Turns out, the picture seen by Killjoy is an NFT.
Cue Riot scrambling to make clear it was unintentional and say, literally, “Whoopsie!”
NFTs being as controversial and unpopular as they should be, Riot quickly deleted this.
Not beforethe Wayback Machinearchived it.
the German account said ina bilingual statementposted later.
“However, we were not aware that the selected work as an NFT,” they stressed.
“In no way did we intend to include NFTs as part of Killjoy’s work and hobbies.”
NFTs, so poisonous that a company rush to insist that a popular fictional character does not like them.
If you’re lucky enough to have avoided NFTs, allow me to briefly explain.
For exampleKonami sold NFTs of Castlevania pictures and videos for 119,000.
Inside video games, this can be more insidious.
Talk about NFTs in games seems either overhyped or horrible.
Most big companies have yet to leap in,talkingaboutinterestin NFTs but not publicly doing anything.
Aside from Ubisoft, that is, who tried NFT hats and were promptlyshouted at by everyone.
Ubisoft have since said ‘nuh uh ur stupid’.
Riot might have some interest, mind.
That might just be caution, and I suppose I don’t blame companies for considering the idea.
But I do strongly blame them if they follow through.
