--- title: "A Man Just Sold Something Truly Horrible as an NFT" description: "Brooklyn-based film director Alex Ramírez-Mallis's NFT called \"One Calendar Year of Recorded Farts\" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like." date: "2021-03-19" modified: "2021-03-19" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/man-sold-horrible-nft" categories: - "Blockchain" - "Future Society" - "NFTs" tags: - "blockchain" - "ethereum" - "nft" - "nfts" --- # A Man Just Sold Something Truly Horrible as an NFT ![Brooklyn-based film director Alex Ramírez-Mallis's NFT called "One Calendar Year of Recorded Farts" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.]() *\Image: Victor Tangermann\* In only a matter of weeks, NFTs have gone from [works produced by renowned digital artists]() to brands shamelessly cashing in on the trend, offering up [meaningless GIFs of toilet paper]() and pixelated JPGs of pizza slices. And while some artists are selling [elaborate pieces of digital art at Christie's](), some are aiming a little lower than that. In the latest entry of "NFTs that have simply gone too far," a man from NYC has decided to sell recordings of his own intestinal gas — his "farts," colloquially speaking — the *[New York Post]()*[ reports](). Brooklyn-based film director Alex Ramírez-Mallis's NFT, called "[One Calendar Year of Recorded Farts]()" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It's a series of, well, fart recordings, with inventive names such as "The Tony Hawk Special Edition" and "Fart #0666." The [entire edited audio file]() is an uninterrupted spree of emissions that goes on for 52 long minutes. The top bid for the collection is a cool 0.2 ether, or roughly $360. The recordings are also available individually, and one of Ramírez-Mallis's flatulent audios has already been sold for $85 or 0.05 ether. "If the value increases, they could have an extremely valuable fart on their hands," he told the *Post*. The ridiculousness of the NFT trend didn't fly over the film director's head. "The NFT craze is absurd — this idea of putting a value on something inherently intangible," he told the newspaper. "These NFTs aren’t even farts, they’re just digital alphanumeric strings that represent ownership." **H**e may have a point. Many NFTs currently being sold on the most popular exchanges are simple files that live on the Ethereum blockchain, but don't actually include the art itself. The token is [simply a link to where the NFT is being stored](). In other words, if Ramírez-Mallis were to move his fart recordings to a different server, the NFT holders would likely have very little recourse and be left, well, without a fart NFT. "There’s that old saying, 'Why don’t they just frame the money?'" Ramírez-Mallis told the *New York Post*, "and this really is the embodiment of that." **READ MORE:** [NYC man sells fart for $85, cashing in on NFT craze]() \[*New York Post*\] **More on NFTs:** *[NFTs Have a Huge Persistence Problem]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()