NFTs, when implemented properly, would be an item tracked on a blockchain with a link to an asset backed by IPFS, plus some kind of copyright notice granting whoever owned the NFT a copyright licence to do stuff with the asset.
People see IPFS mentioned in the same context as NFTs, and assume it’s a scam. People have seen memes about NFTs just being an expensive hyperlink that can go down at any time, so think IPFS can go down at any time. People have seen twitter meltdowns from people who’ve bought NFTs and then lost access when the previous owner stopped adding redundancy to the IPFS file because the new owner was a moron who didn’t know they were responsible for adding redundancy to the files they cared about and had spent their life savings on a esoteric way of getting a commercial copyright licence to something they didn’t need a commercial copyright licence to without knowing that’s what they were buying.
It’s basically just down to NFTs being the thing that made most people who’ve heard of IPFS hear of it.
Yep. You can scare people even more by mentioning that it’s also used by Windows Update.