NFTs (thread now extremely NSFW)

and if you lose? well you were going to lose anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-35uHaMG8

"This is like the OG NFT. The original fight against the middle men who are rent-seeking. And crypto is the same ethos"

JFC

very much like nft: they think it's something people will be jealous of them owning, but in reality not many people want a wu-tang album released in 2014.

the crypto ethos is "no rent-seeking middlemen" huh. all that productive work they're doing, creating new wealth instead of an unnecessary intermediate system.

Look, some despised poets have gotten in on this shit.

@theVERSEverse - a a sacred space for poets and writers embodying the power and profound nature of the Blockchain, creativity and its infinite potential for ineffable beauty…

👇🏽https://t.co/T96Uyvizuf

— michael spalter (@michaelspalter) November 11, 2021

^ ^ ^ these people are, of course, fucking idiots.

what idiot called it trading NFTs instead of monkey laundering

— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) November 11, 2021

Mini-Puft NFTs are here! From Nov 8-17, we’re auctioning one-of-a-kind vignettes from #Ghostbusters: Afterlife creators Jason Reitman & Gil Kenan. BID now → https://t.co/fWrWWm0gjj

Nov 18: 10,500 Mini-Pufts will be unleashed
MINT yours → https://t.co/wmKA1z0IjS pic.twitter.com/CMA5ExD18a

— Ghostbusters (@Ghostbusters) November 13, 2021

Here's the deal, we're selling art. No put your wallet away we use currency that crashes if someone tweets something weird. No you don't keep it but I'll write that you bought it in a big book. Ah no it's not "good" art it's actually the worst art you've seen. Just dogshit stuff.

— Ron Iver (@ronnui_) November 13, 2021

pain 😭 pic.twitter.com/v75HumwW74

— kate bush’s aquarius moon (@cloudbusting) November 15, 2021

(Big Boi X Kate Bush collab)

My latest adventure in free magic internet money:

Late June I registered an Ethereum Name Service (ENS) .eth address (which is a NFT as well). It’s much easier to send to a wallet with insertname.eth rather than asdhfkjakldsfjkluioe39jsajdkfklsd, or whatever my public address is. Seemed worth the $10 or so it cost.

About a week ago, ENS did an airdrop of their new governance token to everyone that has registered a name. Based on when you registered and for how long you registered it for, you get anywhere from a few tokens to hundreds. I ended up claiming 97 $ENS tokens.

So of course you can buy and sell $ENS as well. Immediately after the drop the price rose to $80 a token and has now settled around $60.

I haven’t sold, but I have no interest of being in the ENS DAO or having any sort of governance vote. Waiting until there is more liquidity. Also rumored that $ENS will be listed on Coinbase soon, which will open up a much broader market than those swapping on sushiswap or uniswap. But I’ll happily take a free $5000+ (minus fees.. and taxes).

It’s all just very weird.

That you retain a strong sense of its unreality seems healthy to me.

You know your totally legit community is going great when "rug pulls", the term for when a scam artist runs away with everyone's money, happen so frequently that the term is further shortened to just "rugged" https://t.co/deLANEjGSH

— JP (@vectorpoem) November 15, 2021

Goodbye, Staples Center. Hello, https://t.co/KvGn47hmkL Arena https://t.co/d9mC0R50Ta

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 17, 2021

Visitors will see one clear change at the entrance to the arena from L.A. Live, adjacent to the statue of Magic Johnson, where 3,300 square feet will become a dedicated Crypto.com “activation space” featuring crypto-centric interactive experiences for sports or music fans. Crypto.com has also signed with the Lakers and Kings as their official crypto partner.

SICK

Enron signed a 30-year deal to have the Astros ballpark be called Enron Field for 30 years. The name lasted less than 2 years.

crypto.com can keep the naming rights when it becomes a site selling online mausoleums for your loved ones

tee hee

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-nyc-ape-fest?utm_campavign

I'd kind of assumed that this was a zoomer thing and the reason I found it incomprehensible and bizarre was because as someone born in the 80s I was just too old, but most of the people quoted in this article are in their 30s?

Ape Fest 2021 will culminate with an extravagant “warehouse” party in Brooklyn featuring surprise appearances by Lil Baby, the Strokes, Questlove, Beck, Chris Rock, and Aziz Ansari.

Wouldn’t have thought Questlove would need the money.

"Yay, I'm in a group!" —every Bored Ape collector

I think this appeals to the same people who would have gone to Fyre Fest.

Also surprised Jamie Hewlett hasn’t sued these guys their cartoons look too much like the Gorillaz.

