There is nothing worse than being wrongly accused or labeled something that you are not. As an anon building in this space for nearly half a decade, I deeply understand and relate to what that feels like and the emotional toll it can have on the person.
Our industry has a tendency to over prescribe to hate and negative thinking. I understand why, having been rugged countless times myself over the years.
But there is nothing worse than the person spreading negative energy and false accusations. That doesn’t mean we cannot debate things. We must. This is how we evolve and grow. Defend what you believe in and debate it in a healthy forum, even in a public forum, there should be nothing wrong with that.
But, we must all remember to do so respectfully, and by always assuming positive intent. We won’t always get it right, but neither will the haters, the false accusers, or those that talk shit without having built anything themselves.
Stay based fellas. Ignore the noise, despite whoever it comes from. Time reveals all truth and those that are wrong about you and spread rumors and lies will have their own day of judgement.
TYBG
I also just want to explicitly address the whole "$FLOCKA is a scam" thing. I've talked with @WakaFlocka and his team and here's what I know:
- he got convinced by a team to launch a coin
- that team then rugged him — as we've seen with countless instances where celebrities are scammed
- instead of abandoning and leaving as 99% of other folks have done, he didn't and decided to keep building
- him and his team have showed up in a positive way since that moment, amplifying projects on solana and base, and building cool onchain products
- @BaseDrop is an example of this: the easiest way to think about it as an onchain record label, where value for the songs accrues back to $FLOCKA via the pairing model
do I wish he had been able to see through the scammers in the first place and not made the mistake? absolutely.
but do i think we should blackball an earnest, talented creator and musician who someone else scammed — when we know that's a consistent pattern — and who rather than giving up, doubled down on figuring out how to use onchain to do good in our space? absolutely not.
if we're ever going to grow this space, we need more talented people experimenting onchain. we need more creators bringing their work onchain. and we need more patience, understanding, and kindness as folks figure it all out.
keep building, stay based.
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