A lot of people are commenting on the inherent hilarity of this situation, but I want to highlight the godawful promo video and the way it further demonstrates the Unbearable Cringe of Crypto: crypto content ultimately just becomes content about crypto.
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The product becomes inextricable from its context, in the same way that investment chode Gary Vee gets a featured cameo in a transparent ploy to pad his ego as a money mover all the disconnected NFT characters loom as a ploy to "realize an investment"
Anyway let's have some fun talking about BAYC apes as "characters" that holders get the commercial rights to.
Let's say we buy #5777
Basically anything we do with this "character" that fails to include the background is immediately open to challenge by the holder of #5525 as the two apes share all characteristics except background
And the moment we put clothes on either we're now stepping on the toes of #8809 and #8872 which are also identical in all meaningful ways, just one has a leather jacket and the other a sailor uniform.
It turns out that "characters" churned out in batches of ten thousand by an algorithm haphazardly combining stock characteristics according to a rarity curve aren't a good or interesting foundation to build literally anything out of that isn't just product placement for BAYC.
But also just imagine trying to litigate that these all constitute unique, distinct characters with clearly defined commercial rights.
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