![]() Zoë: Obviously it's super interesting and I like talking about it every once in a while, but I feel like the last three months it's been like disaster girl overdrive. I'm getting interviewed or have to talk about it. But I don't I don't like usually ever say that much. Zoë: Honestly, every time I do it, even now, if I had my camera on, like I just rolled my eyes after I said that, like, whenever I have to identify myself like that, like I get it. Īmory: What does it feel like to say that out loud? Have you have you owned that? I am the disaster girl. I'm a recent college graduate from North Carolina and I'm also the disaster girl meme. And today, we’re talking about how sometimes, a meme turns into money.Īmory: Which happened for Zoë relatively recently, when the NFT of her meme sold for a record-breaking amount, although she ultimately didn’t benefit quite as much from that as headlines might lead you to believe. We’re coming to you from WBUR.Boston’s NPR station. ![]() And you’re listening to a bonus episode of Endless Thread, in our memes series. That's the real question.īen: You are a disaster. Then you've got a tip and it’s something like eight.īen: Until those student loans kick in, I say live your life.Īmory: How many lavender oat milk lattes can you get for your NFT money? But you know, the lavender is a dollar, the oat milk’s a dollar. But it usually ends up being like seven dollars so maybe I should shift away. Zoë: My go-to order is a lavender oat milk latte until I find something better, that's what I order. She’s not the type to blow the money all on bottle service in a couple of nights, or take it all in cash and light it on fire, and then smirk while it burns, just because she can.īen: I mean, she’s still even careful when it comes to her coffee. The way Zoë is paying off her loans? Well, that’s thanks to a recording studio in Dubai, who paid a considerable amount in cryptocurrency for an NFT of Zoë’s face.īen: And now, Zoë can let loose a little.Īmory: But not that loose. Zoë: “I don’t understand what you’re saying.”Īmory: But.this isn’t a story about how to pay off your student loans through good ol’ fashioned hard work, saving and pragmatic language learning. And she kept a job at a restaurant.īen: And she studied Chinese, so she has some actual marketable skills. She shaved off a whole year of that sweet in-state tuition by graduating in three years instead of four. Zoë Roth: Yeah, I’m thinking about moving to Hawaii or something for, like, a few months.Īmory: She graduated from a public, in-state school: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the same town where she went to elementary and high school. You forgot that one.īen: That always works, yeah, that’s a good move.Īmory: Well, a woman named Zoë Roth is about to pay off her student loans at the age of 21. Yeah, advice like, save on rent and live with your parents.Īmory: Or, hey, cool it on the avocado toast, will ya? Skip Starbucks and brew your coffee at home.īen: Yeah, the advice is kind of ridiculous and totally irreplicable - like, get in a freak accident and use the money from your legal settlement to pay off Freddie Mac.Īmory: Or be born to very wealthy parents. ‘Cause in my life it took 40 years.īen: No, I’m just kidding. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text.Īmory Sivertson: You know those stories about how some enterprising young person paid their student loans in record time?īen Brock Johnson: No, no I don’t. ![]() The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. This content was originally created for audio.
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