jellopeas

1. We know from the interview with Rarible that you looked into NFTs when Bored Apes launched, but what did initialize your interest in NFTs in the first place?

My interest in NFTs really started when I first discovered CryptoPunks. I’m not sure where exactly, but I saw an image of alien CryptoPunk 7523 and was immediately intrigued. The design was simple, original, and mysterious to me. From there I started to look into punks more and how NFTs worked, and was pretty impressed with the use case — especially from an art collector’s perspective in regards to provenance. The world’s biggest galleries and art dealers have a pretty strong hold on the narrative in the art world, and I was very curious how wild things could get if you took that power away from @Sothebys or @ChristiesInc and gave it back to the people.

2. How would you describe your NFT journey from a collector perspective? There are many different NFTs in your vault like mfers, sketchy mfers, ens domains, a creyzie with a hoodie and many more.

My journey in NFTs largely mirrors my experiences and habits I formed in trading crypto. I first started trading Bitcoin during the Mt. Gox days and almost lost everything during “the hack.” Since then I’ve gained a handful of valuable lessons, mostly when it comes to safety and liquidity. So when NFTs came onto my radar I was very skeptical as they went directly against everything I’d learned. In a way this hesitance sharpened my intention with them, causing me to spend most of my focus on NFTs in memes. To me, an NFT should be everything and nothing at the same time. @etherrockcom is a great example of this, which is even called a “game” by its creator with nothing more to win other than the pride of owning one. NFTs with this same sense of value built into them are my main focus in collecting, which is why Mfers is one of my favorites. My ENS domains are mostly focused on the last names of film directors I admire. When I parked them it was solely to pay homage to them as creators in one of my favorite artistic mediums. At the moment, the director ENS domains are all on display at the Sketchy Mfers’ communal art gallery in @oncyber. I’m also a big collector of @KONIEC_nft, who is also a huge film buff. We’ve spent quite a bit of time DMing each other our favorite scenes from some pretty obscure movies. I think it’s great that in the NFT space I can contact creators I admire and talk to them about their work and process, something that not too long ago was largely reserved for the elite.

3. How would you describe your NFT journey from a builder perspective? Your mfer derivative of sketchy mfers got hyped by sartoshi himself. To be precise it was hyped to the extent, that he even tweeted that no one pays him to post or promote anything.

As a builder, my focus on NFTs has mostly been on what attracted me to it in the first place: good design. The hardest work that @sodasoondae and I did for Sketchy Mfers was making it so completely realized that it could be considered to be an extension to Mfers. Countless drawings were done and refined as we went along. While building, the collective experiences of some video game designers I admire helped me have some clarity in the process. I’d read a lot about Phil Fish and his time creating Fez, which was largely graphically designed by him — quite incredible if you consider the workload. There was a point when he noticed that he became significantly better at pixel art in the middle of the project and ended up going back to redraw a lot of what he’d done when he first started making the game. I had a sense Sketchy Mfers would go through the same process and talked with @sodasoondae about it, which allowed us to schedule that recreation time in, instead of it suddenly popping up on us in the end. Also, creations like The Witness by @Jonathan_Blow and Super Mario Bros by Shigeru Miyamoto inspired us to make something with visual consistency that could last generations. Articles of Miyamoto discussing mere pixels on Mario’s face always played in the back of my head every time I felt myself getting complacent in the design. Even in the films of David Lynch, we found a great inspiration, who as obscure as he is, has a certain code and consistency woven deep into his work. And we knew that if we worked hard to create consistency and perfection in the visual language of Sketchy Mfers, and made it very true for ourselves, it would become true for others. As we neared launch, @the_imp0ster tweeted something that brought us a lot of relief, “what i find fascinating about sketchy mfers is that they feel to me more like a DLC for the OG coll. than a deriv. as if they’re offering an additional emotional range to mfers by spotlighting the big eyes and the motion – like an expansion?” It’s at that point we knew we got the design right.

