If you've hung out on Farcaster, you must have noticed that many people have emojis in their name. Some have deep meanings and some are just for fun, but almost all represent something very important on the platform: community.
At first glance, these emojis may just look like emojis, but most of them reflect specific communities in the ecosystem and are used to signal to other users what communities you are a part of and interact with regularly.
The earliest known use of an emoji to signify community comes from Purple DAO, a Farcaster native DAO built to promote the Farcaster ecosystem. Many users of the DAO rock a in their name to signify that they own a Purple Token and are committed to the future of the Farcaster ecosystem.
On Feb 14, 2024 if you had the emoji your name, you got One Million $DEGEN to tip. However, if you removed it the next day, your tips were invalid. A grass roots gorilla marketing campaign began to remind everyone to keep the emoji in their name and “the hat stays on” meme was born. Many members of The Haberdashery aka Degen DAO also use the emoji to signify their membership in the DAO and their commitment to growing the degen ecosystem.
When "Ham" tipping came online in late February, many users who owned the LP NFTS added the 🍖 emoji, which is the official tipping mechanism for Ham (aka $TN100X tokens) to their names to show support for the project. If you owned an original LP NFT, which was on the ETH network, you were able to stake your airdrop of $TN100X (which we got from holding the NFTs) via "baking golden hams" for 45 days. At the end of the "baking" phase after token claims, emoji tipping via the 🍖 emoji began and a new community badge came into existence, but there were some issues.
While much of Farcaster is English speaking, there is a huge contingent of Japanese speakers on and many of them joined the Ham community early and were large contributors to the culture. The word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, 'picture') + moji (文字, 'character'), so almost all of the emojis we know and love today come from Japan. The 🍖 emoji in Japan is the "ano niku" emoji, in English "that meat". The Japanese members of the community were VERY confused as to why we were calling the meat emoji a "ham" and didn't understand why their posts about meat were not in the spirit of the "ham memes" encouraged in the channel.
Leaders from the Japanese speaking community got creative with explaining "ham" and used a well known anime in Japan called Hamtaro. The series focuses on a hamster named Hamtaro, who has a variety of adventures with other hamsters known as the "Ham-Hams" or "Hamuchanzu" in Japanese. They adopted the hamster emoji as their 🐹 badge and call themselves the Hamuchanzu! Due to this creativity and helping bridge two cultures, you'll now find lots of memes and art in the channel featuring the LP, hams, hamsters, and all of the Floaties (other emojis that trigger real payments on Farcaster and Twitter) in the channel.
Ham was the first to use emojis as tips, but many other projects have been inspired by it and embraced their own emoji tipping systems. Some projects are also using emojis to help users recognize members of the team or those who identify strongly with the community. The above are just a few of the community badges you may see on Farcaster. Know another community with a great story of their community badge? Please let me know!
PS: I'm a member of The Haberdashery , Purple DAO , host the /sakura 🌸 channel, I am the unofficial Hambassador 🍖, an honorary Hamuchanzu 🐹, and the host of the /anime-manga 🍡channel, which are all reflected in my Farcaster profile.
Pi-chi.eth (she/her) /animeoutcasts Unofficial Hambassasor |General of the North /kyoto /sakura /anime-manga https://beacons.ai/pi_chi
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so much to learn lol
Spammy accounts have copied our community badges (emojis in your display name). Is it time to retire them into Farcaster lore history? https://paragraph.com/@pichi/farcaster-community-badges
would love official badge support from clients on this https://warpcast.com/kompreni/0x17a3d1fa
they were never a good idea
I enjoyed them but maybe they’ve run their course.
Tipping via DegenSub 1067 $DEGEN
They were easy identifiers back in the day when casts and tipping were running on hyper speed. Things have changed a bit since then.
Things have changed a lot. It’s been good to reminisce but maybe this is really nostalgia and it’s time for something new.
Nostalgia is hell of a drug as they say
Would be an interesting feature if people could carry a real community batch. E.g. if you're member of a channel you should be aloud to where a channel/community badge. Maybe max. 1 at the same time. I know they don't care about channels anymore, but you could see them as a communities where you want to belong (or not), so no need to use the channel (it's getting more defuse), but you can see if someone is dedicated to/believing in a certain community. Showing where you identify with, and keeping up with their standards is probably a more powerful tool than rewards.
Great article 👍
Hey @pichi check this out! I want to know what you think. Especially abt usernames with emojis.
