Good night everyone
YUGEN couldn't mint today, he made fun of us with WL with love.
I did not expect this from them. However one goes another will come
Yugen FCFS was botted as expected however these new botters are terrible at gas wars.
Min: 223.75 gwei (Total: 0.055 ETH)
Max: 368.99 gwei (Total: 0.078 ETH)
I understand you want the satisfaction of minting but please use some common sense, the botters involved are now panicking and mass-listing at floor/WETHing all of their NFTs...
Will slowly picking up a few more if FP drops! To be honest, I have noticed the issue of the arts might be AI assisted, but well I just have a good feeling by how they managed the early stage with the master key, smooth process and beautiful mint phase. We never know what tomorrow be looking like! Sometimes jeets win, sometimes believers, I sometimes jeet as well😅but not on this one
@OGlamozda@yugen_gg Usually these are the ones will jeet very soon, just have to wait to clear them out 😅700 supply is easy to gather high quality holders in a quick time
There was literally ONE @yugen_gg SALE at 0.15 ETH ($240).
It was the guy who got an airdrop and sold first.
Meanwhile, people post and share their WINS.
Why people act like that's the floor price 💀
Why I Won't Be Touching @yugen_gg NFT
I have been minting, buying, and trading NFTs for more than five years. During that time, I have witnessed countless successful projects, countless failures, and unfortunately, countless rugs. While nobody can predict the future with certainty, experience teaches you to recognize patterns that often appear before projects disappoint their communities.
After reviewing Yugen NFT, I have decided that I will not be minting, buying, or promoting the project. Despite holding a whitelist allocation, there are simply too many red flags for me to ignore.
These are my personal observations and opinions based on publicly available information and my experience in the NFT space.
1. The Controlled Floor Price of Gen 1 Raises Questions
One of the most common tactics used by questionable NFT projects is the creation of artificial demand through a tightly controlled first collection.
The formula is simple:
•Launch a very small Gen 1 collection.
•Keep supply limited.
•Encourage holders not to sell.
•Create the appearance of strong market demand.
•Use the inflated floor price as marketing for a larger Gen 2 mint.
While this strategy is not inherently fraudulent, it has been used repeatedly by projects that later failed to deliver value to their communities.
Looking at Yugen's Gen 1 collection, I noticed a highly controlled floor price and a relatively small supply. This immediately reminded me of numerous projects that used the success of a limited first collection as a mechanism to extract more capital from a much larger second mint.
The concern here is not that Gen 1 performed well. The concern is whether that performance reflects genuine organic demand or carefully managed scarcity designed to attract new buyers.
When a project's biggest selling point becomes floor price appreciation rather than product development, utility, or long-term vision, I become extremely cautious.
2. The Artwork Appears AI-Assisted and Lacks Originality
Art is one of the foundations of NFT culture.
When collectors mint an NFT collection, they are often paying for creativity, originality, and artistic effort.
The Yugen artwork raises concerns for me because it appears heavily AI-assisted. While there may have been some manual design work involved, many of the visual elements exhibit characteristics commonly associated with AI-generated art.
Even more concerning is the lack of originality.
The collection strongly resembles the aesthetic established by Azuki and the broader anime-inspired NFT movement. As someone who previously held Azuki assets, I can immediately recognize many of the stylistic influences.
Being inspired by successful projects is normal.
However, there is a difference between inspiration and imitation.
When a project plans to raise significant capital from collectors, I expect a stronger artistic identity and a clearer demonstration of effort and innovation.
If a project's visual identity feels like a low-cost recreation of an already successful formula, it naturally raises questions about how much effort is being invested elsewhere.
3. A 12% Team Allocation Is Excessive
The team allocation is another major concern.
According to the project's stated distribution, approximately 12% of the collection is reserved for the team.
In a collection of around 700 NFTs, that translates to roughly 85 NFTs under team control.
The obvious question becomes:
Why does the team need such a large allocation?
Team allocations are not automatically bad. Many legitimate projects reserve assets for partnerships, marketing campaigns, future incentives, and ecosystem growth.
However, transparency is everything.
If a project reserves a substantial percentage of supply for itself, the community deserves clear explanations regarding:
•How those NFTs will be used.
•Whether they will be locked.
•Whether they can be sold immediately.
- @yugen_gg Mint is live and FP already sitting around ($125) - 0.07 ETH
560 to 570 minted so far and honestly it feels like there’s almost no chance left for FCFS holders.
I know FCFS means first come first serve, and yes sometimes we still manage to mint from FCFS.
But this time it feels different.
If most of the supply was already meant for GTD, then maybe it should’ve been one clean GTD phase instead of giving FCFS hope with almost no real supply left.
Not hate toward Yugen at all.
Art is still amazing, hype is real, and GGs to everyone who minted.
Just a small suggestion from someone who was sitting on FCFS and watching the supply disappear.
What’s your opinion?
Did you mint, or are you FCFS like me?
0.5 ETH keys. And people are still buying
That's @yugen_gg
Today their second NFT collection Leaders drops and I will mint in the gtd phase
Incredible pfps speak for themselves. But this isn't just art - this is an anime brand being built in real time. We're still early
Are you going to be the Leader or watch from the sidelines?
So today's most anticipated mint is @yugen_gg
- A lot of fud was going on this project but one thing is that sometimes, fud becomes the fuel if you have seen @tatsu_nyc
- Mint supply of only 700 where 85 is for airdrop and treasury.
- Mint price of around 0.022 ETH for GTD and FCFS phase and public is for 0.025 ETH.
This might do well so I will be monitoring it closely myself...
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Woke up today with FP at $0.87 and 1/1 selling for $15.
Looking at the positive side of this, never been so cheap to join RyuJin universe.
We'll never stop, remember we came back from worst moments.
This is myth in motion. Better things are yet to come 🎴