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The amazing @SilkyRenders has produced this wonderful branded @07_heaven_ version of my @unemployables Looking forward to working together more as the results are amazing!!!

@blueprome @Jdr_h @coolcats @cloncast @SharaSenderoff @aaronmcdnz Nice work

[Expedition] Where are we now? 👀 Will we ever find home? 🏠 A web3 micro film directed by @blueprome and animated by @Jdr_h and a tribute to @coolcats 💛🫡🚀 @cloncast @SharaSenderoff @aaronmcdnz wish you all success in our real animation! #web3 #nft #culture #coolcats

@jlmaxcy @coolcats Just been too long without something for me. The harsh change of direction hasn’t helped either

I have been a @coolcats. I am still a cool cat. I will always be a cool cat. #WLTC

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I am having so much fun working on my very first comic ever! @coolcats and #SDCC got me feeling inspired. #WLTC #Petsneverforget #ComicCon @Cool_Slimeball

@RJFieldsofGold @cloncast @3DShannon @coolcats Completely correct only way to succeed in business.

Thank you for this honest and transparent statement. I think that’s all the community really wants - honest and transparent communication. I think that has been key all along. I work in member relations and often times i have bad news to deliver to customers. My managers and directors often give us a sheet of talking points when this happens. I usually take that sheet and toss it right in the trash. Instead I choose to be as honest, straightforward and direct as i can be and minimalize fluff or down and outright talking point lies. Because I communicate honestly and directly people trust and respect what i have to say and it’s made me successful in my role. All this to say - good, bad or ugly give it to us straight. The statement above does that so thank you. People will back you and support you if you communicate like this. Appreciate the honesty here in this statement.

I let my thoughts about @coolcats recent events sit with me for 24 hours before writing. After the Discord talk with @cloncast, I had a mixture of feelings. Gaslighting Clon started on the defensive, "Why are you here?" I found this to be a form of gaslighting. We are here for the team and the roadmap that was promised. We are here to build alongside the Cool Cats brand with the IP that we own as well. Are we not supposed to express our feelings about the team and friends that were let go? Or show our dismay at the sudden change of direction without any form of communication? Clon gave a clear indication that Cool Cats NFT is now an art project alongside Crypto Punks or, let's mention another art project, Creature World. He made it out as if this was the case all along, which is simply not true. Cool Cats was always about the brand and the people building the IP to bring it to the heights of Disney. Cool Cats has never just been about Clon, and never just about his story with Blue. It’s been many things. First, gaming incorporating Web3 technology, then branding, with merch and billboard displays, Comic Con and Macy's, and most importantly, community activation, which helped achieve all these things in the first place. Clon is now taking the whole treasury, mostly funded by the Cool Pets mint, for his one goal of making an animation. Clon leaves behind a devastation of promises, pivots, and roadmaps yet again, but we are told to "like it or GTFO." Conflicting Thoughts and Counterarguments You might say this is a bitter attack, but wait. I do agree with the changes. Having a full-time staff to man the Discord 24/7 and dev teams working on projects that only a couple of hundred people will use is wasteful. We all know NFTs are in a nuclear winter and there are now only the Amazons and Walmart's left: Pudgy Penguins, Azuki, and Yuga. I don't agree with the way the changes were done. Although tech companies like to fire people this way, the board and especially Clon should've been more sensitive and considerate. After all, these were people executing Clon's plans. Sapphire Town was something he oversaw since February only to cancel the project on the eve of launch, firing all the people on top. For the team that has left, I can only imagine the hurt, confusion, and sense of injustice in these decisions. The Future If Clon is reading this, @aaronmcdnz and @SharaSenderoff too... If you are going all in on the animation, the current state of the show is weak. The characters are tepid, the story is a bit lame, and the message is empty. Please work on developing a script with some leading writers in the industry. I want to see characters we care for, I want to see conflict and resolution, I want to see black comedy that parents can laugh at while also watching with their children. I want you to take me places and make me feel emotions I have never felt. We all want to see this show being picked up by a network and we want it to succeed. Premieres should be on Netflix, not on YouTube. You might have the amazing Titmouse studio and amazing voice casting, but there is still something seriously lacking with the shorts that have been made. Currently this studio and cast comes through connections and money (funded by the Web3 community), not through merit. If these previous shorts were better, perhaps there could already be a network deal in place. Please don't just make more of the same. Go hard or go home. I expect the show to be amazing if all the resources are focused on this one goal. Don't mess it up and waste this once in a lifetime opportunity. 🙏 Should I Leave? Cool Cats has benefited me so much through the community, friends, laughter, alpha and experience. So my CC will forever be on my mantelpiece as a reminder of all that can be achieved when people come together and build. I wish Clon and his story all the luck, but I believe Cool Cats is much bigger than Clon, something that if he doesn’t know already, I’m sure he will come to realize in the future.

