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A 22-year-old boy makes millions selling his "Selfies" as NFTs
Even the simple act of taking a photo can be big business in non-fungible tokens
A young man of just 22 candles, called Sultan Gustaf Al Ghozali from Indonesia, has generated a stir by going viral both on the network and in non-fungible tokens, by placing for sale "selfies" taken during each day in a period 5 years.
These NFTs, which could not be expected to make a profit in the digital art market, were catapulted by several tweets, thus generating an avalanche effect on Ghozali's publications.
All the "selfies" were sold at a figure multiplied by more than 1000 of its original price, which is the price placed by the same protagonist of these photos uploaded to the "Open Sea" platform. Do not stop reading this article, slide to discover more!
1000 Selfies exposed and 1000 sold
Ghozali has gone viral for posting 1,000 NFTs on his online marketplace profile, "Open Sea." But in this case it is not a painting, or a GIF, or even a 3D model, like the assets that keep us accustomed to non-fungible tokens.
On this occasion, there are many photographs that the young Sultan began to take in front of his computer every day since he was 18 years old.
People who frame their faces annually or daily for different reasons of study or evolution with photographs, it is not something very rare to see. It's rare to see people buy the image for more than $1,000!
What's a little more incongruous is that skyrocketing prices haven't deterred buyers at all, and all 1,000 "Selfies" no longer belong to Ghozali.
This action means that all the NFT "selfies" are listed on the market without being in the young person's profile.
Ghozali did not think his NFTs were valuable assets to the community
The idea of taking pictures of himself from his computer was never done with the intention of even placing them on the non-fungible token market.
Sultan Ghozali himself mentioned that it was to remember his student and graduation days, and that for some reason, after a long time he published them on an NFT asset market.
Upon entering, he created his profile and posted his "selfies" under the name "Ghozali Every day" with a value of $3. Price that for him was enough to add to Open Sea. "Nobody would be interested in just photos of my face" he thought at that moment.
And actually, at the beginning, it could be said that Ghozali did not have in his hands something that could be monetized, since his NFT could not be classified as unique either, because we could find another 999 NFTs that were similar to each other.
But with its overcrowding and virality on the internet, it clearly caused the price of his photographs to rise rapidly. Although the non-monetized value was given by the young man's constancy of taking "selfies" every day continuously.
Now even if his NFTs drop a little more in value, he's already a millionaire, and well known to the community, so we don't expect a Ghozali photo to drop to its starting price of $3 for a long time.
Reasons that led him to raise the prices of his "Selfies"
It should not be so difficult to get an idea of how a young person can become a millionaire just with photos of his face, we have already seen how technology and the community that is on the web behaves, and what situations can be generated to give relevance to a theme.
In this news we see how the Twitter platform enters the subject and gives something to talk about with several recognized users in digital assets. Many commented, sold and crowded the offer of Ghozali's "selfies".
They moved the masses for Ghozali to sell all his NFTs, and the community really supported this young Indonesian, with strong payments with the Ether token.
At this time, Ghozali is the holder of 317 ETH, which was equivalent to a figure greater than $1,000,000 a few days ago, specifically we are talking about $989,604.26 today.
The value of ETH fell a bit due to the volatile and depressing declines that have kept the digital asset market in recent weeks, but the ETH belonging to Ghozali may rise even more in value.
Ghozali already knows what to do with the money obtained
The 22-year-old already has an idea of where to invest the ETH he has earned since the second week of the first month of the year 2022. Aside from being a computer science student, his love for animation runs deep.
And he stated that all his Ethers will be destined as capital for his own animation projects, so he will be able to start in a good way in that market as well.
This lucky young man has had a miracle, which according to him, he took advantage of in a way directed towards the proposed goals.
His NFTs made him earn a lot of money and also become recognized by the community, we hope that in the future he will create new NFTs with some animations of his hand, because we know that the community will support him.
