

The process was relatively straightforward. It's also, unfortunately for NFT enthusiasts, extremely easy to fake.Īpproximately 24 hours after Twitter announced the new hexagonal NFT profile pic feature, I was able to get a CryptoPunk look-alike NFT as my official Twitter profile picture - hexagonal and all. It's the ultimate online flex in our status-obsessed digital age. The feature, announced Thursday, gives Twitter Blue subscribers the ability to designate their profile pictures as official NFTs - thus, in theory, irrefutably "proving" their JPEGs are authentic pieces like CryptoPunks or Bored Apes at a glance.

Twitter's new hexagonal NFT profile pics were supposed to put right-click savers in their place.