Lil Baby lol

It makes sense it would skew to those in their 30s, or those that are at a point in their life that they have more discretionary income to spend/waste on jpg’s. Still, at 42, I feel ancient in the space.

it being disaffected ppl in their 30’s (like moi) makes the most sense to me. If I didn’t believe in climate change, or thought some hand-wavy technology would fix it soon, I would absolutely be doing crypto shit.

It is very clear to me that in this economy, and likely for the rest of my life, if you don’t have a highly valued and very scarce skill, working is just not a viable path out of precarity (and even if it was, for a lot of reasons, many of them generationally common, I am so fucking bad at work now!)

But that isn’t enough to make me want to save the down payment on a house by turning up the dial on the machine that burns the blood of future children. I’ll just take my inevitable medical bankruptcy instead, thank you!

US pro sports teams are already up to their hips in promotional agreements with dozens of janky start-ups flush with VC or IPO cash, looking to ride a team's coattails into a kind of respectability. crypto.com just looks like a particularly high roller in that game.

Enron signed a 30-year deal to have the Astros ballpark be called Enron Field for 30 years. The name lasted less than 2 years.

Enron is gone, but those sports teams are still there, pulling down those sweet promotional dollars and minting money by the double fist full.

It seems so transparent that it's monopoly money shit for people who:
a) don't have lives or hobbies outside of working/hustling/making money;
b) have too much discretionary income as a result of a;
c) don't have many friends or a community because they're boring people;

and

d) have absolutely fucking abysmal taste in art, music, poetry, and pretty much any artform you can think of.

There are exceptions, of course, like our Jeff, but that's the only read I can get on the situation

The abysmal taste thing sounds snobby, but what the fuck ever, this "art" is fucking hideous garbage

There are exceptions, of course, like our Jeff, but that's the only read I can get on the situation

looking to ride a team's coattails into a kind of respectability

it's less about respectability (though that's still probably a factor bc crypto weirdos are very insecure) and more just cryptocurrencies being a ponzi scheme that require new users to buy in to keep the value going up, so aggressively promoting it is necessary

Here’s some NFTs for everyone.

💀OMG WHO RIGHT CLICKED ALL OF THE #NFTs?☠️
🛳🏴‍☠️ https://t.co/o0YRK78AkL 🏴‍☠️🛳
👀 pic.twitter.com/g74TFqzX0n

— geoff 👋 🇵🇹 (@GeoffreyHuntley) November 18, 2021

ahhah, just came to post that. I have a NAS at home with ~12TB free, a few terabytes short. Which is a shame because I'd love to download every NFT that exists just to immediately delete them all.

own 20TB of the worst art of all time

Had this come up as an ad on a concert review:

https://www.lelandsnftstore.com/

^^Mellow Mafia Bass Master Leland Sklar's NFT business

Saw an ad at the movies for Crypto.com and it was a hilarious hard sell to men in the audience: "Are you a man or wuss? Victory goes to one who dares, ya cuck!"

Surprise everyone!!! I am very excited to share this news with you. These mergers of art, music, digital paintings and animation came out better than my highest expectations. Thank you @RollingStone for the premiere. More soon….https://t.co/2ECy5t2yW2#digitalart #NFT #nftartist

— Serj Tankian (@serjtankian) November 22, 2021

I cry when the Amazon deserves to dieeeeeeeeeeeeeee

is there somehow not a zappa coin yet

Dweezil probably tried but had the rest of his family quietly sue to stop him (again).

the only artist whose involvement in NFTs is "acceptable" to me is BT (Brian Transeau), because he's such a fucking dork that he was probably dreaming about this shit in the 90's

https://www.altcoinbuzz.io/nft/is-wolf-game-the-next-nft-craze/

I missed out on this silly wolf game. I think it would have been profitable for about 5 minutes.

I cry when the Amazon deserves to dieeeeeeeeeeeeeee

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, November 22, 2021 3:32 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Right-click This NFT!

When this tweet was posted, the price of $WOOL was $0.06 USD. The current price is $0.138 USD (And falling after another exploit was found). Currently, Sheep produce 10,000 $WOOL a day, or $600 USD a day. That is more than the yield of a CyberKongz Genesis.

#MacysIsCancelled pic.twitter.com/OBCsPYBwHT

— Ben Ritz (@BudgetBen) November 25, 2021

They are appropriately ugly at least.

This is so fucking good

whoever made this has captured the spirit of DS9 to a degree that is uncanny pic.twitter.com/Lb5LWYM0Pr

— broccoli rob 🥦 (@turnip_tops) November 28, 2021

amazing