Too soon?
Well, you might remember how GameStop is selling NFT’s now. And I’ve got to give them a hand, here, they made it a full week and some change without any overt controversies. Unfortunately, they won’t hit the highly desirable 2 week mark. Because one of their NFT’s just so happens to reference the 9/11 picture, “The Falling Man“. And, comparing the two, it’s hard to argue otherwise.
The original description for the NFT read “This one probably fell from the MIR station”, and is part of a collection by Jules of various Astronauts falling through some form of space. Now, you might guess that this was an oopsie on behalf of Jules, and you’d technically be correct, as it’s probably not in the best of taste to reference the death of a man over 20 years ago. But, as Web3 is Going Just Great points out, GameStop’s marketplace is curated; you need to go through a vetting process before the company allows your artwork to become Non-Fungible on their watch.
Which means that someone might have taken a look at this (the process isn’t for individual pieces, so it may not have even come up) and gave it the OK. Yeesh, wouldn’t want to be that guy right now.
On the one hand, it sort of trivializes the death of a real man that existed, and that’s probably not cool for something that’s going on the blockchain. On the other hand, by the mid 60’s, we had more than one comedy set during World War II, one of which took place in a German POW camp. And, courtesy of the late, great Gilbert Gottfried, the ice on 9/11 jokes was broken a mere 17 days after the event. And then followed up with the filthiest version of the filthiest joke ever told. So, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
For what it’s worth, though, the NFT seems to have been delisted as of this writing. Though, the rest of the collection is still up.
Source: Engadget
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