That bizarre, unexplainable art spamming your timeline?
Looks like a meme, feels like a virus, tastes like culture
Welcome to the Avant Gay NFT scene: A schizo-hyperderivative fever dream Lets Dive in 🧵
It all started with Milady and the schizo radicals it pulled in Nothing was too far... No word forbidden Brutally honest, hilarious, unhinged A new culture, and an aesthetic born from that crypto archetype unlike anything else
The art kept mutating ...from neo-chibi irony → vaporwave → 90s/00s nostalgia → traitmaxing collages packed with pop refs & AI
A radical (co)lab where artists & collectors are in the same room, pushing it further every day
The scene thrived on radical experimentation
Artists dropped their traits in public folders, others picked them up, remixed, re-minted
That endless remix loop birthed hyperderivative traitmaxing
The questions never stopped: → What does 50 traits on one artwork look like? → What if a single trait smothers all others?
This wasn’t about sales or floors It was art for art’s sake cheap mints, pure delusion, pure love
Why does Avant-Gay matter? → Crypto-native, raised in the trenches → Grassroots & personal → Community first delusional holders=diamond hand → Edgy AF → No KOLs, no VC fingerprints → Artists actually know cryptoart history & it shows
Avant-Gay feels like the first generation of artists raised by the chain Not imported, but nurtured here Fluent in cryptoart, referencing both cryptoart history & trad art It makes you feel something Show a collection to any artist struggling to mint and watch them sigh (or rage)😂
For anyone who wants to go deeper:
→ https://cuckcore.de for the full lore → Some threads I really enjoyed 👇
This is going to be a long thread about schizocollage, a kind of maximalist digital art that involves combining wildly different styles and references in a single image.
Standard Definition (@briandroitcour): This is going to be a long thread about schizocollage, a kind of maximalist digital art that involves combining wildly different styles and references in a single image.
NFTs have been a graveyard for the last 2 years.Most “blue chips” from the hype cycle are just mausoleums now.
Holders singing kumbaya in spaces, reminiscing about when their pfp was “the future.” But culture didn’t die. It moved on. 🧵
Chiller Whale (@ChillerWhale): NFTs have been a graveyard for the last 2 years.Most “blue chips” from the hype cycle are just mausoleums now.
Holders singing kumbaya in spaces, reminiscing about when their pfp was “the future.” But culture didn’t die. It moved on. 🧵
To the new folks discovering the avant (gay) NFT scene on Solana, welcome.
Some ETH collector friends have been asking me about it, so here’s a short primer 🧵
matto (@matto__matto): To the new folks discovering the avant (gay) NFT scene on Solana, welcome.
Some ETH collector friends have been asking me about it, so here’s a short primer 🧵
