nerdist

Nyan Cat GIF Sold at Auction for $587,000 in Cryptocurrency

In a story that has “2021” written all over it, the crypto art platform Foundation has just facilitated the sale of the legendary Nyan Cat GIF for approximately $587,000. Or, what amounts to $587,000 ...
Mashable

'Nyan Cat' GIF sells for $600K worth of ether and there's definitely no bubble

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Gizmodo

Remastered Nyan Cat Gif Sold for the Equivalent of $587,000 in a Crypto Art Auction

The OG Nyan Cat meme uploaded to YouTube in 2011. Gif: Chris Torres Nyan Cat is turning 10 years old in April (feel old yet?), and to celebrate the anniversary of one of the internet’s most wholesome ...
PC World

Nyan Cat Sneaks Into Spotify’s Latest Update, Puts Kittehs in Your Player

Love it or hate it, the trippy internet sensation Nyan Cat is slowly starting to take over the computing world. If you still haven’t seen the hundreds of variations of the YouTube cat meme (my ...
Hartford Courant

In a growing market for digital art, Nyan Cat — an animated flying feline with a Pop-Tart body — sold for nearly $600,000 at auction

In the 10 years since Chris Torres created Nyan Cat, an animated flying cat with a Pop-Tart body leaving a rainbow trail, the meme has been viewed and shared across the web hundreds of millions of ...
Cartoon Brew

A Decade-Old Animated Meme Has Just Sold For $600,000. Here’s What That Means For Artists.

You’ve probably seen Nyan Cat, the cantering 8-bit pop-tart cat. Since it was posted online by illustrator Chris Torres in April 2011, the animated loop has racked up more than 185 million views on ...
Business Insider

A cat GIF that became an NFT sold for about $690,000. Its creator explains how its value surged, the tools he used, and how he found the right platform to display his work.

Chris Torres first posted pixelated art of his cat, Marty, in April of 2011. The collection is known as Nyan Cat. When it finally became an NFT, a bidding war took place. But Torres said frequent ...