General Yay Bird

He/ Him/ Yay. Not a real general

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

@gainzy222 How do I transition from impatient peasant to patient rich person?

[Pixa NFT @pixa_nft]

The new PixaBadge is available to mint for 2 weeks! 🔥

Reminder this is completely free and is minted on polygon (low gas!)

🪙THE BITCOIN BADGE 🪙

Mint yours here: https://t.co/cxevEud64H

[Pixa NFT @pixa_nft]

We are giving away a PixaWarg NFT! 🐺

How to enter:
- retweet
- like
- tag a friend in the comments

Draw will happen on Friday at noon EST!

[Pixa NFT @pixa_nft]

Tag a friend in the comments that doesn't know about Pixa! 👇

Let them know your favorite collection! 🪄

There's always mints available on our site (https://t.co/chf3EzR1UX) even some free stuff! 👀

[Pixel People Art Collaboration @_Pixel_People_]

Acquisition Offer:

Curating artists @_BR4DL3Y & @kahncept from Pixel People propose to acquire @yaypegs' IP as-is. This non-monetary deal pledges our resources to revitalize this once community-driven project and recover it’s integrity

DM us @ccmoret

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

@_Pixel_People_ Bring back this Gem 💎

[yaypegs @yaypegs]

Yaypegs is for sale

Today was the final straw for us. The Animaglia account got hacked, and the collection was made completely free, marking the biggest violation we've faced in this space. Despite enduring harassment and threats behind closed doors, we kept it private. But today's attack was the tipping point. Due to this, we're forced to take the following measures: Yaypegs is for sale!

Our Solana account has been drained and mint conditions changed. We ask Metaplex to deactivate the Mint Page, because the account is compromised.

We have thought about all possible scenarios and came to the determination that new leadership has to come to Yaypegs, which is why the project is for sale.

Our intentions could not be clearer:

1 - Yaypegs was free and 0% royalties.
2 - The community voted to activate 5% royalties (NON ENFORCE Royalties). So we only received 69 ETH of the ~450 ETH.
3 - We worked for 1 year, we work with funds that are not enough for 6 months runway, to achieve that, We worked for free. So part of the team continued working the rest of the year for free.
4 - We were transparent in everything throughout the entire process: 65 announcements, 35 weekly updates, 20 twitter spaces and governance with 14,700 votes.
5 - In the last 9 months Yaypegs received less than $300 USD in royalties.

More here: 🧵 1 Year Graphic Summary: https://t.co/nuxbawamkt

Our mistakes:

- Not using a Hardwallet for our Phanton account, which we did with Yaypegs.
- Rush the Animaglia Mint.
- Try to go to Solana.
- The impact of the work carried out did not reach the market expectations (conclusion that we draw from the floor price and not from the overall sentiment).

Few NFT projects have done things with good intentions. Most NFT projects have been a scam, others have been slow rugs, we believe that less than 1% are actually doing something for the holders and the space.

Making a startup is extremely difficult, it entails challenges of innovation, continuous learning, working 80 hours a week and the risk that 1/10 will succeed. Having a public company is very difficult because the holders have constant expectations and ideas of how things should be done. NFT is the union of these two worlds and brings the best and the worst of each, and both extremes are constantly expressed depending on the floor price and the general sentiment.

For us, Yaypegs became a toxic environment that we no longer want to be a part of.

Animaglia Holders

The 347 mints and the ~47 holders who minted before the Allowlist will be compensated with Yaypegs from the Vault.

Yaypegs Sale

It will be open for sale for the next 30 days, if at the end of this period the sale is not finalized, the Yaypegs collection will become 0% royalties and will be just art.

In the past there have been two proposals to buy Yaypegs which are expired (This has not been discussed before due to an NDA).

What does the sale include?

1 - Transfer of Social Networks.
2 - Transfer of ownership of the Discord Server.
3 - The Yaypegs that remain in the Vault once the compensation has been made to the Animaglia holders.
4 - Transfer of Ownership of the Yaypegs contract.
5 - Website (All Code) and Transfer of the https://t.co/BHg2nOlM8J domain
6 - Master of the collection's Photoshop file.
7 - Assets Folder Images and Metadata Original Yaypegs collection.
8 - Stage 1 and 2, with all assets.
9 - Folder with the Brand assets.
10 - Animaglia: We will deliver all the images, metadata and master art files so you can launch stage 3.

Only what's listed is part of the sale; anything not mentioned is not included. We'll only respond to serious offers, whether made publicly or privately.

Yaypegs is ready for new leadership.

We appreciate all the support, and we hope that under the new owner, Yaypegs achieves the position it deserves.

This is our second-to-last post; the final one will announce the sale.

Thank you,
The Yaypegs Team.

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

@yaypegs The right thing to do. Hopefully it’s bought by someone who was there from the start to try and return Yaypegs back to their original glory. Personally I didn’t like the turn away from pixel art but Animaglia was the real death of it.

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

@_BR4DL3Y @AnimagliaNFT This is a real shame. Yaypegs had so much potential at one point… What could have been 💭

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

@crazyclipsonly Is this the French training to be Americans?

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

@MarioNawfal Translation: “We are in a position to disrupt a terrorist organisation that’s sole purpose is to eradicate us from the planet but we are not going” 🤪

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

5/
Having to publish, then retract/ edit a statement for being wrong causes much more damage to globally trusted outlets like AP, Reuters, BBC, etc than it does to CJ’s. Cut it short these corporations can’t afford to do this while many CJ’s, waiting for their big break can

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

There is a huge difference in what you do vs msm. Yes, citizen journalism is extremely important and most of the time you do a fantastic job at that. But when it come to the hospital bombing some of your spaces that week were an absolute shit show… 1/

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨Mainstream Media Admits Citizen Journalism Is “Easily Outpacing Established Mainstream News Outlets”

As we saw during FTX and the Russian Mutiny, we’re again dominating mainstream media in live coverage during the current war.

And again, the media is trying to discredit us.

During the Russian mutiny, NBC and others did hit pieces on me to try to discredit X.

This time, they at least admitted defeat in both articles:

GIZMODO: “Meet the ‘New Elites’ Who Control Twitter's Israel-Hamas News”

NBC: “7 influential accounts are warping Israel-Hamas news on X, researchers find”

So, what did they attack us on this time?

1. That we got more engagement on them, and they have more followers

MY RESPONSE: You guys don’t know how to post on X

2. That @elonmusk engages with us (They REALLY don’t like Elon 😂)

MY RESPONSE: And?

3. That we gained too many followers (not making this up!)

MY RESPONSE: We gained followers as people like our content. It's simple.

4. That some of us, including me, have “an entire team of people” run our accounts

MY RESPONSE: And you don’t have an entire team to run your organization?

5. And of course, they dug into our history to try to find dirt. Typical

MY RESPONSE: 😂

Gizmodo, unlike NBC, had the decency and respect to contact me before putting out their piece.

MISINFORMATION:

They also mentioned their concern around misinformation, which I respect.

I told them that I can only speak for myself, and that I quote our source under every post.

I am VERY strict, even OBSESSED, in ensuring we only post confirmed news, but at the same time we're careful not to ever act as the 'Arbiters of Truth'

To me, TRUST is SIGNIFICANTLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN ENGAGEMENT.

I also pointed out that Community Notes is doing a GREAT JOB at correcting misinformation, even being TOO STRICT at times 😂

I want to give credit to Gizmodo. Unlike NBC, which again did a PATHETIC hit piece without asking for comments, Gizmodo was a lot more balanced, and they had a long call with me to ensure they get all the facts.

Anyway, I’m glad mainstream media finally admitted defeat.

Now it’s our responsibility on X to avoid misinformation as we lead the Citizen Journalism movement.

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

4/
Yes, Citizen journalists will usually be first to publish breaking news sometimes hours before MSM picks it up. But most of the time this isnt because they dont have reports of it happening, but are once again using their thousands of employees to fact check before publishing

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

Let’s address the elephant in the room….

If you go back before 1947 was it called Cis-Jordan?

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

This map was issued by National Geographic in 1947, one year before Nakba, there was no such thing called “Israel”.

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

@MarioNawfal What helicopter can hold 50 soldiers?? A chinook can only hold 30

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

@benshapiro I haven’t seen it this time round but I remember several years ago seeing Hamas firing rockets, litterally from school playgrounds. Knowing that when the IDF immobilise these rocket stations there will be child casualties…

[General Yay Bird @GeneralYayBird]

@Realrclark25 Who said he wasn’t in the lab….. 🤔