When we launched, @sodasoondae, @zhoug0x and I were floored by how many people joined our Twitter Spaces once we opened it up. I was so busy freaking out from all the mfers in the room, trying to calmly answer questions from our host @the_imp0ster, that I didn’t even realize until @sodasoondae mentioned to me that @sartoshi had tweeted about Sketchy Mfers just then. I knew the project was on his radar — I’d kept him updated about it here and there while building. But we were in no way expecting a full tweet by him about it. To be very clear: we never paid @sartoshi anything to promote Sketchy Mfers, and we never asked him to tweet about it. My relationship with @sartoshi was, I believe, the same as everyone else’s. From what I know about @sartoshi is he seemed to be responsive and fastidious no matter who you were, especially given his likely overwhelmed inbox. I always tried to keep any contact with him extremely limited for his sanity’s sake. I’m not sure if hype is the correct word to use here when it comes to @sartoshi’s response to Sketchy Mfers. He was certainly never explicit about his feelings about the project in any of our DMs. His tweets were his own, and I know better than to get between any mfer and their tweets. This isn’t casual, it’s true: mfers do what they want. And that mfer was very supportive of all mfers who were using mfers any way they wanted.

4. What are your plans for your collection “sketchy mfers“ in the future and how do you want to buidl with your fellow sketchy mfers?

I’m proud of what Sketchy Mfers has become to the community since its launch. The art has held up quite well, and @sodasoondae and I often talk about how we miss those times of sitting in a cafe and drawing together. That process of finding the exact thing.

I mentioned this in the pre-launch statement we posted a while back, but Sketchy Mfers was born as an artistic question: what would every trait look like if they were fully adapted to @sartoshi’s initial sketch? That question has been answered, and with time, Sketchy Mfers has settled in to become something @sodasoondae, @zhoug0x and I are proud of. Since then, we have been collaborating with various mfers to help build tools for mfers to use. @thebadcc has integrated all the layers into the mfers playground, which was quite a task. The layers work very differently than the go mfers layers and required a bit of work on his end to really make them sing. @m4rsh___ also built Sketchy Heads which enable mfers to place their heads wherever they want to. I’ve also purchased a museum in OM for Sketchy Mfers to display whatever they want in it or use however they want to.

My personal vision for Sketchy Mfers is to give mfers opportunities to “sketch” things out, try out new ideas, hopefully in new spaces such as @oncyber’s OM. During the Otherside mint, Sketchy Mfers hosted the first poker tournament in OM in ACK’s bar. It’s concepts like this I feel Sketchy Mfers are just perfect for — test runs and first moves. @lawtoshi and I hopped on a call once about hosting a mock trial in OM, which has also never been done before (I need to talk to that mfer again about that idea!). If any Sketchy Mfer has an idea they want to try, DM me.

5. When people click on your profile they can see a VR experience for digital assets and different galleries that display items of your vault. Why did you want to create something like this / what does it mean to you?

One of my biggest creations in OM has been a gallery of the ENS domains of 69 film directors (last names only, except for two). I’m a huge film buff and worked in the industry for many years. It’s a grind, but everyday you get to work with some of the brightest minds in the filmmaking. I wanted to pay homage to these mfers in the form of a gallery. Something that held a bit of mystery and honor at the same time. I couldn’t get all the domains I wanted as some were already registered, but I was surprised how many I could pay tribute to! Come check it out and hopefully you discover a few new filmmakers yourself. Some personal favorites are:

• carax.eth Leos Carax – Annette, Holy Motors
• gerwig.eth Greta Gerwig – Little Women, Lady Bird
• weerasethakul.eth Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Memoria, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
• sciamma.eth Céline Sciamma – Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Tomboy

6. In your article with @Rarible, you didn’t comment on your thoughts about @sartoshi’s departure. Is there anything you’re ready to share about it now?

