Surprise? Motherfucker！
wait,wait,don’t be angry with that, its just a kidding for the readers like u,and congrats to u who didn’t close the reading page,u must have a joyful travel in the process of reading this article abt the famous NFT project all around the world——“Mfers”（yeah，the creator of this is @sartoshi ）.
Hello, everybody here, my name is @wenser . My purpose of writing this article is talking to you about the "well-known", "CC0" and "NFT" projects that have attracted a lot of attention recently,and WARNING ABOUT THAT : just share my personal opinions abt it, and sth I have observed, just for reference and personal research, don't be hyped, don't FOMO, don't shit my words, otherwise I will also return it with "motherfucker (good luck)" to u (a serious face. JPG).
【The Version is Too long to read 】——
- Start: Just for fun - a brief introduction to the creator of mfers and the origin of the project
- Reality: nobody cares - overview of mfers marketing data and introduction of derivatives mfers projects
- To the Moon: web2 VS web3 - a detailed introduction to the take-off process of mfers in the field of Chinese and English NFTs
- Deeply-Thinking: for what? - Talk about mfers in my eyes and why people buy mfers in spite of the price
- Inspiration: to be or not to be? ——Talk about the uniqueness of mfers and its inspiration for NFT projects
- Future: who is the final winner? ——In my views of NFTs and answer the questions in headline
INTRO.#
In recent days, the international situation has been extremely out of control. A series of follow-up effects caused by the Russian-Ukrainian war are still spreading to more fields in a pulse-like state. "the heartbeat is testing now", fluctuating high and low, quite a kind of tragic feeling of "short and long hands in double kills".
Of course, affected by this, the NFT field has experienced a boom period of about 2 months, and the market has gradually cooled down. The breaking down of new projects become the norm, and the revealing of NFT has become a hell-level test. Many such as BAYC, MAYC, Doodles , Coolcats, Azuki, Clonex and other top blue-chip NFT projects have fallen in varying ways compared with the previous high floor prices.
In this cold and almost silent market environment, mfers, as a "so motherfucker weird" NFT project,it has rarely been risen against the trend. The floor price has skyrocketed from the previous lowest price of 0.05ETH to 6.0ETH. The return of investment ratio can reach an astonishing 120 times. In the NFT market of 5x, 10x, and 50x, this rate of return is so terribly high.
So close to the floor price of the so-called "blue-chip NFT project", coupled with the "simple" image of a "stickman", the "professional" image of a suspected "programmer", and the "unruly" attitude and wrist with a cigarette in his mouth. There are all kinds of "famous watches" and "funny" expressions that look like crying and laughing, and other elements that look weird individually, but when combined, they look rare (maybe because of the increased floor price hahahaha) , it has become a topic that everyone talks about at day and night, so it's a nomarl topic we can discuss.
And the layouts given by many crypto media recently also prove this point: everyone is really curious about mfers-related things - whether it is the story, the creator, or the special "cc0" mechanism, which seems to be loose but has the super cohesive hodlers after minted day and there are so many derivative mfers as meme and more and more hot attention to it, there are the hidden cultural phenomena and cultural explanations behind them, such as:
1.mfers: 丧文化，后亚文化下的 web 3.0 新部族
The three articles discussed mfers from the perspectives of "Analysis of mourning culture/diaosi culture subculture", "Analysis of mfers hodler's personal journey", and "studies of popular culture in the direction of Birmingham School from the perspective of CC0", each has its own emphasis.
And the point of view I want to express, I personally like the second one the most. After all, only this one is from the perspective of an "mfer", stating his reasons for buying and some feelings after integrating into the community, while the other two are more of a this kind of "other" perspective requires more scrutiny and inevitable speculation, so I won't make too much comments here.
Of course, with so much foreshadowing, I actually mean that there are mainly three key points-
- From the aspect of a NFT project, mfers is a "blue-chip project" worthy of review and research;
- From the perspective of the crypto field, mfers is a community/group with a high degree of "crypto native" and a "cryptopunk" spirit;
- From the perspective of meme culture, mfers is an experimental sample that reflects social and cultural trends, renews interest groups, and transforms social organizational structure.
Today, the number of derivative NFT projects in mfers is increasing day by day, and even as many as nearly 100 (including but not limited to chicks, bots, ahead, azuki, apes, invisible, etc.), and the beginning of our story is started by a string of mysterious letters.
