Remember the Fyre Festival? Ja Rule gained’t let anybody neglect it.
The rapper behind the notorious 2017 music pageant within the Bahamas that imploded amidst reviews of mismanagement, cancellations, and poor services for attendees who paid 1000’s of {dollars} for tickets, remains to be engaged on different ventures. One such enterprise involves a web-based platform he is part proprietor of that’s internet hosting an public sale for the rights to the tweet concerning the meager cheese sandwich and salad being served to attendees that resulted within the pageant scandal going viral.
The dinner that @fyrefestival promised us was catered by Steven Starr is actually bread, cheese, and salad with dressing. #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/I8d0UlSNbd
— Trevor DeHaas (@trev4president) April 28, 2017
The tweet by Trevor DeHaas is being auctioned on Ja Rule’s Flipkick platform, which estimates it might fetch bids up to $80,000. The cash raised can pay for DeHaas’ every day dialysis and kidney transplant. It is being offered as an NFT, or a non-fungible token, which is a singular proof of possession over one thing that you simply can not usually maintain in your hand, like a chunk of digital artwork, coupon or video. The NFT exists as a one-of-a-kind piece of code, saved and guarded on a shared public alternate. NFTs are growing in recognition and are fetching tens of millions of {dollars}.
The posting for the tweet on Flipkick says:
From an inauspicious dinner, photographer Trevor DeHaas captured essentially the most iconic picture from 2017’s most well-known debacle — the Fyre Festival. Two limp white slices on wheat bread lay, just like the lifeless physique of Icarus, bemoaning the hubris of man. A timeless picture of inestimable cultural import, offered now as a singular NFT.
DeHaas tweeted concerning the public sale as effectively, clarifying that he was behind the sale:
Just to make clear a couple of issues:@jarule just isn’t promoting the cheese sandwich NFT. I’m. @flipkickio which Ja is a associate in, and myself have teamed up to promote the NFT. I do perceive why the media is phrasing it as if Ja is promoting the NFT however that’s not telling the complete story.
— Trevor DeHaas (@trev4president) April 7, 2021
This is extra than simply an NFT sale. The sale additionally consists of the switch of copyright and possession rights to the public sale winner. The copyright and tweet IP has potential to be monetized:
Copyright Infringement-Netflix, MSNBC, and lots of others.
Licensing Deals
Apparel— Trevor DeHaas (@trev4president) April 7, 2021
Lastly the proceeds of this sale will likely be going in the direction of a superb trigger: my medical bills for every day dialysis and my pending kidney transplant.
If you don’t need to bid on the NFT however nonetheless need to assist out right here’s a @gofundme for my medical bills:https://t.co/tbKqLEUBCh— Trevor DeHaas (@trev4president) April 7, 2021
Given that that is at the moment on auction on Flipkick, we charge this declare as “True.”
