Apparently, it merely took a pandemic for the writers behind the animated TV serial S Park to offer their take on nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrencies… and it'south not a positive outlook.

In its "Post COVID: The Render of COVID" special that aired Th, South Park depicted one of the testify'south protagonists, Leopold "Butters" Stotch — also known as "Victor Chaos" — locked away in an insane aviary for years subsequently it's discovered he has a certain power to wreak havoc on the world.

That ability? Gathering investors to put all their money into NFTs. When he manages to go out of his jail cell, the result is comical violence, comparisons to drug utilise and the possible downfall of lodge:

"He escaped once before. In merely a few hours, he managed to go thousands of people to invest in NFTs, just like he almost did you. [...] Another thirty seconds in that room and you would have started considering NFTs as a feasible investment."

Though referencing aspects of the crypto space in mainstream media has become somewhat mutual, South Park — which oft tackles topical problems with a comedic twist — seems to have avoided mentioning token projects with seemingly absurd names for the last x years. Bitcoin (BTC) just made its first appearance on the evidence in Nov, and though everyone in South Park's fictional future of the 2060s still used the cryptocurrency every bit a medium of exchange, they also described it as a "fly-past-nighttime Ponzi scheme."

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Southward Park's vision of a world roughly 40 years from now implies the frenzy around NFT drops is unlikely to subside for many investors. This week, Wikipedia entered the space for the beginning time, selling a tokenized version of the first message posted to its website in 2001 for $750,000. Nonetheless, some NFTs take been auctioned off for millions of dollars and traded for valuable real-earth items, including cars.