For him to come in with essentially a JPEG collage and outsell Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dali, I mean, the art market couldn't wrap its head around what we were experiencing.
Now, of course, JPEG is ubiquitous and has served us really well over the last 25 years, but today we know that a number of technologies offer better compression and flexibility.
Ape JPEGs selling for millions of dollars; algorithms pricing and buying homes; 20-something tech workers making " day in the life" TikToks that consisted entirely of them making snacks.
A lot of unsophisticated investors got into this market because they were told by so-called experts that it was going to be the next big thing, and that monkey jpegs were their surefire ticket to financial success.
Regardless of whether or not one believes that NFTs are just JPEGs for the rich and gullible, or digital assets of the future, GameStop can't hide that its blockchain marketplace is its last big bet.
And I found the best way then to get that into Link as a lesson was to go to ChatGPT and ask ChatGPT to convert that JPEG into text, which comes out fairly quickly.
He heard a JPEG Mafia song that had a bunch of loud electric guitar in it, and he found it so captivating that he's just started to teach himself guitar.