Posted on 12/16/2022 1:32:35 PM PST by Timber Rattler
Over the last 24 hours, fans of ex-President Donald Trump have sat huddled in their chairs, waiting with bated breath for a supposed announcement the once tweeter-in-chief promised would blow their socks off. He posted a video to his Truth Social page showing an image of him in a kind of superhero garb, sporting pecs he most certainly does not have, as laser beams shoot from his eyes. What could this mean? What apocalypse was coming?
On Thursday the grand surprise was finally revealed and it was nothing but another horrific NFT project that, in Trump’s words, featured “amazing ART of my Life & Career!” These “digital trading cards” are indeed just another cash grab NFT project, but the low quality images and the company in charge of the project are a more complicated enigma.
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The images were so lazy that based on reverse image searches they were edited photos scraped off the internet. It’s unclear if they were edited by hand or perhaps crafted using AI image generation, though the one image of Trump in hunter garb bears a very distinct resemblance to waders crafted by Banded, a hunting apparel company.
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Things get even stranger when looking at the company that’s running the auction. The company, NFT INT LLC, lists its address to a kitschy strip mall in Utah that contains a few shops and restaurants, a dry cleaners, as well as a UPS store. As Gizmodo has previously reported, companies affiliated with attempts to buy Trump’s favored social media platform Truth Social have had similar arrangements by being based out of a UPS Store mailbox.
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I don’t really care. But this is all so strange that I sort of think there is something going on behind the scenes. I have no idea what that might be.
Seems like they’re trying to assert that being depicted as wearing someone’s clothes violates a copyright on the design of those clothes. Pretty far out there.
The MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT was just so plain stupid that there’s no need to try to make it seem worse.
I think this is funny, in a fully intended way.
There’s no “there,” there, with this. It’s just another way to fund raise, like the Trump straws or the Trump wooden train, people have bought.
Rumor is that the bulk were purchased by someone that owed Trump a favor. This is just a neat secret way to launder some nefarity.
Looks like the Libs and GOPe are mad they didn’t come up with the idea first. But who would buy virtual Biden “Traitor Cards” or Jeb Bush guacamole bowls for $99?
Doesn’t matter they are all sold. They’ll be a good investment.
Show us on the Trump doll where he hurt you.
Weird, just book hotel rooms. No need to do the hunter painting op.
It’s like getting a leg lamp with a torn fishnet!
Oh my, a rumor you say. Is that what you accept as truth, or are you yet another Deep State stooge spreading false rumors?
In 2015 or so do you remember Trump wine and Trump steaks? I think there was a line of ties and polo shirts too. It’s all good to me.
Kyle Barr writes like a spurned lover.
>> A photo of clothes is copyrighted. <<
“Appear to use” = there’s no unique identifier to prove the case. They’re basically just saying, “Hey! Those look like the same clothes in the same position that this store photographed! I bet it’s the same photo!”
Adding a background doesn’t make the photos fair use, since this is an NFT, not a non-profit commentary. (Sadly, Free Republic was the test case for proving that if you derive ANY income, it’s not fair use.) But the LACK of any context for the clothes in the original imagery means there’s either electronic identification or there’s not. And if the “journalists” suspect there is, but don’t know, then they need to shut up until they find out.
Trump wine and Trump steaks weren’t part of his presidential campaign, and he didn’t tease them as a “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!” They were simply a small part of how Trump got very wealthy.
I’m not suggesting any in particular. Could be a number of things I suppose.
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Trump said it best...We need a SUPERHERO.
Trust the pkan
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