"my kids know me as this ape" oh no

the actual tweet is too long to screencap lol.

wow

tough times out there.

an absolute all-timer response

when the next guy sells the ape will he need to make a sad tweet about it?

guffaw

omfggggg

i thought this was a satire at first oh my god

it has to be right???

sad times in ape land

I choose to believe this is satire as a deliberate act of will because accepting this as truth would be too depressing.

cackling

help i want to put this person into a terrarium and study them

It's not you!!!

"you can't right-click my jpg!" is, like
pls leave all your crypto disco servers, they are rotting your brain

NOOOOOO

Bored Ape fans blame Blur for falling NFT prices

for context this is what it's about

if the article is too much, there's a new alternative to opensea that incentivizes nft trading by giving out bonus imaginary tokens to people who trade a lot

so now they have a reason to trade the bored apes back and forth like hot potatoes

and it's causing prices to crash.

ty, i was very confused about what 90s britpop sensation blur had to do with nfts

another way to think of it is that the nfts basically worthless since they're jpgs you can right click and save

i also wondered what damon albarn did to drop nft prices

weird, i never thought about them that way

wait for real?? they're jpgs you can right click and save?

remember when they were trying to make "right clicker" as an insult happen?

good times, good times

but when they were really hard to buy (because crypto transactions are silly and complex and also vulnerable to fraud) it was easy for the ape people to say "my ape is worth $500k" because well

no one's gonna buy that ape

as bubbles go, tulips had way more dignity

but now that they are being offered new imaginary tokens for buying apes, it turns out they are more willing to sell at a slight loss than hold indefinitely for prestige

i do like the precedent this set of being able to point to any random ugly ass picrew jpg and go "this is worth 500k pay me for it"

and since… they are just ape jpgs, this has apparently caused a bit of a crash.

florescentia: if you're interested in nfts but unwilling to wade through the crypto swamps, dan olson did a whole-ass movie about 'em:Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

anyway this has upset the people who are true ape believers, lol.

not to be confused with the 'true ape believers' who hold stock in gamestop, though there's definitely overlap

florescentia: here's how i conceptualize what an nft is: i'm selling spots in a line. the line goes nowhere. next to each stop is a painting. i sell you the tenth spot in line, and make a note in a public ledger that you're the only person allowed to stand in that spot. you don't own the painting, anyone can look at it, and i can change the painting

anyway i hope "my kids know me as this ape" becomes the new "a lotta yall still dont get it. Ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape."

none of those words are in the bible

you come into my house on good friday and say this

multiple slurp juices

jesus got rightclicked for your sins.

kadath: i've seen this, but thank you!! its what opened my eyes to the real bullshit about NFTs and made me a fan of his

'memes that run on gasoline' is a good one

I also thought it was the band blur that had crashed nft prices, and it made me briefly happy

i feel like if we did a poll on who didn't think it was the britpop band, we would not see many hands

but my pfp is literally jarvis cocker so i think i get a pass

who is to say the band is not behind the site?

because it's apes and not gorillaz

no one would ever suspect

that's how they got them

gorillaz undercover as apes

Woo Hoo indeed

apropos of this:Ugly Ass NFT Ape Generator