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Ready for orbit, @doodles

I see people talk Web3 as a “space”, but I think framing it that way is suffocating and self-defeating. I see successful IPs cultivating the following audiences: Content: the universe is anyone with internet access (YT/IG). Creating: the universe is anyone who is an AI user or remotely familiar with Canva, etc. Collecting: the universe is anyone active in the TCG space. Crypto: the universe is anyone with a Coinbase account. Add those pools up and the audience is nearly limitless, if you can find them, engage them, empower them, and deliver product. Defining “the space” as “active on CT” is such an own goal, IMO. The target is much bigger.

@CardAficionado And physical maxis don’t want a fragmented collector base because fewer buyers of their bags. Bag bias is evergreen

A common thing I’m hearing in these recent phy/dig debates is digital guys only want to pump to offload. I have nothing listed for sale on any platform. My Top Shot stuff is locked up until October at a minimum, most longer. Of course I want to see more digital collectors, but mostly because I think it’s a great experience. I hope more people learn about it and give it a try. Values will do what they do. Even without on-boarding a bunch of physical collectors I’m very confident in the long-term value prop. Many of us feel this way. We’re not here to sell you our stuff—we’re trying to tell you about something cool.

Let’s ride @doodles AI

The brutal truth about Sports Card "investing" ...I've bought hundreds of sports card collections over the years. Boxes, binders, storage units, estate sales — you name it, I've dug through it. And after doing this long enough, you start to notice something that most collectors never want to admit. 90% of every collection I open is full of guys who were genuinely great players. Not scrubs. Not junk wax commons nobody wanted even when they were printed. I'm talking real careers. Pro Bowlers. All-Stars. Hall of Famers in some cases. Players that people were legitimately excited about at some point in time. And VERY FEW PEOPLE cares about their cards anymore. Not a little. Not "the market is soft right now." I mean the cards are functionally worthless in terms of long-term appreciation, and they've been that way for a long time. Vinny Testaverde. Shareef Abdur-Rahim. Jaromir Jagr, Guys with legitimate careers, legitimate fan bases at their peak — sitting in boxes that end up in my hands for a fraction of what someone paid for them 20 years ago. For a long time I thought this was just bad luck or bad timing. Then I started to see the pattern. The sports card market isn't driven by talent. It's driven by attention. And here's the thing about attention — it's finite. There is only so much of it to go around, and it doesn't grow proportionally with the number of great players in any given era. The money in this hobby concentrates. It always has! And it concentrates around a very small number of players per decade — and sometimes not the best players, but the ones who transcend the sport entirely and become something bigger than a career stat line. Every decade gets maybe one, two, three of those players. That's it. 👈 The 90s had Griffey, Jordan, and Barry Sanders. Thousands of players were active. Hundreds had great careers. But when you say "90s cards" to anyone in this hobby, those are the three names that come up every single time. The market didn't forget the other guys — it just never gave them the same weight to begin with, and 30 years later that gap has only widened. The 2000s were Brady, Kobe, and Jeter. The 2010s were LeBron, Trout, Curry, McDavid with a significant drop-off after that. The names get fewer and further between the longer you look. That's not a coincidence. That's the structure of how this market actually works. And if you go back even further — into true vintage — the filter gets even tighter. There have been thousands of Hall of Famers across baseball, basketball, football, and hockey over the last century. But the vintage market really only sustains four or five names at the highest level over the long haul. Mantle. Ruth. Mays. Gretzky. Wilt. Gale Sayers on a good day. The rest of those collections, the ones filled with legitimate legends from their eras, eventually end up in boxes that people sell off because the market just doesn't care the way it once did. Vintage just shows you the ending of the movie that modern collectors are still living inside of right now. Here's the part that I think most people in this hobby don't fully sit with: There is a limited pool of money chasing cards. It's bigger than it's ever been, but it's still a pool. It's not infinite. And that pool has to be shared across every player, every set, every era, every sport. When money moves toward a handful of true icons — and it always does over time — it has to move away from somewhere else. The players who seemed like safe bets because they were great athletes end up being the ones holding the bag because the hobby only had room for so many at the top and they weren't quite in that tier. This is the conversation I wish someone had with me earlier. Not "buy stars." Buy the players that the entire world will still know by name in 20 years. That's a much shorter list than most people want to believe. For this decade, my honest read is Ohtani, Wemby, Mahomes (?), and maybe one or two others we haven't fully identified yet. Ohtani might be the safest long-term card investment I've seen in my entire time in this hobby. Two-way dominance at the highest level, global appeal that crosses every demographic, a story that doesn't have a clean comparison to anything that came before it. That's the profile of a player the market rewards forever. Wembanyama has the same energy — if he becomes what the basketball world believes he can be, his early cards are going to look ridiculous in 15 years. Everyone else? Buy them for what they are — short to medium-term plays. Ride the wave, sell into the hype, and move on. There's nothing wrong with that strategy. But don't confuse it with building something that compounds over decades. Every collection I open reminds me of this. The cards don't lie. Someone believed in those players once. Paid real money for them. Held them through the good years thinking it would pay off. And here they are, passed down or liquidated or dropped off at a show for whatever someone will give for them. Find the icons. The real ones. The ones the entire world will still be talking about long after you're gone. There aren't many of them. That's exactly the point....

