Earlier this week, a non-fungible token (NFT) of viral YouTube video “Charlie Bit My Finger” sold for $761,000. Following the sale, it initially appeared the original would disappear from YouTube to be "memorialized on the blockchain,” but that won’t be the case.
“After the auction we connected with the buyer, who ended up deciding to keep the video on YouTube,” Howard Davies-Carr, the father of the two brothers who appear in the video, said in an interview with Quartz. “The buyer felt that the video is an important part of popular culture and shouldn’t be taken down.