March Zuckerberg Is Promoting An NFT Of His Little League Baseball Card

Today, Meta announced that Instagram is now offering a way to share your NFTs and digital collectibles to your page by connecting your digital wallet. Oh, that sounds boring to you? Well, what if I told you that in order to promote this new feature, Mark Zuckerberg was turning his Little League baseball card into an NFT and selling it?

The physical card will be auctioned off, along with a digital version stored on the blockchain. It is unclear if the proceeds from the NFT sale will go to Zuckerberg or to the camp counselor who he gave it to back in 1992 and happened to hold onto it for 30 years. However, given the rough times Meta has been facing lately — its stock price dropping, a hiring freeze, slowed growth, and other belt-tightening — it seems like Zuckerberg could probably use the cash (or, uh, crypto).

The new digital collectible feature for Instagram works by connecting to a third-party crypto wallet like MetaMask, and then you can choose from your NFT collections which to post. A special overlay will give more info about your NFT to all your followers, who I’m sure are just dying to know more about your tokens.

Instagram recently faced backlash from users over changes that added more Reels and suggested content into users’ feeds. The Judas kiss came from celebrities whose livelihoods were made on Instagram like Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian (who Meta paid handsomely, I’m sure, to appear in TV ads for the Portal video device).