Start：Just for fun#
"satoshi" (Satoshi), this code name became a special symbol after the advent of Bitcoin in 2009, because the code name of the anonymous inventor of Bitcoin is "Satoshi Nakamoto" (Nakamoto), since then, as a magic symbol, "satoshi" has represented "yyds (forever god)" in the field of crypto. The creator of the mfers series of NFTs is a person deeply influenced by Satoshi Nakamoto and the "cryptopunks spirit" - @sartoshi (As you can learn from the ID, this guy is a big fan of Satoshi Nakamoto, with an extra "r” , possibly meaning "real").
As a senior collector in the NFT field, holder of the cryptopunks series NFT, "OG in the JPG world", "The king of surfing on Twitter", according to @sartoshi himself, his inspiration for creating mfers came from the image below ——“are u winning, son?” It’s a famous meme in youtube.
In this picture composed of rough and direct lines, a father who was out and returned home pushed in and shouted, "ARE YA WINNING,SON ?" While the son was sitting on the chair in front of the computer desk, watching a dark screen of computer fell into silence, or, in other words, provided a "stage" - you can spoof, you can joking it, you can play freely, you can even write a "small composition" in the blank area, as long as you want.
It’s so touching, do u think so?
After drawing a lot of comics and making some comics into NFTs and donating some of the NFT proceeds to charity organizations, after having the ability to create economic value to deceive ETH through comics, @sartoshi began to put his ambitions on the "10K series of NFTs Works”. At this time, when he was creating, tweeting, and calling out "motherfucker" in countless emoticons and meme pictures, as well as his irony about many chaos and messup in the field of NFTs (after all, today, many people still think that NFTs are just some cheating JPG pictures, and indeed many NFT projects are the proof of it actually) the urge to be pissy up, and with the fanatical belief in the "cryptopunks series of NFTs", the ridicule of many iconic NFTs, “the development dream team in NFT field" @westcoastnft's great help, etc. Various incentives, as well as an attempt by @punk#4156 and @punk#6529 for the NFT field to be released in the public domain, that is, in the form of cc0, mfers series NFT was launched in minting website on November 30, 2021 at 4:20 pm (remember this time point) officially . At that time, the mint price of the mfers series NFT project was only 0.069ETH, and it was successfully sold out within a few minutes (its an amazing result but within the guessing range of manys). Many community memberships and "homages" to many well-known NFT projects have played a lot of important roles,for @sartoshi.
From this point of view, the mfers NFT project seems to be much higher than the starting point of many NFT projects that have broken frequently in recent times. After all, it has not embarked on the endless embarrassing road of minting, and it is not like the two "NFT pioneers" of cryptopunks and BYAC. , At first no one was interested, but later it was full of people and rushing into.
After that, though, mfers doesn't seem to be much different from other NFT projects that no one cares about.
Reality：nobody cares#
Although @sartoshi mentioned in the article "What are mfers", "I am very happy to see what a world with mfers would look like", but for a long time Inside, as if mfers didn't make a difference in the world.
At least from the perspective of market feedback, the overall transaction volume of mfers has been still low for a long period of time (to be precise, except around January 18, probably before February).
This is also the norm for many NFT projects: the debut is the peak, and it gradually returns to zero.
But what is different from general NFT projects is that mfers is a "highly decentralized" NFT project. Why do you say that? because
mfers does not have an official discord group (although later there was a so-called "official unofficial discord group");
· mfers has no official team, no decision-making and executive personnel with different division of labor but clear responsibilities (except @sartoshi );
· There is no official roadmap for mfers, no plans for the first, second, third, and fourth steps, and no plans for Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4.
That is to say, there is no so-called "project party" in the mfers project, and naturally there is no so-called "leek". In other words, the holders of mfers, each of them is a "project party" and also a "leek" , although such a name sounds schizophrenic, but it is true. The idea that @sartoshi wants to convey is: in the mfers world he created, "we all mfers" (we are all mfers), all living beings are equal, there is no distinction between high and low, senior and young, and there are no rules here. There is no plan.
So, after that, how did @sartoshi live before they became mfers, and how they live now, happily continue to surf Twitter, NFT community, and web3 world every day.
And that’s the interesting part of a NFT project here,the creator do not have the responsibility to take care of the emotions and feelings of the members in community or those holders.
