Luca’s Substack
Rare earnest and lengthy post: Memecoin crypto is easier today than it was three years ago; but with that ease, we're reentering the "wen utility?" phase all over again.
(Disclaimers: @tednotlasso is the best. I'm not fading her here AT ALL, and you shouldn't either! I'm also just writing this right in the twitter... See more
raihan.̷̨̡̡̢̢̡̡̢̡̜̦̤̗̟̫͖͙͚̗̤͇̹̟̦͕͓̱̤̻̠̯͇̯͓̩͈͕̣̙̙͕̻x.comIn the 2010s, supply chain innovation opened up lifestyle brands. In the 2020s, financial mechanism innovation is opening up the space for incentivized ideologies, networked publics, and co-owned faiths. Liquid cryptocurrency tokens empower speculative cultural projects with monetary policies that create FOMO (e.g. Ethereum, FWB); NFTs enable... See more
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
Meme coins perform what Wernick identifies as the “double function” of contemporary promotional forms: they serve simultaneously as products and as advertisements for themselves.9 Their appeal rests in the affective atmosphere that they generate across Discord servers, forums, and social posts: the promise of sudden wealth, the pleasure of... See more
Eileen Isagon Skyers • Eileen Isagon Skyers: From Speculation to Symbolic Release
