A Silly NFT Story That Will Make You Smile

Many non-fungible tokens (NFT) are a heated subject. But not as heated as Trippy Buttholes, an NFT collection, the story of which is nothing short of entertaining.

 

Launched in 2022, it is among the most bizarre NFT collections ever made. Why? Well, it's really simple: all it depicts is literally your butthole. And mind you: those orifices were freshly minted on October 7, 2022, so they’re no longer as fresh.

Created by Sidney-based Jason, this digital “art”, according to him, is something that really needs to challenge the existing, perhaps outdated, artworks by Michelangelo and the like.

“I’ve always loved irreverence in art, and I like to push back on what’s called ‘classical art’ and have a bit of go at what constitutes that as well,” Jason told Chainsaw in early 2023.

Admittedly, Jason indeed had a go at what art is — more so since, in the contemporary world, the word occasionally encompasses feces on public display — but we’re not sure it quite worked out. 

In that Chainsaw article, the author stated that he managed to sell roughly nine pieces of his NFTs, which prompted Jason to examine new avenues to monetize the idea.

We assume that this artist from Austalia, who goes by the name of JPArtNfts on Twitter, is among the pioneers, as he dubbed Jason’s collection “frigin beautiful” and promised to “definitely get another one soon”.

But unfortunately, not many decoded the deep meanings of Jason’s art the way JPArtNfts did. And so, the avant-garde artist decided to look for alternative ways of promoting his talent for coloring pictures of orifices in Photoshop.

“This is when I thought of the girls doing OnlyFans. And I started thinking more about the idea of utility. You’re not just buying someone’s butthole; it goes beyond that. I thought, well, let’s get them to add a bundle or an additional collection gift, like gift packs that comes along with my NFT’s as a side-brand of the stuff they’re doing already,” he said in the same interview.

As a result, Jason partnered with three OnlyFans creators “to launch a new, more personalized set of collections.” They included, among others, Little Luna, Jasmine, and NOY, all of which are available on Twitter. All three also ended up providing content for Jason’s frontier-pushing digital artwork, which praised these “amazing women”, calling them “open-minded future thinkers” and “definitely nft  pioneers...making history!”

Now, you might be wondering how that endeavor worked out for history-makers.

Well, honestly…not too well. 

According to the OpenSea data, the Trippy Buttholes collection still has only nine owners, and there is plenty of artwork up for grabs. Some are called basic, others rare, and some are described as black.

All of them, however, share the same quality: colorful, psychedelic buttholes.

The ones posted by Jason’s collaborators, specifically Anouruk, likewise proved to be in very limited demand. According to her OpenSea handle, which features ‘amazing’ content, there’s only been one owner of her orifice thus far. We don’t really know who it is, but we don’t care that much either. We hope, however, that that person is satisfied with the purchase.

Judging by Trippy Buttholes’s activity on Twitter—or rather, his lack of it — the artist’s promise from 2022, where he said that “in 2023 I want to do a fully doxxed BUTTHOLES OF TWITTER! collection, nft/crypto version”, eyeing big names on Twitter, did not fully work out.

Is it the end of his artistic journey, or is he simply taking a pause to garner some inspiration from “I painted this with my vagina” artists to pivot his art?

Guess, we will have to wait to find out.

Previously, Gagarin News shed light on sex and the metaverse.