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Something that wasn't mentionned: that monkey jpg is ugly as sin. Github auto-generates icons and makes something that looks nice. Some people have worked on AI

by Zababa 5y ago

Something that wasn't mentionned: that monkey jpg is ugly as sin. Github auto-generates icons and makes something that looks nice. Some people have worked on AI-generated art and made beautiful things. You could also take a camera, point it at the sky, take a picture every minute and get a better result than this. I don't get why when you get a NFT, it has to be an ugly monkey/ape/lion. Is there something attractice in their ugliness? I think the vast majority of people see them as ugly, at least from what I've seen online. What am I missing here? > NFTs are swapped frequently to generate fake demand. Look at the transaction logs before buying Sounds like an opportunity for a business. Get data on this, write a few articles on obvious scams, introduce a metric for how "scammy" and inflated the value of a specific NFT is, sell that notation.

TigeriusKirk 5y ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I like the actual Bored Apes. I think they're well done and carry a lot of cool factor. Not as big a fan of the derivatives (dogs, mutant apes) from the same team. And I don't like the lazy knockoffs like the linked thread purchased at all. But it's all down to taste, which definitely varies from person to person and group to group.
- Zababa 5y ago
  I agree that the initial Bored Apes are better. Taste varying from person to person doesn't mean that everything is equally appealing to the same amount of people. From my observations, most people find them ugly, or at least far from beautiful or cool. Maybe most people in the NFT niche find them beautiful or cool, in which case the explanation is just a difference of tastes. But if that's not the case, my question about why people decided to do something ugly still stands.
  - TigeriusKirk 5y ago
    I think there's some nuance here, as there often is with art. Sure, you can look at the Bored Apes and say they're ugly. There is an element of that in them, and yes, I'm sure it's intentional from the team. But they didn't have "do something ugly" as the primary goal, they had "do something cool" as the primary goal, and the "ugly" was an aspect of the approach they took to achieve that goal. Specifically, I think they were going for a street art vibe that often uses an approach like this. It's not going to appeal to everyone, and to be honest, that's part of the point. It wouldn't be cool if it appealed to everyone. That's an easy dynamic to mock, but it's still a real dynamic in the real world.

by Zababa 5y ago

TigeriusKirk 5y ago

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I like the actual Bored Apes. I think they're well done and carry a lot of cool factor. Not as big a fan of the derivatives (dogs, mutant apes) from the same team. And I don't like the lazy knockoffs like the linked thread purchased at all. But it's all down to taste, which definitely varies from person to person and group to group.

Zababa 5y ago
I agree that the initial Bored Apes are better. Taste varying from person to person doesn't mean that everything is equally appealing to the same amount of people. From my observations, most people find them ugly, or at least far from beautiful or cool. Maybe most people in the NFT niche find them beautiful or cool, in which case the explanation is just a difference of tastes. But if that's not the case, my question about why people decided to do something ugly still stands.
- TigeriusKirk 5y ago
  I think there's some nuance here, as there often is with art. Sure, you can look at the Bored Apes and say they're ugly. There is an element of that in them, and yes, I'm sure it's intentional from the team. But they didn't have "do something ugly" as the primary goal, they had "do something cool" as the primary goal, and the "ugly" was an aspect of the approach they took to achieve that goal. Specifically, I think they were going for a street art vibe that often uses an approach like this. It's not going to appeal to everyone, and to be honest, that's part of the point. It wouldn't be cool if it appealed to everyone. That's an easy dynamic to mock, but it's still a real dynamic in the real world.