this is the dumbest nft probject i've ever seen

[@briochepanda]

Standing in Aldi looking at the price of beans and we got bros slinging rent money at receipts for jpegs. I think I just need to stand in a field for a bit and listen on the grass rustling it's been a long day and I can't deal with this.

[@samholdsworth420]

Why the f*** are you shopping at Aldi's

[@cornela2678]

I recommend you find one of those tree seeds shaped like bug wings that swirl if they fall.

[@briochepanda]

@@cornela2678 that's an absolutely magnificent suggestion. If I do find one of those little helicopter seed pods I'll give it a few whirls for you.

[@Jovisstfan]

@@briochepanda As a kid we used to split them at the base and put them on the bridge of our noses and they would stick.

[@arstulex]

@@cornela2678 Sycamore

[@paulblack8887]

Turning base metal to gold was the medieval equivalent of an NFT drop. Good reference

[@jwmcq]

"Wizard owl person eagle bird f*ckin thing" is my new metaverse DJ name.

[@MysteriousSignal]

Wow, another project for JPEG recepits that totally won't conveniently drop 99.99% in value once they are sold!

[@RisingRevengeance]

To be fair these guys seem to have started out at zero value so there wont even be a drop

[@kombatwombat6579]

I love the term "jpg receipts". I'll be using it if you don't mind.

[@OWnIshiiTrolling]

But these ones have naruto headbands!

[@MysteriousSignal]

@@kombatwombat6579 By all means, I'm just calling them what they are. It's literally just a digital receipt saying you own the receipt lmao

[@21palica]

@@MysteriousSignal You are just a hater, bro! You don't understand, or see the future, bro! When it's value goes to the moon, I'll be laughing at all of you!

[@zdenekpavlatka609]

"welcome everyone to the blockchain catastrophe" didn't expect them to be so honest :D

[@ayron419]

"This is the dumbest NFT project ever" "which one is it?" "Yes."

[@GalootWrangler]

“Is today the end of time?” “No.” “Tomorrow there will be dumber.”

[@mbarker_lng]

I knew this was going to be a winner soon as the second word of their intro was a crypto buzzword ("ecosystem"). I think before going on, I need to break out my "Crypto Buzzword Bingo" card and see how it fills out. EDIT: BINGO!

[@CelticGuardian7]

Yep, the game you're thinking of is Hatoful Boyfriend. While it does start as a meme game, it actually gets legitimately good, to the point it's unironically one of my favorite VNs. Probably better that people stick with that instead of jumping to whatever the heck this nonsense is. >_>

[@FormerlyAVM]

“Pigeon dating sim ??Obviously Kira was just making shit up lol”…then I googled it Dear God what have we done

[@samusx2175]

Oh yeah, it's a real thing sadly. GameGrumps played it years ago.

[@Aries73]

Eventually, we must ask you to recompense us for lost IQ points due to these NFT scams.

[@Hawkmoon26933]

I’m right clicking and saving them all.

[@SubZole]

No one mentions that they just got comic book characters and put a beak on them? Only from this video i already saw Ghost Rider, Spawn, Moon Knight and Nightcrawler. I'm sure Disney and the other owners of the characters will be happy about this XD

[@MultiDarkZen]

Lmfaoo I made an NFT analogy for birkin bags and this is essentially the same thing because you actually have to give more money or be in the sphere to actually even buy a birkin bag lmfaoo

[@airborne3426]

They clearly did not check what first comes up when you Google "eagle nest".

[@martijnp]

Lol these guys are so blatantly scammers it's insane. Even if (very big if) they don't intend to. They're saying they'll be: - investment firm in several markets - charity - web3 developer - game developer - life coaching / personal development guide - educators - industry leading Ted talkers (for lack of a better term) It looks like they are just literally trying to cover every type of nft invester to try to get them to buy their bird.

[@odex1076]

"In the need of the hour". Sure thing Bumbledore.

[@BlackAxon]

At about 2:30 Am I stupid or did they mix up the NFT vs the name? the wizard and grand mage tiers swap what they look like when you scroll down lol. They can't even scam in a consistent way haha.

