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Transgender teenager Victor Langlois first made headlines in June 2021 after his physical artwork and non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, netted $2.16 million at famed New York City auction house Christie’s. The collection, titled “Hello, i’m Victor (FEWOCiOUS) and This Is My Life,” explored his childhood and gender transition.
An NFT is a blockchain-powered unit of data that authenticates ownership of digital objects — images, videos and songs, for example.
Since that headline-grabbing Christie’s sale, Langlois, 19, has garnered even more attention — and sales — in the lucrative world of NFT art. In April, Langlois, who is also known as FEWOCiOUS, sold nearly $20 million of his digital artwork within 24 hours, according to Fortune, which reported that it was the third-largest sale in the history of the NFT marketplace Nifty...
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