Charlie Bit My Finger Will Be Deleted From YouTube After NFT Sells For $760,000

The famous viral video Charlie Bit My Finger is being deleted from the internet as its owners sold the video as a non-fungible token (NFT) for more than $760,000.

The user mememaster opened the bidding at $99,999, and after a series of increases, someone with the username 3fmusic paid $760,999 to purchase the video as an NFT. The video itself remains available on YouTube, but it's been unlisted. Presumably there is a holding period for now before it's deleted forever and always.

The winner of the auction now gets to film a new parody version of the video with Harry and Charlie, who are now teenagers. Their father, Howard, told Business Insider that their family benefitted financially from the video through the YouTube Partner Program.

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