Oceans of Wisdom

but the pepes were the uber NFTs and the memes were on day one "nobodies"

all the pepes are private tokens in someone elses collection

well for sure in the beginning this is the most comical question imaginable

are the pepes benefiting from us?

same thing with pepes

but when we started summer.jpg was one of the best known NFTs in the world and the memes were literal nobodies

it is a form of success that now you think that summer.jpg is earning publicity through the memes

revisionist history. if i did not put all my brand 'earned' by collecting and tweeting towards the memes there would be no memes

on the trademark

we did quite a bit of work on this topic

i don't think he should have had to ask us permission

i think it is ok

is that bad or not?

@[maybe] just made 6529vpn

i don't think @[RegularDad] issue is with the world museum but with the word 6529 but i dunno

anyway i agree it is confusing and needs some work

@[RegularDad] somehow was concerned that I was LARPING as 6529 which anyway it interesting and a form of success for me

it is a one-way street

yes this decision has been made I think

i am not sure it is yet net positive for the network

and dissociating my collecting from the 6529 brand

and my gut sense not 100% committed to this but I think it is right at this stage just going off to some generic name for everything else

otherwise that would have been the easy solution

because I think it is cringe

i don't like Punk6529 Museum

I think that for me personally i am fine being "punk6529"

has to belong to the network

I think the end state is that the brand "6529"

all good - i agree it is confusing

but misleading has a different connotation

if you had said confusing I would have agreed with you

and I think I have been super clear all along who owns what

because calling it misleading implies a form of bad faith

I am 'upset' about misleading

i am not triggered by the ownership. i am crystal clear about who owns each piece

i am not hung up on the name

ok happy to have this discussion with the group

for this to work, in the long-run I need to be unimportant

but now we are getting there

3 years ago nobody would have given credit to our discord for NFT stewardship

and I think I am doing a pretty good job at it

I have been trying if you all have not noticed to progressively move the brand I built for NFT stewardship and thought leadership etc from me to the network

ok, then what?

mike smith gets the glory

someone goes to see the tulip

this puts this issue to bed but I do not think it helps anything

and tomorrow I renamed the 6529 museum "the mike smith museum"

let's say my name was mike smith

but right now I do not think the memes or the network are being hurt or being misled in some way to being associated brand wise with the 6529 museum

you say it is misleading. as if the 6529 museum is getting some private benefit from being associated with the meme cards when I am pretty sure it is the opposite way. the large and iconic purchases of the museum have brought attention etc to what we are doing i am starting to separate out branding between 6529 (network) and punk6529 (me) - you see it in the ENSes and I will continue to do so