'Disaster Girl' NFT Sells For Nearly $500,000 : NPR

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• "Disaster Girl" is finally cashing in on her viral fame
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• The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme.
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When she was 4, her dad took a picture of her standing in front of a burning house and a firetruck. She's looking back at the camera knowingly, leaving the viewer to suspect she had something to do with this disaster. When Roth's father showed Zoe the images, he created a history lesson around them to help her understand the significance of the events her photo was in front of, Refinery29 reports. Disaster Girl is a photoshop meme in which an exploitable photo of a smiling girl is superimposed on to images of natural disasters and accidents to imply that she has caused some type of calamity depicted in the background.

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He lost the clothes he had preserved from his sons’ first birthdays. He fears his family wil live with insecurity for the rest of their lives. The new encampment sits directly behind the cramped two-bedroom apartment where Álvarez moved after his house burned.

"Disaster Girl" is finally cashing in on her viral fame

As the copyright holder for the burning house meme NFT, she’ll also get a 10% cut of any future sales of the digital asset. Irfan Khan was a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times from 1996 to 2024. He previously served as a freelance photographer for the publication beginning in 1989. Khan started his career as a commercial photographer in 1973 in Pakistan and moved to Dubai in 1977, where he worked for an advertising agency and at a leading English newspaper.

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On November 9th, TikToker[5] @gakidx posted a Final Fantasy VII edit using the video, garnering over 618,000 views in a month (shown below). The audio became increasingly popularized throughout November 2022. On November 5th, 2022, TikToker[3] @viceguns posted an Undertale animation using the audio, garnering over 1.8 million views in a month (shown below, left). On November 9th, TikToker[4] @panchenko_boche posted a Minecraft animation using the audio, garnering over 3 million views in the same rough span of time (shown below, right).

The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme.

The market for ownership rights to digital art, ephemera and media known as NFTs, is exploding. All NFTs, including the “Disaster Girl” meme Ms. Roth just sold, are stamped with a unique bit of digital code that marks their authenticity, and stored on the blockchain, a distributed ledger system that underlies Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Zoë Roth, now a college senior in North Carolina, plans to use the proceeds from this month’s NFT auction to pay off student loans and donate to charity. An NFT of a video clip of LeBron James dunking recently sold for more than $200,000. Nyan Cat, a popular meme from 2011 that features an animated flying cat, sold for nearly $600,000. Last month, a JPG file made by a digital artist known as Beeple sold for nearly $70 million.

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What started as an innocent snap from Dave Roth, the father of the child in the picture, Zoë Roth, became something bigger as people found the picture amusing. Because it looks like Zoë started the fire and is proud of her accomplishments. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said police identified a vehicle that Azzarello may have used but were still working to locate it. Authorities spoke with his family, who said they didn’t know he was in New York. Online records also show Azzarello worked for Strong Towns, a nonprofit media advocacy group.

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On the same day, u/RebelGirl1323 posted a meme saying the houses are dating to /r/memes,[7] gaining over 42,500 upvotes in the same span of time (shown below, right). For background on the infamous meme, it features Roth with her hair disheveled. She's smirking as if she knows it all, or, more accurately as if she set the fire blazing in the background, per the News & Observer. Fire engine sirens were a normal thing for Roth and her family, as they lived down the street from a fire station. On this fateful night, the fire was a controlled burn on a property near Roth's house to clear the land. Her father thought the fire was an opportune time to test out his new camera.

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But in reality, the fire scene was part of a training exercise for firefighters in Mebane, N.C., near where Zoë and her father, Dave Roth, lived. Roth has continued to post photos of Zoe on his Flickr[17] account over the years.

Though Saqueic’s cousin is in El Salvador, other family members were home when the fire broke out, and they got away without any injuries, he said. Half of the house was destroyed, and his truck was damaged, Diaz said, but he was grateful that his family was able to escape. “The heat was so hot,” his 12-year-old niece, Kimberly Erendira, said. Because of confusion over who was responsible about the waste, the city did not receive notice of the hazard, Elena Stern, senior public information director for the Los Angeles Department of Public Works, said last week.

Opening statements will start Monday in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. The incident occurred shortly after a full jury of 12 people and six alternates had been seated in Trump’s hush money case, the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. Michigan native, Janice Williams is a graduate of Oakland University where she studied journalism and communication. Upon relocating to New York City, she held internships at celebrity news-focused publications including Hollywood Life and Us Weekly. She formerly worked at website Fashion & Style as a reality TV reporter before joining the news desk at International Business Times.

The Roth family lived near a fire station in Mebane, North Carolina, and as they watched a house being burned for training, Roth's father, an amateur photographer, took her picture. Back in January 2004, a father snapped a photo of his 4-year-old daughter in front of a burning house down the street from their home in North Carolina. Now, 16 years later, the meme that was born out of that image, called "Disaster Girl," is still going strong.

Police said his family appeared unaware that he had traveled to New York. CNN showed video of flames engulfing the man’s body as bystanders ran from the rising dark smoke. “He lights himself on fire,” Maddrey said during a news conference Friday afternoon. Thicke thanked officials for all their hard work trying to keep the neighborhood safe. "As we drove to safety, they risked their lives trying to save our home," he wrote. The man, who police said recently traveled from Florida to New York, had not breached any security checkpoints to access the park.

Roth, now aged 21 and a university student, sold the image through Ben Lashes, an NFT, or non-fungible token, entrepreneur who has racked up about $2m in sales for sales including Nyan Cat, Grumpy Cat, Keyboard Cat, Doge, Success Kid and David After Dentist. The image was taken of Roth, then aged four, by her father in front of a burning house in Mebane, North Carolina. Zoë Roth, the woman whose picture was central to the 2005 Disaster Girl meme, has sold the original photo for $473,000 – the latest addition to the cryptocurrency-linked, digital image NFT craze that is sweeping through the art market. The meme sold for 180 Ether, a form of cryptocurrency, at a Foundation auction on April 17 to a user identified as @3FMusic. As with any currency, the value of Ether fluctuates, but as of Thursday, 180 Ether was valued at more than $495,000.