 total different hats, faces, shirts, etc. to be able to make 10,000 unique combinations. Not exact numbers by any means but even if it required 48 different items those could be drawn up in photoshop in a day.
+1 recommendation for "Line Goes Up" by Folding Ideas. That was a very informative video. Also Josh Strife Hayes's video was pretty good too.
Line Goes Up is a MUST WATCH for anyone with a morbid enough curiosity to dive the sewage hole that is NFTs.
+ 2 recommendations.
Those are the 2 videos that actually helped me understand what was going on. Simply searching that crap up to see what they were didn't actually tell me anything useful. Good to know my gut feeling was right when I kept hearing about Nfts.
My aunt heard about NFTs (she is a substance abuse counsellor; I don't know _why_ that came up in one of her sessions), and she asked me about it. I tried to answer her at the time, but I wasn't very clear. Once those two videos came out, I sent them to her. She's only watched Josh's video so far, but she seems to understand it better now.
Yes.
Unfortunately you can't 'flood' OpenSea as it costs money per NFT you attempt to upload. As an artist, there is absolutely no way uploading NFTs is a viable strategy unless you are already ridiculously acclaimed.
You forgot a letter...
Ain't OS an avid Lazyminter?
let me introduce you to the polygon chain, no gas fee for listing on ETH
@@CallumUpton I think If it's your first listing you have to pay a gas fee to initialize your account, without doing this you can't sell anything and I think It's around $70+. After that it's free, they obviously do this to try and reduce the amount of people spamming the site with trash. I could be completely wrong about this though, I barely know anything about NFTs. If it is completely free I would definately give it a go, I just don't want to waste money uploading stuff that will never sell.
@@justanothernobody7142 Trust me, it will sell
Man. I felt like a sucker buying digital MTG cards back in 02'. At least those actually had a function. Still crap, but functional.
Actually, MTGO Cards have kind of a more constant value than all that nft/crypto stuff because MTGO cards are link to the real life cards. To be fair, the value dropped over the years (because of declining playerbase, bans, new meta) but at least its not a worthless pile of pixels.
@@Scharrer23 Are you talking about the so-called Redemption Program? You need a complete set to even qualify if they are even doing that anymore. I cashed out in 05 so I have no idea if they are still doing redemtion but I doubt it.
I hope you didn't pay $69,000 for it...
@Pop Gligor All NFTs actually do have functions, but those functions are only for selling and transferring them. Making a fully decentralized NFT game is horrible because of bugs which you mentioned. A lot of games have so many bugs, even on day 1, that making the code permanent is a horrible idea. Also, each action will cost you like 10 dollars. No thanks.
You kinda still are, it's just that they're much MUCH bigger suckers than you are.
That guy who made an "Ugly-Ass Ape NFT" Picrew was a genius, and I easily made multiple variants by pressing the randomizer multiple times
I would like to see people suing over others NFT's looking very similar to theirs. That would be heaven!
Comedy
There is a problem with the code, in that its runtime will increase dramatcally the closer your desired number of generated images comes to the maximum number of generated pictures possible (after generating halfof the possible image pool, you will have a 50% chance of finding a duplicate, randomly finding the last image of a set of 10000 possible images has a 0.01% chance of occuring per cycle), which I assume was one of the reasons why people kept writing in chat that it would've been easier to just iterate over all possible entries. The other one was probably because everyone had a slightly different idea of what "as lazy/easy/braindead as possible" meant and felt that the one solution had too much thought put into it.
Nah, it's fine xD.
If you want to optimize it, first cache the file lists in the folders. Then go to a more performant language or sth like Cython. Then you could optimize your drawing routines.
And maybe then, Callum's approach would be inefficient ^^.
"You just don't understand NFT's" -Ubisoft
by far the best thumbnail on TH-cam I had ever seen.
I remember first hearing about NFTs through Corridor Digital's video with an artist Beeple (I think its his name).
MAN, that was real art, and my expectations for NFTs was high.
But then came the age of the copy-paster animal with randomized accessories. I don't know if NFTs used to be pretty or beeple was an exception, but right now it's awful.
The original intent of NFTs was solid, a way for digital artists to be able to sell their art in the same way physical artists can. But then yeah, as with most things, people used it to make a get rich quick scheme and rip off idiots, ruining it for everyone in the process.