[@ItsWillLee]

NFT's are silly. People still giving NFT's any attention are sillier.

[@HandFromCoffin]

Wow.. I was about to complain about Kira making click bait titles.. "the dumbest" then I watched the video.. and he's underselling it.. it truly is the dumbest.

[@starvr]

In the words of Marvin the Paranoid Android, "Life! Don't talk to me about life!", and I will bet my Captain Underpants underpants that this is a scam. LOL

[@raymondpizarro3697]

They just doing everything, aren’t they? I’m surprised they didn’t mention an independent island nation in the south Pacific

[@michaelgum97]

1:26 That's literally Spawn.

[@skylar5257]

I love the fact they’re designed off of other characters from other IP’s like demon slayer, Naruto, MHA, Marvel etc. lol they’re as unoriginal as ever.

[@madaggar9765]

I wonder what you would say about DUBI, Athene's "basic income" coin.

[@lougait4362]

But which NFT do you want from the list to take your money

[@shinji391]

To be realistic, the life coaches and therapists would probably be the ones that suffer the most from the sunk cost fallacy.

[@DanielDroegeShow]

I don't think their was anything wrong with the voice acting, but definitely a scam. They are taking user investments and dumping them into BTC miners and memecoins. Essentially an unregulated hedge fund.

[@daisydevine3940]

This project sounds familar. Wait, wasn't this SBF? Wasn't his pitch a buzzword salad?

[@ruffynowa580]

never understand why ppl still fall for that crap ?!

[@Sim.Salabim]

Maybe someone let GPT do this? wait...that would look FAR BETTER

[@ppsarrakis]

what you guys know about lyconet,someone i know wants to invest into that,they even going to one of their events on Dusseldorf,germany

[@CrimsonCQB]

Meh birds aren't real anyway, so they failed before they even started... kidding ofc, might as well be though. And that VA reminds me Nathan from South Park... Lake Titticaca, funny shit

[@Theundeadleader]

"You are going after the perfect audience if you want to train NFT bros how to read and do math"

[@cal593]

They refuse to learn though.

[@lionheartt15]

the only math crypto/nft bros can do is subtraction though

[@privateinformation2960]

Till Lindemann says it best .. why should I do maths we have machines for counting money.

[@kubi0461]

The best example I can think of to explain how I react when hearing about notascams like these is: Imagine walking in a public park and you see a strange unmarked white van with some guy selling cups of dirt and cardboard shovels out of his van for ridiculous prices. It certainly would seem sketchy but my overwhelming reaction would be a question of why it’s even happening at all.

[@azynkron]

The difference is that an uncanny amount of donkeys bought dirt from the blue van, lost their money, but still bought more dirt from the man in the white van. The stupidity of these people makes my eyes water.

[@generaldreagonlps6889]

In that specific example I wouldn't even be mad at that scheme. If others are stupid enough to buy it, you do you bro.

[@wyrmofvt]

@@generaldreagonlps6889 NFTs are just the latest iteration of the collectable plates grift. My grandfather fell for one of these things in later life, and for the longest time his house was filled to the brim with these crap collectable plates. You might say, well at least they're usable as plates, but they weren't. The paint was not food-safe nor would last long if used as a plate. They were top to bottom worthless garbage.

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@wyrmofvt if they looked nice they still better than nfts

[@wyrmofvt]

@@toomanyaccounts Okay, I have to admit, they did look like there was some production value behind them. Probably a few cents per plate worth, but sill _some_ production value. They were still pretty tacky.

[@watsonwrote]

I feel like they're promising everything, lmao. By the end I was half-expecting them to say each NFT comes with a girlfriend

[@bellissimo4520]

Maybe a girlfriend JPEG?

[@superscatboy]

That's what the metaverse AI is for.

[@Anonymous-mp2ln]

I'm pretty sure the waifu project is / was a thing. A shame, the art for it was pretty decent.