When I think about @sartoshi, I often think about his drawing “toadz nightz” (https://foundation.app/@sartoshi/foundation/94526…). It’s a very unassuming drawing but carries quite a bit of emotion. It was minted on Oct 4th, 2021, just two days before the CrypToadz peak. The average sale price of a Toad was 14.64Ξ back then, with the going rate of ETH being around $3,500 — about 50k for a floor toad! The thing is the price was going up, things were going very well, but his drawing was a very stark contrast to the moment. Hallow, sleepless eyes stare into us with only Toadz on the mind. That feeling of being in bed and not knowing if your cartoon frog was going to plummet to zero the following morning. There’s no rest in NFTs or trading, even if things are going well. And with the success of Mfers, @sartoshi might have been even more sleepless than before. It was only fitting his last piece was “gn mfers.” And I hope that mfer certainly does have a good night.

metabananas

1. How did your NFT journey start?

I first became aware of NFTs through normie articles about cryptopunks when they were selling for record prices in 2021. I saw it as a contemporary art movement and thought the best way to learn more about NFTs was to stop reading and get involved. I had some crypto that I held from 2017 (also a toe-dip), so bought my first NFT off opensea. It was a noun derivative, although at that time I didn’t know what nouns were neither derivatives. recently, I realized that my first NFT was actually a piece of IRL art I bought that had erc721 ownership authentication. I didn’t realize what it was at that time and I think this might be reflective of our future as we buidl more application for NFTs, that people will be onboarded before they even realize it themselves.

2. You wrote an article once where you mentioned an NFT collection that you created before @MfersAhead. Please tell us why you created this first collection and why it is removed.

I was very intrigued by cryptopunks and wanted to explore generative art. I found a tutorial that allowed me to do that without knowing code and experimented. I liked the classic monsters (and most things macabre) and made a collection generated from properties of werewolves, vampires, mummies, the invisible man etc. it was absolutely fascinating to go through the generated pictures. I minted a selection of them up on opensea, but quickly realize that these weren’t going to sell if there was no story, no community, and no presence. I took them down then as I was still exploring web3 and didn’t feel ready to buidl my entire web3 presence around a project. I kept just one piece and it’s now a generative 1/1!

3. Please tell us what your collection MfersAhead means to you and what the journey of creating it and connecting with others mfers felt like.

I have always enjoyed drawing and wen I got my first mfer I spent time scrolling through the collection looking for one that I vibed with. When I found it I knew it was going to be my forever PFP and wanted to explore its character. A few days later, I drew the front-facing version of my mfer on a tweet and everyone enjoyed it and the rest was history. Despite having learnt to generate digital art, I cared so much about how each Mfer Ahead turned out I didn’t generate the collection but pieced every one of them up manually. Being a mfer, I didn’t make a good plan so the entire creation and drop journey was a roller coaster ride. It has taught me so much about community and frenship though, and that really shaped who I am in web3 and IRL today.

4. Do you have any future plans for mfers ahead, and if yes how do they look like?

The MfersAhead community is very close, kudos to @marto_gm for believing in the project and setting up our ‘discord’ (it is a twitter dm group lol). We bond over snacks, alpha and feet pix (tysm x3). The community is a very decentralized network and we’ve seen projects come out from there (like @mfersbehind !), interns growing up (hello @Paco420_), and the support that is there mirrors that of the larger mfers group. The best is yet to come, the more we vibe the more ideas we have and I’m sure a few years down the road we’ll all be established OGs in the space.

5. Please explain your view of web3healthcare and why people should pay attention to this topic.

I work in healthcare IRL, and get so annoyed when people (especially suits) throw around buzzwords like “blockchain technology”, “decentralized ledger”, “metaverse” without knowing what they’re on about. In healthcare, technology has advanced to adoption of AI and machine learning but like in many industries, people don’t know what web3 technology can do to make health and healthcare better. There are many gaps that web3 technology can fill (I can go on) and I think the best people to find realistic solutions to these gaps are people who have actually used web3 technology than people in boardrooms throwing out random words because they sound cool. Many people I’ve spoken with say they feel they’re not experts in healthcare and cannot have an opinion. I challenge that we are all users of healthcare so you’re very experienced! Besides this, a big part of my IRL work looks at people’s ability to access healthcare services, whether geographical or because of bias and discrimination. I believe our largely-anonymous web3 community is the only place in society where everyone has equal opportunity and are judged by what they say or do and not what their cultural identity is and what they look like. This is a very precious part of web3 that we should try to extend to the rest of the world.

