Now that the dust has settled, why did The Red Ape Family fail? Do NFTs really have no future in animation?
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Now that the dust has settled, why did The Red Ape Family fail? Do NFTs really have no future in animation?
NFTs have no future period.
NFT is just 2020s awful kickstarter project, they are all doomed to fail or suck because the whole point is give me money
There was like two entire minutes worth of trading where NFTs were valuable, and that was when they first launched and got morons to actually buy them.
NFTs was a moronic concept that the ONLY reason it was popular was because homosexuals and celebs thought "OH NO, I MISSED OUT ON BITCOIN, BUT THIS I'LL BE EARLY FOR!"
Nobody gives a single flying shit if you "own" an image. Who fricking cares? If I want that image I'll screen it. What an idiotic concept that rich people fell for
It was bad
It was a shitty cartoon that could never stand on its own legs. It was just a pathetic gloat for NFT owners, and I don't have to explain why that was an inherent problem.
i don't care im just boomping
NFTs are stupid and valueless. Everyone eventually caught on.
the writing was bad, the premise was bad, the animation was bad, the sound design was bad if I remember there was a scene everyone was shaking because something caused some type of rumbling and it was completely silent. Red Ape was a cheap proof of concept made most likely like every other big NFT related project; to bilk early investors out of their money before the whole thing collapsed
As for NFTs in animation, tell me what a digital receipt with extra steps can do that you can't do now with either a digital subscription or account to a service to access the animation or an actual contract stating your ownership or investment in an animation, which can already have a digitally accessible copy along with a hard copy in some lawyers office
There was a cartoon funded by NTFs called Take My Muffin that for what it was, wasn't that bad. Wonder what happened to it.
I looked into it and the 3 episodes that released are privated and the partner website is on lockdown. Do with this information what you will.
>more than one episode exists
Even the one was too much.
Non-frickable Toucans?
Now that's just quitter talk
NFTs were a basically a scam with big corps paying celebrities to hype it up then inflating the market with bullshit purchases.
people bought them up thinking they getting into the next bitcoin and then got burned when the market collapsed.
NFT's represent true digital ownership, and could have been the foundation of a new democratized web. It's a shame the grifters got to them. The Red Ape Family represents people trying to crowdfund animation through speculative digital assets, which is a pretty dumb idea, but it does not invalidate NFT's as a concept.
NFTs are worth fricking shit. It's a waste of time, money and energy that does absolutely nothing. The technology is worthless.
So when the frick does the same thing happened to AI-generated slop?
Never. There's a certain subset of the political spectrum that desperately wants AI to fail, because they view them through the lens of grifts. Now it's true that an inordinate amount of badly thought out and made apps, services, business ventures etc. that just use "AI!" as a buzzword, just like they did with crypto and NFTs (really the same thing once you dig into it). It makes sense: grifters always latch on the latest trend to capitalize on FOMO. So of course if you view AI as another tool for corporations to keep grifting you, of course you're going to gate it (or if you have a chip on your shoulder about "techbros").
The thing is, crypto ONLY had FOMO going on for it. It really solves no problems, and it doesn't have a "plateau of productivity" in pic related, because the slope of enlightenment was downwards as peoplw realised it was practically useless. AI, for all its (many) disadvantages, solves many problems: categorizing content, managing inventory, and of course generating image and text. Again, it's true there's about a billion bad faith across that are striking while the iron is hot to make a quick buck, but once the growing pains subside, generative AI will join the ranks of other once controversial tools, from Photoshop to the loom. AI stuff CAN be a grift, but it doesn't have to be. Crypto can only survive in the presence of a greater fool, and the greatest fools have already been had.
>The thing is, crypto ONLY had FOMO going on for it. It really solves no problems, and it doesn't have a "plateau of productivity" in pic related, because the slope of enlightenment was downwards as peoplw realised it was practically useless. AI, for all its (many) disadvantages, solves many problems: categorizing content, managing inventory, and of course generating image and text. Again, it's true there's about a billion bad faith across that are striking while the iron is hot to make a quick buck, but once the growing pains subside, generative AI will join the ranks of other once controversial tools, from Photoshop to the loom. AI stuff CAN be a grift, but it doesn't have to be. Crypto can only survive in the presence of a greater fool, and the greatest fools have already been had.
