Ali G

@KeithGrossman RIP Legend 🙏

RIP Chuck Norris. 😔 No Chuck Norris jokes. Just sad.

@gothburz So well written, sorry for all the hard lessons & losses. So do we LFG or WAGMI at this point? 😁

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

@consensus_hk Let’s gooo! 🙌🙌😎

Impeccable vibes halfway through day 1 of Consensus Hong Kong. Year of the Horse galloping in strong 🐎

@CoinDesk @consensus_hk Let’s gooo! 🙌😎

Day 1 of @consensus_hk hit different 🇭🇰 11,000+ people packed in, panels firing on all stages, Live Desk capturing it all. Hackathon teams deep in code. Dancing lions on the main floor. The energy never dropped. Tomorrow we do it again.

@anonyra @FrvnkDreams @theHUGart Sounds like an amazing year, hope 2026 is even more epic! 🙌😎

Furthermore, Art wise, I am beyond grateful to be creating and having my work displayed all over the globe. Starting with Hong Kong through @FrvnkDreams & @AliGStudios via @theHUGart 🙏🏽

Gm ☕️🌞 For those who know me a bit, I will be the last one to blow my own trumpet. To those who don’t, please don’t take this pic too serious. Just a fun selfie made in the Moco museum and a great one to close off 2025. Here’s a little gratitude 🧵

@ericpare @kimhenrydance Both are outstanding!

Red or blue? 👀

@timweb3_ @SkynetTrading_ Big congrats! Skynet, huh? I’ll be back… 😎

BREAKING: I am glad to announce that I am joining @SkynetTrading_ as Head of APAC! I will be in charge of the growth in the region and support as many projects as we can with our market making and liquidity solutions. Outstanding track record, huge retention of past clients and one of the best trading team and tech in the space, I am super excited for the opportunity. Contact your favourite market maker Tim Web3 anytime . Meanwhile let’s celebrate in Seoul @kbwofficial and @token2049 in Singapore . DM me to chat !!!

@hosermage_ @AITinkerers 🙌🙌😎

Here's the video of the 8-Bit Oracle 'Group Divination' Demo at HKCEC, as part of @AITinkerers HK/GBA: youtu.be/SUXmMym8chk "How can HK Become Asia's Leading City in AI?". We had over 20 members of the audience contribute I-Ching hexagrams, and the 8-Bit Oracle gave a policy report incorporating the emergent patterns found from the audience. Digital rain was synced across all devices. Here's part of what the 8-Bit Oracle recommended: "Strategic pathway develops through: 1) Leveraging Hong Kong's financial infrastructure (䷶ (55) Abundance) to fund AI ventures 2) Creating regulatory certainty (䷳ (52) Keeping Still) to attract multinational R&D 3) Developing specialized education programs (䷚ (27) Nourishment) to build local talent 4) Establishing cross-border data flows (䷕ (22) Grace) with Greater Bay Area Phase 1 (2025-2026): - Establish AI Regulatory Sandbox (䷳ (52) Keeping Still) - Launch HK$10B AI Future Fund (䷶ (55) Abundance) - Create AI Talent Visa Program (䷚ (27) Nourishment)" Full report here: app.8bitoracle.ai/en/group-divin… app.8bitoracle.ai is in Open Beta. Thanks to @AliGStudios for the wonderful photos and @synchronetic for videography! @cyberport_hk @HKSciencePark #HKCEC @DaobiTreasury @realsimon

@alfrekjv Try mono, gives support but with more ease of movement. Good luck.

In case you wondered, I did try a tripod today, but the only good out of it is the photo of the gear. I felt soooo slow and found myself missing a couple plays. So, handheld it is 🫡

I spent the weekend photographing baseball games on a kid’s tournament. Kiddo’s team won yesterday and lost today, we have another game on Saturday, and another weekend of games shot. Holding this beast handheld all day long is heeeeavyyy af 😳

@ThankYouX Well done & good luck!

Gm. Giving a talk to 500 people today in Seoul about Art and Technology at the Arts Council Korea. 🇰🇷

@bullishNFT Don’t ask 🤣🤣

still down, 200k from my punk purchase in 2021, how about you?

@hosermage_ @8bitoracle Cool feature!

I ate my own dog food (use-stt package) and voice input is now available again on @8bitoracle. You can enable quick submit from the 3 dot menu on the main divination page. Should work on both iphone and android. It's OpenAI Whisper in the back. Sample code on how to use the react hook here: github.com/augchan42/use-…

@RachelSTWood @skominers Big congrats!!

Still can't believe it - just got THE email! "Stronger With You" has found its forever home. I’ve held this piece close—but when @skominers reached out, I felt a kind of resonance I don’t question There’s a quiet power in that—when the art speaks and the right person hears it

@TheBadArtst @MelihERSAHiN GM!

Good Morning fam 🌞 G to the M Happy Sunday!

@pamvoth @NFT_NYC @BluejaywayEth 🙌🙌🔥

🎉Great news!! I'm excited to share that my art will be shown in the Community Artist Showcase at @NFT_NYC 2025 (Marriott Marquis, June 25-27) "The Hatchling" - my genesis NFT back in 2021 - was collected by @BluejaywayEth 🙏

@thehugxyz GM fam 😎

🗣️ROLL CALL We want to know who was / is / will always be HERE FOR THE ART 🎨👇

My shot ‘Stillness in Motion’ on display at the @aiacarnival in Hong Kong. Huge thanks to @AliGStudios @Dreamxrs_io @DiscoverHK @HongKongTourism @AIACarnival

@SeekboyInc @Dreamxrs_io @discoverhk @HongKongTourism @AIACarnival @thehugxyz Well deserved, great to have you onboard!

Grand rising Fam🌞🌻🖼 Hong Kong with love. Sharing gratitude to the team who made it possible @AliGStudios @Dreamxrs_io @DiscoverHK @HongKongTourism @AIACarnival ⁦@thehugxyz⁩ let’s go Fam🚀🚀🚀

@enne_rhn96 @AIACarnival We really appreciate you & your art! Keep it up! 🙌😎

ONE OF MY DREAMS, COME TRUE! My photographs "Subway network status" and "Chaos in the city of Buenos Aires" were exhibited last week during @AIACarnival at Hong Kong! 🇭🇰🇨🇳🤩 It's the first time that my photographic work is recognized and exhibited internationally! 📸🙌🏻 I'm very happy and grateful 🥹🙏🏻 Thank you so much @FrvnkDreams , @AliGStudios and @Mark_Teenage x @Irisdao_xyz for this opportunity, I really appreciate it so much 💛