[matwood]

They are both about signaling wealth and status. What I don’t understand about the digital items is that the people who own them are often anonymous so why signal? Signaling wealth and status IRL can also carry other benefits that don’t seem to carry over digitally.

[omnimus]

They are not anonymous but pseudonymus. I assume for many people building up their pseudonyms status is as intriguing as their AFK one.

[matwood]

Good point. Still odd in that it doesn’t connect to the real world easily, though that’s likely just showing my age bias.