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# Requiem for the NFT

> NFTs were not killed by criticism - they were killed by bad taste. An essay on blockchain art, digital ownership, and the underground that keeps the dream alive.

An essay published 2026-06-20 by FOLK, on why the NFT boom collapsed: not the criticism, not the
technology, but the taste. FOLK ran on that machinery once - the creatures were minted, the game won
a TON Foundation hackathon - and this is the account of walking away from it while keeping the part
that mattered, which was the creatures.

The full text is only published as HTML: https://folk.lol/news/requiem-for-the-nft

Also published as an AT Protocol `site.standard.document` record in did:plc:ijmfftrkmxdxndel5hbxhzn3.

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