Roses are red, violets are blue and there ain't no way in hell, you're gonna consider buying this NFT too. Or will you :)
So, if you're wondering just why in the hell I listed that disagreeable NFT art for a 100 ETH then, you're in a for quite a hoot! Just take a look ...
Come one, Come all! Ladies and Gentleman of Leoverse! And let me indulge you in the sad yet enlightening story of my NFT journey so far.
My God! After months and months of making beautiful portraits, hours of talking on Twitter spaces, and sleepless nights of constant shilling on Twitter, Opensea, and NFT showroom, I have come to realization that NFTs have fucked me up in the most irrevocably way.
In a way that is good, and gets still very bad.
First the Good way:
Truth be told, the first time I heard of NFTs from by good buddy, I became quite intrigued. Confused but intrigued. I was fascinated by how a digital art(JPEG, PNG e.t.c) could weigh as much value as to sell for up to 8 figures in the marketplaces!! And yes, I am referring to NFT art giants like Beeples 5000 days, cryptopunks, and BAYCs.
Yup! I enjoyed very much the thought of being able to share your art with a wider audience and collectors whom will resonate with your piece and I also loved the idea of immortalizing your art in the Blockchain for all of eternity! Ah yes, these I loved and still do.
But this story had to have start from somewhere no? Yes! You see, it all started when I first created these little Alien Teenagers:
Cute, aren't they?
The project's name was called ET(Extra Terrestrial) Academy. A collection of about 100-400 unique NFT arts. I say "was" because I have since abandoned the project due to the overwhelming stress that comes with making each one. Frankly, I didn't want the collection to be like those other randomly generated collections(coughs in BAYC and Doodles), no!... I wanted each one to have life and character hence, my reason for giving each of them an identity and a story.
Unfortunately though, that project fell flat a couple days later after minting them on Opensea at a floor price of about 0.04ETH. Regardless of all the trouble though, and lack of... Sales I still managed to gain a pretty sufficient amount of enlightenment about the world of NFTs.
Anyway, fast forward a couple weeks later and I'm starting a new project in a sort of individual, visual, traditional art style. The NFT project would go on to be a collection of different NFT arts all relating to one particular theme : Dreams.
I called the collection: The many Abstract Dreams.
Unfortunately, again, with the recent direction of NFTs moving towards utility and not quality, it has become excessively harder for artists like myself to strive in the NFT world.
This brings us to the second part of this here post...
The other BAD way:
Seeing as how most collectors these days don't really seem to care about an NFT's artistic quality but rather by how it could make em a quick buck if they flip it, is one of the reasons I have decided to list this bad boy for a spine chilling 100ETH.
Easter egg: Vee friends are a perfect example of Utility overpowering against Quality
Outrageous is it not? I call it Bizarro and as bizarre as it might seem, this art is probably one of my greatest pieces yet. Did you know that it took me approximately 8 hours to finish this portrait at one stretch? That's how dedicated and well oriented I was to this piece.
But can you blame a guy for trying his luck? Because after hours and hours of dreadful work: making the NFT art, shilling, shilling some more, marketing, shilling on spaces, oh and did I also mention silent shilling; demoting all those painful hours of hard labor you have put into your art and substituting it for a tear jerking value of a common 0.04ETH($128) just seems wicked to me😂.
Essentially, not worth the stress if you ask me. And so, by degrees, I have made up my mind that this particular art, this particular masterpiece, will sell for what it's truly worth.
Who knows? The art might just become the next 5000 days
Hopefully, somehow, someway, by some mystical unknown force in the universe; a collector would actually be able to look upon my art, see it's value, and then purchase the NFT art without hesitance.
Thankfully enough though, I have finally decided to take it down a notch with my shillings. It's probably for the best actually.
So yup! That's right folks! From now on I will no longer shill for 8 hours every day, I will simply only shill for 7 😉
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