@@zoeybourke9617 Yet the truth is that they basically already can sell their art, using a "normal" contract, assigning ownership including copyright! (And that is something NFT's DO NOT solve!) Without owning the copyright you really can't do anything with it...
@@bjorn9875 this
@@bjorn9875 Then what are NFT's for, right?
@@bjorn9875 False. You can sell the nft. Its true that you dont own the copyright of that picture, you own the unique token related to that picture.
Dan Olson my have nailed it, but two hours are quite something, he leaves little room for the brain to process it and throws in a lot of fancy vocabulary and endless sentences into the pot. So dramatically shorter and more down-to-earth videos like yours are very helpful too, especially when they show how effortless these images can be made. I knew they weren't all individually handcrafted, but I still appreciate actually seeing the process.
NFTs remind me of a pair of NPCs in the game "Lost in Random". A character in Twotown sells words, and you can sell her an interesting word for a different word, which you can then sell to another npc for a quest item.
Basically, a more valuable trade than NFT's lmao.
To clarify the video a bit, Bored Ape Yacht Club might have been a bad example to use for the claim that buying the NFT doesn't give you the copyright.
While that's certainly true for many other NFTs, Bored Ape Yacht Club does give you license to use your NFT picture for pretty much anything you want, including commercial purposes. You're technically still correct in that it doesn't outright give you the copyright (i.e. The creators can also still use your NFT pic for whatever they want), but you do get...*more* from buying a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT specifically than you're describing.
Still absolutely not a good investment or purchase, but I figured I'd point that out before all the NFTBros do.
Exactly, although I love that distinction. There's nothing stopping me from uploading any Bored Ape I want onto RedBubble and making my own shirt out of it, or even selling those shirts, for that matter.
If I right click, save, and print on tees who are these nft losers gonna go to to enforce their supposed copyright? I thought they were decentralized?
@@Julez60 I think you're confusing the validity of potential legal action with its practicality.
The point of owning a license or copyright is that it gives you a leg to stand on if you were to go after someone using your work without permission or vice versa. Whether or not that leg is used is a different matter entirely.
@@gilolaes4725 but can they even use it if they wanted to?
@@Julez60 Ah, I see what you're saying. Good point.
At the very least, the NFT holder can petition for Bored Ape Yacht Club's creators to bring legal action against the offending party. After that, it's more the assurance that the holder themselves wouldn't get shit down if they were to be the ones printing the shirts.
But your point is valid. If you print away you're very likely not going to have anything coming your way.
Man, if someone wanted art for $55k, they could pay for hundreds of commissions from freelance artists on the Internet.
They dont want art, they want to gamble it will go up
at this point i really dont get how you dont have Gold Creator Award. I have been watching you since early DreamWorld Dumpsterfire Dead Horse show and you make a lot of good points and explain a lot of things in an easy manner. You should have more subs and view then a lot of idiots talking for like 15 to 20 min without saying something.
thanks! i really appreciate that, comments like these make my day
It's because he's not a corporate shill. /shrug
Completely agree. He’s very talented as well at many different things. All round he’s tops
Great video, Cal! I will admit, the crowned Callum and beer hat Callum ones were worthy of the chef's kiss 😆
At least you could plant those vaunted Dutch tulips in your garden and had some pretty flowers to look at.
8:30 - "...and that's a shame, because I'd love to see a major corporation absolutely eat dirt over a decision they made with NFTs."
Don't worry, Square Enix heard you! Your wish is granted!
Your dream of a company going under because of NFT's might actually come true. Ubisoft is going all in on them because they aren't doing too hot and very likely will go under if nft's don't work out. In order to avoid being bought out, they had to sign a contract with Epic Games Store, so that plus going all in on hoping NFT's work out for them is all thats keeping them afloat.
What a sorry ass company. Lol
Ubisoft modern games blow chunks, I hope they go under. They used to be great but now they are an undead monstrosity that needs to be put out of its misery.
I'd not be sad to see Ubisoft go under, they haven't truly added anything new or exciting in a long time. Companies that just try to suck the bone marrow dry out of tired out IPs are generally only good to fail and the faster they fail the quicker the money that would have been spent on those games can go to better and fresher games and IPs instead.
