Lindsay Lohan's Furry NFT

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About

Lindsay Lohan's Furry NFT refers to an NFT digital-art minted by musician, actress and pop culture icon Lindsay Lohan. The NFT depicts Lohan as a furry, specifically as a dog or wolf fursona in a DeviantArt style. News of the NFT broke on Twitter in late September 2021, but the NFT wasn't minted until early October 2021.

Origin

On September 29th, 2021, Lindsay Lohan tweeted about her upcoming NFT collection, including in the tweet a preview image of the first furry NFT to be part of the collection. She announced that it was to be officially minted on October 2nd, 2021, to the NFT marketplace OpenSea.^[11] The tweet^[1] (shown below) received roughly 2,600 likes and 5,400 quote tweets over the course of two days.

Spread

After the news broke on Twitter, users began posting memes in the form of replies and quote tweets to Lohan's tweet almost immediately. The most notable meme subject inspired by the NFT was related to Lohan's fursona not having ears. Twitter^[2] user @SquishTorimi replied to Lohan's tweet including an image of the fursona with ears photoshopped on it. The reply (shown below, left) received roughly 950 likes over the course of two days. Twitter user @LeifOtter also pointed out the fursona's lack of ears in their own tweet uploaded on September 29th, 2021. Their tweet^[3] (shown below, right) received roughly 380 likes over the course of two days.

Twitter users also began posting memes about "the simulation" being broken and not thinking they would ever utter the phrase "Lindsay Lohan furry NFT" because of its absurdity. Twitter user @Arcon_ quote tweeted Lohan's tweet on September 30th, 2021, commenting on how humanity might be living in "the darkest timeline" because of it. The tweet^[4] (shown below, left) received roughly 5,800 likes in roughly 24 hours. Twitter user @PointCrow also tweeted about a "2021 bingo card" on September 30th, 2021. The tweet^[5] (shown below, right) received roughly 6,300 likes in roughly 24 hours.

Screenshots of Lohan's original tweet also made their way to Instagram^[6] and Facebook^[7] on September 30th. Internet users continued to post memes about the absurdity of the situation, the absurdity of the year 2021, how easy it is to just screenshot an NFT, as well as continuing to make memes about the fursona lacking ears. Twitter users also tweeted^[8] about how the news of Lohan's NFT collection was announced on the same day as Lil Nas X's announcement of his upcoming TikTok NFT collection.^[12] Users believed that this was a true sign that "the timeline" was broken.

Backlash From The Furry Community

On September 30th, 2021, Rolling Stone^[9] released an article on their website titled "Furries Realllllly Hate Lindsay Lohan’s Furry NFT." The article included a quote from the furry artist Colin Spacetwinks who stated, "It reminds me in a way of frequently insecure straight artists rendering furries: [diminish] and reduce furry traits so as to not ‘commit’ to what you’re doing. Ears covered, why? Feels like it’s avoiding animal traits on purpose." The quote inspired people on Twitter to tweet about Lohan "gentrifying" the furry community. Twitter user @TrinarySuns, for example, posted a tweet^[10] (shown below) about the absurdity of this "gentrifying furries" thought process.