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Today we share the pod summary from The Metaverse Podcast with host @jamie247, featuring DeFi's high-quality meme generator, @pplpleasr1. Here, she talks about her journey into crypto and how she accidentally got into the niche space between DeFi and the NFT space.

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@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 Who is Pplpleasr?

🔸 Featured on @FortuneMagazine's crypto cover and NFT series
🔸 PleasrDAO started because of her - honorary member in the DAO
🔸 Influenced by Chinese/Japanese art animated films, underground music scene and video game in her art

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine "You're best known as DeFi high-quality meme generator. Who would have thought that was a career? Interesting to know what your family thought of that career choice. I'm sure they're over the moon about it now, but doing it is probably quite weird."

Jamie Burke

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine Her Crypto Journey

College years
🔸 First heard of crypto in college
🔸 Did not have money back in 2014
🔸 Too busy finding a job to have the bandwidth for anything

"Apes Together Strong"

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine Discovered crypto subreddit
🔸 Had been working and saving up around 2017
🔸 Looking for places to invest but don't know much about tradfi
🔸 Discovered crypto subreddit
🔸 Drawn in by the culture and language used in it
🔸 Learn about blockchain and found it revolutionary

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine ICO days

🔸 Bought ICO coins and rode the peak and trough
🔸 Hard to convince parents that crypto is a real thing
🔸 Went back to regular life and job after bear market hits🐻
🔸 Held on to her tokens though
🔸 Believed in the tech and prices will go back up one day

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine "I held because I was like, look, my $3,000 that I put in has plummeted to like $600. Why would I sell now? And because I truly did believe in the technology. So I was like, well, you know, it's probably gonna go back up one day."

Pplpleasr

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine DeFi summer ☀️

🔸 Good friend made good money farming during DeFi summer and got her interested again
🔸 Unemployed and needed income desperately so jumped right in
🔸 Took more risk because she has less to lose
🔸 No financial background and everything is self-taught

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine 🔸 Her knowledge is shallow compared to her peers who are actively building and DeFi-ing
🔸 Even after reading the whitepaper, she sometimes has no idea what is happening
🔸 Her struggles in DeFi makes her a perfect guide to bridge normies over to crypto

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine "I was also making it more digestible for myself, right? Honestly, it was more of like, explain like I'm five to myself. While I'm doing that, I might as well use a visual medium to explain it. And then when other people watch it, they can also understand."

Pplpleasr

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine First animation

🔸 Started a Twitter acct to learn about DeFi
🔸 Noticed that most promo efforts revolved around memes - the same culture & language she knew
🔸 Not done professionally at all - made a joke that perhaps she should be hired to do the job

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine 🔸 At that time, Blue Kirby - an influencer for Yearn Finance - was looking for someone to do video editing @bluekirbyfi
🔸 Her friend sent him her works on Instagram - was impressed and started collaborating
🔸 Made her first animation for YFI

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine @bluekirbyfi Creative or DeFi?

🔸 Considers herself a normie who had exposure to crypto
🔸 Came into crypto through DeFi instead of NFT
🔸 Took a different path from others because she stumbled into DeFi and was too busy to look at NFT

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine @bluekirbyfi Her Big Break

🔸 Made a teaser animation for @Uniswap for their V3 launch
🔸 Had an aha moment to drop the animation as an NFT
🔸 Hit 2 birds with one stone and let her name be on the radar in the NFT space
🔸 Huge success - NFT sold for 310 $ETH, over $500k at that time

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine @bluekirbyfi @Uniswap 🔸 Previously her commission work was between $3k to $5k only
🔸 A bunch of supporters/fans got together to form @PleasrDAO
🔸 Won the winning bid - that was how PleasrDAO began

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine @bluekirbyfi @Uniswap @PleasrDAO Must Art be non-commercialised?

🔸 Felt that the NFT art community did not treat her seriously as an artist
🔸 Most of her works are commercial meme art for DeFi projects
🔸 Hopes that in the Metaverse/Web3 world, we no longer have the pre Web3 notion of what art is

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine @bluekirbyfi @Uniswap @PleasrDAO Front cover for Fortune magazine

🔸 1 month in crypto feels like several months
🔸 Attributed her success to luck and being at the right place at the right time
🔸 Usually takes 10 yrs in the traditional world to attain this level of success; she only took months

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine @bluekirbyfi @Uniswap @PleasrDAO 🔸 Creatives aspire to have creative freedom in the traditional world
🔸 People get there by working for others or doing commissions
🔸 Freelance work is considered lowly because you execute other people's vision
🔸 Doesn't feel like that working in a web3 environment

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine @bluekirbyfi @Uniswap @PleasrDAO More selective on new projects now

🔸 After the success of the Uniswap NFT, she was wondering if selling NFT is her purpose
🔸 Personal goal changes all the time
🔸 Currently she sees herself following @ljxie, helping to spread crypto awareness using visual arts as her medium

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine @bluekirbyfi @Uniswap @PleasrDAO @ljxie 🔸 Too busy to do commissioned videos
🔸 Wanted to do projects that align with her ethos now - to educate people about crypto
🔸 Partnered with @ensdomains
🔸 Also did a movie poster NFT with @EthereumFilm

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine @bluekirbyfi @Uniswap @PleasrDAO @ljxie @ensdomains @EthereumFilm 🔸 NFT is to crowdfund for an Ethereum documentary
🔸 This is in collaboration with @ljxie, around July
🔸 Huge success - raised over 1000 ETH in 48 hours

"Ethereum: The Infinite Garden"

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine @bluekirbyfi @Uniswap @PleasrDAO @ljxie @ensdomains @EthereumFilm 🔸 After that, the creative director of @FortuneMagazine asked her to do a cover for them
🔸 She jumped on it because she wanted to educate the masses about cryptocurrency
🔸 If making a front cover can elevate the entire crypto community, she will use her skills to do it

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine @bluekirbyfi @Uniswap @PleasrDAO @ljxie @ensdomains @EthereumFilm Links

🔸 Substack article: thereadingape.substack.com/p/the-metavers…

Thanks to Jamie from @OVioHQ for the wonderful interview. Seems like we're not the only one trying to sound knowledgeable about DeFi when we're actually nodding in complete ignorance 😂

@jamie247 @pplpleasr1 @FortuneMagazine @bluekirbyfi @Uniswap @PleasrDAO @ljxie @ensdomains @EthereumFilm @OVioHQ 🔸 Podcast: pod.link/tmp/episode/a1…

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