Jimmy Fallon and Paris Hilton discuss their love for NFTs. Courtesy of the Tonight Show.
on Jimmy Fallon plugging the Bored Ape Yacht Club. “We’re part of the same community, we’re both Apes,” she said to Fallon in her quintessentially disaffected voice.. As the art world tries to reconcile what its relationship to the crypto-space is, so are celebrities, and both Hilton and Fallon have changed their Twitter profile photos from the Bored Apes that once united them. Although, to be fair, both maintain the “.
Fallon’s change came unceremoniously, with nary a Tweet addressing his sailor-capped Ape being swapped with an old-school, analog selfie of the comedian. There’s an added sense of irony in the timing too, since the NFT NYC convention is currently going on near Times Square, just around the corner from his stage at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.viral Tweet
Is that why Snoop, Eminem, and tons of other big music celebrities just performed at ApeFest? I understand traditional art is concerned about money flowing to digital NFTs, but no need to FUD misleading propaganda. Room enough for both.