(4/?) The thing about the Meebits - I spent hours poring over listings simply trying to find one that I thought looked like me. I settled on one but the two others I ended up with looked nothing like me. One looked like one of my friends and the other looked like Pharrell circa 2006.
Spending hours on Opensea - I quickly found the Bored Apes. And…shit…these guys had some style. Just the coolest looking characters with way more detail (and personality) than the Meebits that I just blew a shitload of cash on. I liked the guys with ‘Commie Hats’ and I really took to the guys with the Fez hats. The first one I found, the dude above, immediately reminded me of this shady tour guide we had out in honeymoon travels. He took us all over the place over the course of like 5 days, then brought us to his ‘friends house’ (which was actually like a sweatshop of sorts) and basically had us sit on the floor of this ‘house’ for close to 3 tense (borderline hostile) hours trying to get us to buy some stuff from his friends. It was brutal.
The prices for the Bored Apes were about 1/5rd the price of the Meebits so I figured ‘what the hell’. 0.3 ETH for the dude with the Fez? Done. Sold.
Over the next few days, I watched Meebits immediately dip in price and I saw a tiny bump from the Apes. I thought…’sh*t, I better not get too attached to this dude, especially if he ends up being worth some money.’ And then I reframed my thinking…’maybe I should double up and buy a couple, in case they end up being worth something, I can sell the others and always keep my forever ape.’ I saw two more Fez apes close to the floor (<0.75 ETH) and scooped ‘em up. F*CK. I spent a total of $10k on 6 JPEGS WTF IS WRONG WITH ME?