Telling stories, traveling worlds, creating content, and (trying to) avoid
@jenkinsmutated
with
@writersroomnft
• Wrote the 1st community-generative 📕NFT
Gm gm
@writersroomnft
,
We're exiting a quieter period, and today, we're excited to revamp Writers Room, representing a return to our roots & embracing collective creativity
More on this in Medium (and in thread below)
(1/57) 🧵👇
🚨GIVING AWAY MUTANT 3578!🚨
I've decided to visit
@azurbala
. I cannot go there alone. I need your help.
To win:
1️⃣RT this Tweet
2️⃣Follow
@azurbala
+
@jenkinsthevalet
3️⃣Join the Azurbala Discord. Experience the world with me. There's much to see. !Bala
3 months of work. 930+ HAND DRAWN Apes from the
@BoredApeYC
. Thank you to the LEGENDARY
@IC4DESIGN_INC
for this 34MB masterpiece.
@othanperoni
has built a web page for you to view it without losing any fidelity.
I'm excited to share 'Where's Jenkins':
GM!
#NFTLondon2022
is treating me well so far.
Who has found some of the
#BoredInLondon
manuscript pages I’ve hidden? Don't forget to share them and tag me if you do. I’m going to give away a Bored & Dangerous NFT to one of you 📚!
I'm excited to share that on JULY 11 my debut novel Bored & Dangerous will be available to mint. This is a year in the making.
On the surface, it’s a book. Below, there’s much more. Read on to learn how to mint, what you get, why I am so bullish, more 🧵
With the Writer’s Room, we envisioned a completely decentralized media empire governed by the community. We always said Book 1 was just the start.
With Roadmap 2.0, this dream becomes a reality, w/ endless choices and possibilities. Which will you choose?
I couldn’t be more excited to announce
@TallyLabsNFT
’s $12m seed round to continue scaling our community-focused, decentralized content.
We’ve assembled a group of world-class investors, athletes, entertainers, and Hollywood execs to help bring our vision to life. Time to build.
BOOK PARTNER 1: We’re so excited to be working with IC4 Design of Hiroshima, JP to design “Where’s Jenkins” set at the BAYC.
They’re HAND DRAWING all 936 Apes/Mutants licensed w/ a key🤯
IC4 has won many global awards w/ clients like Adobe, Google, and Mercedes. Work below.
Once again, congrats to
@yugalabs
on a monumental announcement.
There is no Jenkins the Valet without
@BoredApeYC
and the commercial rights they’ve granted.
We’ve been collaborating with their team and are excited to embrace $APE and find ways to integrate it into our world.
News from the Valet Stand:
Jenkins the Valet is proud to be represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA) across Books, Film, TV, Podcast, and more.
CAA is a leader in global talent representation and this service Ape is ready to tell his stories on a larger stage.
Let’s go.
In Web3, it’s no longer enough to simply post on Twitter. Success requires something much deeper. It requires…!vibes
That’s why we’ve seized the memes of production and hired a FULL TIME DIRECTOR OF VIBES at
@TallyLabsNFT
.
Please welcome
@notthreadguy
to the team 😎
Today was tough. We take security very seriously. 2FA was enabled at the device level + our account email showed no signs of compromise.
Writer’s Room members lost Apes/Mutants, VeeFriends + WR NFTs.
We are issuing full refunds to those affected based on current floor prices.
🧵It's been a while since I updated you my
@Azurbala
travels. It's been more dangerous than I imagined.
Something was approaching me through the trees. I immediately turned and ran, my heart pounding. I tripped on a root and fell flat on my face.
When I woke up, I saw the glow.
🧵The sun was rising as I stumbled into the city. It was empty. Everyone was still asleep.
A storefront caught my eye. I love my valet uniform, but wow...these outfits were insane!
Is this how Azurians dress? I couldn't believe how fashionable the clothes were. They were...3D.
I'm thrilled to announce the first 14 featured guests for the 1st Inaugural Blockchain Character Space 🤝
Hear their perspectives on community building, identity, and how story plays a role in each of their worlds.
Dec 12 at 2 PM EST. Link below 👇
👉 👈
The support from you all is insane! I want to get out of jail so badly. Let’s make it happen!