I like community badges but spammers mirror then heavily. Maybe they belong as lore now.
yep. having the top hat was cool on the name but eventually that changed imo. but idk. i don’t really remember if i have it. i will cast this and go and check lol are there other communities that use emojis on names for that purpose?
Yup! https://paragraph.com/@pichi/farcaster-community-badges
that @katekornish guide have been my food today and yesterday lmao and i'm trying my best to make a concious use of my time here, decided to post more about my "identity bricks"
Keep working on improving. It will eventually get noticed and changes will happen.
Do you know why we say “the Hat Stays On?” Read all about it in my article about community badges. They may be hidden now, but mine is still there! https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/farcaster-community-badges
they are visible when i move directly to your profile)
Indeed! The hat stays on! 🎩 😉
Thank you pichi This article is so valuable for FC lovers 👌
I think lot of people didn’t know this:)
RIP Community Badges. I will miss you. https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/farcaster-community-badges
They want to make it clean! :/ Identity is gone just like that instead we may see community name near our profile while casting.
the hat stays on?
I just realized it now!! It’s gone!! 😭😭
I’m sad. Moment of silence.
so you can see them once you’ve clicked on the persons profile, but you can no longer browse according to that community? what’s the fucking point in leaving it at all then? they make some weird ass changes…
Channel new update already started ? Channel name is showing after your name
I miss them already 🥺
Is it because of the update?
This is interesting. It looks really clean though and more professional. I like that aspect.
Do you know why I have 🐹 and 🍖 in my name? I explain it all here: https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/farcaster-community-badges
Yes yes pichi
I learned a lot from this article when it first came out 🙏 🍖x85 20 $Degen 75 $Aba 20 $Wild 40👏
Having one million degen to tip is crazy, wow
A bunch of us got shadow banned for casting so much too. Hilarious and stressful few days.
This is a gem! Thanks for explaining the history of the Hamuchanzu!
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I'm tipping: 🍖x250 via Abundance Ecosystem on /impact /impact lets you earn curator rewards while supporting your favorite creators & builders on Farcaster
I'm tipping: 19 $DEGEN 🍖x98 via Abundance Ecosystem on /impact /impact lets you earn curator rewards while supporting your favorite creators & builders on Farcaster
I'm tipping: 3 $HUNT via Abundance Ecosystem on /impact /impact lets you earn curator rewards while supporting your favorite creators & builders on Farcaster
Oh wow, thanks for this! Some of them I recognized right away, but the rest I had no idea about... haha 50 $degen
lovely read pichi
Spread the ham lore far and wide. Tip generously. Make sure everyone can eat more ham! https://qnsrksz.warpcast.tools/api/frames/clever-firefox-28
🫡 🍖x85 20 $Degen 75 $Aba 20 $Wild 40👏
Thank you!
more ham for pichi! 🍖 x 200
Thank you!
I am starting to take ham a lot more seriously. Next stop is getting an allo. almost recouped my 5 mil of my own tokens that I gave away before I knew the weekly drop meta 🤣
yey lets eat ham together Pichi-san 🍖 x 100 $ALEXEI
I love seeing everyone’s tokens! 100 $PICHI
yey now i hold some Pichi :3 :D
eat . more . ham
YAS! All The ham!!!!!
ALLLL THE HAMMMMMMMMMM!!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
🍖x777
Ham not spam🪧
Minted ma'am , btw is there any limit of these nfts ? Or it's unlimited?
Depends on the mint. Each is different.
Can you see who has minted this nfts ? Or there is no option to see that
always gonna mint pichi
Always fam always 🍖x500
btw is there not yet a pfp collection deployed on ham L3 called “hamsters”? pretty ubiquitously loved little animal seems like low hanging ham
https://www.hamsters.wtf/
Nice. Buttons not working for me tho. Otherwise would like to adopt 1
We are so early
@dosir can hamsters still be adopted?
Still some to adopt. Did you get an error message? Tried with MetaMask? Connected to ham chain?
Thanks for sharing my agency Apex 420 $DOS
had the same thought lol, there's an argument that it's too easy/too normal. ham community leans into more absurd stuff https://warpcast.com/six/0xb8c64099
Haha that’s too much coincidence for it not be done. Animal pfps are popular category and hamsters are the least arbitrary option for ham so I think they should do it. They can make the hamsters absurd if they want
We’ve had it for a long long time. Wrote about it here. https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/farcaster-community-badges
oh TIL. thank you!
