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En 1975, une idée aussi absurde que brillante a transformé une simple pierre en phénomène commercial.
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According to ABC News, #SpaceX, now (over) valued at $2T, HAS YET TO TURN A PROFIT.
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From Tulips to NFTs: The Long, Expensive History of Human Hype
A Satire of Tulip Mania by Jan Brueghel the Younger, c. 1640. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.Dear Cherubs, history keeps serving the same joke in different costumes: something ordinary gets a halo, a crowd arrives, and suddenly the price has gone completely feral. Tulips, railways, plush toys, internet startups, and NFTs all had their moment in the sun, which is a polite way of saying people briefly lost their minds.
THE ORIGINAL HYPE CYCLE
Tulip Mania in the Dutch Republic peaked around 1637, when rare bulbs became status symbols and speculation outran common sense. Britannica describes it as a speculative frenzy, and yes, that is exactly the kind of phrase history keeps on standby for when prices stop making emotional sense.
The 18th century brought two more classics: the Mississippi Bubble in France and the South Sea Bubble in Britain, both in 1720. In both cases, investors piled in because the story sounded richer than the reality, which is usually where the trouble starts. Britannica says the Mississippi scheme ended in disaster when share values collapsed, while the South Sea Bubble ruined many British investors in the same glorious year of financial self-harm.
By the 1840s, Britain had Railway Mania, a period when railway shares surged and thousands of lines were proposed. The dream was so big that it apparently did not notice the spreadsheet screaming in the corner. According to RailwayMania.co.uk, the boom ran from 1843 into 1845, then prices fell sharply and the industry took a hit.
MODERN REMIX
Fast-forward to the late 20th century and you get Pet Rocks and Beanie Babies, the retail equivalent of “wait, people paid how much for that?” The Washington Post reported that Pet Rocks sold 1.5 million units at $3.95 each, while History.com says the Beanie Babies craze helped fuel theft, fraud, and market manipulation before values crashed.
Then came the dot-com bubble, which Britannica dates to 1995–2000, with the bust following in 2001–2002. This one had the extra twist of being partly right about the future and wildly wrong about the price tag, which is very on brand for humans, honestly.
And then, of course, NFTs. Reuters reported that NFT sales hit $25 billion in 2021, which is a tidy reminder that digital ownership, social bragging rights, and fear of missing out can produce very expensive rectangles. As noted by thisclaimer.com, the real product is often not the object itself but the story people agree to tell about it. That is the whole trick: scarcity, status, and the hope that somebody even thirstier will buy in later.
So yes, the names change, the packaging changes, and the century changes. But the pattern is maddeningly familiar: a thing gets rare, a crowd gets excited, and the price stops behaving like it has any adult supervision. That is the bubble, plain and simple. Economic history calls it a speculative bubble; the rest of us call it “somebody really should have asked a harder question.”
Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/money/Tulip-Mania
The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #beanieBabies #dotComBubble #marketMania #mississippiBubble #nfts #petRock #railwayMania #southSeaBubble #speculativeBubbles #tulipMania #viral
Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/money/Mississippi-Bubble
Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/money/South-Sea-Bubble
Railway Mania — https://www.railwaymania.co.uk/
The Washington Post — https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/01/pet-rock-inventor-gary-dahl-dies-at-78/
History.com — https://www.history.com/articles/how-the-beanie-baby-craze-came-to-a-crashing-end
Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/money/dot-com-bubble
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/nft-sales-hit-25-billion-2021-growth-shows-signs-slowing-2022-01-10/
thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com -
Bazı şeyler şekil değiştirmekle kalmaz, aynı zamanda daha pahalı hale gelir.
Düzenleme ve fikir: @BashakHimanself (yani ben)
#petrock #pet #pets #petsoffedi #petsofmastodon #PetRocks #petrocktr #PetRockTürkiye #petparent #petparents #petcare #TurkishPetRock #Turkishpetrocks #meme #memes #petowner #petowners -
Ah, the age-old question: Do you need another meaningless file type to clutter your digital junk drawer? 🤔 Spoiler alert: unless you enjoy pretending your business is a cutting-edge tech startup by adopting every acronym under the sun, llms.txt is as essential as a pet rock. 🪨✨
https://semarkglobal.com/blog/what-is-llms-txt-does-your-business-need-one #digitalclutter #meaninglessfiles #techstartup #acronyms #petrock #HackerNews #ngated -
Otobüste yağmur izleme keyfi yapan evcil taş.
