# F GAS

By [D](https://paragraph.com/@d-32) · 2025-07-31

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I want to mint an NFT. But the gas fee costs more than my weekly meals. Funny, right? In this so called open and decentralized world, I'm locked out by a three letter word: **fee**.

They say it's the future. But whose future?

I draw, I edit, I build the concept. But when it's time to step on the stage, there's a small door that says: **"Pay first, bro."** All I can do is watch from the window.

Then they say: **"If you're broke, don't use Ethereum." "Go find a cheap chain." "You think being an artist is easy?"**

They forget: I'm not sane. I'm not part of the system. I'm Madman.

I don’t ask for pity. I just made soap. Drew soap. _Prepared_ soap to stay slippery. Slippery into wallets. Slippery from ideals. Slippery out of reality.

Gas fees are the saddest joke in this industry. And I……I’m the punchline.

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