On this week's on the media, where art, internet, culture, and money converge, some see a bull market.

Others see bull.

Charlie bit made.

Ow!

This famous viral video has been auctioned off overnight as a non-fungible token or an NFT.

I do not pretend that most of the art being traded as NFTs is the Mona Lisa.

That's the kind of the thing in crypto.

Sometimes it's like the dumber the investment, the better it is.

Why is that?

Because the community is around sort of flexing.

It's the more useless thing you can throw your money at, like the bigger status of it is.

We could say the bubble will burst as they inevitably do, but NFTs are already too big to

fail.

You can call it a scam all you want, but at the end of the day, here's how a market works.

If you buy something and somebody is willing to pay more for it than you, then you can make

money.

A much-needed primer on the world of NFTs coming up.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

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