Why You Should Screenshot NFTs Instead Of Buying Them

First things first, if you don't know what an NFT is, it stands for a non-fungible token. It's basically what all the rich kids are buying nowadays. One NFT is a picture, generally of poor quality, that can be downloaded on your computer if you pay up. The value of said NFT varies with the cryptocurrency market. You can also right click or double click on the image and click "save image as" in order to get it on your computer. You can pay the amount it would take to pay a down payment on a top-notch Tesla for the concept of owning a link to a poorly drawn lion, then sell that concept for the down payment of a small house to someone else for big bucks. You never actually own the poorly drawn lion you paid thousands of dollars for, just the right to say you own it without getting sued by the creators. This sounds great and all, but...

1. Everyone, panic!

The amount of energy the average NFT produces is about 211 kilograms of carbon dioxide, which, put into perspective, is  if you were to drive a gas-powered car with pretty subpar fuel efficiency driven for a few hundred miles. This kind of sucks or everyone, especially when you realize there's over a hundred thousand different NFTs in existence, be it on someone's computer or on sale, and that number is extremely rapidly growing. You are going to kill us all if you legitimately buy an NFT.

2. Hey, kids! Do you want to support money laundering?

When a drug dealer wants to use his illegally obtained money, they need to make it look legal. So they go to their team and ask them to do something to make it look legal. In the NFT industry, if someone goes up and say, "I'll take that," it doesn't matter how they got their money, just as long as they have it. They can then sell off that NFT for a higher price to not only make the money look legit, but also make more money than they already had. You could be giving a million dollars to drug dealers and not even know about it if you bought an NFT instead of doing the "save image as" trick. Isn't that a terrifying thought?

3. You tried so hard, you got so far. In the end, it doesn't even matter!

So picture this. You remortgage your house, sell your car, do anything for money. After all that, you finally got an NFT that costs 22 million dollars! Now you can sell it off for 50 million dollars and get everything back! Wait, Elon Musk just tweeted? "I better read what it says!" you say to yourself. The tweet reads 'lmao nfts are wack.' Going to check on the value of your NFT, you notice something... The value dropped down to 1 million just like that! Now selling it for such a price would seem like a scam since the potential buyers could get the same value from a 1,000 dollar NFT. You've lost everything. This could happen to you if you legitimately buy an NFT.

So why risk all this when you can just do this? As a matter of fact, people who screenshot NFTs rather than buying them are scientifically proven to be cooler in every way, shape, and form. Don't look that one up. I'll be seeing you, right clickers!

So? If you want to make money that badly, start investing in Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

NFTs = Tulip bulbs...