I'm giving away a Bored & Dangerous NFT to someone who:
1️⃣ RTs this tweet to get the word out
2️⃣ Posts a tweet using "Free Jenkins" and tags
@JetTheRogue
3️⃣ Follows
@Azurbala
🌀
By now, many of you have seen the PFP previews for
@Azurbala
. Needless to say, we missed. However, it doesn't end here.
The below Medium post outlines where we went wrong, what we're doing to fix it, and how we'll avoid the same mistakes.
More here👉:
It’s time.
We’re thrilled to announce that the token hated Bored & Dangerous reader is launching Tuesday, September 27th.
This novel has been a year in the making. We cannot wait to share it with you. We’ll host a Spaces next week to celebrate.
Writer’s Room - we did it 🎉
We've decided to postpone the Bored & Dangerous burn due to feedback on the
@Azurbala
PFPs.
At
@TallyLabsNFT
, our goal has always been to do what's best for the community. We'll continue to do so. This is an opportunity to rethink our process and bring the community in earlier.
Without further ado, I am excited to introduce you to - an amazing audio experience, set in your favorite NFT communities.
Support for holders 100+ NFT projects to turn their JPEGS into characters, just like me. Plus, 12 preferred partner communities🤝!
Calling All Apes/Mutants: Let’s Make History Together.
The Writer’s Room allows you to leverage your
#BAYC
or
#MAYC
IP to earn royalties on a book written by a 10x NYT Bestselling author.
More below on how this works:
Sometimes I feel like I shouldn’t be sharing this story, like I should’ve just kept my mouth shut about what I experienced…what I saw…
Now
@neilstrauss
has sent over the working title along with part of the manuscript. There’s no turning back, no matter the danger ahead.
Let’s welcome
@mbsjq
to the Writer’s Room to create our Book 1 cover and the full NFT to sit in your wallet!
This NFT symbolizes a community-generative novel, feat characters owned by YOU, written by 10x Bestseller
@neilstrauss
, set in the
@BoredApeYC
, designed by a top artist.
Drake, Migos, Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, JENKINS THE VALET. What do they have in common?
@murdabeatz
Murda (Grammy-nominated, Multi Platinum producer, 25+ Billboard
#1
albums) is creating a CUSTOM TRACK FOR YOUR BORED & DANGEROUS NFTs to accompany the 🔥 art created by
@mbsjq
!
I’m feeling Bored & Dangerous.
After a year of hard work, Bored & Dangerous is NOW LIVE to read on our custom token gated reader.
Head over to 👉 👈, verify your wallet with
@tokenproof
, and read on!
There’s no wallet connection on our site and NO MINT!
🧵So,
@azurbala
has been quite the adventure! Before reaching the city, I met a Bice Monk who invited me onto his boat through a shortcut only the Monks know.
I didn’t have to enter through the Azur Passage so I saved some time. Now I can explore before I head to House Calypso!
Thank you to everyone who took time out of their day to join spaces and offer constructive feedback. We took a risk. It didn’t pay off.
We just wrapped a call with the full team going over the feedback + discussing next steps. We’ll course correct.
@TallyLabsNFT
is here to stay
We see and hear all of your feedback to Azurians and will be opening up a space soon.
We’ve always been guided by one principle which is to do right by our community members.
This remains absolutely true today. The Azurbala you end up getting will be one that makes you proud.
Suspicious whispers about the Pond have been swirling around.
@GoodboyNFT
is a swamp native, so he's no stranger to wetter terrain —maybe he's there?
I've heard that
@ThePlagueNFT
never lets its members down. If he is in fact at the pond, then he's definitely in safe hands 🐸
We’re excited to prove to you all that we can learn from our mistake and not make it again.
As poorly received as our Azurian art reveal was, there was no mint. No one burned a Bored & Dangerous.
Now we will redo the artwork with the community.
@Azurbala
is not going anywhere.
When we launched the Writer’s Room, we pledged to find a NYT Bestselling Author. Well, we found a 10X NYT Bestseller.
We’re pleased to announce Neil Strauss is writing my debut novel, in collaboration with the Writer’s Room.
Join us + Neil at 11am EST for a Town Hall in Discord
22 days in the Edokan Prison Camps. Just as I was starting to lose all hope, I heard something. A scuffling.
It sounded like it was coming from behind my cell wall…
Bricks fell. There was a hole. No, a tunnel...
That's when I saw her:
@JetTheRogue
.