The best part is, they're going HARD on NFTs. To the point where they've actively, publicly said "You don't know what you want, we do, and it's NFTs. See, even our employees are being given them, and they're ECSTATIC! What do you mean people are quitting and blaming NFTs?"
I was laughing my ass off with the results 😂
Brilliant Share Callum!!! Gah I can see many things this code can be used for. Thank You Thank You!
I could tell by looking at bored apes that they were some kind of basic paper doll thing. But I couldn't pin the method. Thanks, Callum.
Those companys changing their games with NFTs to lure the Krypto bros in just for a quick buck, ignoring the people who made them what they are today, will be in a bad spot, as soon as the NFT hype has gone and no idiots buy their shitty NFT anymore.
I dont think a simple "we sorry" will do it. It is like your partner is cheating on you because the affaire has more money, she/he found out that this affaire runs out of money and then he/she returnes with as "I am sorry". You know they would do it again.
I watched this a few days ago and just now comprehended the thumbnail. Hilarious!
Finally Callum is back! :) Moar videos with your voice and reaction plx 🤗
love the work man, keep going
You are quickly becoming one of my favorite TH-cam content makers, thank you for your videos as well your extensive knowledge on all the topics you cover, you are the man!
I love this!!!! All this shit is like making characters in games and pressing random to create a different look every time.
fantastic work once again
"and thats a good question the answer is nobody would" made me lol
This is the best dismantling of NFTs on YT I’ve come across! I’d buy a T-Shirt of one of your fake NFTs, just sayin. 😂
NFTs seem like someone was challenged to out do the Pet Rock. At least with that you were left with a stone.
I feel like NFTs exist to market to the same people who might invest in TF2 hats, except with NFTs you actually own LESS than you do in team fortress
I watched "Line Goes Up" by Folding Ideas and it's amazing. He really explains NFTs very well. Also cryptocurrency in general. The video really blew up (like crypto itself ironically). It's his most popular video, with 3.7 million views and it's also his newest video, only 11 days old. It was released a day after Bitcoin's price crashed. I wonder if this video had any effect on it. Maybe some people figured out it was a game of hot potato and sold their Bitcoins.
Yes, the video is really good.
ADORE your content!!! 💚💚💚
I want to make a collection of beautiful tulips being held by chimps wearing revealing negligees. But the fact that I have to look at myself in the mirror is stopping me
Keep going Callum!
i feel like this speculative investment mentality has always been around. it's like an attempt at mass-brainwashing people to believe things incredibly valuable... like tulips in holland, or victorian pineapples. folding ideas video is fucking amazing.
where can i buy your nfts? wow i feel attached to those unique art works
Screenshots. That's how. ;)
Just recently started learning Python in college. I'm really tempted to take you up on your offer Callum
When you jump on a bandwagon, and there's no band and no wagon, but everyone is pretending there are.
NB The Emperor's New Clothes were the first NFT.
Greater fool theory has never seen a more accurate representation
That Riley meme thumbnail though 😆
Good shit as usual. Could you make a video where you right click > save as an NFT, mint a new NFT with the saved image and set it as a Twitter pfp to get the stupid hexagon (or any other way that people normally use to prove they own an NFT)? I feel like a lot of people get confused and think that the blockchain somehow ensures the image associated with their NFT is unique, so I think that would help get the point across that you're literally just buying an arbitrary id.
If it's made by a computer then copyright law doesn't even apply. So even if they wanted to sell you the copyright of it they couldn't because no one owns a copyright to it. At least in the US
hand made vs AI just playing a dress up flash mobile app game in the background
I wanted to sell NFTs for £1.70 each
Which is a rough price for a tin of pepsi and a packet of crisps.
I think NFTs might be more appealing if they were dirt cheap for a picture or generated image and weren't sold off for more money than I will ever see in my life.
$55,421 and the reserve price isn't met. What the hell.
Brah I thought you at least owned a copyright. This is funny.
time to tip that fedora 7:24
Also totally gonna try this out sometime this week!
Whats funny is NFTs have now been expanded to 3d meshes paired with a glorified Unity vr phone app to look at them(Coke, Meta, etc)? They still don't understand how its just a file somewhere that you don't own.
It's basicly printing of ugly money.
Makes me want to make a hotpotato NFT and track how many hands it burnt.
