It's always the most juvenile, unappealing shit.
Even with NFTs, It's like they try to make the most grotesque looking shit.
It makes me think that they wanted this shit to fail and it was just some tax evasion or dark money dumping thing.
They clearly wanted this shit to be the least marketable as possible.
They're obsessed with the late 90s because that was when they felt invincible
I'm obsessed with the late 90s because that was the last time I had any hope for the future
We are not the same
Video card marketing is also stuck in that 90s flavor, everything is Super 3X X-Treme
Shades of deliberately mispelled scam e-mails because they want to filter out people with enough attention to detail to notice the mispellings.
Or politicians, especially the GOP, deliberately adopting 5th grade vocabulary and mispronouncing words to ingratiate themselves with their base.
The slurp juice thing still so fucking funny to me and I don't know why.
I think it's how earnest his post sounds "No, bro, don't you get it? You can get 3 new apes!"
im gonna convert all my cumcoins into fartbucks so I can buy some slurp juice apes
culture has become hollowed out by the content machine
No shortage of culture to be had. But the folks doing culture right now are totally divorced from folks doing the marketing.
I would say this makes me feel like a boomer, but I'm not sure even nftbros know what the fuck they're saying half the time.
NFTs make everyone feel like a boomer. Show a newborn an NFT and they'll age 50 years before your eyes
They don't. It sounds stupid and empty because it is. Back when it was blowing up I was reassuring people that if my explanation of NFTs sounded like stupid nonsense then they were understanding the situation correctly. There was no hidden depth or nuance that had evaded them.
I regret to inform you that many of them are true believers, as weird as this sounds. And I think most of the people who buy in to scams like this, both today and in the past, have been true believers.
This isn't new at all, there have been schemes like this back... uh... I'm trying to think of any dating back to the BCs. But like, NFTs, the pyramid thing that sharpens your razor, the fake bomb detectors from the iraq war, all kinds of property schemes, MLMs, aromatherapy, tupperware. Just endless, endless bs schemes that people think are going to make them rich. It's not just techbros.
While there are true believers, for sure, I would question what they believe.
They truly believe they will get rich, sure. Maybe they truly believe in the mass financialization of all human communication, maybe they truly believe in autonomous corporations, or in decentralized money. I don't personally believe anyone thought the apes were good or desirable though. I think people believed that they would get suckers into their ecosystems though, and that they could use those people to further their actual goals.
MLMs
You will live in the pod. You will buy the multivitamins. You will sell them downlevel and collect a commission.MLM
You WILL live amongst the peasantry. You WILL organize and radicalize them. You WILL wage protracted peoples war. You WILL be happy.
Don't forget piss, your fondness for the word is well documented.
Also tbf you come from a place where people say [See You Next Tuesday] a lot and for that I envy you. Fuckin North America are big pissy shitbabies about that word.
Edit: case in point
It makes me think that they wanted this shit to fail and it was just some tax evasion or dark money dumping thing.
Gotta find some way to launder cartel money.
It's half they're awful and uncreative and half money laundering for the Culinary Institute of America
I was at the bar a few days ago, and someone was showing off an NFT image that they got paid to design (they were the artist).
It looked like shit. My initial thought was "you're proud of this?"
Nah you're thinking Bored Ape and a bunch of others. NFTs are a scam to make you buy crypto, which Nazis are using to recieve funds anonymously.
It's always the most juvenile, unappealing shit.
it's an in joke for the most juvenile, unappealing people
a lot of yall still dont get it
says the most incoherent bullshit i have ever read
how about you slurp these nuts ya fuckin dingus
Three things IMO:
- The people involved aren't creative, creative people seek projects which they are passionate about and no one is actually passionate about internet Amway shit. Normally corporations get around this by paying teams of professionals, but that would eat into the profit margins too much to be viable in NFT land.
- NFT shit is for no one, the purpose of it is to create the illusion of purpose, the only people involved are there to make profit by convincing other people that they will, in turn, make profit. No one has ever wanted to play the ape game, the audience is only theoretical, a marketing contrivance to make it seem like there is a legitimate demand for the token but it's all by speculators and for speculators.
- Since the only purpose of all the flim-flam is to attract speculators there is a very real arms race to have the silliest shit, because that gets recognition and thus traction in a sea of identically worthless competitors. There is no barrier to entry, no real audience or purpose, only marketing. So the only goal of any NFT ecosystem is that people talk about it. Ironically the "slurp juice" shit is a massive coup de grace for the ape people because people paid attention to it.
The 90's X-treme comparisons are apt, because NFTs are an exercise in marketing nothing, where the only metric for success is to stand out.
This makes a lot of sense. Also, internet Amway is the best way to describe this crap.
Genuinely who are the people still into this shit? I work in tech so I figure I should be encountering some, but even the really insufferable nerds have entirely ditched NFTs.
Yup they crashed pretty hard last year I think and ever since the NFT shit has died right down
1997 was such a a [Goodyear]!!1!
