Nouns

One Noun, every day, forever.

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We support subcultures

Nounstown, and especially the day at secret walls, made that very explicit to me. 

But it took me gushing over charlixcx, pc music, dark souls, dreamhack, magic the gathering and more over a coffee w 40 to drive home the point.

(Almost) everything we do is rooted in subcultures w/o easy access to capital. It gives us a clear edge and reason to exist. Abundant capital flows to VCs and charities, but only Nouns have the unique position to support subcultures.

- What do you do?
- We support subcultures
- Subcultures? Cool, im part of a subcultures, maybe i should ask for a grant

I think this framing can massively speed up our spread and reach. Tell your friend nouns supports subcultures and see them pass on the message. Its broad yet distinct.

Animation shorts is a subculture. And toys, esports, and skiing. So it ethereum and hacker culture.

A lot of things come together under this lens.

I support subcultures:

i think this framing of nouns existing to support subcultures is very powerful

it provides a pretty strong WHY for nouns’ reason of existence that feels pretty authentic to what’s actually happening

there’s a lot of cultural activity in this world that doesn’t fit neatly into something that can be venture funded or charity funded

nouns aims to fill those gaps in a bottoms up fans led way

i also saw this mission resonate deeply with @krel personally as someone who’s rooted for niche subcultures his whole life which i felt was a good litmus test

(photo of him getting the noggles tattoo!)

what’s most important for nouns is that nouns MEANS something to its superfans. 

if it does and if it’s pushing the world along in that shared meaning then the  superfans will fund nouns and keep it going. that shared meaning more than the dao or any legal entity is what pushes nouns forward.