kenny 🎩 on Farcaster

kenny 🎩 pfp

airdrops used to be a way of rewarding the people who believed in you when you were nothing now they're just another way of trying to convince people to believe "we gave you an airdrop, love us" vs "you loved us, here's an airdrop"

23 replies

20 recasts

125 reactions

kenny 🎩 pfp

as mike says, one is clear marketing https://farcaster.xyz/mikedcryptoguy/0x9817eade which is fine! I'm a marketer at heart, people gonna use the tools they have but don't expect to get the same love and affection that, say, Uniswap had when they airdropped when your airdrop is just another line item in the Q2 marketing budget

3 replies

3 recasts

30 reactions

⚡STIICKZ⚡ pfp

Absolutely spot on Boss 💯

1 reply

0 recast

5 reactions

Gregarious pfp

So true Kenny! But in fairness, incentivizing people to try is pretty established. PayPal famously “airdropped” $5 to anyone who would try their new way to send money.

1 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Brandon Yoshizawa 🎩🔵💎 pfp

Brandon Yoshizawa 🎩🔵💎

@bay-photography

I love free money tho

1 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Slippage 🎩🙈🎭🍄 pfp

Slippage 🎩🙈🎭🍄

@mikedcryptoguy

I said same … One came from gratitude, the other feels like marketing fr

0 reply

0 recast

9 reactions

Kazi pfp

Well said!! Farcaster OG NFT airdrop was more of a reward for the former

0 reply

0 recast

3 reactions

nuconomy.⌐◨-◨ pfp

nuconomy.⌐◨-◨

Nobody is falling in love for a $5 airdrop. Recently it’s become a simple payment for a window of attention but you need to have something real to back it up if you want that attention to last more than a moment. It’s an ad network but most of the payment is going direct to users instead.

1 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

wake pfp

0 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Jordan Charters pfp

Jordan Charters

I'm in the camp of making airdrops more meaningful 🙏 The way most projects are going about it is like giving a stranger $10 on the street and expecting them to truly care in reciprocation. Very rarely will this happen, another reason why we value who we trust 🙏

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Niki 🎩🔮 pfp

Well said kenny

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Mark Coull🎩🔵 pfp

Mark Coull🎩🔵

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Tom pfp

This is the one

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Hassan Omotayo B pfp

Hassan Omotayo B

@hassanomotayob

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

normancomics.eth pfp

normancomics.eth

@normancomics.eth

The users know which airdrops came from a place of love vs. which airdrops are nothing but gimmicky grifts wrapped up as gratitude. @uniswap, @singularitynet, @optimism, /sankotv were just a few examples of platforms actually caring about their users…

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Derek pfp

This!!! Now it's evolution is controversial. I don't mind us going back to those times

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

tuantamvan.base.eth pfp

tuantamvan.base.eth

I need an airdrop 😅

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Vivek 🎩 pfp

Looking at the other way it has also become - We loved you now give airdrop Tbh airdrops have lost their glorious days

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

XBorn ID pfp

you loved us, here's an airdrop! 💜

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

acai pfp

yeah, sad really also, the "old" way probably only worked the 1st time

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction