An Uncโs guide to Little Swag World.
We have been welcoming many new holders this week so now seems an appropriate time to show you around.
This thread serves as a brief overview of some of the main components of our little swag world.
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No itโs a good idea cos the floor might go up and the coin might go up so then everyone is happy, it doesnโt matter if the NFTs are owned by bots or the floor becomes unattainable or unattractive to humans because you can buy some of the coin instead and that becomes what owing a cryptopunk is about.
Holy shit CardNFT2 Binder just came in with an extra lil card and a slot to put my LSW Card in. Canโt wait to receive my redeemed cards to fill this bad boy out ๐ฎโ๐จ
It may be of little comfort but this is most peopleโs experience of crypto, it is designed to humiliate.
Iโve fumbled multiple bags that would have been approaching a million, would have been if Iโd just done nothing.
..Or would they? sometimes Iโm not sure if this stuff isnโt predetermined or at least beyond our control because it is impossible not to make the decisions that you make.
Regardless, even when Iโve had big โwinsโ Iโve largely squandered it back to square one.
Does money mean a lot to you?
I have a stable financial situation rn and a family, but the urge to fuck it up, is sometimes overwhelming. Different countries, no money, no responsibilities, were the happiest parts of my life.
Unlike most participants, you have actually contributed something of meaning with your art, and your relative honesty and authenticity sets you beyond the vast majority of people within this corner of the internet, in my eyes at least.
You can, of course. It just struck me as completely at odds with the mood of that tweet.
Rather than getting into a futile debate about what constitutes โartโ, letโs just agree that every single NFT ever made is art, and every single creator in this space is a digital artist.
Because I think the meaninglessness of that distinction makes my point.
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DeGods were one of my first Solana NFTs, but looking back at the quality of the collections the market and I were buying in 21/22, and how much we were paying, is embarrassing.
We were blinded by hype, fomo and greed.
Now that everything else has been stripped away and all we are left with is the image, it should be obvious we need to rethink the way we value NFTs.
This is what I find so compelling about avant-NFTs on Solana. To me they represent something resembling post-NFT art. Offering meaning beyond their medium and a shift away from the technology itself as the artistic proposition.
Art as the foundation on which to rebuild.
In balance, however, I think itโs naive and arrogant to assume that a โnew imageโ alone is enough. Progressive pngs alone will not establish lasting cultural or economic value, and we shouldnโt view commercial ambition as incompatible with artistic integrity.
Thatโs why projects like Little Swag World and Drifella are so exciting to me. @supermetalx and @bis__cut are rare examples of artists building ecosystems and fostering communities around work which has the substance to withstand critical scrutiny.
They offer a holistic direction for NFTs. Collections that address the aesthetic shortcomings the first wave, but without dismissing the inherent nature of the medium or the value of network effect.
A beacon of hope to those that mourn the aspirational nature of that NFT bull run, but acknowledge that those gold-rush relics must die for something greater to emerge.
NFTs are dead.
Long Live NFTs.
Itโs remarkable how confidently you can express an opinion on a subject you clearly know so little about, even for a troll alt account.
You clearly have no understanding of who Evil Biscuit is, what heโs already achieved, or the multidisciplinary talent demonstrated throughout his back catalogue, because familiarity with any of it would have been enough to recognise just how poorly informed your last tweet was.