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YouTubers' identities are being sold as NFTs without their consent

A handful of YouTubers best known for creating gaming content have had their likenesses made into NFTs without even being given a heads-up. At least three prominent YouTubers — Caddicarus, James Stephanie Sterling, and Alanah Pearce — have spoken out about the NFTs thus far.

The NFTs all link back to one OpenSea user by the name of StakeTheWeb, Eurogamer reports. “Frankly not surprised that some freeloading leech turned my channel into an NFT,” James Stephanie Sterling tweeted Saturday evening.

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