The girl from the famous meme ‘Disaster Girl’ sells her image on NFT for more than 400,000 euros

Zoë Roth, the 22-year-old American famous for her meme of the smile in the house on fire in 2005, has auctioned her meme on NFT for more than 400,000 pounds

Source: Antenna 3 News

Zoë Roth , the protagonist of the famous meme known as the ‘Disaster Girl’, in which a girl appears smiling «ironically» in front of a burning building, has sold her image in a NFT form. NFT is a technology that guarantees the authenticity of a digital file in the form of a work of art.

Roth is 22 years old and when he was only five years old he became a well-known face on the Internet and social networks. In 2005, her father took a photo of her smiling in front of a building that was being devoured by flames , and the photo became so popular that she was baptized as ‘Disaster Girl’ and became an icon meme. They are used in front of different catastrophes for humorous purposes.

This meme has been sold as an NFT in exchange for 180 units of the Ether cryptocurrency , valued at 415,000 pounds. The buyer of this famous image is 3F Music, a music studio located in Dubai and that in the last year has bought other famous memes such as ‘The psychopathic bride’, for more than 300,000 pounds and ‘The NYT metacolumn on NFT’, for more than 420,000.

Despite the image sale’s, the Roth family retains copyright to the work and will receive 10% of the proceeds from future sales.

Before the auction, Zoë Roth did some research with the subject of another meme, Kyle Craven, known on the internet and social media as ‘Bad Luck Brian’, who advised her to sell his work just as others had done recently.

In the same way, NFTs format has been used to sell digital artwork by the artist Beeple for 69 million euros, while the Japanese video game studio SEGA has already announced that it will sell images and the soundtrack of its classic video games as works of art .