But at the same time, it has opened a new "window" for the NFT field - the subsequent development of mfers does not require the approval or review of the creator @sartoshi. After the NFT is mint and arrives in everyone's encrypted wallet, master this The power of NFT and this NFT project is completely and directly handed over to everyone who holds it, or people who recognize the "mfers spirit", "mfers values", "mfers philosophy" - mfers.
@sartoshi is like an architect, he built a stage (or can it be called a rotten "metaverse"?), prepared some props and costumes, and then he just ran away (not running away) , that is, go back to where you want to go happily and lively), and then give mfers one after another, one after another, one class after another, or let go of yourself, or the dream-seeking entertainment circle web3, Or to enrich the venues and opportunities of the "mfers universe".
Since then, people who love to play, have fun, and dare to play have another "the topic of play" - mfers. As @sartoshi said, the unplanned mfers series NFT, instead It gave more and more mfers space to sway their inspiration, time, energy, and talents, to "do what you want to do, and don't do anything if you don't want to do it", so there will be later things— —
@TheSimpsonzPunk（probably one of the first derivative）
(PS: The above rankings are in no particular order)
Maybe nobody cares, but mfers care.
Moon：web2 VS web3#
So, what made mfers have the attitude of "soaring into the sky" to "breaking the circle strongly"?
——Is it because it represents self-deprecating, decadent, flat, and mourning culture?
——Is it because of meme, emoji, cc0, popular culture?
- Or is it just because it's fun enough, meaningless enough, free enough, and decentralized enough?
Don't rush to give an answer first, let's briefly review the development of mfers in the field of Chinese NFTs (thanks to the enthusiastic netizens and core members of mfers sub-universe @FootDAO @ShxnjiΞ ):
一、mfers ＜0.3ETH stage#
1.mfers first attracted attention in the Chinese community because of a tweet from the well-known NFT KOL named by LaserCat @LaserCat397.eth:
和大家解释一下，纯粹好玩，因为这个NFT没有dis、也没有路线图、推特也没有，就一个创始人的推特。所以我来搞了这个小活动玩一玩，用我的10个mfers进行创作或者你自己的，还有愿意提供给大家创作的也可以发在评论区。
The first mfers cosplay competition starts, and the 5 winners will get the competition reward. Although in 2021.12.1, LaserCat @LaserCat397.eth announced the gas of NFT top collector @sartoshi's stickman mfers avatar series NFT (it is worth mentioning that calling mfers "stickman" is the first creation of LaserCat) war (gas fee war, usually occurs when the popular NFT project mint, because you want to mint to NFT earlier and faster, you can choose to increase the gas fee), but this dynamic obviously did not attract much attention.
mfers.art/# 爆炸gas在印！
This day is 2021.12.2, the third day after the NFTs of mfers are sold out.
2. Three days after the launch of mfers cosplay by @LaserCat397.eth , the results of the competition were released:
Mfers模仿比赛结束了，非常纠结选哪5位，在8位里面纠结了半天，最终在群友的帮助下选出了这5个，请获胜的私聊我，另外非常谢谢其他参加的朋友们，这个活动玩的很开心！ 不过mfers地板还是很不行，短暂突破过2次0.2，但是都没站稳。
It was at this time that mfers' imitations and emojis began to appear sporadically in some WeChat groups, and after that began to appear in more and more WeChat groups, discord groups, Twitter, etc., although, like this one. The floor price for mfers is still "less than ideal," Twitter said.
In these "cosers", the "ingredients" are also very complicated: some men dress up as women, some steal their wives to clean face masks and pretend to be zombies, some promise girls a year-round meal for cos competitions, some are served directly by animals, and some It was launched by his own "little brat". (Original quote from @ShxnjiΞ )
This day is 2021.12.6, the 7th day after the official release of mfers.
二、mfers ＜0.7ETH stage#
3.Then, there was a long "silent period" until @LaserCat397.eth launched the second mfers cosplay competition——
The Second Annual Cosplay Competition of mfers is Coming! Total Prizes are one lasercat net whitelist and three mfers nft! Enter the competition and you may win a prize! Mfers is an attitude to life, please join us!
