Checks - Bored Apes Edition

Lucid Paths

An exclusive collection of 1000 high quality generated NFTs. Each NFT is a representation of our own unique journey that is found through following our intuition and curiosity. Lucid Paths is creative generative artwork that celebrates color, sound, and inspires creation.

Lucid Paths #887

SamurAI

An AI generated Samurai aka SamurAI. This collection is focused on paying homage to traditional samurai culture and showcasing how traditions can change over time.

SamurAI #975

SamurAI #974

Memes by Batz

This is a meme generated by 0xec9e512fe7e90134d8ca7295329ccb0a57c91ecb at 1713667859.

Meme #143

Scapes x Checks VV

 Check out these Scape Elements!

 FREE MINT, 24 hours (2 per wallet, send one to your friend!)
 Each address participates in a giveaway for 3 Scapes, graciously offered by the (Punk)Scape-Community-Vault (0xff9774e77966a96b920791968a41aa840dede507)

What is Scapes? The seminal 10k NFT Banner project.
More about Scapes here: https://scapes.xyz/about


Scapes x Checks VV 5

Jack's Roadmaps

640 unique Roadmaps visualizing Jack Butchers incredible work with the Checks VV Edition.

Jack's Roadmap 74

The Memes by 6529 Rememed by CONLON

when @punk6529 wrote a thread about taxis, i had no idea i would begin thinking so much about the centralisation taking place around us. 

tl;dr, how much do you rely on privately owned databases in your everyday life? if you made one wrong move, how impactful could they be? do you possess the Freedom to Transact?

Original artwork by JakNFT. Rememed by CONLON. Used under cc0.

uber account deactivated

Possibly the earliest recorded capture of 6529er"s infamous UncleSeize.

Uncle NEEDS YOU!

Rememed by CONLON. Used under cc0.

UncleSeize Origins

TheArtofJuss Open Editions

I was around for the merge in 2022.

We were in a bear market, the queen passed away, US stock market wiped out $1.6 trillion in one day and the debate on Vitalik"s dick size is still ongoing.  


I survived the merge 2022

Community Outreach

This artwork memorializes the rapid organic growth of Opepen across numerous NFT communities on 3/17/2023.  The canvas set by Jack Butcher gives "a set of recognizable constraints as a catalyst for permissionless creativity".  Thanks to Jack for the inspiration and Visualzare for the Opepefy tool that made all of this possible.

Community Outreach 5

Everyday Generative Art 

a combination of trending topics, personal reflection, and journaling

as Everydays develops, a greater emphasis has been placed on the descriptions, acting as a daily Ethereum based memorialization of ideas from the day   

Everydays by 008.eth

To feel alive in 2023, a year+ into the bear, we need extreme action to feel anything, pain has become it"s own pleasure, sometimes we just need it to feel alive

Web3 Celebrates REKT mythos 
- Perhaps a carry over from the loss porn on wsb, Robin Hood portfolios going from $1k to $100k to $0k 
- In this PvP world, we know not everyone gonna be a winner, so if you gonna lose, lose in style

Barebone 
- XCOPY works with skulls as a motif ... in majority of art 
- glitch art + skulls => pinnacle of 1/1 work in web3 
- because when dead, you may as well party hard 
- Max Pain #3772 by XCOPY reference piece 

YOLO Culture  
- In old days, we lived in a physical reality  
- We had to keep up with the Joneses  
- Today ... we are constantly bombarded with life highlights  
- Expensive trips/cars on Instagram, homes we can"t afford on TikTok, NFTs more than our annual salaries  
- For the average Joe or Jane to make it ... needs something that gives outsized returns  
- $50k ain"t gonna change most lives ... the life we want costs a lot more 
- So we YOLO, we HODL longer than we should ... so we can plausibly dream of the future we want

Dreams are Powerful 
- Shower thoughts, the idea hey it could be me, I took xyz crazy risk ... held through everything ... for the chance ... to get to next level 
- & this does lead to a lot of bad decision making 
- But people don"t understand, YOLO is about buying the dream

Vibes 
- Vibes are the defining factor of web3  
- Differing from rest of financial markets 
- If the vibes are right ... the trade works it seems 
- What the hell does that mean?  
- Vibes = vibrations 
- Vibing = synchronized vibrations

Vibrations 
- Imagine you"re at a music festival & crowd moving to one beat, vibing at same frequency 
- A twitter spaces can have that same concept ... people are in sync 
- And the trade works, until the vibes are off ... and the momentary order shifts to disorder

Getting in Sync 
- When we allow ourselves to become effectively group hypnotized ... combo"d with our propensity to YOLO 
- You can get parabolic moves in small market cap assets commonly found in web3  
- Because people don"t sell, the vibes are right

Observation 
- I think we as a community are primed for the rise of @eth_ben and @Pauly0x being able to raise funds 
- on a vibe 
- given everyone"s YOLO dreams to move their life from 0 to 1  
- & even if it doesn"t materialize, we have the safety net of our own REKT subculture

SHOCK THERAPY

1.6 million views about nothing, worth $1.1 million dollars

From @MrBeast converting YouTube views to burger sales, to OnlyFans creators" subscription revenue, & now influencers collecting $ETH with ease

Attention = $$$$

Clockwork Orange  
- In 1971 the idea anyone would want to digest endless content, often times unpleasant was akin to torture  
- mind drifts to classic eyes open scene from Kubrick"s A Clockwork Orange  
- & yet today ... we ... collectively hand over our $ETH 
- Because we want visceral feedback for our endless content stream

$ Trillions 
- App Store devs made $1.1 Trillion in billings/sales from App Store in 2022  
- Up 29% year over year 
- We, the consuming public, spend money on content, on entertainment, to satisfy our attention

Corners of the Internet 
- Not every place offers the same attention experience 
-- TikTok, time wormhole  
-- OnlyFans has its niche  
-- Instagram, the good life & aspiring to live our best lives  
- Here on twitter, & specifically crypto twitter 
- We like emotional roller coasters

Time Machine with me  
- Zynga, Facebook, circa 2011 
- FarmVille, propelled Zynga to billions of market cap  
- How? because of whales

What is a Whale?  
- Back in 2011 Zynga had a special program for people willing to wire $500 ... yes $500 (call it $1k adjusted for inflation) 
- 1% of their users were 25-50% of their revenue 
- in our corner of world, $1k is a minnow 
- $100k not even a whale in most projects

What Does this Mean? 
- Attention here in crypto twitter, in NFT twitter, web3 whatever 
- Attention here is supercharged, it"s perhaps the most valuable attention in the world  
- @Pauly0x with 71k followers posts about nothing, gets $1.19 million  
- $17 per follower

 
@MrBeast YouTube King, bluechip af

- Oct 2022, with 191 million YouTube subs, TechCrunch said he tried to raise at $1.5 billion valuation 
- Lifetime value: $8 per follower  
- #1 revenue US YouTuber  
- Here on crypto twitter @Pauly0x gets $17/follower in a day, a single event

We are all Whales  
- On any other platform or game ... nearly all of us would be a whale  
- We spend so much money here  
- We have our own token, $ETH, it barely feels like real money 
- & because we are all whales, it"s a fierce PvP  
- For our attention

If you"re here for money, or entertainment, or to learn, or you just like the emotionally charged daily timeline 
- ... it doesn"t matter why  
- you"re here & you"re paying to be here 
- you"re paying to have an intense experience  
- there"s a battle raging for your 