6. Where do you see the mfer movement going in the future?

In a year, we have gone through many ups and downs. The strength of our community has been tried time and again. Yet we always emerge stronger. More and more we are realizing that we are all mfers, whether you own a sartoshi’s mfer is unimportant. Because of this, we are infallible. Supported by cc0, the movement is not dependent on leaders to carry the torch. Mfers do what they want and we have done what we want. we don’t have to aim to proliferate the mfer meme or try so hard to grow the movement. Quoting the historical mfer Laotzu, “do that which consists in taking no action and order will prevail (無為)”. Trust. Mfers just getting started.

Bonus:

If you want to read more about Metabananas story, check out mirror.xyz/metabananas.eth.

marto

1. How did your NFT journey start?

It basically started with me following Justin Mezzell project (grim syndicate) which was bound to launch in solana in 2021. Happy to report I’m still a holder. But as I was waiting for mint day I started joining discords and following people on twitter and immediately felt in love with Robotos project by Pablo Stanley in eth, this time. From there I flipped some other projects and what not and ultimately sticked with the infamous stick figure after understanding what sartoshi meant with the mfers, it was really sad to see him go but I immediately understood that it was needed for mfers to be completely decentralized from the moment I bought.

2. How did your Twitter journey start?

I created a twitter on twitter dot com. Followed a couple of my favorite projects and some influencers, and the shitposting was ON!

3. Which importance do memes play in your life?

I tend to be a jokster when i’m in company of people I trust, thus I get the immediate value a good meme has for our online way of life, the best jokes nowadays are all memes.

4. When did you start to take interest in creating your own memes and what makes a good meme according to you?

Anything is memeable really, the point here is people will sue you or not after you meme them.

I have always been crafting memes with instagram or figma if I’m at my computer, I’m not a designer at all so everything I’ve had to learn to meme has been ad hoc knowledge.

A good meme like a good joke is something that’s funny when you see it and it needs no further explanation. Something you get immediately.

5. Please tell us the story behind the bears! Were you down bad / an ex trader or is it something else?

The bears are something that I love since I was a lil kid, I’ve loved the teddy bears forever, they literally were the subject of all my earliest drawings. This last year I was actually starting a webcomic of the sorts featuring bear, so when I found myself bored during the bear market I noticed drawing bears could be a perfect fit for a thing to do. And I really love it so much! It’s now my default thing to do whenever I’m not working.

I haven’t been down really really bad or something, just love the bears as a concept. And it’s pretty cool they match the market concept of bears and bulls.

6. You have different collections across opensea and foundation, which is your main collection and what is your goal for the bears and will we ever see a bull collection? 😉

My main collection is bears on foundation, they can also be acquired on opensea but I really like the foundation UI and their default auction system to be honest.

My main goal is simple, to keep drawing bears and letting them out in the world, I tend to describe my emotions and opinions through the art I draw so that’s basically it. A generative collection may be in the works too…

I don’t think we’ll see a bull collection (I’m thinking of drawing one maybe) but @animatedmfers is already onto that, so that’s covered.

7. You not only created a brand for yourself but also support upcoming artists like W1p0. What do you look out for, when you look for art from new artists?

Mostly that they are mfers, jk jk. Either that the art speaks for itself or that the ideas they share convey something cool, it doesn’t have to be unique to be cool.

8. You are connected with many influential mfers like pinedegen, how can mfers connect with you?

I’m really grateful to be able to collab and connect with all kinds of mfers! For some people daos and decentralized companies are the future of web3 but to me one fantastic feature of the NFT communities is that it already feels like you belong to an artist collective whenever you join, there’s people building so many things that it’s impossible to not feel motivated.

@marto_gm on twitter, I’m there way more time than I should.

9. Which mfers do you think deserve more spotlight for their work?

Every single one of them!!