At this time, in fact, the market performance of mfers has successfully achieved a "floor price achievement" of nearly 5 times. Coupled with the incentives of the laser cat community's whitelist, it has set off a wave of "mfers cosplay" craze.
mfers cosplay结果出来了，恭喜这4位，排名按照图片顺序，第一名lasercat nft，后面3位是mfers nft（目前地板0.3）获奖的请推特或者dc私聊我
The Second Annual Cosplay Competition of mfers is Coming! Total Prizes are one lasercat net whitelist and three mfers nft! Enter the competition and you may win a prize! Mfers is an attitude to life, please join us!
It can be seen that everyone at this time, whether it is out of love for mfers or NFT rewards, has already "played", which is why early mfers attracted a group of very special people.
4.Then, it's the “showtime” of @FootDAO :
2022.2.10, @FootDAO officially entered discord to build its own exclusive community. Of course, before that, a group of people had already started playing in the WeChat group.
As a sub-universe of mfers, @FootDAO has gathered a large number of "comrades" who recognize the "spirit of mfers" - like @sartoshi , they are generally senior Internet surfers, and have their own attitudes and opinions on new things such as crypto and NFT. And it is not the so-called simplistic and labelled "angry youth", "decadent youth", "Sanhe Great God", "rebellious generation", more like a group of 21st century "moderate version of 'hippies' who love to play and dare to play,the new players" :
They are keen to try new things, and have the capital to try new things, whether it is time or money; they have their own views on life and the world, as well as their own set of self-consistent values. They have both children, some are students, some are migrant workers, some are young people with Internet addiction, some are people with salt from big Internet companies, some are media reporters, some are overseas Chinese, and some are NFT diamond hands.
As part of the meme culture, mfers, an NFT that is extremely suitable for use as an emoji package, undoubtedly gave many people in @FootDAO room to play and a "script":
There is the emoji JPF of "gmfer" for good morning greetings:
"Pop mfer" full of post-modern art:
There is "a bored mfer" looking at the bored ape in the computer screen:
The "mfers" who got on the trolley car and pulled up the rickshaw:
"Astronaut mfers" in space suits:
and more abt those funny guys like “all mfers”：
And the collection of dynamic emoticons "mfers":
When the power of meme is really used on the most powerful meme, various "stalks" further accelerate the "human-to-human transmission" of mfers. And just when more and more people joined the "mfers emoji carnival party", many people did not expect that the floor price of mfers series NFTs with a mint price of only 0.069ETH had reached around 1ETH. Such a seemingly simple threshold is enough to filter out more than 80% of NFT projects on Opensea.
三、mfers ＞1 ETH stage#
After the floor price has broken through 1ETH with "rough, twists and turns", "miserable", "vigorous", and "happy", it is a more common bridge - "big players enter".
First, a diamond member of @XRabbitsClub and a well-known "favorite" of NFT @Hugo_Su_ bid an alien NFT of mfers. The purchase price was as high as 36ETH, which raised the "ceiling price" of mfers in the NFT field. It is a large number of "Happy Bean players" who have entered the market - after all, NFTs often play in circles.
"You have a very cool mfer NFT, then I must have one too. Not to mention that it is more cool than your mfer, but at least it can't be worse than yours." - Saying this, everyone may feel a little naive , it feels like two children are competing for the coolest game card, but many times, the so-called "consumer psychology", or "NFT buyer psychology", is not much different from this psychological state.
Today, although NFT has gradually penetrated into the daily life of more people, whether it exists in the form of contract data in a digital wallet or in the form of an avatar image saved by right-clicking, the "social attribute" of NFT is still it. There is not even one of the important foundations that can develop to the current level of popularity.
After all, although NFT is now the field that attracts the most attention in the crypto field, its application scenarios and landing projects are still too few.
In addition to PFP avatar NFTs, even if many people hope to lead the next wave of music NFTs, they still haven't found the best way to "enter the homes of ordinary people", and can only use "on-chain data" or "music nodes" ” to construct their own narrative system.
As for gamefi, NFTfi, sports, photography, art, VR, utility and other NFTs, many people may not have noticed these subdivisions, let alone understand and buy them. And these are actually areas that are waiting for more people to explore, and are also a necessary part of attracting more people to join the web3 world and the crypto space.
Therefore, this is one of the reasons why social media such as Twitter is important and necessary for the existence of the NFT field and NFT projects. People always yearn for the group, but are afraid of being rejected by the group. NFT is equivalent to a "filter" ", with it, to a certain extent, you can find your own "like" - whether it is social status, wealth, or aesthetic taste.
