If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? Yes, but the sound has no meaning.

These days you'll find articles and reports that alarmingly imply that NFTs are disappearing. I give some examples at the end of this text.

The thing is, the NFTs aren't disappearing. The files they point to are, and that is very different.

NFTs are immutable (if the contract has been set up correctly) and persistent (as long as the blockchain they are on continues to exist).

The things they point to? Not so much.

Furthermore, websites that display them can come and go. Again, the NFTs still exist, even if your "window of choice" for viewing them doesn't.

And so I wish that journalists would choose their words more carefully. But ... they're journalists, not blockchain experts.

https://interestingengineering.com/nfts-are-mysteriously-disappearing-heres-how

https://cryptobriefing.com/tezos-nft-marketplace-hic-et-nunc-offline/