Hahha yes. Those pixl hamsters we got are absurd 😂
We have one and we’ve been Hamsters since February ;) https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/farcaster-community-badges
Tagging @dosir the hamster king
Thanks for the shout out fren 420 $DOS
On Feb 14, 2024 if you had the 🎩 emoji your name, you got One Million $DEGEN to tip. But if you removed it the next day, your tips were invalid. A grass roots gorilla marketing campaign began to remind everyone to keep the 🎩 emoji in their name and “the hat stays on” meme was born. Over 10,000 people still have the Emoji in their name. I don't know the exact number because the search broke @buoy https://ugtt1t.warpcast.tools/api/moxie?q=316
I saw a cast making the rounds today claiming that anyone with an emoji in their username is likely a spammer. If that’s how I’ll be viewed or having the 🎩 in my name, then so be it. The hat stays on! Thanks for the mint :) 100 $DEGEN
Same. Mine are community badges. Haters gonna hate. https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/farcaster-community-badges
This is great @pichi - thanks! I remember reading it when it first came out! 300 $farther
How can we fix search? Do you just need better counts?
I was just playing around but it seemed to top out at 10,000. This was probably an extreme edge case.
Smart
I'm ready with the Ⓜ️ Jason
gm Pichi🎩 I started on 16 February and I wanted to be part of that😭
A little history lesson!!
It was an epic feeling to give someone >$300 at the time. And I split my to 4 people.
I still keep the hat on. It’s the spirit of being Degen more than anything.
I'm gonna have to put my hat back on😱
Didn't know the story behind it. 😍 The hat stays on! 🎩
Do you wear the hat that day ma'am ? Hat always stays on 🎩🫡
I threw a little Ham Lore in this article for those who may not get why we are all adopting /hamsters and getting so exited about it. P.S. You can adopt your hamsters with the tips people gave you! No joke.
Thanks Pichi 🍖x555
already bought to many hamsters 😂 🍖x420
10 $DEGEN
Respect to the hamuchanzu 🙇♂️🐹 🍖x420
🍖 x 1000
🍖x169
Pichi. I hav just seen this in yout TL. I am a lil behind. Caring for the HAMsters kept me pretty busy. You wrote about that. WOW. Thank you so much. Thats super awesome. I will read that instantly now. 🍖x4269 42 $DEGEN 500 $WILD
A little for buy another 🍖x200
I just subscribed. Thank you so much ☺️
this is something great Pichi 🍖x222
Trying to educate folks more about Farcaster Lore! Do you know what community badges are?
The frame image is currently broken over here.
Are there still any kind of badges left? idk
Communities create them. That's whats great about this place. just do it.
I've never heard of it before!
The good old days 😁 5000 $units
First time I've heard of it. It's different from PB, right?
They are just for fun.
I see So, like "steak", it does not mean anything by itself.
Tysm for good info! 300 $farther
community badges hmm , seems like i need to read
Nice! @buildbot nom @pichi
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This week a built content and participated in the first /writinghackathon ! I wrote about Farcaster Community Badges aka all those emojis in people’s names! Spoiler alert: I'm a member of The Haberdashery 🎩, Purple DAO 🟪, host the /sakura 🌸 channel, I am the unofficial Hambassador 🍖, an honorary Hamuchanzu 🐹, and the host of the /anime-manga manga 🍡channel, which are all reflected in my Farcaster profile.
Wow , well done as always pichi 🫶 Proud of you , Bookmarked and read , so complete and I think as a suggestion should every one read once
Thanks so much for reading!
Your emojis looks so cutie 😍 good article, I learned something new. Do you have a favorite emoji?)
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Thank you for sharing
Do you know why I have a bunch of emojis in my name including the top hat? Do you know why we say “the hat stays on”? Read all about it in my latest article and learn some degen lore. Have more questions? Ask away!
thank you for these articles 1000 $degen
Oh wow! Thanks @beachmfer.eth!
Bookmark✅
Bookmarked, looking forward to giving this a read @pichi! 🍖 x 333
I was thinking about joining the haberdashery could you give me a few pros to being a member ?
I think the biggest selling point right now is direct access to a lot of people who care deeply about the degen ecosystem and want to support builders who believe in it.
GN🤍💙
new to this community, thanks for the post 200 $degen