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However this plays out, this thing is an object lesson in the danger of "vibes" as an artistic form. Because there's so little explicit context to vibe collections, there is high vulnerability to what one might call semiotic hijacking.
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It takes high contextual cultural literacy to "read" a Vibe Hyperobject™ like the BAYC ape collection, and it's relatively easy to encode a lot of latent meaning transmitters of vibes don't intend.
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fwiw, prima facie, the case seems circumstantial but pretty solid, so I'm inclined to believe it, even though the artist Ryder Ripps who wrote it appears to have his own conceptual art agenda going... moral of the story, down with vibes, retvrn* to memes * ironic usage
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And they said NFTs have no uses 🤣 Clearly a powerful memetic inception vector I now get the relationship between vibes and memes. Memes are like mind-viruses, but vibes are like mind-mosquitoes. Gonna design a vibe set to incept 2x2s into everybody
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Very interesting that she didn’t do well financially. That’s always pitched as a key benefit of NFTs - artists capture the value they deserve
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