(5/?) After I copped my 3 Meebits and my 3 Bored Apes, I mostly took a step back. I was so mad at myself and got even madder every time I saw the price - I felt like I got taken. God I’m an idiot. What was I thinking? Three months of my salary as a teacher on JPEGS? F*CKING IDIOT. So I chose to ignore the price. And I started working on some other stuff to take my mind off of it. I saw what @franalations had been posting and promoting and I jump in a few and got immediately burned on a few (Arabian Camels? Panda Golf Squad?) so I ultimately said ‘f*ck this I need to create my own stuff.’ I started paying attention to NFT Twitter and saw that it was like a completely different world that NFT IG. People on Twitter were actually interested in this stuff. #ApeFollowApe was actually a thing and talking about stuff I was actually interested in got way more interaction that my sneaker topics on Twitter. And the twitter crowd seemed to really run with the idea of NFTs, whereas I was getting a lot of pushback on IG…I went through a lot of push and pull on IG and ultimately decided that I shouldn’t do too much NFT talk on IG I should really just focus on the sneakers. 
But then an idea hit me. Bored Ape owners seemed to really take pride in their profile pictures. I hit up @sonsofblackmaria and asked him if we could do a few sneaker illustrations that looked like apes. We posted a few and people really liked them. People liked them so much that they actually started paying us to create them. Custom ape sneaker illustrations. Hm. Who woulda thought?