[@pizzlerot2730]

Yo that's actually brilliant, if an NFT project promised that they'd make BANK. Because obviously the kind of people who buy these things don't have the ability to evaluate the sensibility of what these projects promise, and it's probably really hard to get or keep a gf after they sold their houses and put the money into NFTs. Mate I'm taking notes here, y'all keep an eye out for "Girlfriend token" aka "Girlies", coming in Q4 2023 🔥🚀🌜💯

[@Scampcam]

that's what the manga does!

[@nightmarehound]

Its a BIRD NFT project... they had a chance to call it "founding FEATHERS of alchemy" and missed it.... smh

[@dougray30]

Is there ANYTHING this NFT project doesn't have? Crypto. Gold. Forex. Real estate. Social consciousness. And the list goes on and on.....

[@starvr]

Yea, it's even got the idiots that buy them too. LOL

[@antondovydaitis2261]

In game utility.

[@peterpan4038]

"Is there ANYTHING this NFT project doesn't have? " Yes, a future past the usual day one "LETS RUGPULL THIS BABY!"

[@fuzzydude64]

There's one thing it doesn't have: integrity.

[@SanctorumDivinity]

Longevity

[@Mysticth]

Pretty sure it's illegal in many places to offer half the things on this list without upfront public certifications, like mental health support. Someone should report these folks to the health and trade commissions.

[@Lenariet]

I'm struggling to find any information on their whereabouts. I can't find any info on the company they list at the bottom of their website. Perhaps it doesn't exist. Their founders/leads seem to originate from South Africa, there are Linkedin profiles implying as much. But it ends there.

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

@@Lenariet Sending the internet police to arrest the entire darkweb.

[@xcreeseseater38]

Welcome to the world of unregulated crypto scams!!

[@JohnYoungTech]

Are we sure someone did't ask Chat GPT to put together a NFT pitch?

[@marcuswillbrandt5901]

Underrated

[@tangentartists6876]

WhyTF would you do a bird alchemy theme and not call it OWLchemists?

[@Leaf__22]

I can never sleep well again knowing they missed that opportunity

[@dopesickdog]

damn...

[@TPLR15]

You are expecting NFT idiots to be actually creative, thats why

[@zpardus]

Also: Why didn't they call it the Founding Feathers of Alchemy, instead of founding fathers? The pun was right there waiting, people! C'mon...

[@dn22pkkdd476]

Shit that's good

[@JayconianArts]

Im not surprised at all about the mention of AI in this stuff. From what I've seen on social media, a lot of NFT/ Crypto/Web3 evangelists have pivoted to shilling AI over the last couple months.

[@higherlearning9386]

Yup, they will jump on any popular upcoming tech and claim it as there own, yet things like AI simply can’t run on a slow crypto network

[@neoteraflare]

They should ask AI to find a REAL problem that NFT can solve.

[@JayconianArts]

​@@neoteraflareThe chatbots that are being marketed as ai are text prediction algorithms trained on the entirety of the internet, so it's more then likely that it'll post the exact same things they've been saying all this time. They'll the use that as proof that NFTs are good, because the "AI" said so.

[@CrystalWings12]

@@JayconianArts 'You think AIs tell nothing but the truth?'

[@beigegecko]

It’s just a new trendy thing

[@ekki1993]

Re: Life coaching. Cryptobros don't need life coaching. Life coaching is just another industry filled to the brim with scammers.

[@lghal1]

So its a bird themed nft project about alchemy and they didnt call it owlchemi? That would have been the only decent thing about this

[@DanielDroegeShow]

Right? I also tried to look it up and there are 50 different NFT projects around Alchemy, so it isn't even an original thought.

[@WolfgangDoW]

You forgot that NFT bros are dumb AF

[@carlpult5235]

It's offensive how they passed up on that wordplay!

[@rasmie8858]

After Trump NFTs sold out, only becoming the main character of a isekai anime will blow my mind

[@VieneLea]

It's not really that surprising that his audience will buy anything

[@Kalyahna]

@@VieneLea And if his audience doesn't, one of his idiot sons would to curry favor with him, and if they didn't, he'd get someone else to buy them all, just so he can say they sold out.