The red box in the screenshot above shows the number of tweets with the hashtag "Mfers" on Twitter at a certain point in time, which to some extent reflects the high social media popularity of mfers mean. You know, this is the third month after the release of the mfers series of NFTs. Compared with many zero-return NFT projects that have been purified into JPG small pictures, the vitality of mfers is evident.
Compared with the tortuous process in the field of Chinese NFTs, the development of mfers in the field of English NFTs is a little more dull, or in other words, it has always been tepid. Although, there is a high degree of overlap between the holders of mfers and the holders of many English-language blue-chip NFT projects.
Thanks to @sartoshi 's "cryptopunks OG" identity and the deep participation of many cryptopunks in the mfers series of NFT projects, mfers' performance in the English NFT field is more hard-core - because the holders of mfers and holders of cryptopunks The coincidence ratio even reached an astonishing 8:1, that is to say, there is one cryptopunk holder in every 8 mfers, so since its inception, every step of mfers, every market performance, every online activity, there are cryptopunks The community and its members contributed to the fire.
But unlike the "big fanfare" and "generating power for love" of players in the Chinese NFT field, players in the English NFT field, or, in other words, cryptopunks players are quite "cherishing their feathers"-maybe to maintain their "NFT OG" Character design, or is it to adhere to the "NFA (no financial advices)" principle?
——The real reason, we don’t know, what we can know is that they failed to “give help when no one cares”. When the first wave of mfers fell, the price once fell to 0.08ETH, which was close to the mint price.
These The cryptopunks did not "stand up", but were the real "mfers", that is, the holders of those unofficial communities, who, with their own preferences, contributed their own strength to the promotion of mfers in their own way - no matter what Is it meme emoticons, or writing stories, or making your own "mfers NFT" derivatives (fake disks), or mfers peripheral products, books, stories, songs, and many mfers self-organized Twitter space, mfers Activities such as follow mfers, mfers help mfers, etc. really make mfers "come from the masses and go to the masses".
After the floor price of mfers gradually rose to 1ETH, many "big V" and "OG" people expressed their love and optimism for mfers. I have to say that this is also a great irony.
Just like the KOLs above, many of them are holders of mfers, and even hold more than one mfer, which is the so-called "the big golden dogs". But is it true that they are "mfers"? It may be difficult for many mfers who are really playing, boring and partying to agree, and the affirmative answer to this question may also require a big "?". Of course, this doesn't prevent them from having mfers, much less the legitimacy of @sartoshi 's view that "everyone is an mfer, and everyone is the kind of mfer he wants to be".
Deeply-Thinking：for what？#
Having said a lot, after a brief understanding of the past development of mfers, maybe you, like me, will subconsciously ask: So, what is the fun of mfers? Why are mfers so "fanatical" or invested in it? Why are people willing to spend 2.7ETH (worth about 45,000RMB) to buy a "stickman stick figure"?
To be honest, at the beginning, it was difficult for me to understand, until I saw more and more pictures-
Such as this - "Prison Mfers":
And this one - "Big Head Dad and Little Head Son Edition mfers"（and its a chinese meme everyone knows that if he has the great childhood and u can ask ur chinese friends for that if u really wanna to learn）:
And this - "Bald Head Mfer"（same to the above one）:
Of course, there are also such - "web2VSweb3 version mfers":
Naturally, there are also such - "group photo mfers":
There is also this - "Tuhai DJ Carnival Party Edition mfers" (the original version is a video, mirror can't post it):
Of course, there are also such - "Little Red Riding Hood version of mfers"（u know what I mean,right?）:
And, like this - 《supermfers》:
Naturally, more and more mfers came together, and it became a "painting" on a wall:
Oh yeah, almost forgot about the two "@Buttfaced mfers" I minted before, read on his website that the creator of this series was mocked as a kid for his "buttfaced" not quite the same physical feature After the story of bullying, and some of the funds will be invested in charity, I believe that many people, like me, have a hard time restraining their hand of wanting to mint.
