“Disaster Girl” is now a non-fungible token (NFT), a unique digital signature, which allowed it to be sold like a piece of art. “I’m a part of history,” said Zoe Roth, now 21, who first ...

The market for ownership rights to digital art, ephemera and media known as NFTs, is exploding. All NFTs, including the “Disaster Girl” meme Ms. Roth just sold, are stamped with a unique bit ...

NFTs are most often used to buy, trade and collect works of digital art. As Disaster Girl, Roth belongs to an exclusive club of meme archetypes, whose stories of accidental notoriety are being ...

Some examples of NFT memes include the Nyan Cat, the Disaster Girl and The ... legitimacy of the idea of digital art sales as NFTs. A photo of a young girl with a mischievous smile standing ...