Unlike photoshop that dont have many differences in "craftsmanship" from paper to computer, "AI art" is a different thing thats more attractive to programmers and secondaries than artists or writers,
As a tool a great slippery-slope to how it gets implemented, right now the worst aspect is that 99% deciding its fate got bad intentions at heart and no professional skill or knowledge on art/writing/etc, diminishing worry or criticism as culture war or elitism.
This "controversy" in a moment of decision may lead to consequences biting our asses later on.
Just wanted to add in.
I don't understand what you're trying to say, anon. I do agree that the topic is nuanced and only time will tell what niche vision AI will settle in. I am certain however that it's not going to become completely irrelevant like crypto.
What about the blockchain and the metaverse?
Useless (mostly) and dead, respectively. Pretty much anything that the blockchain can do other tools can do better, and nobody asked for the metaverse. Absolutely nobody wants to interact with the internet via a shitty Second Life clone.
I find it hilarious how you in the same sentence both acknowledge that ai is a buzzword used to sell shit to idiots, and then also claim it's totes not the case for your little image mashers.
An actual AI would be able to extrapolate on fed data and draw it's own conclusions. Aislop can't even figure out how many fingers a given character has.
When someone comes up with the next pyramid scheme the poojeets can jump on way too late, while thinking that this time they'll surely get rich.
NFTs have no future period, not just in animation
>Corporations push for NFTs
>Celebrities push for NFTs
>Internet celebs push for NFTs
>NFTs fails
How often does this happen? How often is an idea so fricking stupid that even normal idiots reject it?
Covid was insane looking back at it. Every hobby i was into (gunpla, pokemon cards etc) was invaded and turned into a greedy commodity, then all of a sudden morons are selling pictures of apes as a commodity. What caused everyone to turn into scalping morons all of a sudden?
Capitalism. It was always in there, in the flesh of the economy, the constant hunger for maximization of profits, the greed made manifest that supercedes regular business operation. A regular business would run a successful farm, but "shareholder capitalism" or "late-stage capitalism" or "private equity" or whatever term you want to use, would instead sell the produce and then sell the seeds, and then sell the farm equipment, the soil, the farmhouse, then pave it all over with concrete and rent it as office space. It's a grey goo scenario, and Covid was one pressure that hatched a few xenomorph eggs of that "proft psychosis" in people's minds.
>people start selling any product available after the government bans dozens business opertunities over a cough
>"CAPITALISM DID THIS!"
McCarthy would be proud of you C-word hatred
NFTs were always one hundred percent a scam aimed at "the secondary market", which is to say "the primary market" was the actual tech guys who knew it was a scam, and "the secondary market" was the speculators with tons of money who you fleece before they realize it's a scam. You just had to convince them "the tertiary market" will buy them, or that they could be used as assets or whatever, you just use the scam to move value from the secondary market to the primary market. The only real problems with the scam came from the knock-on effects of the secondary market trying to reclaim their value by forcing NFTs into everything (the "bacon" strategy, where bacon prices plummet and so every restaurant suddenly wants to sell double bacon cheeseburgers and bacon milkshakes) and the other major problem was the actual tertiary market exposure where regular people, not whales, started losing their houses because they tried to invest and lost everything. Other than that, frick yeah, scam the whales for everything they have got. Eat the rich. Consume their flesh and blood.
Ugly and unfrickable.
It was the worst, most soulless excuse for a cartoon I had ever watched.
Them seething at saberfart is really something
something great
It was pretty funny in an ironic way, you have to be a really boring person to actually get mad at it
They should have made it mute and cute, but you can't do cute with those monkey designs.
Cause it was shit? Pretty simple OP. NFTs were a grift on a global scale for like a year before not enough people bought into it anymore and the grifters stopped trying, moving on to AI shit.
After all that shitty shilling, i still don't know what NFT or blockchain even is
NFTs have no future