As far as you can notice, you’ll know that I despise NFTs. I got my reasonings for it, but the bottom line of it is that the NFT market is so flooded with bad actors themselves no one in the right mind except those really into it will be willing to stay near them, including myself. However, one NFT project really caught my eye recently, given that it’s made by a certainly popular YouTube channel that I admired called Nerd City. It’s the Dead Avatar Project, or “DAP”.
Of course, this project has been backed up by not just Nerd City, but also plenty other youtubers like Rusty Cage and so on, who have been recently dabbling in the NFT business for a while now. The project, supposedly, and as far as I heard, claims to be enviromentally friendly, a proof-of-stake project with not so much speculation going on, and part of a project related to their TryHards video series, where they investigate and document the goings-on of trying to make a career online, this time, dabbling in the world of crypto and digital art for some sort of research purposes.
I’ve been critical of NFTs ever since they came around to the public consciousness, but apparently, Nerd City and their Dead Avatar Project can possibly be the most ethical of NFT projects I’ve ever seen, and that’s not much for the general NFT business going around like the aforementioned Bored Ape Yacht Club or Cryptopunks, considering everything surrounding it is worse than Bigger Fool scams and things that literally destroy our planet; but Dead Avatars seems to be willing to prove the contrary, by creating sort of more aesthetic NFTs that are enviromentally friendly and are not completely run as much on speculation. And this is just because Nerd City wants to illustrate through TryHards how this business works, all from a neutral perspective between those who are eager to dive into NFTs and those who hate them so much, like myself.
And I might still be skeptical of this; maybe they’re lying through their teeth and nobody knows, maybe this will turn out to be an outright rugpull scam or whatever, but I’m willing to see if NFTs like these can easily redeem the market from the huge amounts of bad actors in it by steadily rising the number of good actors within the market. Like I said in my earlier manifesto, one must use the tools capitalism gives us to fight against capitalism. If anybody is willing to use whatever benefits NFTs can give us to fight against this hypercapitalism driven by the Metaverse and Crypto, so be it. Maybe even create a unionized, enviromentally friendly (by 100%), non-speculative NFT market to actually support marginalized voices and artists, maybe even by not getting it involved in bigger fool scams like NFTs usually do. Hey, that’s just a theory, not sure how it will go in practice, but with the fact that Ethereum might enter into the realm of proof-of-stake and being enviromentally friendly, I guess shit’s not gonna be so bad if we manage to create a better, more benefitial way of doing NFTs just for the sake of empowering the poor over the rich and, maybe, seizing the means of production.
But I have no idea, maybe that’s just a dreamworld. Only time can tell.
