# Crossing Cringe-ple Creek: On Content Coins 'n' Creative Shame

**Published by:** [marmo](https://paragraph.com/@marmo/)
**Published on:** 2025-04-17
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@marmo/crossing-cringe-ple-creek-on-content-coins-n-creative-shame

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The this meme 👆 and this caption 👇 Content coins will work if you get people to post them with sufficient quantity and frequency.Until then, there will be a lot of push back. But the only way through is posting more.Swap “being cool” with “established coin norms” and “being cringe” with “creating more coins”. shared by Dan Romero (@dwr.eth) on Farcaster https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x720cb896 in connection with the Base × Zora Content Coin launch struck such a nerve (it rang like a struck glass — & i’ve passed it around a dozen times today) because (in a time when people built apps like sandcastles & watched the waves of users (not) come in) i made one called Definer a word-forger for naming the unnamed we coined (oh yes) words from the wild static things you could feel but couldn’t yet say and even then we were haunted by a hush (not silence exactly— more like a knowing cough in the gallery hallway) it came (softly) from the marble hands of Instagram that god of curation restraint symmetry where trying was the only sin “post once (if you must),” they whispered “twice if you’re at an event” “but never — please — flood the feed.” (we weren’t meant to be seen making) only seen being then came snapchat (an ephemeral house party) not a gallery but a place where the punch was pixelated the light—bad & everyone danced anyway you could send your worst face your rawest thought your breakfast bagel & no one saved the receipt (goofy fleeting true) and when stories spilled from that party into the insta-gallery next door the shame followed (in a long coat with many buttons) because shame is migratory — it nests in every new tool until it’s evicted or turned into something else and now it lives (in a quiet little villa) inside all user-generated-content apps including content coins that same shame old wine in new bottles tastes just like: “do i look like i’m trying too hard?” because between what you mean and what you create there is (inevitably) a gap (a tremor a blush a breath) i’ve named that space as one names a valley from the hilltop above Cringe-ple Creek (hear it? it struts like the baseline of Up on Cripple Creek but its boots are dusty pink and muddy and cringe AF) this is the place where you pause ask is this dumb? will they laugh? should i post/mint/do this? (am i desperate?) but (dear friend) if you don’t cross that creek— the culture doesn’t move the cool ones? those shimmering avatars? they didn’t wait for approval they posted through it they minted anyway they made the norms by ignoring the ones that hadn’t worked yet andy warhol had a phrase for this: so what that moment when you unbutton the shame toss it in the bin & get back to work if content coins are to grow they must be minted before they’re finished they must be expressed before they sound wise they must be posted before they know what they’re saying there is no shame in being seen trying there is no shame in being early there is no shame in making something half-formed, full-hearted to cross Cringe-ple Creek is to stop self-curating and being freely creating so post so make so mint and when shame creeps in as it will on sock-feet holding a clipboard saying “are you sure?” you tell it: i’m not just sure i’m loved unconditionally and then you can say (with me and with andy warhol) so what

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