Īmory: What does it feel like to say that out loud? Have you have you owned that? I am the disaster girl. I'm a recent college graduate from North Carolina and I'm also the disaster girl meme. And today, we’re talking about how sometimes, a meme turns into money.Īmory: Which happened for Zoë relatively recently, when the NFT of her meme sold for a record-breaking amount, although she ultimately didn’t benefit quite as much from that as headlines might lead you to believe. We’re coming to you from WBUR.Boston’s NPR station. And you’re listening to a bonus episode of Endless Thread, in our memes series. That's the real question.īen: You are a disaster. Then you've got a tip and it’s something like eight.īen: Until those student loans kick in, I say live your life.Īmory: How many lavender oat milk lattes can you get for your NFT money? But you know, the lavender is a dollar, the oat milk’s a dollar. But it usually ends up being like seven dollars so maybe I should shift away. Zoë: My go-to order is a lavender oat milk latte until I find something better, that's what I order. She’s not the type to blow the money all on bottle service in a couple of nights, or take it all in cash and light it on fire, and then smirk while it burns, just because she can.īen: I mean, she’s still even careful when it comes to her coffee. The way Zoë is paying off her loans? Well, that’s thanks to a recording studio in Dubai, who paid a considerable amount in cryptocurrency for an NFT of Zoë’s face.īen: And now, Zoë can let loose a little.Īmory: But not that loose. Zoë: “I don’t understand what you’re saying.”Īmory: But.this isn’t a story about how to pay off your student loans through good ol’ fashioned hard work, saving and pragmatic language learning. And she kept a job at a restaurant.īen: And she studied Chinese, so she has some actual marketable skills. She shaved off a whole year of that sweet in-state tuition by graduating in three years instead of four. Zoë Roth: Yeah, I’m thinking about moving to Hawaii or something for, like, a few months.Īmory: She graduated from a public, in-state school: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the same town where she went to elementary and high school. You forgot that one.īen: That always works, yeah, that’s a good move.Īmory: Well, a woman named Zoë Roth is about to pay off her student loans at the age of 21. Yeah, advice like, save on rent and live with your parents.Īmory: Or, hey, cool it on the avocado toast, will ya? Skip Starbucks and brew your coffee at home.īen: Yeah, the advice is kind of ridiculous and totally irreplicable - like, get in a freak accident and use the money from your legal settlement to pay off Freddie Mac.Īmory: Or be born to very wealthy parents. ‘Cause in my life it took 40 years.īen: No, I’m just kidding. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text.Īmory Sivertson: You know those stories about how some enterprising young person paid their student loans in record time?īen Brock Johnson: No, no I don’t. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. This content was originally created for audio. Last April, it even joined the series of memes purchased as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, by user this bonus episode of our meme series, we hear more about how the photo came to be, how it just might help Zoë pay off her student loans, and who really started that fire. That photo would later spread like wildfire as the internet meme "Disaster Girl." Twelve years later, the photo is still used all the time. Zoë Roth was four years old when her dad took a photo of her smiling mischievously in front of a burning house. Most of us hate the photos our parents take of us.
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