It’s the $6.2 million snack.
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun on Friday scoffed down the duct-taped banana he bought for $6.2 million, adding extra absurdity to the absurdist art sale.
Sun, 34, chomped down on the fruit in front of reporters in Hong Kong in what he called an “iconic” stunt, fulfilling a promise he’d made after buying it from a New York art auction, according to Agence France-Press.
“It’s much better than other bananas,” Sun remarked of his a-peeling first bite. “It’s really quite good.”
He claimed that “eating it at a press conference can also become a part of the artwork’s history” — while giving everyone watching his stunt a banana and a roll of duct tape.
“Everyone has a banana to eat,” Sun said.
His mega-million-dollar banana had been bought from a Big Apple street vendor for just 35 cents, then duct-taped to a wall by absurdist artist Maurizio Cattelan as part of his “Comedian” collection.
Sun, whose net worth is estimated to be at least $1.4 billion, was one of seven bidders, and said he paid so much because he thought “this could be something big.”
Ten seconds later, he said he decided he would eat the banana — a promise he later made to his 227,000 Instagram followers.
“Comedian” was first unveiled at Miami’s Art Basel back in 2019, and gained global recognition as it forced critics to consider how “art” is defined — a conversation Cattelan intended to spark with the piece.
Performance artist David Datuna once ate the banana off the wall, and The Post recreated it for just $5.75.
Sun said he had several “dumb questions” after his massive buy — including whether the banana had gone off.
He received a certificate of authenticity confirming the work was created by Cattelan, as well as instructions on how to replace the fruit when it begins to rot.
Sun ate the banana just hours after it emerged it had been bought for less than a dollar from 74-year-old New York City street vendor Shah Alam, who works for $12 an hour at his stand outside of Sotheby’s on the Upper East Side.
“I am a poor man,” the widower told the New York Times with tears in his eyes. “I have never had this kind of money; I have never seen this kind of money.”
Sun vowed to “buy 100,000 bananas from his stand in New York’s Upper East Side,” he tweeted Thursday afternoon.
“These bananas will be distributed free worldwide through his stand,” adding that he hoped to visit Alam in person.
Sun was charged last year by the US Securities and Exchange Commission with selling unregistered securities from his crypto companies. The case is ongoing.
