Last week, the story broke of Thea-Mai Baumann, an Australian artist and Australian Arts Council executive who worked under the pseudonym metaverse for nearly a decade and owned the account @metaverse on Instagram.
On November 2, with less than 1000 followers under her name and a week after Facebook announced it was changing its name to Meta, Thea had her Instagram account suspended. When she tried to log in, she was greeted with a shocking message that read:
“Your account has been disabled for pretending to be someone else.”
She tried to verify her apparent “fake” identity on Instagram – but to no avail. At the time, she had nothing to prove she was really the original metaverse artist, aside from an NFT she coincidentally minted a few days earlier.
NFT From Her First Instagram Post
On October 30, Thea was testing a new platform and marketplace in the NFT space that is able to mint social media posts into NFTs in a way that all data and value is transferred ...
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