one of my favorite things is finding hearts in the wild. saw one walking at a crosswalk. love that doodles ai saw the heart too. 🥹

BREAKING: Bought Another Two Grail Doodles To The Collection ‼️⚠️ I now have 3 Doodles, I always wanted a single doodle and now seeing 3 in my possession is a blessing. I love my TRIPLE pink fire bandana the most, and following that this clean checkmark trait dood after my 1.6 checkmark sale. So excited for these. @doodles forever in my blood ♥️

@tadtweets @CandyDigital @doodles @burnttoast @evankeast @AndrewAsksHow collectibles have the potential to go up and to the right when the underlying IP becomes much larger than the collectible. Doodles crushing on this front.

Some innovative ideas that @CandyDigital might consider are inspired by @doodles experiences, where I serve as chair. Below is a great interview with the two founders @burnttoast and @evankeast by @AndrewAsksHow 🔥. The goal is for collectible value to go up and to the right. 👇

@LordSmolov @doodles Mostly “love this” but

@0neLineWonder @doodles I’m not sure if I’m supposed to love this or be sad for you lol

Appreciate @doodles AI for putting colorful spin on a power washing misadventure. Really amazing output.

It needs to be said every year... Nobody. Does. Opening. Day. Like. Cincinnati.

@bigbridealguy There’s more than a little bit of petty jealously and resentment embedded in the anti-O’Leary crowd.

absolutely correct.... Amazing how the hobby doesnt get it...

Episode 81 with Burnt Toast and Evan from Doodles Doodles AI just went viral. Millions of impressions tens of thousands of generations We talked about a lot about the future of IP expansion and how AI plays a part in it Taking a huge bet on a new expansion moat that traditional models and industries have not seen before including Hollywood Timestamps: 0:12 Intro 1:03 How @doodles all started 4:00 Having taste is a skill @evankeast 7:27 What is Doodles most well known for now? 10:10 Most viral IP moments @burnttoast 12:45 Mission with Doodles AI 18:07 PRISM 1.0 21:35 A huge unlock 24:14 How Doodles AI works 31:27 Where did the branding come from? 35:37 AI generating media 42:21 Whats next

@SullySchwartz @doodles

@doodles ai come on now...love these.

@doodlifts so much shipping

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To: Cincinnati From: @JoeyVotto

And so it begins...

@Jivedoodle @doodles All of it is amazing!

I present to you: __|=|__ ( • ᴗ) • Doodles Yellow Submarine A visual psychedelic unofficial unthread of a reimagined Doodles AI journey taken when the guidelines aren't strictly followed So turn on, tune in, and drop out LET'S GO 🥸⚓