Selling Selfie on OpenSea, Story of Ghozali Everyday Billions from NFT

 

Ghozali Everyday's account on OpenSea went viral because of the sales of NFT selfie photos that reached billions of rupiah. The owner of the Ghozali Everyday account has successfully earned money from consistently selling selfie photos taken within the last 5 years.

Ghozali Everyday's real name is Sultan Gustaf AL Ghozali, a 7th semester student at the Faculty of Computer Science, D-4 Animation Study Program, Dian Nuswantoro University (Udinus) Semarang. The second son of three brothers, the couple Erna Setyawati and Heru Kamdani, also admitted that he was surprised because his photos sold out and even went viral.

"Initially it was promoted by the Indonesian NFT community. Then foreign people bought it, even chef Arnold bought it. He even bought 25, a photo of my face, haha," said Ghozali while laughing when met at his campus, Semarang, Thursday ( 13/1/2022).

Ghozali didn't think it would cost billions because he took selfies for 5 years. Whereas initially the selfie photo was to be used as a timelapse video of his change since graduating from SMK 5 Semarang in 2017.

"Originally, I took photos every day for time lapse animation. After five years, it became a video. That's the goal. It's been made and then uploaded to NFT, it's funny," he said.

Unexpectedly, his consistency of taking selfies for 5 years every day was appreciated by NFT collectors and sold well. Detikcom's monitoring on Thursday (13/1), the cheapest Ghozali Everyday NFT collection was sold for 0.28 ETH or around Rp. 13.5 million. With a total of 932 collections, Ghozali's NFT business is worth nearly Rp 12.6 billion.

"That's the value of the total who bought it, some say it's up to Rp. 12 billion. But for example, if someone buys Rp. 20 million, I get 10% and so on. The total income is around Rp. 1.5 billion," said Ghozali.

Ghozali also admitted that he had not told his parents about his income which reached Rp 1.5 billion. He was worried that his parents were confused about how to get the money.

"Honestly, I don't have the courage to tell my parents. Later, they will be asked where this (money) comes from," said Ghozali, laughing.

On the other hand, Ghozali admitted that he had a special plan to use the money. Ghozali explained that after he graduated, he wanted to work in an animation studio and be able to create his own animation studio. 

"My total income, I have received a total income of more than Rp. 1.5 billion. In the future, the money will be used for investment again. I hope that after graduating, I will work in an animation studio to seek experience and continue to make my own animation studio," he said.

Ghozali also admitted that he would continue to consistently take selfies at NFT. He plans to carry out his activities until later wearing a toga or graduating from college.

"This year I want to continue, I'm in the 7th semester, I hope I graduate this year, it's going to be cool, right, because at the beginning of the photo, I graduated from Vocational High School and I ended up graduating from college wearing a graduation gown. So that there will be a beginning and an ending," said Ghozali.

 

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