expect mfers

the strongest communities that form around memes aren’t built in a day, week, month, or year. they’re forged deep in the trenches over many years of relentless belief, stubborn conviction, and raw compete. most won’t make it out, but those who do will be rewarded beyond measure. $mfer

gm mfers 🌞 been getting tagged a bunch about this old mfer stuff so lets go over it together 💚-' 1. "mfers" is an nft project by sartoshi, the mfers art/ethos are memetic assets in the public domain, "unofficial mfers" was, in the beginning, an adjacent mferish community entity 2. unofficial mfers - as it was - began breathing its transformational death rattles on 6/9 '22 3. a wallet that owns the deployment contract and is receiving royalties from the og project is a project wallet. this is simple first principles. it is official mfers now, regardless of its name or its original values and purpose. most elder mfers know this in their hearts - or would if they took a sec to think about it. 4. sartoshi secretly and suddenly gifted the contract and royalties to unofficial mfers on 6/9 ‘22 because he felt we were self-sufficient at the time based on dms between him and i where i kept him updated on what we were doing and the direction we were going, the discussion and governance platforms we were using, the fun little things we were trying amongst ourselves, and the way we were operating at the time. despite the fallout, sartoshi had the best of intentions, i'm 100.42069% sure of that. but 2 years later, those points aren't really relevant - 5 of the 7 ppl who were on the unofficial mfers primary multi-sig and who were listening, upkeeping, and communicating before 6/9 are... no longer onboard. why? quite simply because they knew it wasn't the same ship they boarded before 6/9, and they didn't want to go where it was clearly going. 5. all mfers are different. my own experiences in life (family farm, military (navy), etc) have led me to value transparency in leadership and dispersal of power and knowledge… but not everyone holds the same values. this is nuanced and contextual and i stress again that everyone is different. it is in the very nature of the ppl now steering the unofficial mfers multi-sigs, based on their own experiences (which i assume differ greatly from mine), to keep their movements and mission mostly opaque to the community. it’s abundantly clear that this isn't going to change and if you keep pointing fingers and jabbing at them - regardless of how strong you believe your arguments to be - they're going to continue doubling down and we'll all be divided further. not agreeing with them does not mean they are bad or untrustworthy mfers and doesn't mean what they're doing won’t be beneficial, even if the end result looks vastly different from the seed it grew from. it will become apparent whether this works or not upon reaching whatever their milestone is, and i'm sure it will be great. it's important to remember that division always stagnates a community’s growth and, in many cases, destroys it. **that being said, i would def encourage whoever the current signers are to provide a short announcement maybe in the discord server (unofficial mfers, not the other one) about who is currently acting as a signer on the main big eth and base multi-sigs, i think that would help greatly. a massive thank you to signers and signers alumni, this shit isn’t easy and nobody saw it coming. 6. could unofficial mfers go back to what it was? no. 7. try to accept that things have changed and will continue to change. mfers really are just gettin started. we all resist change sometimes but listen to me: it's in the best interest of the mfers realm and of yourself in this space to move on from trying to reason and logic and exhume your way into the wheelhouse to steer the ship. we can still talk lovingly about the past and what was, which is always my intention. 8. if you disagree with what's happening "at the top" of whatever this is, that's ok. i still watch the chain as i always have, i still check in on the old stomping grounds, i still go out of my way to search for even stale crumbs of communication, and i get disappointed and discouraged and even angry sometimes too with the things that i… witness. admittedly, some of that disappointment is lingering sunken-cost fallacy and is my own burden to carry post-6/9, but most of it is pure value-based misalignment with "the way things are" versus "what they could be" or “should be” or "could have been" or "how i would do it personally". but that's ok... in fact, it's fabulous. misalignment gives us direction and audacity... we try new things, branch out and do smth different, and aim to make things better in our own way. we all mfers, and every single one of us brings smth special to this strange and wonderful ethereal campfire we find ourselves all sitting around together. sometimes, the best way to disagree with smth is to simply ignore it and train the crosshairs of your love and attention onto a fresh new target. 9. if someone's being childish on the tl, let them. let them throw thinly-veiled insults at you because they have nothing else to provide. try your best to do better. turn the other cheek. god sees and knows all. let it go. 10. if there's anything at all that i can do to help you understand or accept or be at peace with any of this, please reach out to me. i am still here for you mfers and i am still listening. always have been. always will be. love you mfers. qjivw nywx kixxmr wxevxih 💚