McDonald’s memes will be familiar to anyone who has been following crypto for a long and is active on Crypto Twitter or another crypto forum.
Memes are a part of internet culture, but they also serve as a form of therapy for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency traders when the market falls.
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While there are plenty of memes floating around to console crypto investors, some of the best are ones that subtly belittle the efforts of service staff at corporations like McDonald’s who work nine to five jobs.
These McDonald’s memes will be familiar to anyone who has been following crypto for a long and is active on Crypto Twitter or another crypto forum. In order to survive the gloomy market, most memes depicting the American fast-food chain claim that crypto traders will have to work or hunt for work at McDonald’s if prices continue to fall.
Interestingly, when the market meltdown in June of last year, one joke regarding McDonald’s exchanging job applications with crypto speculators became an NFT:
The most recent McDonald’s meme was created in support of El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, who was dressed in a McDonald’s staff outfit.
McDonald’s Job Application morphs into an NFT Collection
It’s been precisely seven months since that meme began spreading around the cryptocurrency community, and the market is once again bleeding. The bitcoin price has fallen by half from its all-time high, while the majority of other cryptocurrencies have suffered double-digit losses.
While crypto traders are counting their losses and hope for a resurgence in the market, someone has transformed McDonald’s employee apps into a non-fungible token (NFT) collection and offered it on Opensea, demonstrating once again that anything can be tokenized and marketed as an NFT collection.
In this collection, dubbed McDonald’s Job Application, there are 1,111 application forms that people can use to get their ideal job at the fast-food corporation.
To top it all off, the McDonald’s Application NFT author wrote an amusing comic description for the collection, in which he poked fun at cryptobros:
“ETH going down? Can’t afford living? We got you! Apply now to your dream 9 to 5 McDonald’s job with our application.”
Nearly $40k of McDonald’s Application NFTs Traded in 12 Hours
The first 1,000 will be free to mint, according to the ambitious designer, while the rest 111 will cost 0.01 ETH (about $25 at current pricing).
Interestingly, 460 McDonald’s Application NFTs have been issued, with a floor price of 0.019 ETH ($47) on OpenSea. Since becoming public around 12 hours ago, the collection has already generated a trading volume of 15.9 ETH ($40,000).
Meanwhile, it’s worth noting that the McDonald’s Application NFT collection is purely satirical and not affiliated with the real McDonald’s firm. The fast-food company, on the other hand, made its NFT debut last November when it issued the first-ever non-fungible token to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the McRib.