@reylarsdam, @cryptow1p0, @rm_mfers, @animatedmfers, @thompson_nft, @illiquidkiki, @sartocrates, @mfer_ones, @mfersgifs, @azad big mfer, @artofjuss, @kelvinfromspace, @bons_uk, @metabananas, @bebeprobleme (AKA bbglitch x3), @paco420, @cg777, @abrahammayorga, @pinedegen, @szerro and so many more! (twitter users as accurate as I can remember them) 😉

10. Which projects would you like to work on with other mfers in the future?

raremfers of @mleejr! WEN REVEAL?

and a bull vs bear series with @animatedmfers of course

Bonus: Would you like to send an artwork of yours (on polygon or ETH) to a mfer of your choice and tell us a bit about the artwork, it’s background and why this mfer deserves it?

Happy to send to the first 10 mfers that interact with me with promo code: “MFER” on twitter I’ll send one of my editions of scribble and bears, which was mostly a practicing canvas of fonts and brushes that I decided to mint some time ago, limited one (1) per mfer.

pinedegen

1. How did your NFT journey start?

My NFT journey began with a friend introducing me to eth back in 2020. I bought a little and sat on it for a year before things started ramping up. I then got way more into it by listening to the @BanklessHQ bros and @sassal0x. it’s still my MO in crypto. I’m here to stack eth ultimately.

2. What are you looking for when you look at NFT projects? We saw you interested in projects like goopdudes, tinydinos, pabloslol and mfers of course ;).

I’m interested in culture-driven NFT cc0 projects mostly. I love the idea of being a part of something that catches like wildfire and and has the potential to become part of cultural consciousness like Pepe the frog. I think mfers and rektguy have similar potential. Also, I’m a straight up degen so I love a quick pump and dump project, not gonna lie lol

3. What are your personal long term play/ bets on NFTs?

mfers, rektguy, degenz (DAP), and bad influence. At the end of the day I’m hoping to cash out most of my portfolio in eth. Will always hold at least 1 mfer and 1 rektguy tho for goo measure. I’m banking mostly on @DegenzNFT to make me some semi-regular eth with their promised big drops to holders (currently hold 18). Panned out well with rektguy, and hopefully it continues to do so with the upcoming @AlienqueenNFT pfp drop, etc.

4. What did inspire you to make music?

Music has always been a part of my expression since I was very young. Early on my father and brother inspired me with their musicianship, and I strove to be like them and the legends that I listened to. At this point in my life, with my identity fully established as a musician, the world and it’s abundant opportunities are constantly inspiring me to burst out in song lol

5. Please give an overview over your NFT collection, how you ended up working with @animatedmfers and explain us why you wanted to make one.

My first NFT collection, House Songs was something that I decided to release because I had been getting positive feedback from folks in the space regarding my regular lunchtime jams. And as far as working with @animatedmfers, I really just loved his work and wanted to get him more exposure. His am cartoons blew me away and I felt that he really had something there.

6. What influences your artworks?

The inspiration of blues and spiritual music is what gets me.

7. You said, that you are just getting started, what does that mean in your case?

I mean that I’m just getting started with a public musical career of sorts and with ways that I can expand and grow that. In real life and on the blockchain through NFTs. After my first release it became obvious to me that there is some interest in this space, but also that I had a lot of work to do in my real life first and foremost to grow things properly. To be honest I’m not sure where it’s all headed, but I’m committed to being creative with it all until the day I die. To those that support me, they will always be remembered and rewarded, however modest that may be.

8. You talked about discords and channels. Which discords and channels do you use and what do you recommend?

Discords and channels are all really hard for me to keep up with. I mainly keep an eye on the degenz discord for the wealth of market info that is always being shared there, and also some twitter chat groups that I’m involved in… all mfer-based

9. Which mfers do you think deserve more spotlight for their work?

Mfers that I think deserve recognition…. that I know of in no specific order:

@animatedmfers – he is a satirical madman, and crazy talented illustrator/artist. mfers are so so lucky to have him as a cultural flag-bearer

@MLeeJr – he’s an ambassador of sorts. definitely an intelligent character that has a lot of positive energy that I think can bridge the gap between web2 and web3 communities. I feel grateful he is sort of the guy we can all throw darts at lol

@marto_gm – this mfer represents a cultural aspect of mfers that I don’t fully get but don’t really need to lol. He is very kind, has good humor, and a lot of mfers are vibing with his art. I dig the brightness that he brings to the space. These are just the first that immediately stand out to me. I connect with a lot of great mfers throughout my day and I love how they all love being part of the mfer community. There is no other pride like it in the space that I’ve come across.