[@privateinformation2960]

Mildly better than the "good guys" son who just bangs his own underage niece I guess?

[@dopesickdog]

@@Kalyahna lmao

[@PerfectZeroMusic_]

@@VieneLea Ngl i think the biggest buyers were probably cryptobros looking for "the next big nft project"

[@rekindledphoenix]

Let's face facts, NFT-bros are just jealous of the furries thousands of custom animal avatars and sense of community. Really these NFT-shills are just selling a "fursona" but without the rights to a character

[@ScreebOnARoomba]

After watching the first few minutes of the video the one thing that jumped out was the fact that 4 of the nft's are obvious rip-offs of characters that already exist: Nightcrawler, Ghost Rider, Spawn, and a Naruto character that I can't remember the name of right now. I don't recognize any of the others as rip-offs but I wouldn't put it past them if they were.

[@rgarrow87]

There was also Khonshu from Moon Knight

[@Cakegolem]

The cowboy one is a ripoff of an old 80's cartoon called BraveStarr. I don't understand this... are they purposely trying to invite lawsuits?

[@ahniandfriends123]

Some of these bird characters look like Falco from StarFox.

[@ПостороннимВ-й2ю]

This is pure gold. Literally, every single buzzword is in there. A bit surprised they don't mention saving puppies and walking old ladies across the road.

[@HandiasTobil]

holy shit this project looks good. Imma gonna invest in my life savings into this!

[@Liondanceforme]

havent watched the video yet but i already fear of missing out!

[@unclvinny]

Pal, if you aren't maxing out every available line of credit to load up on Bird NFTs there's no way I can take you seriously. Go big or go home! Bird alchemy gold mining crypto-bro-therapy NFTs FOREVER.

[@Liondanceforme]

@@unclvinny i was halfway through the video and by that point i already had sold my liver

[@shrubninja6444]

​@@unclvinny I'm gunna need that healthcare the NFT bros are providing after the eye cancer I got reading that last bit haha

[@marcuswillbrandt5901]

Only your life savings? Just sell a kidney or two. It's basically going to the moon any moment. Sure you'll survive that long without them. And then you can buy ALL the kidneys.

[@AlisteirCrowley]

Some NFT projects reads like a spam Email, and I think more and more that this is by design.

[@Freerunemem]

My favorite type of alchemy, turning money into nothing!

[@Its_Syxx]

You know it's going to be a good video when the first 3 seconds has the words "Bird Mages" in it.

[@shrubninja6444]

I think my favorite thing about all these NFT projects is how confident these people are. It's not "if" but "when" they get infinite wealth.

[@dopesickdog]

Probably bc they're not expecting to do any of it, they just need things to work up to the day of minting lol

[@ShaggyRogers1]

That's part of the grift. They want to entice the wannabe speculators and naive idiots with FOMO to think that their project is the next big thing. Actually being realistic with your claims means that said audience has a reason to step back and actually think about what you are saying. Yelling "to the moon" and looking official leads people to believe that you are actually serious about whatever it is you are claiming.

[@draconis17]

I realized earlier today, NFT trading is just scalping. You buy something that has a limited supply, then put it up for sale at a higher price, knowing anyone who wants the thing will have to buy it from you regardless of its real value. The only difference is, in NFTs the person who buys it from you just wants to scalp it for even more.

[@Vikanuck]

This has all the energy of an 8th grade school project where all the kids are told to create their own businesses, and the teacher just hangs their head in their hands while literally every student goes on about their over the top-perfect NFT/Crypto businesses lol 😄

[@TaraTheFox]

I did a double take when you read "within the location of the villages". I know it's just some awkward grammar, but for just a moment I thought they were saying they were headquartered in The Villages, a massive series of retirement communities in central Florida, with like themed shopping/community areas... I'm not sure exactly what that would say about the project, but it was funny for a moment heh

[@Dradeeus]

Uht, there's Spawn! Uht, there's Ghost Rider! Uht there's Nightcrawler! Uht there's the guy from Naruto! I mean you can just tell this came from a place of passion and creativity. Not suspicious at all that this person is using famous iconography to sell their stuff as fast as possible. Bet they're gonna be around for years to come.

