NFTs don't make people rich overnight, they just expose value: the story of artist Zai

The crypto world doesn't actually get rich overnight, it's just that the community takes whatever you do seriously

A while ago, my friend Zai from abroad sent me a private message saying that he is now a successful artist because his two works sold for about NT$150,000. Although this number is not to say that it is very amazing, but usually the works on Tezos can sell more than 10,000, we will think that this artist has a certain amount of weight. And the funniest thing is that this whole creative project is a sarcastic joke

XCopy is a very famous artist in the NFT industry, and the prices of his works are also super expensive. But maybe because the style of XCopy doesn't look difficult to draw, so many people imitate it. Zai is an artist/collector who has been in the community for a long time. He is very sensitive to every move of the entire crypto art community, so he later decided to make a work to mock this whole phenomenon.

Zai opened an account called xer0x, and the author's description field clearly states: "If you copy a plagiarized work enough times, the quality of the final work will deteriorate to the point that it looks original", unlike other plagiarists who claim to be themselves It's original, and this account is clearly here to make trouble. As a result, XCopy himself saw it and liked it very much, followed and retweeted it. Since then, the account xer0x has become an instant hit.

If there were media coverage of the story today, he might say that Zai got rich overnight, is that true? I think Zai is a cultural researcher of Tezos at all. He usually spends a lot of time observing every move of the community. He also created his own DC server to interact with artists. For example, Taiwanese artists such as Chen Derui and Hong Yuhao have been invited to him. in the server. Zai observes and digests everything in the community to produce NFT works, which is not something that can be achieved overnight

NFT will not make you rich casually, it just realizes your value through encryption technology, makes it tradable, and then you finally get the reward

Creations like Zai can be said to be "meme culture". In the past, memes could not be traded. If someone created a popular meme meme, even if it became popular, the original author would not get any benefit. For example, when Soybean Paste created the new Taiwan flag, the masses went viral on Facebook, and various manufacturers rushed to launch peripheral products, but the creator himself did not get any reward at all.

Not just memes, there are many things that couldn't (or couldn't easily) be traded in the past, like digital art too. After the works of digital artist Wang Xinren (Aran) were sold on Art Blocks last year, the media always reported that he became rich overnight. But Aran often said that he actually spent 20 years practicing Zhengquan under the waterfall, and it was not until the emergence of NFT that the day finally came to fruition.

Therefore, in the world of NFT, there is no one who gets rich overnight, and the market will reveal a person's value very directly and ruthlessly.

But of course, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there is money, there are scams. Now, because the news related to NFT is too new and too complicated, many people jump in and buy randomly without knowing what is going on. So DYOR is the most important thing. Now the encrypted world is the Wild West, and you need to reorganize your equipment before you go on the road.

NFT is actually very spiritual, and it actually responds to the shortcomings of this era. It may seem incomprehensible at first, but as you go deeper into the world, you will find its fascinating

Zai's Twitter:
https://twitter.com/deadair____

Twitter by xer0x:
https://twitter.com/Xer0x_NFT

The picture that satirized Refael Lima before is also the work of Zai. For details, please refer to the article of@bean paste:
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