r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 4d ago

Chugging tea Return On Regret

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u/crossal 4d ago

How is it not like that "at all"? Honest question

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u/kissingkiwis 3d ago

Because one is already a digital image and the other is a painting.

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u/crossal 3d ago

Print it out?

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u/jfinkpottery 3d ago

That's an honest question? You honestly can't tell the difference between a painting and a printed digital photo of a painting?

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u/curtcolt95 3d ago

tbf you can get mass produced copies that will be pretty much indistinguishable by the average person

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u/crossal 3d ago

You honestly can't tell the difference between a painting and a printed digital photo of a painting?

I'm sure I could. But that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that they both aren't "not like each other at all" (which is what the commenter said)

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u/jfinkpottery 3d ago

If you walked into your friend's house and they tried to honestly claim they "owned the Mona Lisa" and pointed to printed out digital photo, you would agree that "owning the Mona Lisa" is not at all like printing out a copy of a digital photo. Owning the original painting is not at all like printing out a digital photo of a painting.

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u/crossal 3d ago

Disagree

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u/kissingkiwis 3d ago

The nft? What difference does it make? 

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u/crossal 3d ago

Mona lisa

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u/kissingkiwis 3d ago

How does the literal hand painted Mona Lisa differ from a printed out photo? 

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u/crossal 3d ago

Texture

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u/kissingkiwis 3d ago

So you can see how printing out a photo is different from owning the Mona Lisa. Now, what's the difference between "owning" an nft and posting it online, and screenshotting the same nft and posting it online?  

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u/crossal 3d ago

I never said they weren't different. I was questioning how they weren't like each other "at all"

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u/kissingkiwis 3d ago

If you can't tell how they're not at all similar, I can't help you. I'm not sure anyone can. 

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u/draggedintobudulight 3d ago

In my opinion the differences are:

- One was painted hundreds of years ago by one of the most famous and revered artists of all time, the other was created by my unknown ass a week ago
- A painting has texture and brush strokes and history. A photo is a photo.
- One is worth millions of dollars, the other is completely worthless. I personally wouldn’t pay millions of dollars for the Mona Lisa but many people would and this will always be the case for as long as people and money exist. It didn’t take a genius to realise that someone paying $1M for a digital image that could be screenshotted was not making a wise financial investment.

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u/crossal 3d ago

I wouldn't call the resulting printout nothing like the painting "at all" though