Yeah, can't they get paid in silly cartoon drawings?

I'm laughing at the leading graphic in the article showing a screenshot from OpenSea that says you can buy "extraordinary" NFTs. What the hell is so extraordinary about hundreds of slightly different low-quality caricatures of monkeys? This one has a hat. This one is wearing his hat backwards. This one is chewing bubble gum. I don't understand why anyone thinks this is special.

I don’t get how this is a “gotcha.” That’s like being shocked that people at Black Rock want to be paid in USD and not mutual funds, or employees at Exxon want to be paid in fiat instead of barrels of crude oil. Food, credit card bills, land lords, and utility services demand to be paid in USD regardless of the value of whatever commodity an employer trades.