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IN THE BEGINNING OF CRYPTOART/NFT HISTORY....ARTISTS BOUGHT FROM ARTISTS.

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1) THE TERM CRYPTOART 'COLLECTOR' CAME AROUND THE TIME RANDOM INDIVIDUALS BEGAN SHOWING UP ON SUPERRARE AROUND THE 2018/2019 ERA. AT THIS TIME SALES WERE SUPER SMALL AND FROM TIME TO TIME YOU'D SEE RANDOM INDIVIDUALS THAT WEREN'T ARTISTS BUY A PIECE FROM TIME TO TIME.
2) WHEN THE RAREPEPE EXPERIMENTS BEGAN IN 2016, WE ALL BOUGHT AND TRADED WITH EACH OTHER. THE TERM COLLECTOR DIDN'T EVEN EXIST.....HONESTLY WE WERE JUST HAVING FUN WITH THE TRADEABLE ASPECT SINCE IT WAS SO NEW.
3) AS TRADING OCCURED MORE AND MORE, A SORT OF COMMUNITY TORNADO BEGAN TO OCCUR AND YOU'D SEE PEOPLE PEER INTO OUR LITTLE MEME FREAKISH WORLD AND INDIVIDUALS LIKE FRED WILSON OR BITCOIN WORLD'S MAX KEISER WOULD DABBLE AND COLLECT.
4) WHEN I WAS PARTAKING, CREATING AND COLLECTING DURING THE SUPERRARE EARLY DAYS, I WAS SHOCKED AT HOW LOW THE PRICES WERE FOR CRYPTOART AT THE TIME. PRIMARILY BECAUSE I WAS COMING FROM THE RAREPEPE WORLD AND AT THE TIME HOMERPEPE HAD ALREADY MADE RECORD BREAKING NEWS
5) COLDIE, MYSELF AND MANY OTHER ARTISTS HAD A F#*$ING FIELD DAY COLLECTING OUR PEERS AND I HAD NO FEAR IN SPENDING A 1000 BUCKS FOR A COLDIE WORK AND SETTING THE FIRST COLLECTOR RECORD ON SUPERRARE. THAT WAS PRIMARILY BECAUSE THE RAREPEPE WORLD WAS ALREADY SELLING THOSE AMOUNTS
6) I'M NOT SURE WHERE IT EXACTLY HAPPENED OR WHEN I JUST CAME TO REALIZE, BUT THE ACT OF COLLECTING ART FROM OTHER ARTISTS JUST FELT NATURAL IN THIS ENVIRONMENT. I'M NOT SURE IF ITS THE SPEED OF TRANSMISSION BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS WITH DIGITAL ART BUT THAT STIGMA COMPLETELY VANISHED
7) AS SUPERRARE'S EARLY DAYS MATURED YOU HAD COLLECTORS BEGIN MAKING A NAME FOR THEMSELVES, @krybharat @TokenAngels @SatsMoonSoon @co1born @shayne_coplan AND YES.... EVEN WHALESHARK AND PABLO. AFTER THAT IT TURNED INTO THE FORMAT YOU KINDA SEE NOW.
8) THE COLLECTOR/INFLUENCER ACTIVITY REALLY DIDN'T COME TO FULL FRUITION UNTIL @pranksy STARTED MICHAEL JORDAN'ING HIS TRADING ACTIVITY AND THIS CAME AFTER HE RELEASED ALL HIS WRAPPED CRYPTOPUNKS TO MARKET. THIS IN TURN SPURRED THE EVENTS OF THE PFP CRAZE.
9) AS THE PFP MANIA WENT INTO FULL SWING WE HAD NEW ENTRANTS THAT CAME IN TO MAKE A BIGGER SPLASH THAN COLLECTORS THAT CAME BEFORE, BASICALLY COMING WITH MORE CAPITAL. THE BIGGER THE SPLASH, THE BIGGER THE FOLLOWER COUNT. THIS IS THE AGE OF @CozomoMedic AND OTHERS SHOWING UP.
10) AS CRYPTOART BEGAN TO GET SUBMERGED BY THE WEIGHT OF PFP GAMBLING ACROSS THE BOARD AND THE TELEVISION WAS FALSELY CLAIMING @ParisHilton AS A THE QUEEN OF NFTS, A RETURN TO FORM WAS DUE....ENTER HIC ET NUNC.
