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Loot is a viral social network that looks like nothing you’ve ever seen

The Verge

When I wrote in March about non-fungible tokens , or NFTs, I tried to dazzle you by rattling off some of the more impressive sales numbers from the time: $600,000 for the Nyan Cat meme, $5.8 There is more than a little of the mania that fueled this winter’s meme stock enthusiasm to be found on the crypto Discords.

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Is the music industry’s future on the blockchain?

The Verge

Today let’s talk about another of them: a startup called Royal that hopes to upend the traditional relationship between music labels and artists, with potentially significant implications for the kind of culture that gets created. Occasionally, an alternative artist would strike out on their own and start an independent label.

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How to use ‘propagandart’ to sell your ideas

Fast Company Tech

Public relations storytellers shaped public opinion like artists and nudged enough behavior change that the entire culture was impacted. The meme creator who distills frustration into a punchline. Consider a fine art photographer and a meme lord. Memes are fast, cheap, and culturally potent. Dont pitch the product.

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The Lincoln Project is stealing memes — and the online left isn’t happy

The Verge

FuckJerry-style aggregation meets campaigning The anti-Trump Lincoln Project has a reputation for goofy memes attacking the Trump administration online, so when they posted a whimsical fancam in support of the United States Postal Service on Twitter over the weekend, it seemed par for the course. It’s a large part of the reason Sen.

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