Always a pleasure
Callum's boutta boost the amount of NFTshit to create content around lol
Thanks for the tutorial :)
The thumbnail is really funny.
It's money laundering. Can someone please call the IRS already?
At least the worms makes sense for the NFT image. They're worms with stuff to make them look different.
I mean, there's no way I would ever buy one.
There's still a bit of art in those monkeys. The modular parts, how well the hats fit etc. is something that an artist needs to do.
But once it went into the generator it changed from pieces of art into assembly line products.
I've been wondering, theoretically, if I were to buy a bored ape (for example) then print it on a bunch of T-shirts, take those t-shirts to a festival or a fate and sell them, would I be liable for breach of copyright? I know I don't own it even though I've kind of do because because I've bought that image.
I think the biggest problem would be that everyone else gets to point and laugh at you. And not on Twitter. Irl.
Others here pointed out that with the apes you actually aquire rights to the image, so you probably wouldn‘t break copyright.
NFT is just the Emperor's new clothes effect. Where you buy clothes but what you lose is your dignity, sanity, and money to a bunch of scammers. The people who buy them are just fools.
Is there a way to see that live stream of you putting the NFT Python code together?
Thanks for showing
8:10 most profound moment in video game history MGS2 quote here nice 😂👌
Brilliant!
NFTs - just the modern variant of the tulip bubble. At least with tulips you got something tangible.
pet rocks would be my own personal comparison
Thanks to You I might be an NFT baron (I won't but I like to think I might).
i want to see the red thumb bar. The NFTbros are capable of raiding these videos with re thumbs
I would not be surprised if consumer protection would have something to say about NFTs. There is no system for liability or way to request refund. Same with other DAO stuff.
BRB, becoming a millionaire. If you don't hear back from me, I'm looking at my phone to see suckers buy my worthless NFTs while floating in my pool in my yacht in my private lake.
These images you created are just cursed xD
yo yo yo what is this high pitched screech when you talk Callum?
The meme had me 😂
That’s why there’s a push to attach utility to NFTs. Ppl know that just buying a piece of code with a pic attached is not a worthwhile investment but they speculate potential in them. I really into crypto but NFTs are just weird to me. Great vid.
6:58
WHERE CAN I GET THIS?!?!?! LMFAOOOOOO
But which one of these are legendary and only minted in a few copies? >_>
i'm learning python also. Wish I could see that python code. Ahh, I got it. this would be cool to break down and study. OMG, numpy is the solution to my problems.
I'd bet that the people who truly believe NFTs are an up and coming technology never experienced online games with an in game economy.
I would probably do it in After Effects expressions and export all the frames.
Ah, the art world. xD I think probably nothing is more triggering. And the best thing is ... it can't really be cancelled lol. Because it's there on the blockchain. It's why more folks should make really challenging stuff. Really challenging art. Or "art". As long as peeps are willing to spend money on it. It's a descending spiral, really. How little effort is it possible to put into something for money. Well, there were these NFT's that were just lines of text. A fair few of those sold for good money too! ^^ xD hahahahahah
I created 7000 NFT's recently. I think I waited too long to join the gold rush.
Is this what the gold rush looked like?
Sell everything you own go out west for free land you just got to build a house and there's gold, you just got to go get it.
If i create an NFT and someone buys it for 5$ then another person buys it from them for 500$ do i still get some share of that 500$ ? Or do people bid on NFTs and then you might get a large sum right away?
As someone who makes NFTs it depends on if you have a smart contract or not. If you do, depending on said contract you will receive a percentage.
Watching Callum's videos makes me feel smarter.
I did what you wanted. I generated tons of garbage and uploaded it to opensea. Now what?
Though I think there's a better way of doing this. They have a size limit of 100MB. So I think it would be better to make a ton of 100MB files to try and overflow their servers.
now i want a Callum with cat ears nft :v
that's a joke, please don't enter that crap of a market xD
Wait there were actually people who think that the stupid ass monkeys were handmade?
Oh sweet! I'll pay $10k to get in on the ground floor of your new NFT line!
Is that whistling noise the point flying over my head?
If NFTs didn't have terrible art attached to them, if NFTs had good and original art attached to them, if NFTs we're tangible, etc etc, there wouldn't be half as much controversy.
OMG YAAASSS!!!!!
criptopher my beloved