@anonChickenLegs – the coding mastermind behind @sartoshibotV2 which has given me a purpose during the bear lol. But for real, his creation is making mfers more ubiquitous by the day. Down the line, this could bring a lot of value to the mfers community

10. Which projects would you like to work on with other mfers in the future?

I think I just want to keep releasing music nfts with mfer visual artists doing the cover work. It’s a fun way to bring new exposure to our art and brings a shared connection that wouldn’t happen otherwise

W1p0

Question 1: What is the backstory of your PFP?

My PFP was inspired by XCOPY’s best known work “Right click save as a guy”, which was bought for 1200E from CozomodeMedici and became one of the most mainstream NFTs during the 2021 bull run. When this work became cc0 I created my first mfers meme “saved as mfer”.

I shared my xcopy-mfer with someone special in the mfers community, asking just for feedback: the answer came shortly after, with a cigarette on it, cause digital smoke is allowed. Eventually it became my forever pfp.

Question 2: When did you start to make art and which programs do you use for creating art?

I am a designer with some great awards on the board, I was always attracted by creativity. Although, I never had the freedom to do whatever I wanted in my work life, because I had to respect certain limits. When I discovered XCOPY in 2019, I fell in love with glitch art and started drawing some sketches: it was my ‘free zone’. Finally, I could do whatever I wanted. 

In 2021, during the jpeg summer, I reopened my old folder and I found some old drafts, so I decided to start again. After a bit of hesitation, I dived back into NFTs and it became more than a hobby, it became a need: I love the freedom that this environment of NFTs gives you to experience, I love the support, which is given by all the people and I love all the different stimuli you can receive. It’s a way to experiment with forms of creativity that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to engage with.

Regarding the softwares, it’s a continuous evolution. I started with Illustrator and Photoshop, then I changed and focused more on freehand drawing while using Photoshop for fine tuning and now I’m starting to use Figma and Procreate. I don’t use strange or high-end stuff: each piece I release is made by different static image levels, up to 80, which I then merge together to create magic.

Question 3: What influences your artworks the most?

Vibes and the desire to have fun.

When I created ‘school of mfers’ it was full of positive vibes: I had been part of the community for just over a month, I was totally down with the mfers and I wanted to do something epic.

I created ‘FOMOing’ in a couple of days, just after I missed the chance to buy a tinydinos and a smowl and it seemed to me, that it mirrored the fomo-vibes of my timeline well.

While the ‘the mfkng judjgment’ was an opportunity to create something together with another mfer (sartocrates) just to have fun. We put it on FND for fun and we certainly would not have expected to sell it: in the end it was (and still is) just about having fun.

I think it’s important to have fun and create as many connections as possible, to seek inspiration and be influenced by everything that conveys vibes, good or bad: obviously the people you are in contact with, but also articles, tweets, memes.

Question 4: How did you end up being part of the European mfer spaces?

All very casual. The European space was started by 0xMakaveli and Esscat to have a space to connect with other mfers at more convenient times for us Europeans, even if in the end there are mfrs from all over the world.

I like to support as much as I can other members initiatives, so I started participating in all the spaces from the beginning (it was a way not just to support but to connect with others: it costs nothing to join a space and say ‘GM’) and in the end thanks to esscat and maka I became a regular guest.

Question 5: How did you end up creating the mferpedia with @zhoug0x and @WinningMfer?

Full mfers style, it was all very casual and without a roadmap. It was February, I think that the community was growing exponentially and there was a feeling that all the legacy, the culture of the early days, could be lost. There was this idea on the channel, the mfers-builders channel on discord, and I wanted to help. So I started to make a list of the articles, audios and main links, which could somehow sum up the history of the community.

I use the term story in an exaggerated way, but sometimes I really think that the amount of information that accumulated in just 8-9 months is incredible. It feels like years, web3 has an incomprehensible speed.

