I've seen various, numerous warnings of specific methods, perpetrators, and aspects used in NFT scams. They're all the same one really. One big scam. It's quite insulting, how successful, whoever hatched this scam has become - as it required a baked in assumption that there was just enough collective stupidity in our society for it to work.
"In nineteenth-century America the most extreme modernism held that man was made by his environment. In twentieth-century America, without abandoning belief that we are made by our environment, we also believe our environment can be made almost wholly by us.
This is the appealing contradiction in the heart of our passion for pseudo-events: for made news, synthetic heroes, prefabricated tourist attractions, homogenized interchangeable forms of art and literature (where there are no ‘originals,’ but only the shadows we make of other shadows).
We believe we can fill our experience with new-fangled content. Almost everything we see and hear and do persuades us that this power is ours. The life in America which I have described is a spectator sport in which we ourselves make the props and are the sole performers.
"We have used our wealth, our literacy, our technology, and our progress, to create the thicket of unreality which stands between us and the facts of life"
-Daniel Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1962)
