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- ‘Disaster Girl’ Zoe Roth’s devilish smile became an internet hit
- A regular feature her memes were repurposed for different parodies
- Parodies associated her with expressing one’s gain from someone else’s ill-luck
There is an old saying- “Nero fiddles while Rome burns” and denotes someone doing something irresponsible during a tragedy. Something similar happened when a father had shot his daughter smirking in front of a house on inferno in 2005. Little did her father realize that he was doing something which would generate $500,000 (roughly Rs. 3.7 crores) to fund his daughter’s college.
The girl shot into the limelight, and her picture smirking in front of a burning house soon became a regular feature on various Internet Memes. Gadgets 365 reports that ‘Disaster Girl’ Zoe Roth Turns Her Meme Into $500,000 NFT, and the auction was carried out on Foundation App. She will retain the copyright over the NFT.
The little girl in question is Zoe Roth, and the picture clicked by her father shows her standing in the foreground, smirking at a burning house. The little girl made almost $500,000 by selling an original copy of the meme as a non-fungible token (NFT).
An Instant Star
‘Disaster Girl’ as she was known, Zoe Roth was seen in the picture smirking almost devilishly before a house on fire. Gadgets 365 reports, she became a regular feature, and her memes were repurposed for thousand parodies.
These parodies tried to express one’s gain from someone else’s ill luck. She was shown in front of a sinking Titanic, the Hiroshima atomic bombing, and even with former President Barack Obama when he was monitoring the operations by Seals to kill Osama Bin Laden.
Disaster Girl linking to tragedy unfortunate
The girl had nothing to do with the burning house since it was a controlled fire, and the firemen were even sharing the hose with kids as per a report by the New York Times. However, her story has come to a pleasant ending, and the money raised by auctioning the original copy of the meme as a non-fungible token (NFT) will secure a career for the little girl.
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