Disaster Girl

Table Of Content

• MEMES, Bonus: Zoë 'Disaster Girl' Roth
• I became a meme: Confessions from viral social-media sensations
• 'Disaster Girl,' The Stuff Of Memes, Sells For Nearly $500,000 As NFT
• Jeannie Mai claims 2-year-old daughter found estranged husband Jeezy’s assault rifle ‘unsecured’ at home
• Nicole Kidman’s AMC ads sparked joy
• Girl Explaining went viral

The image won a contest for JPG Magazine, per News & Observer, It was published in the February/March 2008 issue of the magazine as well as on its website and that led to the image spreading like wildfire (pun intended), Refinery29 reports. On December 18th, 2020, KYM interviewed Zoe as part of their editorial series that follows up on people featured in prominent memes. In the interview, we spoke with Roth to get a glimpse into what it was like growing up with her image plastered all around the internet — even to this day. The photograph of the girl and the burning house was taken by Dave Roth[1] in January 2005[2] during the local fire department's live drill training two blocks away from his home in Mebane, North Carolina. While observing the fire, Dave caught his daughter, Zoe, smiling devilishly juxtaposed against the burning house.

MEMES, Bonus: Zoë 'Disaster Girl' Roth

Often, these memes are part of a genre known as Me IRL memes, and thanks to the subreddit /r/meirl, we've gathered some of these hard-hitting memes for you to enjoy today, or simply for you to feel called out by. Here are the best new unexpectedly relatable memes and tweets from the past month. When she was 4, her dad took a picture of her standing in front of a burning house and a firetruck.

I became a meme: Confessions from viral social-media sensations

According to Kaman's production note, he decided to work on the project in "an attempt to capture how I felt and how those around me felt after the results of the 2016 election. According to Matt Bors, the founder of The Nib, the commissioned artwork had already been completed by the time @GOP decided to tweet the reaction image. The photo won Dave JPG magazine’s “Emotion Capture” contest in 2008, whereupon it set the net ablaze.

'Disaster Girl,' The Stuff Of Memes, Sells For Nearly $500,000 As NFT

Luckily, there is still one thing capable of bringing comfort to the afflicted and wiping our collective hive mind of its existential pathos, and that thing is memes. To condense this explanation as much as I can, basically people started singing 1800s-era sea shanties on TikTok. Some loved it, some prayed for it to end, but good luck ultimately getting any of those shanties out of your head, where they’re likely to have taken up permanent residence. During his halftime set, The Weeknd capably captured what it’s like to frantically search for someone/something/anything.

Jeannie Mai claims 2-year-old daughter found estranged husband Jeezy’s assault rifle ‘unsecured’ at home

As with any currency, the value of Ether fluctuates, but as of Thursday, 180 Ether was valued at more than $495,000. The Roths retained the copyright and will receive 10 percent of future sales. Zoë Roth, now a college senior in North Carolina, plans to use the proceeds from this month’s NFT auction to pay off student loans and donate to charity. The News & Observer reports that a person contacted Roth and her father in February via email and floated the idea of selling the image of Zoe as an NFT. She continues to work as a hostess at an Italian restaurant near the campus of UNC.

Zoë Roth sells 'Disaster Girl' meme as NFT for $500,000 - BBC.com

Zoë Roth sells 'Disaster Girl' meme as NFT for $500,000.

Posted: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 07:00:00 GMT [source]

Nicole Kidman’s AMC ads sparked joy

She's looking back at the camera knowingly, leaving the viewer to suspect she had something to do with this disaster. A clip of Usher from his Tiny Desk performance somehow led to one of the most one-size-fits-all memes of the year, as enterprising social media users turned the singer crooning “watch this” into a response to pretty much anything. Reality holds a crushing weight, one that can only properly be articulated through these memes, and they're helpful in our coping process. It's often hard to describe why, but we typically relate to these memes on another level, even if they're not directly about someone like us. There's just a mood and general vibe about them that makes us say, "Yeah, I felt that."

Heads up that some elements (i.e. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text. Roth noted in the News & Observer interview that her meme is one that has endured.

Determined to capitalize on their internet fame, they turned “Disaster Girl” into an NFT, which is coded in such a way that Roth and her dad can reap 10% of profits whenever it is sold in the future. “A meme is a picture or video with crazy captions that people share widely because they think it’s funny and they can relate to it,” Roth explained to The Post. The meme sold for 180 Ether, a form of cryptocurrency, at a Foundation auction on April 17 to a user identified as @3FMusic.

