When I first dove into the world of NFTs, I was blown away. I was intrigued by how early this all seemed. I was excited that I discovered something that was not mainstream and can be a part of. It reminded me of when I discovered punk rock at 9 years old. A feeling that I was part of a counter culture, where I listened to music that was not on the radio. No one at my school in LA knew or understood the music I listened to. At the time, the majority of the kids all listened to the hip-hop that was on repeat on Power 106 and MTV.

I always felt like an outsider until the age of 13 when we got our first computer with a dial up connection to the internet. I vividly remember playing Yahoo pool, chatting with people all over the world, about similar tastes in music or sports like skateboarding. The internet helped me connect with people that I’d never meet in real life, but made me feel like there were other people in the world with similar interests as I have.

Now, we have the concept of Web3. The idea of decentralization gave me hope that I could finally participate in something close to the internet boom of the 90s. Last year, participating in NFT projects almost felt nostalgic. A feeling of community I felt as a youngster chatting with people from all over the world.

It is pretty wild that this feeling changed in the course of a few months.The NFT community quickly turned into an annoying world of acronyms. While WAGMI and GM seemed like a lowkey code us early adopters were using, it turned into the language used by bots and posers.

Despite the bullshit we are seeing in the current NFT climate (rugs, shitty art, Fiverr projects), we are not discouraged to launch our project.

The Moon Goons are the counterculture to today’s NFT climate. Although everything is supposed to be “decentralized” in Web3, we already see very exclusive communities growing, pumping out projects that are overly hyped, and promoting through partnerships that have the same teams across them.

This project is for anyone not interested in the NFT drama, it is for the Web3 OGs (before it was branded Web3) that like dope ass art. The main idea is to build our community of people that have similar interests as we do, from art and music, to sports and technology. We want our Discord members to chat on collaborate, chat, and celebrate some wins.

We are anti-WAGMI. Not in a sense that we are not all gonna make it, but we are more genuine in the way we communicate. We don’t say GM, we say good morning, we don’t say WAGMI, we just motivate each other with genuine words. We would rather encourage collaboration and inclusion versus banking on a lottery ticket to be a part of a project.

A new trend I am noticing is a group of fucks pushing out bullshit projects. Fuck these NFT elites, we know who you are. We plan on staying true to our roots and aren’t going to jump on the anime hype trains, this is going to be an organic project with values that won’t be changed due to success.

We purposely chose to work with a local artist from LA, extremely talented but didn’t have the connections to ever have his art be mainstream. Reason we went down this route is because we believe in empowering our local goons, and with Web3 we have a fighting chance to break down the barriers created by the elite to keep us from success.

We are based in SoCal, each of us bring something else to the table. As far as tthe stuff we don’t know, we have been figuring it out. We don’t want to exemplify an image of polished professional NFT project founders, because that doesn’t exist. The blue chip projects were started with teams like us, just a group of homies trying to create some cool shit and be a part of Web3

We are going back to the basics. No drama, no bullshit, no acronyms, just kick as art with a genuine team.

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