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we've been talking about @zora for two weeks straight, and like it or not, that's a huge win for them. i don't think zora or @jessepollak deserved all the hate they've gotten recently. if anything, hats off to them for running a wildly successful marketing campaign. people were calling them grifters, writing threads, complaining nonstop — but all that noise just kept the spotlight right where they wanted it. in this attention-driven market, you all fed the machine its favorite fruit.

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now, don't get me wrong — i'm not fully sold on the "coin everything" movement. i've said it before: it makes way more sense for content creators, podcasters, and shitposters than it does for artists. but at the very least, they're experimenting, trying stuff in public, and shipping. i've used zora through all its phases — from the 1/1 days in 2021, to the $1 mints, and now coins. and if you know me, you know i don't just mint for the sake of minting — my artworks are sacred. i only put pieces onchain when they're great enough to deserve it. a lot of people misunderstood "coin everything" as a mandate — like you need to mint your art, your notes, your lunch, your dog. but it's not that, it means you can tokenize anything you want. you mint what makes sense for you. it's a permissionless canvas, not a rulebook.

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sure, maybe no one expected zora to become base's pumpfun. but when you zoom out, it's clear this has been their north star all along: bringing all content onchain — in every form and at all costs. as artists, we embraced the $1 mint model because it worked. and it worked really well — i know tons of artists who paid rent with those mints. it was cheap, accessible, and empowering. the mistake was thinking zora was made for us specifically, when it never was. it was made for content, period. for minting everything you'd normally post to instagram. so yeah, artists felt betrayed — because what felt like ours, never really was. it just happened to serve us well for a time.

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but for me, the biggest issue wasn't even the pivot — it was the lack of communication between those big shifts. and for artists who care about provenance, about curating their onchain legacy — that kind of opacity can really mess things up. now i've got two collections: one on zora chain, and one on base. it fractured my body of work in a way i didn't plan for. but here's the thing — if you don't like where a platform is going, you don't have to rage about it. you just stop using it (i know, crazy, right?). that's what i did. when coin everything dropped, it no longer aligned with my vision — so i stepped away and watched it from afar. and i'm not gonna crucify the team for that. behind every product there's people trying to build something meaningful, whether it lands with you or not.

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i don't think zora is a grift. in fact, i'm genuinely grateful for what it's done for me and my career during the time i used it. it gave me a way to keep distributing my work during slow market cycles, along with visibility. and yesterday, it dropped me $10K in $ZORA based on my activity. not gonna lie — i claimed through the contract before the official claim went live, and sold immediately. not out of hate — but because $10K is a lot of money. and with plans to settle in the US soon, i need that support more than ever. so yeah — thank you, @jacob and zora team. you helped me, and helped countless artists from argentina and all across LATAM. and thank you, base — you've been the home for every mint and experiment i've done in the last year and a half. not everything needs to be perfect to be worth something — this space moves fast. platforms evolve. people experiment. and at the end of the day, the best thing we can do is keep creating, keep choosing what aligns, and keep moving forward.

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First off, great thread, thanks for sharing. Second, as a governance guy, I’m REALLY curious about something. If the Zora token gave you some say in how the protocol would be run, if it provided governance decisions, would you have sold your entire stack?

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communication has always been their biggest flaw from the start. severe lack of it (and reasoning) when removing auctions, then 1/1s, burns, 721s, and now 1155s, etc. when asking about why a feature was removed, there should be a reason other than responding with "721s are old and fragile, go somewhere else to try and do that" like i was told, being brushed off like i didn't matter as a creator. this is why people get mad/frustrated and why i'll never drop anything on zora again.

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