Guys, imagine being at a supermarket, and the nice lady at the candy section is giving out free samples. You go over and check it out, it’s peppermint gum! You kindly ask the nice lady: Are they good? Lady: Yes, they’re very good! You: Can I have some? Lady: Sure darling, they’re FREE! You: OMG, FREE MINT!? Lady: Yeah, FREE MINT! You: FREE MINT!!! (Was that obvious enough for you guys?)
We’re FREE MINTING BZUKI.
Don’t get us wrong, we originally had a different plan, and we followed that plan for a while in fact. Tweeted our first tweet, got about 2k followers; started our Discord server, another 1k+ joined in. Nothing to brag, but also not too shabby.
It was like dream come true, a community full of laid back people making fun of shit and creating fuse art. People posted drawings of new fuses, I hosted a number of totally random events, and people constantly told crappy jokes that were simply hilarious. I remember someone joked about his wife’s boyfriend, which I sincerely hope is not true.
So naturally we thought about approaching some influencers to boost the community, which was kind of a first for us. Did not expect to see so many fake shit. Fake Tweets. Fake ReTweets. Fake influencers. Fake engagements and fake tags. Fake pfp to make you click through and buy fake art. Fake collectors buying fake followers for fake engagement to raise a fake price. *Drops mic, but carefully because it’s a rental…
We even did some systematic research so other teams won’t fall for such scams. Here goes the list of 3 TYPES OF FAKE NFT INFLUENCERS ON TWITTER:
FAKE ACCOUNT 1.0: Identical profile pics, red background black ‘MM‘, red background white ‘METAMIFS‘, probably stay in your followers for like…a day;
FAKE ACCOUNT 2.0: Different PFPs, impressively, yet all K-pop idols, retweets mostly, blank in media, hundreds of following, dozens of followers;
FAKE ACCOUNT 3.0: NFT PFPs, Azuki mostly, great taste but still retweets, either blank in media or ‘done+screenshot‘, mostly joined after Feb 2022.
Not too hard to identify, stay safe guys.
Let’s be honest, the market is shitty as it is. Nobody’s making big money anyway. So our focus is going to be one thing and one thing only---the COMMUNITY. Hence the FREE MINT. This one’s for all the folks in the community who actually give a shit, and a big FUCK YOU to all those scams. The market is too big for such a hotheaded act to break, but at least we gave free cool art to folks who cared, and that’s all that matters.
SO HERE’S THE CHANGES:
The supply will drop from 5,555 to 3,333;
Only WL can mint and there are 3 types of WL: Whoop list, WhoopWhoop list, WhoopWhoopWhoop list (did you not notice we’re monkeys?);
Our Discord server will be closed after 24 hours, and will reopen when everybody’s nice and comfy;
$BANANA holders will not share 100% of the royalty income, we have monkeys to feed.
WHAT’S NOT CHANGING:
Still GALLERY BEFORE MINT, duh;
$BANANA, duh;
DAO decides what to fuse next, merch and phygital and all that;
CZUKI (a.k.a. ChemZUKI) coming soon, as for DZUKI, the D is ready.
The community is going pretty great right now, and we are going to keep it that way. It’s gonna suck if you have to give yourself a little ‘Fck, here we go again‘ every time you launch Discord and let those notifications pour in. It ain’t Diswork. Not at our server. We’ll work on more events and games, I’ll improve my drawings and buy better headsets, some mild roasting between friendly members is highly encouraged. As long as you guys can have fun here, we’ll keep it that way.
The idea of FREE MINT originated from one of our talks with Paladin Pandas. Our artist Soop2Go (Twitter: @Azure2000_) is the NYC mod for Paladin Pandas, a promising project that never stopped delivering. We love your idea Paladin bros!
Also, we want to give a big shout out to Vondoom.eth, PowerPixel, and James Dean, thank you guys for your support. Our mods around the globe, thank you for your believing in us, we do hope you had fun as well.