@cloncast @3DShannon @coolcats I think this what we all we were wanting. It is tough running a business when that is what you want to do, let alone when it is thrust upon you. Totally right people want different things and sometimes they are not honest about what those things are as well lol.

First off, I want to address gaslighting. This was an honest question, and I asked, “Why did you join Cool Cats?”. That response differs depending on who you are and I wanted to know what people want out of Cool Cats when they make the decision to join the community. I can't predict what everyone thinks, but the response I always get is that they like the art and want to support me as an artist. When Cool Cats started, yes, it was simply about the art. But eventually one of the founders was keen on hiring his old boss and turning this into a tech/gaming focused company. A board of directors was formed and I was not included in that. Thus Cool Pets was formed and hurt the company in so many ways, but the biggest hit we took was losing our direction. Looking back I wish I was more confident to stand up for myself but I wasn’t. So I am equally at fault for this. At the end of 2022, Cool Cats became partners with Futureverse. This was for two big reasons, Tech and Entertainment. This is the yin and yang that Aaron and Shara hold. It allows Cool Cats to continue to expand in web3 utilizing their technology without having a large team of developers like we did during the Cool Pet days. Our job should be to stay hyper focused on generating more content with my characters. This is why being able to leverage Shara’s massive network in the entertainment industry is so useful for Cool Cats. It’s what landed us an animation studio and top talent VOs. “The characters are tepid, the story is a bit lame, and the message is empty.” Not really fair to judge this when we have only made two short episodes and there are more on the way. The first two were proof of concept to see if animation was worth pursuing and the conclusion is that they are. It has made describing who we are much, much easier, and has opened the door to new conversations. Trust me, we all want this to be on a streaming platform but it’s not as simple as knocking on Netfilx’s door and saying “One TV show please!”. You have to prove it to them why your IP is worth it and that’s what we plan to do. For the team members affected in the recent changes, I said it in my video and I’ll say it here too. “I’ve had so many hearts contribute to evolving and loving the characters I’ve created. That’s a gift I could have never imagined and am so immensely grateful to have been given.” This relates to everyone who has been a part of Cool Cat’s journey and they know how thankful I am for everything they’ve contributed. To air this out publicly on their behalf isn’t fair to the people affected, they should be given the chance to create their own messaging. Who knows, maybe they don’t want any of it to be public. When it comes to Sapphire Town, this was created by me. I was very excited about this because it would pair really well with the animation and further the immersive experience of the characters' world. But just because something is fun doesn’t mean it makes sense as a business. Throughout the development of Sapphire Town there became more and more obvious holes in this plan and you have to start asking yourself the real questions. “How does this become profitable?”, “How much money and attention will it take to make this successful?”, “Do people actually want this?”, “Do we have an audience big enough for this to make sense?”, “What is the long term goal for Sapphire Town?”. It became clearer that what I was creating was a refined version of the Cool Pets Cooltopia. So the biggest question that has to be answered is, will this do more damage if it isn't released, or will it do more damage if it is released and people hate it? Personally, I think people would have been more frustrated with it when they realized there was still a lot more than would need to be developed over the coming months. Similar to Cooltopia. I hope this addresses some of what you’ve written, at the end of the day my goal is to make this successful with what I think I do best.

@3DShannon @coolcats @cloncast Really well said

@JARVIS_nfts @coolcats You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. Let me know where you land if as will check them out 🙌🏻

@CoolClownLuke @coolcats Disappointing? Yes. But in the immortal words of a world famous philospher: "You can't sit around and do nothing, you have to carry on."

😞Like many others at @coolcats, I was let go last week. Walking away after two years of hard work isn’t easy, but the community has helped ease this a bit these past few days. Thank you to everyone who reached out with positive vibes. 🙏 A 🧵... [1/14]

@jlmaxcy Doesn’t look crazy to me

Like always, I'm helping you lot solve the puzzles. Here's what I read between the lines, but I CRAZY. 😆

@ShibGreg It doesn't feel right how things turned out, but I just wanted to say a big thank you for all your help in getting me started and making me feel welcome. It was truly great to meet you in real life, and I hope we can catch up again when you're next in town. 💙

Hey everyone! As many of you know, last week was my last week with Cool Cats. I want to celebrate the amazing journey I’ve had over the last few years. 💙 [1/8]

@mintsniper @coolcats @coolcatsconnect Hopefully 🤪

Happy anniversary Blue! To the @coolcats community, better days ahead! Happy 3rd!

@cloncast Clon, you know I think you're a great artist, but why post something like this when you know in what state the community is at this moment? I feel like they deserve at least a little explanation of what's going on after supporting you for 3 years. With all the respect 💙

@DisneyAIex @cloncast This!

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@Sheenameaana @cloncast Agreed

@cloncast Is this for real? Community get told nothing, people get fired, no announcement nothing and then this post? Wow. W o w. This is absolutely disrespectful :x!

@cloncast I sure hope there is more announcement incoming... Hope you are well, Clon