“I’m a part of history,” said Zoe Roth, now 21, who first ignited the World Wide Web at 4 years old after she was photographed smirking devilishly outside a burning building. “Disaster Girl” is now a non-fungible token (NFT), a unique digital signature, which allowed it to be sold like a piece of art. Search for Disaster Girl didn't begin until October 2008, when the photos were posted to Buzzfeed. Roth has continued to post photos of Zoe on his Flickr[17] account over the years. I didn’t personally get a lot out of #TheSlap memes (too bizarre!), but watching Nyong’o try to remain calm at an extremely, um, eventful Oscars (and not totally nail it, but really, who could?) definitely hit home. It can be hard to have genuine fun with a political meme, but the one where people notice and appreciate the infectious laughter of Vice President Kamala Harris definitely qualifies.

Fire engine sirens were a normal thing for Roth and her family, as they lived down the street from a fire station. On this fateful night, the fire was a controlled burn on a property near Roth's house to clear the land. Her father thought the fire was an opportune time to test out his new camera. The Roth family lived near a fire station in Mebane, North Carolina, and as they watched a house being burned for training, Roth's father, an amateur photographer, took her picture. Before long, people on the internet started photoshopping Roth into photos of catastrophes ranging from the sinking of the Titanic to 9/11 and sharing it on social media sites.

Last month, a JPG file made by a digital artist known as Beeple sold for nearly $70 million. The market for ownership rights to digital art, ephemera and media known as NFTs, is exploding. All NFTs, including the “Disaster Girl” meme Ms. Roth just sold, are stamped with a unique bit of digital code that marks their authenticity, and stored on the blockchain, a distributed ledger system that underlies Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. On August 1st, 2018, the ABC News Twitter feed posted a video of North Carolina Senator Richard Burr referencing the "This Is Fine" meme while discussing Russian interference in United States politics (shown below).

Now, Zoe Roth and her father are laughing all the way to the bank. The Roths just sold the image as an NFT (for an explanation on what NFTs are click here), per Gizmodo. Roth sold her image for 180 Ethereum, which is equal to $473,000 at its current value. The American Girl Doll Café in Los Angeles may be closed (which I know because I may or may not have tried to go there), but at least the memes live on in perpetuity.

You can read some of her non-meme-related work in Fabula Argentea, Danse Macabre, Front Porch Review and more. Then on the early morning of July 26th, political cartoon website The Nib[14] responded to @GOP's tweet with a custom rendition of the original cartoon featuring the Republican elephant in place of the cartoon dog (shown below), illustrated by K.C. Green himself and commissioned by the website for exhibition at an art gallery in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia. This marks a major breakthrough for the photo, which was snapped when Roth and her family lived near a firehouse in Mebane, North Carolina.

In the years since Dave Roth, Zoë’s father, entered it in a photo contest in 2007 and won, the image has been edited into various disasters from history, with Ms. Roth grinning impishly as a meteor wipes out the dinosaurs or the Titanic sinks in the distance. Now, after more than a decade of having her image endlessly repurposed as a vital part of meme canon, Ms. Roth has sold the original copy of her meme as a nonfungible token, or NFT, for nearly half a million dollars. If Zoe had become "Disaster Girl" a decade later, she'd be famous for real. But back in 2008, the people in memes tended to remain anonymous, unlike today when they go on talk shows, start YouTube channels, launch music careers, and make money hand over fist. We're looking at you, Danielle Bregoli, the "cash me ousside how bow dah" girl, per Celebrity Net Worth. Zoe Roth's father entered a number of photo contests with the picture of his precocious-looking daughter in front of the fire.

Zoë Roth was four years old when her dad took a photo of her smiling mischievously in front of a burning house. That photo would later spread like wildfire as the internet meme "Disaster Girl." Twelve years later, the photo is still used all the time. Last April, it even joined the series of memes purchased as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, by user @3FMusic. Back in January 2004, a father snapped a photo of his 4-year-old daughter in front of a burning house down the street from their home in North Carolina. Now, 16 years later, the meme that was born out of that image, called "Disaster Girl," is still going strong.