A Gujranwala man’s friendship breakup announcement on social media went viral because it was about his best friend and years later, the post which had become a popular meme was auctioned off as an NFT (non-fungible token), and sold on Friendship Day for $51,350, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Thursday. 

Muhammad Asif Raza Rana, a Gujranwala man announced in 2015 titled, ‘Friendship ended with Mudasir’. The Facebook post had gone viral and earned global headlines before becoming an all-time favourite meme.

The post explained how Rana found a new best friend in Salman Ahmad Naqash after taking away the title from Mudasir Ismail Ahmad, who had been his best friend until then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHyCjTKbRCw 

Informing people about the major update about his life, Rana alleged that Ahmad was selfish and had an attitude problem.

Now in 2021, the announcement-turned-meme was auctioned as one of Pakistan’s first meme NFT, selling for $51,530 in Poland, which conducted the sale on the digital art marketplace Foundation, the world’s largest platform for NFT listings.

“I would never have known that [the post] would go so viral and that it would spread all over the world. So many news agencies interviewed us. We’ve even had a cartoon made about us,” Rana said.

“The people of Poland love it so much. I received Polish visa offers from two or three people. They even wrote my name on the walls there,”  he added.

Reporter Zahid Iqbal Rana