'Will Smith Slap' NFT Collection Listed For Staggering Price

A total of 1,999 JPEGs of the 1 min 30 sequence can be found, with a variety of meme text overlays on offer.

The slap instantly became one of the most viral moments of the year, as a clearly incensed Smith stormed the stage to slap Rock, who had just made a joke about the actor's wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith.

The star of Men in Black and King Richard (for which he won an Oscar this year) appeared to take umbrage with a joke that Rock made about his wife's alopecia - leading to the now infamous slap on stage.

Smith has since apologised to the Academy for his actions, but that hasn't stopped the meme economy from going into overdrive, with some of the NFTs from the slap collection being sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds.

However, those who aren't quite in the market for an NFT that eye-wateringly expensive can also purchase their own JPEG from the Slap Dao collection for as little as 0.003 ETH - or around £8.

As things stand, 721 people have already purchased an NFT from this collection, making the creator very well off indeed.

Little is known about the origin of the collection, meaning that you should always exercise a great deal of caution before spending a vast sum on any of it NFTs.

Like any hype driven collection, expect interest to wane in the coming days and weeks, as the world slowly moves on to the next great celebrity scandal.

Nevertheless, the 'Will Smith Slap Dao' is yet another example of how cryptocurrencies and NFTs are changing the world around us - for better or worse.