And it is in the process of such various and strange mfers appearing and disappearing, disappearing and appearing, mfers have gradually become a phenomenon and a "unique landscape" in the field of NFT, and the first mfers, just Like a leader who is guarded by various derivatives (fake disks), you only need to raise the banner of mfers on your shoulders, and for other things, various mfers will come forward, even, including the floor price ——
Of course, only online connection may not be enough for many people, so mfers who love to play, dare to play, and can play have also started the "IN REAL LIFE" offline event, and it has a huge momentum——
The first "EVER MFER VIEWING PARTY" will be opened up in shanghai;
What? You say the time doesn't seem right? !
Made a mistake, come again!
The first "EVER MFER VIEWING PARTY" will be officially opened up on 3.19/20 in 2022, and (should be) mfers are welcome to "visit", "observe", "communicate" and "spell each other" at that time;
If you see this, you have to ask me: "So what is the meaning of mfers? Where is the fun in it?" It may show that you are really not suitable for the atmosphere and community of mfers, and there may be other NFT projects that are better For you, whether it is emotional value, or material value.
Many times, many things, many things, cannot be simply quantified with ETH, USDT or RMB. Although the judgment of these dimensions is very important for many people, some people do not care about them, not because they have A lot of money, or not a lot of money, but because they prefer a kind of unrestrained, free, play whatever they want, and be an "mfers repeater (mfer repeater)" on WeChat groups, discord, and Twitter.
Of course, there are many technical bigwigs in mfers. For example, @wong2 , who once developed a subscription tool for @mirror official: @submirror and got $write tokens, made a small tool to generate mfers wallpaper https://mfers- wallpaper.vercel.app/6582 , mfers can replace the number behind with the mfer number they hold to get an exclusive wallpaper.
So, you see, mfers still have something meaningful hahahaha
Having said that, here are a few more meme pictures of mfers, and I will be shocked——
Northeast in China rubbing bath version of mfers:
Sichuan Mahjong version mfers:
As long as you want, you can even make many similar expression packs or meme pictures, such as "California Canal", "New Orleans Lamb Kebabs", "Michigan Candied Hulus" and so on.
There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's hearts, so there may be 100,000 "motherfuckers" in a thousand people's mouths! 凸 (艹皿艹)
As for the question that many people, including many mfers holders worry about: too many derivatives of mfers, will it affect the development of mfers?
I would like to express my opinion with a recent tweet post I saw:
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As a data mentioned in the post, about 46% of people will switch to buying an original NFT after purchasing an imitation NFT (of course, the source and authenticity of this data need to be verified, I also leave a message under the tweet Ask for the data source).
This reminds me of a domestic industry field that is very similar to the NFT development stage in my mind - online literature. It is also a dominant head platform, and it is also a display of works by countless creators, and it is also a countless community. Supported fan groups, of course, will also experience the transition stage from "free novels" to "paid readers".
In the field of NFT, or the project of mfers, countless derivatives (fake disks) are a guarantee for the continued existence of mfers. Of course, this is just my personal opinion.
It is worth mentioning that Chinese mfers also launched a "performance art event" before - "420 Flash Action", which is also very representative of a certain characteristic of mfers (remember the release time of the mfers series NFT mentioned earlier? ? If you don't remember, you can turn it over and look it up)——
Inspiration：to be or not to be？#
Obviously, mfers, which first came to this world as an NFT project, are now more than just a pure NFT project. Perhaps, since mfers started as a thought in @sartoshi 's brain, it has been the same as before. The NFT project where "realizing commercial value is the first priority" draws a clear line.
After @sartoshi planted this seed, the seedling of mfers began to grow different branches and bear different fruits in different regions, different people, and different cultures.
mfers会成为2022年标志性的NFT，MEME的自限在于其文化影响范围，而mfers是第一个真正意义上的跨文化MEME，我将从一个中国人的角度来阐述
Since then, the meaning of mfers has been discovered and given by more and more people. As a part of NFT, mfers only provides a "script", while the scope of the group of painters has gradually changed from @sartoshi alone, gradually expanded to more people, including artists, creators, and countless netizens who are just "surfing in Internet".
Everyone adds the strokes they want and expect, and then some strokes are preserved and become new marks, and some strokes are just to add something, or just to declare their sense of existence, but in mfers In the process of gradually becoming an NFT project that more and more people are talking about, a discussion about creative freedom, and even a social activity that is becoming more and more powerful, they have indeed made their own contributions - whether it is changing your own new pfp, or make an emoji, or write a mfer-related joke or short story, or start your own NFT project, and start a "mfer talkshow" in the Twitter space.
