He said, “When I saw ‘Friendship ended with Mudassir’ being auctioned as NFT, I researched about it and contacted people who could help me auction my meme. It was auctioned for $51,000.Īrsalan followed the meme and found out that the one he had created had more shares and reach. He heard about Pakistan’s first NFT meme auction ‘Friendship Ended with Mudasir’ which took place on July 30 on International Friendship Day. For example, they have created an entirely new digital art industry worth more than $1b by solving the biggest problem artists have faced: copying.Īs a freelancer working in the IT industry, Arsalan knew about NFTs. They have become an increasingly popular tool because of their use cases. You can think of an NFT as a set of fingerprints that are unique. I made … it look that a ghost with angry mood was detected Arsalan Siddiqui They are digital identifiers that can’t be copied. An NFT is stored on a decentralized public ledger that certifies any digital file to be unique.
NFTs are digital codes linked to a blockchain. So, I made a joke out of it by making it look that a ghost with angry mood was detected by it,” he said.
Most of my time was consumed by the part where I had to create face analysis model. “I was working on a face analysis project which had very narrow deadline. Published on December 9, 2020, with the caption ‘When your Face Analysis Model is too accurate’ the meme gained widespread popularity and accumulated more than 131,000 shares and 74000 reactions.Īrsalan Siddiqui told SAMAA Digital that he accidentally created the meme.
The meme created by Arsalan Siddiqui, a 28 years old freelancer from Karachi, was first posted on his personal Facebook account. ‘When your Face Analysis Model is too accurate’ would be the second Pakistani meme to be auctioned as NFT.