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The relationship where like, I'm grateful for all of our, everyone who tunes in, whether it's daily or once a week, like really grateful for all the friends I've made here.

But the reality is most of you are, I know by your username and or your PFP.

Now, I do happen to know Frosty's name because I think it's his YouTube account.

But if not for that, I would know him as Frosty's and his coda, not even his current mutant, but I would know him as Frosty's and his coda.

So if we run into each other at ApeFest, I don't want to be a jerk and forget your name.

Like sometimes I'll just forget, like I forgot Chantel's name.

But like, I know FlexTag has the PFP tags with your name, like whether it's a name tag or sticker or something that ties your crypto Twitter identity to your in real life identity is very helpful for this sort of stuff because I don't get to hear from you or see you stream every day for the most part.

And I don't want to be a jerk when you have a conversation like I should know you and I do know you.

Yeah.

They ne- a- a- and, and, uh, and they were also the Uh, they avat- they created the Avatars.

Like they're the ones-

Yep

... that made the Avatars back when that was an important thing.

Like, Ra- they got their work out of Rare, and like, uh, the pirate game is, you know, hold, I for- always forget what it's called.

Mm-hmm.

I don't know if I've paid for any of them.

And that's someone who's like, I've... you know, rocketed as my PFP since mint.

But if someone's like just buying something as a, you know, I plan to flip this a year from now, five years from now, like, I don't know, maybe they'd want to buy other derivatives, but I just...

The world's also changed a lot since 2022.

I thought it was cool.

A little community project.

I had no interest in buying one as someone who's rocked an ape as my PFP for five-plus years.

That's just me.

I think, I, I think it'll be interesting to mix a bit, yeah.

Because, because as Rajeev, the Avatar, no, man.

The Avatar one, it's good, it's interesting what you're saying.

What you're saying literally is you've gone to, uh, from a player-

Correct

Never heard that.

PFP.

Profile picture, icon, or avatar.

I have not heard that.

It's gotten so bad that if I see somebody with a Goyard bag, I automatically think to myself, damn, why are you wearing a fake bag? Not, oh, that thing is fresh.

I immediately think to myself, why are you wearing a fake bag? OK, it's kind of similar to when Bored Apes were $500,000 and every scamming AI automated like Twitter account that would kind of fish you was wearing a Mutant Ape PFP.

All of a sudden you started you would just start to associate Mutant Ape PFP with scammer, even though they were 100 grand, 150 grand.

it wasn't like the value the real ones are more valuable it was like the whole thing is muddied and so when you when i see a go-yard bag now i think the same thing i'm just like a fake ass and i think this is a problem it feels like the exact same problem as the synthetic diamond thing which is like okay diamonds now valuable Or do you just assume they're all fake? Do the real bags become more valuable? Or do you just assume they're all fake? Dude, I think you just assume that they are all fake.

And there's nothing you can really do about it.

that this person was buying a lot.

Yeah, so what he did initially, I think, is he bought one that ACK had as a PFP for 30 ETH or so, and then he said, 30 ETH ready to deploy, which Bored Ape should I sweep low? Just kidding, I call it things with value.

Someone, quote, reposted it and made fun of the Argonauts art with a Bored Ape PFP, I think, and even said, wait, did it trigger you? Bored an Ape and just sent it to the burner just to make a point.

So yeah, quite the passionate holder and collector base with the Argonauts.

I think that's bullish.