📸: @BashakHimanself (yani ben)
#petrock #pet #pets #petsoffedi #petsofmastodon #PetRocks #petrocktr #PetRockTürkiye #petparent #petparents #petcare #TurkishPetRock #Turkishpetrocks -
Arkadaşımın evinden gelirken evcil taş, yılbaşı kutlamasından sonra 🐾🪨💙☃️
📸: @BashakHimanself (yani ben)
#petrock #pet #pets #petsoffedi #petsofmastodon #PetRocks #petrocktr #PetRockTürkiye #petparent #petparents #petcare #TurkishPetRock #Turkishpetrocks -
Alışveriş merkezinde sosyalleşirken evcil taş 🪨💙🐾
📸: @BashakHimanself (yani ben)
#petrock #pet #pets #petsoffedi #petsofmastodon #PetRocks #petrocktr #PetRockTürkiye #petparent #petparents #petcare #TurkishPetRock #Turkishpetrocks -
Oğlumla alışveriş molası
📸: @BashakHimanself (yani ben)
#pet #pets #petcare #PetLife #petrock #PetRocks #petrocktr #PetRockTürkiye #petsoffedi #petsofmastodon -
Resim kursunda evcil taş.
📸: @BashakHimanself (yani ben)
#petrock #petrocks #artcourse #art #pet #pets #sketch #TurkishPetRock #Turkishpetrocks -
🪨👀 Pet Rock Türkiye’ye hoş geldiniz! 🐾🇹🇷
Türkiye’nin ilk evcil taş topluluğu olarak buradayız. Burada taşlar konuşur, mizah üretir ve koleksiyonlar birleşir.
Haftalık taş hikâyeleri, mini karakter kartları, koleksiyon paylaşımları ve hafif mizah dolu içeriklerle topluluğumuzu birlikte şekillendireceğiz.Burada herkesin taş arkadaşı farklı, özgün ve değerli. Koleksiyonunu göster, taş arkadaşını tanıt, mizahını paylaş - hepsi SFW (Safe For Work)!
Operasyonel verimlilik testlerimiz her zaman %100 başarılı ✅Pet Rock Türkiye sadece bir hobi değil; minimalizm, yaratıcılık ve topluluk ruhunu bir araya getiren bir alan. Katıl, keşfet ve taşların dünyasında eğlen!
#PetRockTürkiye #TaşArkadaş #SFW #MikroKültür #Koleksiyon #EvcilKaya #EvcilTaş #PetRock #PetRocks #TurkishPetRock #Turkishpetrocks #petrocktr #microculture
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💸 Oh look, it's another 32-minute diatribe about how throwing money at AI is like investing in pet rocks and expecting them to bark. 🙄 Spoiler alert: everyone, except those selling shovels to the AI gold rush, is hemorrhaging cash faster than a #crypto bro's portfolio. 😂
https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/ #AIinvestment #petrock #goldrush #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
An attack on Bluesaved's adorable characters, Snailfrend, Snailunit, and Spidouh featuring @Imperor's heir, Rocco (specifically Cowboy Hat Rocco), and Clacky the coconut.
This was a fun little scene to do :)
#ArtFight #ArtFight2025 #TeamFossil #PetRock #Snail #Coconut #MastoArt
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Last night we reached 301 followers on #twitch and I am super grateful! So is our boy Rocco here, as he finally got his cowboy hat. A cape will follow at 325 followers. I hope he'll have a far bigger wardrobe than me some day.
Also playing our Linuxian race in #Stellaris was a lot of fun, albeit hard to wrap my head around certain concepts that play different than other origins.
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🐙💻 Behold, the groundbreaking innovation: a cyber-squid pet with a neural network that’s approximately as intelligent as a pet rock. 🤖🪨 Because nothing says cutting-edge technology quite like reinventing the 90s #Tamagotchi with a sprinkle of machine learning! 🎉
https://github.com/ViciousSquid/Dosidicus #cybersquid #techinnovation #petrock #machinelearning #HackerNews #ngated -
It seems Connor has had a transporter incident and has somehow become one of the googly-eyed floating rocks we've seen around the space station! I guess he's #RocksonaReady. However will we turn him back? I'm sure we can do it before the end of the day. #PetRock #GooglyEyes
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CW: shitposting, meme
@drahardja #Cabybara 's are the #PetRock of 2024. Got a stuffed one for my GD for Xmas as instructed by my DIL.
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This little bit from a 1981 Dragon Magazine (need to find the original...) makes me chuckle every time I see it. It appears most of us have picked up one of these in the last decade. #petrock #smartphone #cursed #dandd #dungeonsanddragons #dragonmagazine
