The 2007 viral video is famous for formerly being the most viewed video on YouTube. As of December 2020, it had received over 878 million views – and now it’s going under the ‘hammer’.
Howard Davies-Carr, the father of the stars of the video, Harry, who was aged three at the time, and Charlie, aged one, has decided to auction off the nearly 14-year-old clip before deleting the original from YouTube forever.
It is one of the most recognizable viral videos on the social media platform, which the brothers and their father, who filmed the original and posted it online, believe make it worth selling as an NFT.
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are pieces of digital “art” that are sold on the blockchain, with this video to be sold over the Ethereum blockchain, according to the New York Post. The auction for the video will begin on Saturday 22 May, the 14th anniversary of the clip’s upload to YouTube.
If you have yet to see it – watch it right here! At 56-seconds long, it features the brothers sitting in a chair together when Harry puts his finger into Charlie's mouth and gets bitten……we won’t spoil the rest for you!
According to Wikipedia :
Howard Davies-Carr, the father of the boys, said the video was "simply an attempt to capture the boys growing up". While watching the finger-biting scene on his camera after recording it, it "didn't particularly stand out". It was not until he transferred the video onto his computer a few weeks later and played it again that he found it to be comedic.
The Davies-Carr family lives in the United Kingdom. Howard uploaded the video onto YouTube so that it could be watched by the boys' grandfather, who was living in the United States. He chose YouTube because the size of the video file was so big that it could not be sent by email.
The Davies - Carr family, pictured below, were reported in 2011 to have made over £100,000 in advertising revenue from the video. Not too shabby!
