After moan-worthy commercials featuring Matt Damon selling cryptocurrency during NFL games, Marvel Studios star Brie Larson has become the latest celebrity to get into NFT gaming and she’s been greeted with immediate backlash. The 32-year-old actress posted on Twitter earlier today that she purchased an NFT from the Flower Girls collection, a series of 10,000 NFTs and which notes that a portion of all sales are donated to “a range of children’s charities”. Despite that message, Larson’s revelation that she bought one upset Marvel fans and they made it clear to her.
It should be noted that the OpenSea platform, one of the largest NFT marketplaces in the US, shows that Larson bought his NFT yesterday for 0.725 ETH, which comes out to around $2,700, but has also already transferred ownership of the NFT to another. user. However, Larson still keeps a handful of other NFTs in his own collection.
Over the past few months, several celebrities and companies have attempted to jump on the growing popularity of NFTs and cryptocurrencies, including Marvel and DC Comics, which have created more mainstream popularity. and worsening climate problems. In a detailed explanation on the subject, Gizmodo writes: “Without major overhauls to how tokens are created and sold, critics warn, this could ultimately help impose untold horrors on the biosphere and, by extension, on humanity.” You can read more about it here.
Dogecoin creator Jackson Palmer previously set the record straight on the coin meme last year, tweeting that the biggest NFT and crypto rush is “exploiting a web of shady business relationships, buying influencers and media paying to perpetuate a cult “get-rich-quick” funnel designed to extract new money from financially desperate and naive people.”
With all that in mind, here’s what Marvel fans had to say in response to Larson’s NFT tweet.
