C.Y. Drift

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Love your style 🫂

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Voidwalker <3

So so lonely….    Will be back from desktop shortly.    I want all yards in “my” main wallet.  

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Legendary link up in a magical land 

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analog ave

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It was Beautiful. I feel lost again

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Visual sentiment 

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Vault explorers

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The Uproot

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Surreal Side Chain Compression

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ILY & I <3 Hiroshi 🫂

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🤐

COLLECTING ALL THE BALLZ.

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OUI OUI

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HIDE N HEAL

IYKYK.

Culture Capsule

Evolving Portals 🌀🧎🏻

Full Collection:

The issue isn't as simple as bots / boosts are good or bad.   The "nefarious" part that everyone seems to keep leaving out is the most important part.  It's the reason why I after several calls with David, I emotionally and actively stopped using or acknowledging the platform.  It's the reason I've been pushing back so hard and so loudly about the changes to zora,  removing the chronological follower and discover feeds, and having them replaced by activity feeds...         If you want to pay to create fake demand, using bots, more power to you...     I'd personally just airdrop actual humans I think might enjoy the music/art but "perceived volume" and all that jazz.      THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM is why this ugly...    Sound has a leaderboard, and they removed, the real time minting feed,  by design they destroyed discoverability of all those new artists they shilled a brighter future to on tiktok and ig,  and they never stood a chance,  but a guy with a turtle neck controls those charts....         The same issue is now on zora,  where unrealistic amount of mints keep going to the platforms posts,  big projects, and friends of the inner circle...     all of these things are fine in a free market,  but when you manipulate discovery, and design to amplify the most active, and bury everyone else......      you can't gaslight me to make me believe the ones designing and calling the shots aren't intelligent enough to understand how broken and rigged that is....      I know without a doubt, it was by design at sound,  i spoke for hours with David.   It's becoming increasing more difficult to not look at Zora in the same light.    They are devs,  they could easily create an organic default feed that only shows original posts in the order they were minted from the people you follow and create a second feed, that has the activity mechanics....      the only reason not to do this, is as exactly how it looks, and i've screenshot and documented so many examples that's it's happening...           So when I see promo about how Zora is fun, mints are better than likes,   it feels like the same playback,  trying to onboard a bunch of new users, who will be buried by the latest AI generated meme......

It's not bots, it's the whole picture.  It's not speculation, it's not salt, it's actively happen to point it's impossible not to see.

Am I the bad guy for bringing up a design flaw that so many others see and label it as "the rich get richer" scheme...             This behavior on sound was detrimental the ecosystem..        So it's not the bots,  it's a insider strategy that is easily abused, that doesn't just benefit the the ones getting high volume, but makes the experience for everyone else feel and look bad....             

Everyone is so passive in this space, these aren't defi trading ponzi's, these are platforms centered around art, that actively market themselves as superior to the web2 experience...         your integrity gotta be on empty if you try and shun the messenger for trying to stick up for the greater good of health of all users....           

I don't even wanna work on music or document art after all this,  so I pivoted and began documenting in detail this whole experience to create and actual documentary.  

No one wants to acknowledge users justified critiques,  but steady reposting untrue glazing statements...        

tisk tisk...           Naurdwuar on the case......  INCOMING

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Happy Friday Dav <3

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Super Dope!

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Blinded me with Science..... SCIENCE!!!!!!  <3

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Reminds me of The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa

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ZUNE DASHBOARD

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"Battle Mech, Robo Tech, Ready to Flex" - Apathy (Demigodz)

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"I let my tape rock, til my tape pop"

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(❁´◡`❁)

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Not fine, but grateful, thankful but not fine. 

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Floating

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🫂

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Peak enJoy ride.

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“Music is the utility” 

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🍜

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crystallized mako. “Meteor Fall” 

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Time extended +++

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Anxiety.

WML 🫂

Appreciate you adding to the convo.  I would assume at this point, the platforms (obviously the main pain point for most creatives and artists) already are fully aware how bad this all feels for artists and creatives but also realize there aren't enough real humans using the platforms to keep the lights on, so everyone is rushing to change what made this all special in an attempt to try to scale with hopes of mass adoption, when we aren't ready for that clearly.   And it seems like the ones making the calls think the ability to "possibly" make income for uploading compared to legacy web2 social is the thing that would be so intriguing to already skeptical normies, whom if did magically all onboard rn, would quickly realize, they jumped into a new ecosystem minus their existing following only to land in a void that just adopted the same broken discovery mechanisms where following and having followers have no meaning...           sustainability, income are a bonus, the majority of creatives I've crossed path with the past 30 years main concern beyond the creative process is their art making meaningful connections.           This mass pivot to obviously farm creatives and users for frequent traffic i can't see having the successful outcome whoever sacrificed and sunset our control over contracts, pricing, what and who we see on our feed, etc seems to be hoping for.        Wish it made sense, and wish all that retrofunding would have just went into creating an app experience separate from the magical goated web platforms.         but i'm also thankful because this all happening at once was very eye opening and taught me a valuable lesson once again.        So i'll do my best to not repeat the same bright eyed, heart full trusting mistake again. <3

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☔️ I’ll protect them 🐈🐈‍⬛

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Reticulating Super Moon Splines

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I honestly appreciate this change,  there is a world in which this can feel and look good beyond the abstract version that requires a bit more contract & token expertise than likely most artists / collectors who haven’t ventured into the defi / trading side of this universe.      Even if this were fully fleshed out,  simple to understand and execute to a degree that any recently onboarded (novice) user was able to digest, see the value and utilize.       The elephant in the room is still the main purpose for most artists to even use a platform.    Discovery / visibility / reach.        If this would have rolled out months ago before changes to following / discover & the search feeds.   It might have had a chance to be better received.    But when the “today/new” feed is truncated to displaying only a few select mystery mints instead of real time. At the same time the following / discover user feeds are congested with seeing the same popular thing everyone is minting and at the cost of not seeing new things created by the people you follow.       It makes it hard for new or existing artists, collectors to feel good about secondary markets when the same mechanics used in the legacy platforms that made pivoting even make sense.   Have been implemented in an ecosystem where discovery & reach are tied to possibility of monetary incentives.       and to be clear,  if I was benefitting from this existing model even at the highest level it still wouldn’t feel good because it’s a transparently broken model easily manipulated.        I say this all with love.  I’m definitely not the only one who notices or is disappointed in this taking place.     I’m just less inclined to put my self preservation over making an attempt to signal “There is glaring, unhealthy flaw” when it’s still early enough to course correct and patch the bugs. 

If those unhealthy bugs aren’t an oversight & are instead the intended function.        I don’t mind that being communicated directly so I don’t keep wasting time trying to hold onto Hope that this is something we can return to championing  and recommending 🫂

Passion or Apathy…

Passion may not scale as quick you’d like or need but sacrificing passion in an attempt to scale Apathy…  

Also doesn’t work.

Synonyms w/ Live Service Games

Passion shows praise & expresses discontent when the game the love breaks things they love after patch updates.    It’s a push & pull but that’s passion and passion equals retention.

Unlike a fully realized and finalized game, Live Service lives and d*es on player retention.

The Live Service Game deathblow is the shareholder roadmap.  Most of the players know the game devs love the game but shareholders & execs control the ship.     This ship seems to travel down the same path.   Pivot to Free to play,  dumb down game to not scare possible new player experience,  making long term player experience miserable.  Slow bleed of passionate dedicated player base,  New players come but don’t stay, Apathetic & unemotionally connected….         Game Studio let’s go of 30% of staff. 

Passionate players remember how their investment of time was tossed away and voices felt unheard.   Never trusts or touches future games by the studio they know makes amazing games cus they know as soon as it begins to pop off,  they won’t be happy with active player base and attempt to scale, repeating the same failed play book.

If we didn’t care, we wouldn’t care so much. Passion might not scale but building for apathy is well….   Raid Shadow Legends… 

Choose Your Adventure.

🫂

Appreciate your thoughts on this, My comment will be truncated unfortunately but if context in public is the format presented, I'll do my best to that format I love and appreciate justice <3 

I was an artist long before I was trader, and I was a trader before I minted my first combo of Music + Photo on Rarible in Feb 2021. While the finance side of trading coins was the motivation of me deep diving w/o external motivation or peer based inspiration to learn defi, It was the PvP aspect and getting better at TA over time that made me enjoy trading. Instead of dumping all my energy into leveling up and trying to master a video game, I decided to allocate that free time into trading when my ears needed a break from creating. Over time I learned all that TA I spent time learning, really has no use where the liquidity would choose to travel to.    All this to say, I love the coins, and the fact my wallet has a history woven into from my first to last trade, across chains, ecosystems and obscure narratives that are long forgotten.  Proof of solo leveling in the trenches fumbling generational wealth.

Because the trading coins part exists, I never stressed the financial side of the artist documenting side. I knew very early that royalties were basically a handshake deal unless centralized which you very eloquently expanded on.  So while that "selling point" to onboard artists into the ecosystem is definitely what brought a lot of artists here,  I was just a tired 40 year old artist in bad health that spent 3 of those decades dedicated to releasing music since the days of aol, exhausted watching decades of building an audience and amazing history captured on the internet be reset to 0 as search engines purged search results, platforms, blogs, and websites evaporated without notice (AOL MAIL / MYSPACE) the biggest personal hits, and losing the ability to reach my own followers who always showed up no matter how long I was away living live, and no longer being served posts and art from the people I chose to follow for reason...   and instead be lost in the shuffle, miss all friends posts while being bombarded by stuff I didn't sign up to see because someone I followed like, replied to something and the absolute worst part was not being able to avoid seeing the metrics and numbers attached to everything that became more valuable to society over time than the posts or art they were attached to          Uneducated and Naive in hindsight, what made me hard pivot to documenting my art and story via blockchain and collecting others was the "Selling Point" it is forever,  will always exist and no one can separate that media and metadata attached to it.     

For the first time since 2014, there was zero negative feelings attached to sharing expression online again,  Between Catalog, Foundation and Zora, I was able to browse as collector chronologically, avoid vanity metrics, have some sort of organization, reach my followers and see what my followers posted.    If the platform didn't have these things, or began to lose them, they lost me over time. 

Everyone is here for a different reason as an artist, collector, builder....  I understand this completely.      but what I have difficulty accepting without resistance is slowly, then rapidly watching all the "selling points" used to onboard "The Artists" whom without, Media / Art based platforms would serve who? All vanish and Mirror the same broken systems that were used as a "selling point" to onboard artist.

You think algorithms in a platform make sense for mass adoption, but there is an intrinsic face slap of removing the ability to have the simple feature of having "THE DEFAULT" feed on any platform be one that shows you only original posts from the people you choose to follow. When replaced by seeing suggested posts, or being jumbled and clogged with being force fed what others like, collect, repost, comment on.....   This feels bad on Legacy platforms where there is no financial incentives, just attention currency.             But when this happens on any platform where visibility is tied to financial system.       It feels irresponsible, since it creates unbalance in ecosystem where gaming that system and giving biased advantages while also obscuring others in the process....        I understand from a protocol and even platform level why seeing this typed out probably makes the person saying it out loud persona non grada since everyone's just trying to survive long term.         but there is no universe in which you can say in your heart that what is being said isn't coming from a place of love from someone who loves art and meaningful connection through art who's love can be traced through actions signaled in the wallet that this amazing technology gives meaning to using.

The timing of this inpublic post seems cosmic. Because Content has turned the internet into a real world black mirror episode and there's zero denying that, but most importantly....    Forcing Artists to approach creative expression as a Brand works, until it doesn't.   If you're interested in examples, the cosmic timing has been documented 24hrs before reading this below   🫂               

ily ❤️

Thank you sincerely from one Very O.G. Internet Person to another for being so thoughtful with your Art.   It’s kept me sane & grounded knowing I’m not insane for publicly expressing how unhealthy & unethical all these apps and platforms all feel.     I had a glimmer of hope with new tech and how good it felt to post and share again minus algorithms & pushing what others engage with down our throats & never having to question if my own posts would be lost in a sea of RNG popularity metrics….     I guess no one building anymore is confident enough they won’t fail without following the broken model of removing chronological real time discovery & more options….  It feels bad, no matter how you package it,  building for a dumbed down audience just further creates a perpetual lazy and dumbed down world. 

On that note.     Thank you sincerely elle.   You’re a good egg.  I appreciate you and I hope you realize that your presence was impactful.     I will be joining you on hiatus.    Tho mine will likely be Eternal. 🫂  

Love - “Dutchyyy VS The Algorithms”

Here’s my full clip.

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Classic song.

Dope Video!

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next level!    pulling on this gatcha immediately

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Alice in Wonderland

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You are now witnessing one of the most active creators & collectors reach the end of their passion, dedication & consistency.        It was a really simple concept.      I loved it.       But what I love, think, feel or do doesn’t move the needle.       I loved being able to follow specific people & never miss what the post.  I loved the false reality that this tech made sense for high effort, deep intentioned documentation.   

My heart breaks watching the platforms I love, hard pivot to mimic the platforms we tried to escape.  It breaks my heart instead of seeing the peoples original uploads of people I chose to follow,  I’m bombarded by only seeing what’s actively being engaged with….        It breaks my heart I trusted my legacy to places that acted like they cared about my work & story when I remained active during times where there was low activity & then as soon as I passionately gave honest feedback about changes about the platforms I actively & consistently use as a creator and collector.    That support was cut, & now I’m stuck watching the space I thought was on track to bring the magic back to the internet, force feed me low effort, disposable posts in a race to create Instagram 2.0.            I’m heart broken I minted my own work, just so I could leave a comment on it for a better chance for the people who follow me to see it. 

I’m heartbroken no one leaves the feeds to explore previous works, I’m heart broken seeing protocols drop a subpar image that trends with 50k mints when there aren’t 50k people collecting.  

I’m heart broken that being open and honest about what I’m not happy with, will have a greater impact on your perceptions of me over the fact that beyond my passionate words,  I’ve shown up consistently collecting and creating with love and intention to the point I’m ranked in the top 50 

My wittle heart and spirit can’t keep giving and giving  and showing up in places that loudly signal, I don’t belong.      Godspeed w/ mass adoption.       When you trade passion for apathy you end up as the live service game that lost its loyal player base in the quest for new players with no emotional investment or attachment.      

Sincerely, A Token Chat sweat.    Yearning to return to couch co-op & never boot up another live service “game” again. 

🫂 If you can’t grasp why someone is so emotionally invested in the topics that have just been expressed. 

It will all make sense soon. 

When no new context is documented,  the existing documenting context will connect the dots. 

Optimus Prime Lost His Spark in 1987…

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At the clock 

In vitro

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“Yoyoyoyoyoyoyo!”

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#EvolvingPortals

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pipe dreams

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olfaction traction

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Peak over the top 80's villain era

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Beautiful to read.  

To me, being able to cement music that's dear to your heart on the forever library is the valuable magic.   Discourse, public sentiment have always been such a fickle noise signal, at the beginning and the end it always was and always will be the quiet personal journey that fuels the art of turning imagination and emotion through creative expression into something tangible in the real world.  The amount of music I've created that I always didn't release or didn't love myself that ended up having deep impact on strangers changed my perspective on the value of resonance so many decades ago.   It's why since I pivoted to smart contracts, I've maintained uninterrupted consistency and unwavering conviction in staying the course and never slowing down due to external factors like market price, sentiment, or public discourse.  120 1/1's on catalog since 2022 and I'm not even close to finished securing my back catalog.      Things like Scarcity, Price, and all the "tradable asset" side of this technology aren't as important as the reason I choice to hard pivot in the first place..      A Forever Storage of Legacy tied to Context that will hopefully remain in tact long after I'm gone to serve as Proof of a lifetime of uninterrupted dedication, love and servitude to the love of my life.      "Music"

"I Used to love H.e.r." 

inner visions

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womb ost

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:::insert smallville theme song here:::

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So dope!

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Always Enjoy

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🌱🫂🌱

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Dear Coop:

It ruffled feathers because when it comes to music the way you have moved and shifted narratives loudly is always as far from organic & authentic as it gets.      I have no doubts you’re a fan of music, but you don’t move as someone who respects culture & or anything organic,  I’m sure you’ve made the people around you money from music, but you, me & everyone else knows it’s never been organic, from botting sound, to boosts..   You’re an intelligent human & no one can deny you’re business savvy,  but you’re strategies & influence are not used for good of music or artists in the ecosystem.   It’s blockchain,  it’s all transparent.      VC’s & Founders, Protocols & Friends is who you serve.    You know in your heart this an objective truth so of course you ruffled feathers, you’re the loudest voice & you have of history of not being a net positive for culture, art, music.     Wish you could understand, but your actions & words have done the most harm to “this ecosystem”   🫂

Ily 

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Those were the times

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Sidechain Sadness

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Surreal Timing 🫂

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Songcamp Genesis

(┬┬﹏┬┬)

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"No More Guessing, For me"

soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/dutchy-the-tame

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SP1200 cardiovascular love potion incoming

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Bit crushed rem cycles

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👻⬅️🍃🛣️←🫂

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🍱🍣🍱🍣🍱

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Each One Teach One +++

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Rift Drifting 

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Loop Sessions.

"Sings the Smallville theme song"

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✌️✌️🙏

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Artists can’t ever say goodbye to creating.    Trust me,  3 & half decades being a starving artist connected to the most talented audio wizards of our generation,  no one ever can walk away from the sacred process of creating from imagination..     maybe a hiatus, but never goodbye.       Enjoy your rest, see you on the other side 🫂

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#NatureBoyKickSnare #TheUproot #Traversal

🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱Organic Discovery🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 

Digital to physical to Digital

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Music +++

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