Why are people buying digital collectibles?

Well, I saw this one video by Vox

It talks about something rather interesting that I've heard before: Digital collectibles.

This is interesting because we couldn't do this before.
We could take something and copy it.
but with the blockchain, we can have digital scarcity. THIS IS HUGE.

Although there are some drawbacks like the art getting pulled out and only having some code left behind to show you own the "token" to that image or code, this is just the beginning to something bigger.