11) BECAUSE ETHEREUM GAS FEES WERE THE MAIN CULPRIT FOR RESTRICTING NEW ARTISTIC ENTRANTS TO COME INTO OUR WORLD, THE HIC ET NUNC PLATFORM ON TEZOS WAS THE PERFECT ANSWER. MIND YOU, RAREPEPE TRADING ALSO STOPPED BECAUSE FEES GOT HIGHER BACK IN THE DAY AS WELL. FEES KILL, FO REAL
12) OBSERVING HIC ET NUNC'S METEORIC GROWTH WAS A WELCOME RETURN TO TRUE FORM OF THE SOUL OF CRYPTOART. AN ENTIRELY NEW COMMUNITY THAT SUPPORTED EACH OTHER AND ALSO THEY HAD TO PROVE TO OTHER CHAINS THAT THEY COULD SURVIVE AND THRIVE, WHICH THEY OBVIOUSLY ACCOMPLISHED.
13) IT HAPPENS EVERY TIME WITH A BLOCKCHAIN IT SEEMS. FIRST THE FEES ARE ALRIGHT, IT'S EASY TO PAY AND MINT BUT THEN YOU GET BLOCKCHAIN BLOAT.....THEN SLOWLY YOU SEE ACTIVITY DECLINE AND YOU WONDER WHERE EVERYBODY WENT. ALWAYS KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THAT BECAUSE THE ENERGY MOVES.
14) ALTHOUGH IT'S MOSTLY THE COLLECTORS IN THE SPACE WHO BOAST ABOUT THEIR COLLECTIONS, YOU'LL BE PLEASANTLY SURPRISED AT THE ARTISTS WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN HERE AND SEE THEIR VAULTS AS WELL (NOT TOOTIN' MY OWN HORN HERE).....AND WE'RE ON THE BLOCKCHAIN FOLKS...IT'S EASY TO LOOK UP.
15) THE INFAMOUS 1/1 CRYPTOART MARKET DYNAMIC WASN'T REALLY PROMOTED AS A THING UNTIL THE SUPERRARE PLATFORM GAVE IT LIFE. DURING THE RAREPEPE DAYS WE HAD TO MAKE SURE WE ALL MADE EDITION COUNTS OF 100 OR ABOVE BECAUSE WE REALIZED WE COULDN'T GROW IF WE JUST MADE 1/1S ALL DAY.
16) THIS OBVIOUSLY IS NOT THROWING SHADE ON SUPERRARE, NOT ONE BIT.....IT'S JUST FOR A TRADING CARD/ART DYNAMIC IT DIDN'T WORK WELL FOR RAREPEPES. HOWEVER, I WILL SAY THAT HIC ET NUNC'S COMMUNITY GROWTH ACTED ALMOST THE SAME SINCE THEY ALSO WORKED IN THE EDITION COUNT SPECTRUM.
17) THE ABILITY TO SELL YOUR WORK IN EDITION COUNTS AND BE IN A COMMUNITY THAT DOES THE SAME WORKS SOME CRAZY MAGIC IN DEVELOPING A TRADING/COLLECTING ENERGY VACUUM. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT FOR ARTISTS COMING INTO THE SPACE AND STRUGGLING HOW TO GET THINGS GOING.
18) AS I TYPE THIS I ALSO COME TO REALIZE THAT ARTIST COMMUNITIES THAT KEEP TO THEIR LAURELS CAN HELP CURB THE GATEKEEPING THAT OCCURS HERE AND THERE.POWER IN NUMBERS IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE THIS TECHNOLOGY. IF IT BEAT THE BANKS...THAN BEATING SOME COLLECTORS WITH EGO IS CAKE.
19) I'LL REITORATE THIS.....POWER IN NUMBERS. NEVER FORGET THAT. THE REASON BITCOIN WAS ABLE TO SURVIVE WAS BECAUSE OF ITS ANONYMOUS STRUCTURE AND THE WORK OF MANY SCATTERED ACROSS THE PLANET. THIS FRAMEWORK IS THE BASIS FOR EVERY OTHER INDUSTRY THAT'S READY TO UTILIZE IT.
20) IT'S LIKE 5 A.M. ON LOS ANGELES AND I CAN'T GO BACK TO SLEEP....HOWEVER I DO FEEL THE STIGMA OF STRESS IN THE AIR FROM ARTISTS ALL ACROSS THIS SPACE AND THAT'S DUE IN PART TO THE WILD WEST MARKET DYNAMICS OF CRYPTO BEAR/BULL MARKETS. GONNA TAKE A DECADE TO SMOOTH OUT.
21) ARTISTS, MEMES AND BLOCKCHAIN WERE THE KEY BUILDING BLOCKS THAT BUILT THE NFT INDUSTRY AS IT IS NOW. DO NOT THINK FOR ONE SECOND IT WAS COLLECTORS IN THE BEGINNING WHO BUILT THIS. THE COOL ONES UNDERSTAND THIS AND RESPECT IT, THE OTHERS.....ARE JUST FAKING IT.

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