On April 26, 2022, A very famous NFT artist tried to sell my "Steampunk Pilot Seat" which was sold on Sketchfab, without any work of his own, for roughly 1.5 million dollars. The seat itself was sold by me on SketchFab for 35$.

On April 27th it led to a wave of indignation, ridicule, anger but also amusement, mockery and a lot of humour and memes. As the damaged artist, who until then had nothing to do with NFT's, I experienced tremendous support from the circles of the NFT community, for which I am incredibly grateful. The community - you - did not look away and let the deal happen and pointed out very loud and clear your moral values.

On 29 April 2022, Kaprekar bought The Chair for 11ETH on SuperRare, which was equivalent to $31,600 at the time. Since then, The Chair has been remembered by many people - not as a piece of furniture or a painting, but rather as an event, a community and a stance against the exploitation of other artists' work.

So let's not get stuck in hate and let's focus on the positives. Let's make sure this doesn't happen again and that artists are not completely vulnerable on the internet and can sell their work with a good feeling without fear of being exploited.

Let's see "The Chair", which was never meant to be what it is today, not as an object of hate and anger, but as a sign that good can grow out of negative if enough people stand together and don't look away.

You can find the whole story here: https://twitter.com/VWGAMEDEV/status/1519055275864514560

• Valentin