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“In any space, if you are not rich(in money, knowledge, skills, followers etc) nobody will give a damn about you, so wake up and start grinding each and every single day.” - Quote to myself and anyone who needs it.

@swasti_art @yungus @y00tsNFT @DeGodsNFT @DeGodsCommunity nice!!

GM ☕️🌻 This is how a 10/10 y00t looks like ✍️ In frame: @yungus 2/3 🖼️ Stay tuned for the final one.

@FabianoSolana detach the lads from backpack, give it to someone else and ask them remove the royalties from lads, they say its not their product and still milk royalties shamelessly

What’s the bull case for Mad Lads? Rode some from $10K to $1K Airdrop disappointed... Still they’re THE one and only face of Solana… But how do you attract new buyers? No VIP on Backpack, no real utility So what’s the plan? Or are they just becoming “culture” like DeGods?

@tristan pick up lads again, its high time and right time.

I want to work on something fascinating and really hard.

On Polymarket, This morning, a Polymarket trader held a large open position betting that BP's FDV would exceed $200M one day after TGE. As the resolution window approached and BP was trading around $0.19, it appears certain traders purchased a significant amount of BP tokens in an attempt to push the price above $0.20 and win their Polymarket bet. We investigated immediately. These traders are not insiders. They are not employees, directors, officers, advisors, or in any way affiliated with Backpack. We have zero tolerance for insider trading of any kind.

@starfruit_sol @Azuki nice!!

@_ichigod_ @Azuki cheers

New PFP. @Azuki elemental. Boba drinking Frog.

@IkuzoCoffee @Azuki so cool, boba

@_ichigod_ @Azuki Yo

@ufukdogancrypt @armaniferrante @tristan This is what Armani thinks of his holders. So holders were cooked the moment they bought his bullshit. And apparently he threw lot of shade on HYPE when it came out and was successful, no look at his BP and HYPE. He must have got humbled.

