“I’m selling this song about NFTs as an NFT”, the Tesla CEO wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, where he shared a video to the song. The video has already garnered over 6 million views.
Billionaire Elon Musk bestowed himself the title of ‘Technoking of Tesla’ after unveiling a song on non-fungible token or NFT, with the electronic music track triggering a wide range of memes and jokes online.
NFT is a new type of digital asset that is authenticated by blockchain.
“I’m selling this song about NFTs as an NFT”, the Tesla CEO wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, where he shared a video of the song. The video has already garnered over 6 million views.
The music video features a “Vanity Trophy” orbiting around a golden orb. The track has the word “NFT” on loop, with lyrics like “NFT for your vanity” and “computers never sleep.”
I’m selling this song about NFTs as an NFT pic.twitter.com/B4EZLlesPx
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 15, 2021
The video also features a dog meme, which is based on the Dogecoin cryptocurrency. Musk had recently promoted dogecoin on the social media site, which has caused the prices of the cryptocurrency to go up.
While it is not yet clear whether Musk actually plans to sell the music, or where and when he plans to sell it, netizens had a field day, reacting to the music with memes and jokes.
Take a look at how people reacted to the NFT themed song here:
This song actually slaps, is this dropping on Emo G Records?
— 💸💸💸 (@itsALLrisky) March 15, 2021
— VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 (@VCBrags) March 15, 2021
How about this model instead of NFT’s?? 🚀🚀🚀 pic.twitter.com/82auqEYRFh
— Vedant Joshi (@VersaVejo) March 15, 2021
Those diamond hands though~!!!!!
— Jason A. Williams 🚀 (@GoingParabolic) March 16, 2021
Can’t wait for all the remixes
— OpenSea (@opensea) March 15, 2021
This would look good in your collection too pic.twitter.com/JNx0NG8zaL
— Vincenzo Landino 🥬 (@vincenzolandino) March 15, 2021
Finally a reason to collab. 👋
— Bored Elon Musk (@BoredElonMusk) March 15, 2021
I‘m selling this toilet paper as $NFT. I accept only $VET. 100k IMO. pic.twitter.com/Rg5389ffNj
— simplebeatzz ⓥ (@fxbi41636676) March 15, 2021
do you accept magic internet money? pic.twitter.com/BP7qe9pFRz
— Documenting Bitcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) March 15, 2021
— Documenting Ethereum 🧾 (@DocumentEther) March 15, 2021
Collab bro?
— 🌴🦎Oliver Heldens 🐨🕺🏻 (@OliverHeldens) March 16, 2021
I’m selling this screenshot of Elon’s song he’s selling about NFTs as an NFT as an NFT pic.twitter.com/NcQK7N1jdf
— greg (@greg16676935420) March 15, 2021
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