LimeWire is now an NFT marketplace
Here are words you never thought you would hear in 2022: LimeWire is back!
LimeWire trends on Twitter today and age were definitely something no one had on their bingo card. But now Millennials and Zillennials are reminiscent of the days when you infected your computer with a virus just to get that Soulja Boy download, and it’s all because LimeWire has resurfaced.
But with a twist.
Apparently, LimeWire is now a “marketplace for music NFTs.”
In a teaser video, the scene is set as soon as you hear the opening notes of “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” and two children run upstairs after school to log on to LimeWire. They’re burning a CD and it’s like going back to the 21st century.
The video flashes to the present and shows an adult version of the two children who log on to the new LimeWire NFT marketplace and dance to the same Soulja Boy song.
(Although there was no Soulja Boy dance in sight.)
Of course, people on the internet had different reactions to the news (mostly memes).
One of the main aspects of the video people were wondering about was the lack of dancing (properly) to “Crank That (Soulja Boy),” which may have a very real reason behind it.
A Twitter user so“I need you to learn and know the dance because I’m disappointed lol. “
“Not a single soulja boy was cranked in this video,” another person joked.
According to another Twitter user, it is because Soulja Boy owns the rights to the dance itself.
“They could only afford the rehearsal, but not the dance,” the person said soquotes a tweet from 2018 from Soulja himself which explains the copyright.
Meanwhile, people reacted to the irony of LimeWire returning as an NFT service.
One chirping read: “Hard to find anything more fun than known unreliable pirate services [LimeWire] become a marketplace for fraud. “
“Thank God [LimeWire] return. [I’m] I’m tired of how well the computers in my life work, “another person joked.
One user summarized it fits perfectly: “‘[LimeWire] is back, but for NFTs now ‘something so wildly funny and yet it feels so cosmically correct.’
“No longer happy with destroying Grandma’s computer, LimeWire has decided that it will now destroy the world,” another added.
On LimeWire’s official Twitter account, their bio says, “We’re back for good.”
They also boast a new Tweet, “LimeWire returns with full force, with high-profile NFT drops from the world’s best-selling artists.”
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