Question 6: What is your connection to @kabbalahmonster, the mfer who nominated you for an art contest?

Doom is the kind of person every community needs, the kind of person I need to connect with: he’s a volcano of ideas and art, always creating something new. This mfer is also always kind and supportive (he was in charge of my first secondary sales), I was looking for real connections beyond just gaining followers. We need people like Doom in this space and I’m very happy to have him in my circle.

Question 7: Could you have imagined that people like XCOPY and Rey would interact with your tweets a few months ago? What does that mean to you?

Rey’s art is crazy, he is an incredible artist who spends a lot on the community. He recently launched an exhibition in the metaverse (helped by @jamex_art , @DCOT15 , @RocketRidersNFT , @CREYZIES & @CalaverasCrypto) to help artists connect and show their works. 

About the second one I cannot say more: XCOPY is the reason why I started doing what I do in this space and he is a continuous inspiration.

If I thought it might be possible to interact with them? Absolutely not, but I guess this is the magic of this space. Having someone who resonates with something you’ve created and who supports you is always great. It does not matter whether you are a celebrity or a newcomer, the beauty of this space is that anyone can create, share and connect with people who share the same desire to experiment: It means freedom.

Question 8: What role did the officially unofficial mfers discord play in your networking with other mfers?

I’m less active than I would like to be, but my favorite channels are: bulletin-builders, clubhouse and memecraft. There I can find a lot of tech insights, great articles/ tweets and memes that can make your day or help you to learn something new. Also the general-chat is amazing: it is pure chaos but it’s funny and sometimes I find myself trying to follow every thread, failing miserably.

Question 9: Which mfers do you think deserve more spotlight for their work?

That’s a hard question to answer, because you just have to search for a specific topic and you will find a mfer doing something incredible to contribute. Mfers create and build independently and autonomously. 

Zough and Imp0ster help other mfers to get started with coding. Metabananas has not only launched mfers ahead, but is also committed to build a bridge between web3 and health. Animatedmfers, awerawert and kabbalahmonster created great collections, while sequence and abe created great merchandise. Lexnft and prettycoolmfer did a great job organizing our mfers-event in NYC. And last but not least there are all the mods of the community who do a shadow-job that deserves to be valued.

We are mfers, we are builders and we like to work: All of us deserve to be in the spotlight.

Question 10: What projects would you like to work on with other mfers in the future?

I don’t have a roadmap.

Bonus: Would you like to send an artwork of yours (on polygon or eth) to a mfer of your choice and tell us a bit about the artwork, its background and why this mfer should receive it?

The artwork and it’s context:

There is a piece that I didn’t want to mint (cause it’s not an original) so I would never have put it up for sale, but being able to send it for free, well, I think can make the mint legit.

cc0summer.mfer (click on “cc0summer.mfer to get redirected to the NFT on foundation.app) is the ‘mfer-version‘ of summer.jpeg by XCOPY. I made it shortly after the end of the cc0 meme-contest organized by Lexnft, to celebrate the event.

cc0summer was a contest opened for entries by all the cc0 communities, like mfers of course, nut also cryptoads, tonydinos and many more.

There were some expectations around this contest but, at the very beginning, it didn’t manage to catch the community interest and quickly became a meta-meme-contest. Obviously the mfers instead of creating and sharing memes related to the cc0 started to share memes that joked about the contest itself: lol side effect, in the end what could have been a flop turned into a success because everyone was talking about the contest.

The reasons why lexnft deserves it:

But lexnft is much more, like so many other mfers he does a shadow-job that is not often recognized or valued enough. Organizing an event in NYC during NYCNFT, like he did,  is not a simple task, it costs time and energy and having someone that is willing to put his time on something like that, just for the community, makes me proud to be an mfer.

I will mint and send it later this month, as a way to thank not just him but all the mfers shadow-building stuff for the community.

Special thanks:

I want to add a last note, a special thanks for a mfer who was not mentioned in the interview but who deserves that, marto_gm. He was my first collector (since ‘school of mfers’) and he has always been supportive throughout my journey. Simply put : forever grateful x3