Money and real love

Haiku brings the news: 

 

https://www.businessinsider.co.za/influencer-sold-love-as-nft-dinner-with-mystery-buyer-2021-7 

Here are some of the details: 

• Marta Rentel, a 26-year-old Polish influencer, sold her love as an NFT online for R3.6 million. 
• The buyer, who is currently unknown to Rentel, will also be able to go on a dinner date with her. 
• "Nothing on the internet is physical, it's a part of my online persona," she said.  

Polish influencer made R3.6 million after becoming the first person to sell her love as an NFT (non-fungible token) online. Marta Rentel, who goes by the Instagram handle @martirenti, sold the asset of "digital love" on July 13 to a currently unknown buyer, with whom she will go on a dinner date once the transaction is complete. Business Insider previously described NFTs as "digital assets stored on blockchain technology - the same technology that makes cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin possible."

 As Hunter S. Thompson once said to the 300lb Samoan: "Bad craziness, man."

None of it makes any sense to me - if all you're buying is a dinner out, which you're paying for anyway, am I being naive here?  Is there something in this transaction I can't see, other than her ripping off some silly sod overseas?

And what's this stupid new term "influencer"?  though obviously the term and other inanities are embraced by the corporate world, supposedly to mean some sort of workplace designation, and if we can call societies patriarchal, matriarchal and balanced for want of better terms, then we have clearly gone matriarchal as it's very womanly in the workplace to focus on the position, the title, plus power over others, whereas in a more male dominated workplace of the old type, one did not make a big song and dance about it - it was gauche so to do.

If someone was to say to me that I was "An Influencer", I'd be puzzled and reply that sometimes some things written here influence some people, many times they don't.  No no, says she - you're an Influencer, as in a job title?  It's just total bollox.

Haiku had a comment on all this:

I'm afraid I quite disagree with blanket statements such as 'Facebook friends are real friends' and conversely, that 'there are no real friends online'.  It comes down, completely, to the type of person and how far that person and the others interacted with see it as social friendship.  

I'd say some of our readers see it as quite a social gathering here, aside from the politics, and so do I.  As for actual friendships beyond the blog, I have maybe three or four real life ones and one online one where there are all the traps friendship entails, plus the good things, we each know the fine detail about the other and so on.  There's loyalty there.  

But there's also loyalty on the blog, except that we do keep some details back for security reasons.  I don't dare open up in emails too much because of past issues with betrayal but that doesn't mean there's not an ongoing understanding with good people.  It's not unlike face-to-face life - some of you are much more than acquaintances, even mates, some are far closer.  

I'd say there's the same risk of treachery online as there is in RL.

What this Polish woman is trying on though is bizarre.  Her "love"?  if that's love, I want none ont.  Seems very much to me to be all about money.  And in that vein:

But: