I’ve already briefly touched on my trajectory In terms of artist long before trader, defi bridge hopping sh*t coin trader before artist onchain, Navigated both of those in parallel, trading being a private practice to sustain as a means to allow the art side to be absent of urgency in terms of being a means to survive. As a pretty active participant in both lanes. There was never a coin (beyond eth & boomer coin) that had my attention, yet my multiple wallets have traded sh*t coins across all chains, even abandoned ones. Sh*t coin is a broad stroke but meme coins absolutely land on the same canvas. I’ve made a lot of money on coins, & lost even more. Regardless of direction, none of that was conviction based or attention based, beyond the attention of time spent playing pvp trying not to be on the losing side of zero sum. Because it lacked emotion, attention, conviction…. I could allow myself to play zero sum battle ship know that a win for me is a loss for another. Which brings us to Art…. And let’s be honest. Zora is an art platform. How we got here doesn’t change that. It’s an art platform that couldn’t scale to its ambitions or to the expectations of those funding, so the hard pivot to ::insert air quotes:: “social platform”. Before that hard pivot lived the tip meta. The tip meta, helped to transition Zora from “art platform” to platform that now has incentives to be gamed. Enter an influx of ai generated memes for your chosen or multi tipping tokens because hey, why not spin up multiple burner wallets to try and capture value of seeing these tipping tokens of effortless ai images also playing a little PvP, resulting in seeing some very niche, inside an already niche and in no way relatable to anyone outside of holding those tipping tokens. Doing high value numbers in contrast to art. Now that’s out of the way. Present day. Zora being the poster child of having a skitzo identity crisis. Aims to scale outside of art is valuable, and niche images of green arrows & purple top hats, “Hey, look over here! You earn instead of just getting likes for your photo of your morning coffee mug… he’ll, you can even earn from created ai imagery of what otherwise would be just a quickly snapped nature photo…. At the same time jeckle is trying to get Becky the influencer to transition from ig for her daily posts, Hyde is snickering proudly holding its kerosene flickering lantern, In a cobble stone alleyway wearing an oversized trenchcoat whispering about the lesser known underworld, vaguely alluding that beneath every upload, whether highly intentional artwork, ai generated horse or daily photo at brunch is a market. Even if they are unaware, there could be people playing zero sum PvP on thier photo of fig on toast with some people winning and others losing While you’re not even aware of where or how to access this world to participate.. the farthest from mass adoption possible. Every post is a market, every post is a meme…. Attention, value…. From 4chan message boards to tumblr, a golden shibu pup & Saturday night live…. No meme has ever truely captured my attention, no token not attached to media has ever been something I’d ever emotionally connect to. And when multi media is attached to token, the last thing on mind is playing zero sum battle ship. I just want to collect one and hold it forever. I’m not even emotionally invested in the subject I’m addressing. Haha. I however am nostalgic about the blog era & appreciate the mind, creative works & experimentation of tokens designed to initiate discussions. Hence my participation any time one of these posts manages to win the RNG roll and actually reach me…. I participate by actually taking the time to articulate in long form. In closing: The reason zora is 100% not a social platform is because, no one can directly reply to this comment. No alert, Once I click mint, This will locked in wallet out of sight out of mind. Even the initial poster of this, will have to pay to comment If they do reply. I’ll never know.. because the poster will have moved onto to thier next post. Attention, Value….. nothing retains attention, emotional value on a 72hr maximum retention cycle…. This was fun 🫂
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