So there's this wild story from back in 2022 that still blows my mind when I think about it. This Indonesian kid named Ghozali Ghozalu basically took selfies of himself sitting at his computer every single day for four years straight. Like, 933 photos of just him in front of his monitor, no fancy setup, no professional gear. He originally planned to compile them into a video for his college graduation, but then he had this idea to turn them into NFTs instead. He listed them on OpenSea in January 2022, pricing each NFT selfie at just 0.001 Ethereum, which was like three bucks at the time.

Here's where it gets insane. Within literally a few days, this collection called Ghozali Everyday went viral. People were going absolutely crazy for these basic selfies. The floor price shot up to 0.9 ETH, meaning some of these NFT selfies that cost pennies were suddenly worth thousands of dollars. In just three days, the trading volume hit 314 Ethereum coins, over a million dollars. The whole thing felt like a meme, honestly. Some people compared it to Beeple's famous work that sold for 69 million at Christie's, except this was the complete opposite of polished. These were genuinely just casual selfies against a messy background.

What made it even crazier was that celebrities got involved. Indonesian chef Arnold Poernomo, who has millions of followers, started promoting Ghozali's NFT selfies and even used one as his Twitter profile picture. That celebrity push basically catapulted the whole thing into the stratosphere. People who got in early were seeing returns of like 78,000 percent. The most expensive NFT selfie in the series ended up selling for an absolutely ridiculous amount.

Of course, some people started digging into whether there was manipulation behind the scenes. Turns out a couple of addresses bought up huge amounts of these NFT selfies at the original 0.001 ETH price within hours, which raised some eyebrows about whether the whole thing was being artificially hyped. But regardless, Ghozali went from a broke college student to a millionaire in basically three days, just from uploading his selfies.

The whole situation was wild because it showed how unpredictable the NFT market could be. You could have the most basic, unglamorous content, but if the timing was right and you got the right people talking about it, things could absolutely explode. His government even congratulated him but also reminded him to pay taxes on his newfound wealth. It's honestly one of those stories that perfectly captures what the NFT space was like during that crazy period, where anything could become valuable overnight.