I don’t think I’ve seen one artist who actually likes this new @zora model. Like did they talk to any actual artists or are they just trying to follow this meme coin craze?

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We need a best of both worlds strategy to bridge art & content:

Content should not be considered art. Content is what is used to promote art (or other value encapsulant, eg YouTube videos).

Monetizing content via coins or low cost mint meta is great! It leads to sustainable creation, larger audiences, & the micro transaction layer that has been missing from the internet.

But this should not be conflated with low supply, higher cost “art”. Mixing the two makes collectors value art less & artists feel like they’re not appreciated.

The key issue here is that we’re not aligned between creators, collectors, & consumers.

Collectors want collectibles with long term value potential. This aligns with artists, but is a small pool.

Consumers want coins they can speculate with. This aligns with artists wanting to make a living from a larger pool, but can leave Artists feeling undervalued.

Content =/= art

More thoughts here:

https://paragraph.xyz/@wanderloots.eth/post-tokens?referrer=wanderloots.eth

Shared a few thoughts here; but I think the key is that we’re dealing with content, not art

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Shared a few thoughts here; but I think the key is that we’re dealing with content, not art 

https://warpcast.com/wanderloots.eth/0xead4e233

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Yea I like your take. It definitely feels like they’re going in more of a content route than an art route

Exactly. Does that change your opinion on it, looked through that lens?

Not by much haha. I think if it was a secondary option or some other app it would be great. But I still devalues actual artists who want to release real art. Feels like there’s less places for them to go

Yeah I’m confused why they deprecated their previous models, which were working quite well and made lots of artists happy. Why not have both?

Not confused as to why they switched: platforms earn with each transaction. If those happen infrequently with art, they don’t make money. If it happens thousands of times with coins, they make money.