The important thing is not the floor price, nor is the mfers known, praised, written, and remembered by who, but everyone can be mfer, everyone can shout "motherfucker" to express what they want to express A variety of emotions and feelings, complex, simple, or meaningless.
As I said before, many people, including me, buy NFTs because they want to get financial returns, that is, to make money, they actually want a "sense of participation" - to participate in a community , Participate in a brand, participate in a group, participate in a history, participate in a trend of thought, participate in a movement, even if it is a trivial little splash in the vast ocean, it also shows that you have existed, witnessed, and become.
Therefore, if an NFT project has no way to arouse people's "sense of participation" - whether it is through hunger marketing-style closing the discord community, or through various activities, games in the community, or a variety of tricks " "Emoji Package Contest" and "Cosplay Contest"—then this project is doomed to fail, not to mention the long-term sustainable development, wave after wave of heat ups and downs, and become a "social phenomenon".
In addition, mfers can inspire NFT projects and re-verify my personal criteria for judging whether NFT projects are high-quality, perhaps in the following aspects:
- The style of the founder/founding team determines the identity attributes of the NFT community and holders (similar to the "law of attraction", what kind of person you are, what kind of person will be attracted to you);
- Either let the community believe in you, or you have to believe in the community, which determines whether an NFT has the possibility of long-lasting existence. The so-called consensus often comes from belief. In addition to mfers, BAYC, Little Ghost, and boomgala can all be used as one of the evidences in this regard.
- The NFT field is still in its early stage, and the exploration of cc0 is only a small step. Whether it is mfers or more NFT projects, there are many questions that need to be answered: what exactly is your NFT selling? What are the more landing applications and applicable scenarios of NFT? How to better combine NFT with DAO, Gamefi, Defi, Socialfi and other fields?
Future：who is the final winner？#
NFT started around 2017, and it has become one of the hottest tracks in the crypto field in 2021, but it is still in the early stage, and the greater potential of NFT has yet to be developed.
From cryptocurrency to digital art, and then to electronic data, #NFT is an "exclusive pass" which bridges many fields undoubtedly. And, the most unique features of NFT are: 1. Non-homogeneity 2. Cultural component 3. Identity attribute 4. Brand carrier 5. Scalability.
In addition, let’s talk a few more personal opinions on the topic of “the trend of NFTs in the future”:
- The NFT market is still an "ecological placeholder state". The so-called blue-chip projects, or high-quality projects, must be groundbreaking innovations in one or more aspects, whether it is an OG such as punk or boring ape, The later doodle and azuki all occupied their own "niches", and there were follow-up imitation disks and other imitators. So, any NFT needs to think, where are you "first"?
- The NFT market is still in its early stage. In other words, more than 150,000 NFTs are listed on NFT head platforms such as opensea every day, but 99% of NFTs do not survive for 6 months. Those founding teams are not strong enough, and the community consensus is not strong enough. , NFT projects with insufficient narrative influence and insufficient design aesthetics can only be swept into the garbage heap of history.
- The NFT market will continue to play the role of the best way to attract more players and crypto newcomers to the crypto world, because the threshold is low enough, the presentation is intuitive enough, the imagination space is large enough, and there are many application scenarios to be developed, the current market is cold in nature The frenzy of the previous two months or so is gradually cooling down. When some leek-cutting projects exit, NFT will not be broken or stand, and will be reborn.
Finally, at the end, end with one sentence:
A person truly dies after no one remembers him, an alive NFT is living in a life that people love.#
`Going back to the question at the beginning, whether Mfer wins or not may not be a good question, because every mfer is not here for "victory", for "win", but each of them will become a "victory" in life ”, sooner or later.
`Finally, finally, to officially close this article with a tweet from @MfersAhead creator @MfersAhead:
-why u bought a mfer？
-this is the answer.
You only live once,motherfucker!
JUST DO WHAT U WANT TO DO.
—— @wenser in China
【Tks for ur reading here.】
Recommendation of reading before in Chinese NFT analysis—— Weirdo Ghost Gang.
Reference source —— what are mfers？ from@sartoshi
https://mirror.xyz/sartoshi.eth/QukjtL1076-1SEoNJuqyc-x4Ut2v8_TocKkszo-S_nU
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