Tony Hawk faces backlash after launching new NFT project Tony HawkLegendary skateboarder Tony Hawk faced backlash on social media after he announced the launch of his own line of \u2018Last Trick\u2019 NFTs. Tony Hawk is a beloved figure in both the skateboarding and gaming respective communities. He\u2019s helped develop skateboarding into one of the most iconic sports worldwide and has popularized skateboarding video games for over 20 years with a gaming franchise that dons his name. Although he is loved by many, he joined the growing list of celebrities who\u2019ve drawn criticism online after he announced the launching of an NFT project that left many fans baffled. Tony Hawk faces backlash over NFTs Birdman\u2019s NFT project, titled Last Trick, was actually announced on December 16, but only caught the attention of social media more recently. Since fans found out about the project, many were stunned that the skateboarder was jumping on the NFT bandwagon. One Twitter account, which takes requests for phrases to put in the iconic Tony Hawk video game font, roasted Tony by posting one which read: \u201cF**k Tony Hawk For Doing NFTs.\u201d several variations of this requested by several people pic.twitter.com\/pxkjGBpaz3 \u2014 tony hawk logos (@tonyhawklogos) February 4, 2022 Another user was sad by the way they found out, \u201cFinding out tony hawk is doing an nft from a tumblr meme might be one of the most disappointing experiences i\u2019ve had in the last five years.\u201d finding out tony hawk is doing an nft from a tumblr meme might be one of the most disappointing experiences i\u2019ve had in the last five years \u2014 Dummy Vicc (@disaster_Nb) February 5, 2022 One user simply couldn\u2019t believe the Tony Hawk NFT was real, \u201cIs Tony Hawk really participating in this NFT nonsense??\u201d Is Tony Hawk really participating in this NFT nonsense?? pic.twitter.com\/P7IvgEjwC9 \u2014 \uff34\uff45\uff43\uff48\uff4e\uff4f\uff2d\uff45\uff54\uff45\uff4f\uff52 \ud83c\udf0a (@TechnoMeteor) February 5, 2022 Tony Hawk has yet to respond to the backlash at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tony Hawk faces backlash after launching new NFT project Tony HawkLegendary skateboarder Tony Hawk faced backlash on social media after he announced the launch of his own line of \u2018Last Trick\u2019 NFTs. Tony Hawk is a beloved figure in both the skateboarding and gaming respective communities. He\u2019s helped develop skateboarding into one of the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}