Oscars-Themed Chadwick Boseman NFT Creator Apologizes After Backlash

Oscars-Themed Chadwick Boseman NFT Creator Apologizes After Backlash

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88nagp/oscars-themed-chadwick-boseman-nft-creator-apologizes-after-backlash

The late actor and playwright Chadwick Boseman was not awarded the Oscar last night for his performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, as many fans had hoped. Instead, he got another tribute as part of an unofficial Oscars swag bag promo: a garish non-fungible token that renders a gold bust of Boseman’s head in glitzy CGI that sort of looks like an Academy Award.

Critics of the NFT, unveiled this past Saturday by creator Andre O’Shea in a tweet that set off immediate furor, have slammed the animation so hard that the artist today vowed to redesign it before he auctions it on NFT marketplace Rarible later this week.