In a video from 2007, uploaded to YouTube on the channel, you can see the baby Charlie biting his brother Harry's finger.
When Harry in English with a broad British dialect despaired, the now famous words screamed:
“Ow, Charlie!
Owww!
Charlie!
That really hurt! ”
This innocent but charming clip has become one of the site's most famous and had until yesterday about 883 million views.
But now it seems that Charlie has bitten his last finger.
On May 23, the clip was removed after being up for fourteen years.
This after the family behind the YouTube account sold the clip for $ 760,999, as an NFT - a form of digital ownership.
More common to sell digital items
The crypto technology NFT has been used extensively in the past year to be able to buy and sell digital works of art.
It is most often used as a certificate of ownership for things that are still available to the public via the internet.
This can be anything from digital art to other works such as the world's first tweet and the infamous cheese sandwich picture from Fyre Festival.
In addition to a digital certificate of ownership for the clip, the winner of this particular bidding will also have the opportunity to make his own parody of the clip with the now teenage boys.
People who, on the other hand, may miss the original clip with the British boys can take comfort in the fact that remixes and parodies of the clip still abound. How to deal with these in the future is not yet clear.