We Were Never His Community. We Were His Fundraise. | Full Long Story Let's start with something most people get wrong. @armaniferrante didn't build Mad Lads alone. @tristan co-founded Coral with him, co-founded Backpack with him, and was the person who spent over a year curating the community before the mint even happened. The allowlist process, the culture, the "WAO — We Are One" identity — that was Tristan's work. Him and @monkdoesnt. They made Mad Lads a name that commanded genuine respect across the entire Solana ecosystem. There's something worth noting. FTX collapsed in November 2022. The Mad Lads mint happened in April 2023, months later, as Solana was still trying to find its footing. Looking back, that mint wasn't just a community launch. It was a lifeline. A way to rebuild and fund the exchange Armani actually wanted to build all along. We were the funding round. We just didn't know it at the time. After Tristan and Monkey left, everything that came after is Armani's legacy alone. The community started hollowing out slowly. The Mad Lads Twitter went quiet. Discord went cold. New Backpack employees had zero respect for Lads holders, some distanced themselves publicly, some talked openly about not caring. But Armani kept saying the right things. Community matters. Loyalty matters. So we stayed. Then the Backpack Exchange announcement dropped and we lost our minds, in the best way. We bought more Lads immediately. At that point Mad Lads was genuinely bigger than Backpack as a brand. The name carried more weight, more trust, more recognition. We thought: this is it. We are the face of something that could become the next Binance. Our patience is about to pay off. Then came the Seasons. Trading points, volume based rewards, the promise of a $BP airdrop. Mad Lads holders are not traders, we never were. We are believers, holders, community people. But we didn't want to be left behind. So we tried. We generated volume. Lost real money. And told ourselves: it's fine, TGE is coming, he won't forget us. Season 2. Season 3. Still no utility for Lads. Still no mention of Lads. The only thing we ever received was a fee reduction on the exchange, a benefit built for traders, given to a community of people who aren't traders. By that point, I don't think they thought about us much at all. The signals were everywhere. Mad Lads Twitter stopped posting. Armani became active on Backpack Discord and went silent on Lads Discord. His language shifted from "our community" to "Mad Lads are not our product." When KOLs posted hit pieces on Backpack, who was in the replies defending him every single time? Lads holders. Always. Someone slid into my DMs, an ex-Backpack employee. Said simply: "Lads will not get an airdrop." I dismissed it. We all did. We thought Armani was filtering out farmers. The real ones would be taken care of. He values loyalty, right? We chose to believe that. When people close to the team started posting about "all the airdrops Lads already received," we read between the lines. The message underneath was obvious: you already ate, stop asking. But we held on. When Armani posted "NFTs might be dead but Lads are just getting started" we took it as confirmation. He still sees us. He didn't. Then the snapshot. The tokenomics. The number that made the whole community go silent. One percent. Not for bots. Not for farmers. For the people who had been there from the beginning. Who defended him publicly. Who absorbed trading losses to generate volume for his exchange. One percent for the backbone. The response when the community asked why? Simple. Cold. You already ate. Then came yesterday, one day after the TGE. As community managers have now confirmed, newly traded Mad Lads will no longer receive VIP status on Backpack. If you held before, you are grandfathered in. But anyone buying today gets nothing. No utility. No benefit. No connection to the exchange we spent years supporting. He waited until after the airdrop to quietly close the door. No announcement. No explanation. Just policy. That is not an oversight. That is housekeeping. The community served its purpose, the token launched, and the last remaining thread was cut the very next day. Here is what I believe now. Armani got lucky. He got lucky that Tristan was brilliant at building community culture from the ground up. He inherited loyalty that most founders spend years trying to manufacture. And instead of stewarding it, he extracted it. Quietly, gradually, until there was nothing left to take. Mad Lads was never the goal. Backpack was always the goal. Mad Lads was the vehicle that got him there. Once it served its purpose, it got parked. And the tragic part? It didn't even work. The TGE underperformed. The trader community is fractured. Chinese holders are rising up over witch-hunt accusations. He distanced himself from the community that loved him unconditionally and couldn't hold the one he replaced us with. Mad Lads gave Armani everything. Capital, credibility, cover, and community. We were there when nobody else was. We made Backpack look legitimate before Backpack had earned that on its own. WAO. We Are One. We meant it. He never did.

@KgnCnKhrmn better leave that place, not worth it, they made money using farmers and got attention by using lads holders, look out for yourselves, there is a reason why other team members left early, they knew what kind of egomaniac founder and his lackies are running show

I'm just thinking. What if CM, who killed the community (even though they don't admit it, it's the truth), left Mad Lads? What if Mad Lads severe its ties with Backpack? What if Tristan and Gonzalo took over? :) (I know you all want this) What would happen? Of course, the question is, would some of them want to abandon the gullible Mad Lads community they've been farming for years, doing free marketing? That's the problem. I'm also very curious about who funded the fake Mad Lads airdrop ( 20-30k$ Wormhole ) tweets posted from highly botted accounts in the last 24 hours.

Lets get there asap. We need this.

@waleswoosh they focked the holders and rewarded the farmers

Max pain is holding an NFT for years, waiting for a big airdrop. Only to receive peanuts when the TGE finally happens. $290 USD for holding a MadLad is insane for anyone who's been in NFTs in 2023/24

@didi5894 @MadLads learnt a hard lesson on this, worst bag held moment

despite bullish on NFT, but I must tell you the truth never marry your NFT, even it's your waifu! @MadLads is the example back in the day, ppl bought Madlads for the hope of getting airdrop from Backpack, Wormhole, Monad,... or Madlads itself today is $BP TGE date, and if you didn't sell at ATH (~$40K), you'll get 1K $BP worth around $300 today plus the NFT floor price dump to 11 SOL only (less than $1K) this is what happen when you buy a NFT mostly for utility nowadays if you would ever decide to hold a NFT forever, choose the art instead because you will lost less than utility lmao

@KgnCnKhrmn @Backpack farmers always leave, since points ended, i wonder how much real volume will be on BP

Oh ! Have your precious farmers already left? Ive said it before and I ll say it again. We re not going anywhere. We are the seed of Backpack and we actually love the product. Even if we re never valued as much as the farmers :)

@Azuki manga sneaks ?? 👀

From the shadows.