[@AwesometownUSA]

“You can have your NFT in any style you want… as long as it’s a stupid fake internet pog” - Henry Ford v2.0

[@jakezepeda1267]

LOL. Wtf is up with that list of promises? There is no chance in hell they would be able to accomplish that 😂

[@samholdsworth420]

Almost like turning non precious metals into gold

[@oliver_twistor]

I went to Opensea to look at this. Many of the purchase offers I saw were at a heavily discounted price (some as much as 92 %). People who bought these at the minting will never get their money back. As per usual. Why do people still fall for this? I will never understand that.

[@samusx2175]

Because some people have less sense than braincells.

[@thatHARVguy]

Kira: "this is the dumbest nft project i've ever seen" Us: "so far..."

[@marcuswillbrandt5901]

Us: "Today."

[@Gunplay224]

The mental health thing is a good idea because I need a psychiatrist after reading that

[@CivilReader-e5k]

At the end of the video I decided to add upp the sell price for the total bird supply. Apparently this project will be able to accomplish all of this for about 2 million dollars. Only a finacial savant would be able to accomplish this so you should definitly buy in before they decide to just keep all of the money they will be making./s

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

You know youre in good hands when the art has Naruto headbands

[@GhostRat__]

I can’t even with these it sounds like they want to build a city and it’s mental

[@GrizzleBearMAK]

Holy hell, all those promises make it sound like this NFT is gonna save the world. I wouldn't be surprised if they said they were gonna take me out to dinner, give me a massage and a happy ending, and then call me the next day.

[@0The_Farlander0]

Nothing funnier to me than how blatantly unskilled at anything other than lying every cryptobro is. And they ain't too good at that, either

[@DanielDroegeShow]

I think tricking people into giving them millions of dollars makes them pretty good at it. My best lie is to get out of something stupid, like the dishes.

[@0The_Farlander0]

@@DanielDroegeShow I mean it's not hard to lie to someone who already wants to believe the lie (that crypto in its current state will save us). They aren't good at fooling the rest of us, is what I mean

[@juances]

Those NFTs look like a lawsuit waiting to happen lol The spawn and ghost rider birds... I doubt they can chalk this up as fair use

[@antondovydaitis2261]

"The Eagles Nest." Where have I heard that before?

[@AljoschaSINNLOS]

underwater deep diving cave.deathtrap. don t remind of this scary place.

[@warren_r]

Pretty sure I logged into that BBS in the 1990s.

[@antondovydaitis2261]

I was thinking more like the Bavarian Alps, circa WW2. You know, like the Bored Ape Yacht Club and the Tottenkopf.

[@MedievalGenie]

You describe the NFT projects as if only "most" are scams. I'm pretty sure every last one is a horrendous grift.

[@Ametisti]

...Webaverse seems weirdly generic given the whole bird wizard thing. Could gone like Alcaverse or leaned in on that nest analogy with Nestverse or something. If ya gonna rugpull, rugpull with a consistent brand image.

[@courier11sec]

There's a real opportunity to cook the term "Wizbird" here and sell it to these receipt collectors for a million garden slug tokens.

[@superscatboy]

They're claiming to be a *literal* gold mine 😂 top tier

[@Alearic006]

installing these "games" probably turns your PC into a coin miner for the developer lol

[@ssquarkgaming1405]

When you read scavenger hunts I legit heard "scam-venger hunts" 😂

[@boozypixels]

"We're going to do absolutely everything!" - Apparently not a scam

[@Lenariet]

I didn't see the claim to make an MMO. How disappointing.

[@iiNekoKira]

The Sasuke x Birdman Furry crossover JPEG is surprisingly appealing.

[@leandrochenque]

"And by the ancient principles of alchemy, behold how I transmute your money into an idiot's certificate."

