A London artist working in glitching, flickering GIFs of skulls, screens and slogans, selling on SuperRare from around 2018 and by 2021 among the most expensive living digital artists. 'Right-click and Save As guy', named after the standard insult to NFT owners, sold for a reported 1,600 ETH — about $7 million — to Snoop Dogg's Cozomo de' Medici persona in December 2021. The artist who made the joke into the asset.
The 'Right-click and Save As guy' sale, reported by Decrypt: a work about the impossibility of owning a copy, sold for $7 million, with the image freely available above the article. The record downloaded it, as instructed by the title.
I saw an XCOPY on a screen at a gallery in Shoreditch in 2022 with a security guard standing next to it. He was guarding a GIF. He knew, and he was professional about it.
XCOPY makes pictures that look like a corrupted file having a nightmare. The record files the style under 'glitch' and the prices under 'the exception that proves the right-click argument wrong, or does not'.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
