Its very cool technology, its just that its current popular use (essentially protecting and certifying digital art files) is relatively benign and boring. One more exciting use for it is to sign news articles, documents, or any material that is at risk of being edited, modified, or otherwise changed. Basically, the 'signature' of that data is locked into the blockchain, so any attempts to sneakily change it would be rejected by the network as illegitimate. You could probably come up with 100 uses for NFT just within the domain of security/file integrity. So don't dismiss the technology because you see some hipsters riding on the hype of one potential use for it.

I first heard about it when NPR was pushing it, so I knew it had to be typical judentricks and retardation.

21st century tulip craze.

Another primary use for it is digital artists to digitally sign their work. That means the original digital file can be seen/treated in the same way a physical original art piece is.

The owner gets to parade on social media how they own a certificate that there is only one of.

It's like those companies that sell plots of land on the moon. Meaningless, but only you own the piece of paper saying that plot of land is yours.

You are buying an image that is infinitely reproduceable ,but you can say you own the original because of muh blockchain. Now if those thousands of worthless baseball cards from my youth would be worth something one day, that would be GREAT.