Lhe most veteran readers know perfectly well what a come. Perhaps the most veteran remember these collectibles in their oldest editions, such as those of the Looney Tunes; others, started in that world of recess in elementary school with the cups of Pokémon. And there will be some who only had their first shots in the past decade.
But for readers who are younger or have a better diet than the majority of the editors on this site, a mug is a round piece, usually made of plastic or metal, with images of some franchise or character. In addition to being collectibles, it is possible to play with the pogs, by throwing them against others that are placed on the floor, with the intention of knocking them over, much like the paper triangle game in The Squid Game.
Now, because the trend is to take something that was popular at the time and turn it into a digital asset, PepsiCovia Joy App released a collection of tazos in the shape of NFT call… NFTazos. In this way, the company arrives a couple of months late for what was a shady business model in the best of cases and bordered on illegal in many others.
This, as expected, caught the attention of the Internet, who, in the civilized way they usually do, went out to lynch the company for the idea of replacing physical mugs with tokens non-fungible digital Discontent became widespread, as the NFTs sounded like a good idea in 2021, but after discovering the fraud, illegal practices and many other problems that led to the fall of more than 90% of its valueas well as the cryptocurrencies and delayed technology adoption blockchainthe general public does not have the best image of these digital assets.