My knowledge of NFTs is pretty limited, but I have to admit it brings a smile to my face whenever someone loses money on them. This week, that person is Seth Green, who is now unable to continue work on a new TV show after the NFT it was based around was stolen.
According to Buzzfeed, the actor and producer was robbed of several NFTs after falling for a phishing scam. This has completely cocked up plans for his new animated TV series which was to include characters from his expansive collection of NFTs.
Here’s a teaser for the show that Seth Green played at VeeCon recently:
When the scammer robbed Seth Green of his NFTs earlier this month, he lost the commercial rights to the show’s cartoon protagonist, a scruffy Bored Ape named Fred Simian, whose likeness and usage rights now belong to someone else. Watching that trailer, it seems the scammer did us all a favour TBH.
Seth says:
“I bought that ape in July 2021, and have spent the last several months developing and exploiting the IP to make it into the star of this show. Then days before — his name is Fred by the way — days before he’s set to make his world debut, he’s literally kidnapped.”
Seth is doing what he can to get the NFT back:
Well frens it happened to me. Got phished and had 4NFT stolen. @BoredApeYC @opensea @doodles @yugalabs please don’t buy or trade these while I work to resolve:@DarkWing84 looks like you bought my stolen ape- hit me up so we can fix it pic.twitter.com/VL1OVnd44m
— Seth Green (@SethGreen) May 17, 2022
Of course, we’ve been in this game long enough to wonder whether this is all a publicity stunt to bring eye balls to the show. If this gets “resolved” soon and the show gets green-lit again, I’m gonna assume this was all part of Seth Green’s master plan. Which would be quite clever because I don’t think anyone had heard of this show until now. I hope it’s for real though because the concept of NFTs makes me sick and I’m pretty sure will go down as the dumbest bubble/scam in history when all is said and done.
For a look at Madonna’s fully nude NFT that includes a horrific NSFW model of her vagina, click HERE.
