Mark Zuckerberg to Sell NFT of Little League Baseball Card (And You Thought He Couldn’t Get Any More Embarrassing)

Today in desperate attempts to stay relevant, Instagram has launched a new feature that involves connecting your digital wallet to your account so you can post NFTs and digital collectibles. If this sounds like innovation, it’s not. It’s more of an attempt to stop the bleeding at Meta, which is suffering from slow growth, a hiring freeze, and a plummeting stock price. Still, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is staying optimistic, and is ridiculously excited about moving into the NFT space.

In order to promote the new Instagram feature that nobody asked for, he decided to hawk his very own Little League baseball card. The original will be auctioned off and an NFT of the card will go up for sale as well.

“In honor of expanding digital collectible NFTs to 100 more countries on Instagram and launching new integrations with Coinbase and Dapper, I’m sharing my soon-to-be NFT old little league baseball card, which someone recently found and sent to me…” he captioned the Instagram post.

Here comes the creepy part. Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even the one in possession of the Little League baseball card. His camp counselor was. Yup, in 1992 little Zuck was 8 years old when he gifted the card to his camp counselor, Allie Tarantino. She asked him to sign it, then kept it all this time and is now selling it. (Eww…)

“Mark was one of my campers and one day he came in with this card and gave it to me — I was stunned that he was on it!” she was quoted as saying in an Instagram post for Metropolis Comic Connect. “I had never seen a Little League baseball card before, so I asked him to sign it for me. I never could have guessed what amazing things he would do!”

We’ll just leave that there.

For the NFT fanatics out there to whom this news sounds exciting, here’s the official statement from Meta about how the new feature works:

“We now support wallet connections with the Coinbase Wallet and Dapper, as well as the ability to post digital collectibles minted on the Flow blockchain,” the company explained. “In order to post a digital collectible, all you need to do is connect your digital wallet to Instagram. As of today, we support connections with third-party wallets including Rainbow, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Coinbase Wallet and Dapper Wallet coming soon. Supported blockchains at this time include Ethereum, Polygon and Flow. There are no fees associated with posting or sharing a digital collectible on Instagram.”

If this “advancement” is received with the same enthusiasm (or lack thereof) of other recent changes at Instagram, we have as much hope for Meta’s future as we do for Zuckerberg’s pro-baseball career. Swing and a miss, Zuck.

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