The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500k Off the Meme

[mistersquid]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/arts/disaster-girl-meme-nft.html

[theandrewbailey]

> Ms. Roth remembers watching the flames engulf the house when her father, an amateur photographer, asked her to smile.

I guessed that the girl was a normal child that wouldn't smile as someone's house burned down, but she was trained to smile whenever someone shoved a camera into her face. I wasn't too far off.

[milkytron → theandrewbailey]

Aren't most people trained or told to smile during pictures?

Luckily this wasn't actually someone's house that they lived in.