[@devinhoyt2935]

'The Eagle's Nest' Like... Hitlers?

[@CainXVII]

I feel like being a "founding father" isn't worth anything if you can just sell the title to somebody else later

[@Lagbeard]

My first question is "What does owning one of the NFTs actually physically get me?"

[@984047]

Cloat, maybe…

[@Hawkmoon26933]

You get…….not one damn thing. I have had them tell me it can get me a seat at a concert, (they have never heard of tickets evidently) access to the artist, I have no idea what this means and I get to give away a percentage of my sale to the A-Hole who minted it. NFT bros try so hard to come up with a purpose for their useless digital crap. It ALL is already being done by something else. I mean who would want their home or car titles tied up with this garbage that can be hacked by anyone?

[@davideresenterra9648]

Not a philosopher's stone, for sure

[@DanielDroegeShow]

Entry into the hedge fund.

[@desperado3236]

Oh, it gets you nothing. What it does get is the creator money.

[@virtualworldsbyloff]

You must create a Derek pure evil NFT

[@mileidyclass]

As a bird lover, I do not condone this.

[@Roboshi2007]

alchemists tried to turn base metals into gold. guess NFT bros are trying to pull the same scam

[@zerthios]

Reminds me of that scam where the person said they had a diamond mine and tricked people to invest

[@oxymoron02]

So many NFTs are furries. I wonder why.

[@uselessDM]

The eagle has crash landed. Can't be long.

[@rgarrow87]

Looking at the NFTs, they are a mashup of designs from MHA, DBZ, Marvel, Star Wars, Halo, DC, One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, and there are probably more.

[@skrrrtsusman3450]

the birds look cool, but they're really getting close to that line of pissing off companies by making burd versions of shit like Nightcrawler, Ghost Rider, and fucking Pain.

[@yallia6197]

"Buying a gold mine" How do people fall for this ? Buying and operating a gold mine is not cheap and definitly not something you do with a shit NFT project when NFT is down in the dumpster. Or does the NFT project on top of giving them hundreds of millions also give them expertise on operating a mine, local political connections, logistic expertise, security handling etc ? At this point can't feel sorry for people who fall for this

[@degenancap]

Just because there have been some scam crypto projects and exchanges, doesn't mean everything related to cryptocurrency is a scam. It's like saying the whole gaming industry is a scam just because there are some scam crowdfunding campaigns for games out there.

[@theend2574]

"alchemy" huh? So that's what taking existing western and eastern cartoon/anime characters and converting them into creepy bird mutant hybrids is called.

[@Yolkiooo]

The Villages is that massive retirement community in Florida, its a de facto municipality. Sounds like they're targeting the exact people to be scammy

[@Jamesgates355]

that alchemist symbol reminds me of something....i genuinely swear i saw an Eldar symbol that looked exactly like that as a crest for one of the craftworlds or just part of the eldar runes...will update if i can find it

[@thehumus8688]

Choosing bird might be suitable, as Idiot is synonym with Birdbrains

[@starvr]

Birdbrain is way too intelligent for these people.

[@ZedNull.]

"project lead & cofounder" looks like someone i wouldnt trust to babysit let alone with my finances.

[@gwenfranklin8242]

Isn't eagles nest what hitler called his summer home. That feels. Sus

[@doggonemess1]

Yes, that is exactly what he called it. It's the first thing I thought when I heard the name of the project. WTF. Do they realize what they're referencing?

[@gwenfranklin8242]

@@doggonemess1 That combined with "founding fathers" and "grand mage" (similar to grand wizard, a rank in the KKK) its just a lot of dog whistles

[@Draconic.]

"A free 3D manga NFT" I'm not sure they know what a manga is...

[@tame1773]

"Probject" is just perfect

[@MisterNightfish]

I assume there's just a template for NFT scams at this point and they all just use the same template and people just keep falling for it.

[@Kalamir5]

Kira what have you done!!? By the Laws of Murphy, now someone is going to try to top that.