@RiceRiddler @Azuki cooking them with facts.

You know CT is dead rn when you see midfluencers start posting recycled and misguided takes on @Azuki. As a former employee of Azuki, there’s quite literally nothing in it for me to shill or defend Azuki, but honestly I’m bored and will take the engagement bait. Let’s go through the list here @katexbt shall we… > “raised tens of millions”: Yes, that is correct, all companies require capital to build. They also airdropped a total of over $45k+ worth of tokens and NFTs to all original minters if they held the whole time. (See here: x.com/riceriddler/st…) > “fifth experiment after rugging Tendies, CryptoPhunks, CryptoZunke, etc.”: All three projects completed their stated roadmaps, and after leaving said projects @Zagabond very publicly gave over $1.4m to those respective treasuries to continue building. > “ugly as sin”: I can’t really account for your bad taste here. The lead artist and most of the art team is the same team that created the characters for Overwatch, one of the most beloved gaming IPs in the world. To each their own. > “founder admitted about using fake personas such as “I’m a female dev””: God forbid a crypto builder is early as hell to the schitzo dev meta. Based. > “-97.4% down from peak”: Yes, most NFTs are very much down from their peaks. When people aren’t rich, they don’t buy collectibles or buy into exclusive clubs. Shocking concept, I know. > “at some point u just stop posting about your own NFT collection and start posting about things that actually have and will have value”: So you’re condemning Azuki for raising funds from crypto but also criticizing them for marketing products and building revenue streams outside of crypto to continue building the IP and thus collectibility of its most OG collectibles. We do love a self-contradiction king/queen/it. > “like physical TCGs”: This is correct, a team loaded with strong game devs, artists/builders with gaming backgrounds, and strong connections in anime is choosing a product that aligns with their strengths. > “ZERO...”: …is a powerful 8-cost entity in the aforementioned @AzukiTCG. It is also a leader from the Fire domain with a unique self-damage mechanic that allows Fire deck users to accelerate their strong early game play. Learn more at tcg.azuki.com Anyways, thanks for platforming Azuki on your tweet! Cheers, and IKUZO mf ⛩️

@Sakrexer latest outburst by Armani towards holders when asked what is next for lads

Looking back, I'm happy I sold my MadLads when Armani disrespected me around a year ago Only giving 1% airdrop for the holders that even made backpack possible, is a complete joke lmao thats like 0.00001% supply for each holder since supply is 10k...

@MagicEdenComm @DeGodsNFT @FamousFoxFed @MadLads @Claynosaurz Claynos

Hypothetically.. If we were to change our PFP to one of our forever NFTs, which SOL collection should it be?! 🪄 @DeGodsNFT 🪄 @FamousFoxFed 🪄 @MadLads 🪄 @Claynosaurz Choose wisely!

@JGoldSolana @armaniferrante got out of that toxic disc, community members are called beggars for asking questions, banned or timed out by sell out mods(good for nothing, always repeating the same thing), btw Armani calling beggars is funny cause he was the first to beg solana community to support his nft

BREAKING: Mad Lads founder @armaniferrante made a rare appearance in Mad Lads Discord to flame 🔥holders who are unhappy. Tells them "you received VIP Tier on the Exchange and 1% of TGE - anyone who wants more is ridiculous and pathetic" Meanwhile, most holders have never been able to use the Exchange, and have lost way more money holding the NFT than the small airdrop they will receive. BTW - Armani received millions of dollars, and his entire startup ability, from Mad Lads royalties and the free hype and promotion from the community.

@alexvalensix @MadLads @armaniferrante dont think so, they were bought when the lads were trading at 30k

@_ichigod_ @MadLads @armaniferrante Most of these guys bought Lads when SOL was around 9 dols

@KgnCnKhrmn @MadLads @armaniferrante same here

@_ichigod_ @MadLads @armaniferrante When the paid ones trying to lecture community this is what happens.. my biggest bad investment :/