A very similar thing happened with ICQ numbers where short (or pretty) numbers were prestigious and were sometimes sold. I think there's a difference from NFTs

A very similar thing happened with ICQ numbers where short (or pretty) numbers were prestigious and were sometimes sold. I think there's a difference from NFTs in the fact that ICQs and telephones were heavily used tools for communication, this is what lends these numbers the prestige. Since everybody used them to communicate with you, everyone saw that prestigious number. In comparison, NFTs aren't really attached to something of value in the same way and are not interesting/prestigious to anybody outside of people interested in those NFTs specifically.