The "delightfully weird" aesthetic is MARKETING. The "culture"? Compromised. In the same way that legitimate artistic spaces of old are just capitalised upon a

The "delightfully weird" aesthetic is MARKETING. The "culture"? Compromised. In the same way that legitimate artistic spaces of old are just capitalised upon and harvested to make that "hip bar", which is but a pale imitation designed to trick us. "Web3" is the Shoreditch of Web 1.0. There are no real things in it any more, no real culture, only rehashes created for profit! People who are creating "Web3" content are doing it in order to capitalise on the throwback culture, the "geekiness", it's all done purely to further the cash grab, it's co-opting and appropriating geek culture for personal gain. It's almost an artistic statement upon itself. Almost. > Protocols like SMTP (1981; email), TCP (1983; reliable packet transmission), HTTP (1991; web), and XMPP (1999; chat) all created immense value while capturing little for their inventors. GOOD. "Web3" will be rightfully choked to death by greed.