On paper, being a billionaire sounds great, doesn’t it? Having unlimited funds for any kind of fun you want to have is cool. Using your fortune to help the less fortunate is noble.
Hell, waking up on a Tuesday and deciding you want to buy a super yacht, sail around the world three times and power it with a gas furnace that burns $100 dollar bills is a possibility.
You can damn near do anything you want.
But what if you’re social game was so lame you make Bill Gates circa 1982-1991 look like George Clooney circa 1995-2006?
Well, again, you’re a billionaire with unfair advantages over almost everyone on the planet, including the ability to purchase the NFT of one of the world’s top super-models…
Emily Ratajkowsi is a woman who knows how to take control.
Her career started out in modeling, and the San Diego native soon became one of the top super models on the planet, and a regular in Sports illustrated’s annual Swimsuit Issue.
She’s also an actress, and appeared in a supportive role in the 2015 movie “Entourage,” and followed it up with an impressive starring role in the 2019 film “Lying and Steeling.”
Ratajkowski is also a savvy and successful entrepreneur, proving that with her recent sale of an NFT of her posing in front of a shot she did for Sports Illustrated back in 2014.
Ratajkowski auctioned the NFT off through Christies, with the sale price rising to $175,000.
Here’s how Ratajkowski described her decision to make the image available.
“The digital terrain should be a place where women can share their likeness as they choose, controlling the usage of their image and receiving whatever potential capital attached. Instead, the internet has more frequently served as a space where others exploit and distribute images of women’s bodies without their consent and for another’s profit. Art has historically functioned similarly: works of unnamed muses sell for millions of dollars and build careers of traditionally male artists, while the subjects of these works receive nothing. I have become all too familiar with this narrative, as chronicled in my 2020 essay for New York Magazine, Buying Myself Back.
“NFTs carry the potential to allow women ongoing control over their image and the ability to receive rightful compensation for its usage and distribution.”
This would seem to be a no-brainer for other models to find a fast and reliable new revenue stream, since many have been the subject of iconic photos in their career.
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