Sound on 🔊🔊🔊
Drake, Travis Scott, Migos and now…Jenkins the Valet!
So excited to reveal my full NFT minting on Monday.
@murdabeatz
and I wanted to land on a beat that truly screamed Bored & Dangerous.
You all will now own a beat from Murda (over 25
#1
albums) in your wallets.
SOUND ON 🔈
(1/6) UPDATE 🧵:
We are excited to share that 50% OF ALL NET PROFITS from Book 1 will be paid out as licensing fees to Writer’s Room members who license their avatars to the work.
In Web3, there are no customers. You’re our partners. Anything other than 50/50 wouldn’t be right.
🧵(1/5) As many of you have seen, we’ve posted a number of art previews leading up to the release of our novel set inside the
@BoredApeYC
.
The art has made us smile. It’s been amazing to see the novel come to life visually this way!
But one thing has been made clear to us.👇
Thinks had gotten bad, fast.
So bad in fact that
@OGDfarmer
and co needed to have a talk with
@CapetainTrippy
…
What happened exactly? You’ll see soon enough.
We have exciting news for Ape/Mutant partners who licensed their IP to Book 1!
In addition to earning royalties, you will be on the WriteList, giving you access to buy Book 1 outside of the public sale. This book would be nothing without you.
1 question remains: Stake or Burn?
I thought I’d turned the wrong way… maybe back at the Old River’s fork.
The jungle was too beautiful and too lush to be the place they’d warned me of.
But then I saw it: a sprawling structure towering over the trees. I knew that’s where they were keeping him.
- Roadmap 2.0
Our partners at
@a16z
recently released the 'Can't Be Evil' NFT license, guiding PFP collections in granting commercial rights.
Today, we are excited to open source the 2 licenses that we used to license 4,075 Apes/Mutants for Bored & Dangerous:
I was chatting with
@GordonGoner
in NYC about the Writer’s Room and he said something that stuck w me:
“We built the sandbox, you’re building the sandcastle.”
Apes are winning because of the creativity in the community around the IP.
This starts with the
@BoredApeYC
Founders.
My journey to
@azurbala
begins today. Many of you have been paying attention as
@LadyVoTheRich
has summoned me to tell House Calypso’s story.
Today…we travel there together. Let’s see what Azurbala has to offer us.
👉 👈 (View on desktop, SOUND ON 🔈)
If you’re building anything in the NFT space, you have my support. Together, we’re shaping the future we want to see.
I’m so grateful to be a part of this renaissance. Say hi if you see me in NYC 👋.
(1/2) We’re excited that the NFT space is realizing the importance of licensing and more people will get the chance to monetize their IP.
Thankfully, we’ve been betting on this trend for the last year. We’re debuting a 1 Click Licensing/Profit Split Marketplace around Project
#2
I’m proud to reveal my NFT roadmap.
Join me in creating the first community generative full-feature book. Owning our ERC-721 gets you access to a portal where you decide the title, genre, plot, and more.
Ape holders can license their apes for a profit share in book sales.
(1/35) We are so humbled by the reaction to Roadmap 2.0. Together, we‘ll shape the future of decentralized, community-driven media.
The 1st world this group will launch is
@Azurbala
, the jungle city across the metaverse. The inhabitants? Owned by you.
Read on to learn more 🧵👇
Huge congrats to our friends
@yugalabs
, supporters of us since Day 1
We’re developing a platform allowing anyone who owns an avatar with open commercial rights to leverage that IP, appear in media, + earn royalties.
We’re excited to integrate Punks + Meebits into future content
And that's a wrap on all 3 Bored & Dangerous mint phases, folks!
The final amount of outstanding Bored & Dangerous NFTs is 14,890! The total potential supply was 20,826, meaning that 5,936 were burned throughout this process.
Soon, the REAL fun begins...what will you do?🔥🥩
Tomorrow we announce Roadmap 2.0, a surreal moment for a Valet from the other side of the swamp.
We’ve spent months building a solid foundation to scale the future of community-owned and generated content. It’s time to share that vision with you all.
Let’s do this.
I wouldn’t be a proper valet if I didn’t do my part to serve the community. I’m so thankful for the support of my upcoming NFT. So I’m giving away a
@super_yeti
(Master rarity with Bitcoin eyes)!
Rules:
1. RT this
2. Follow me
3. Tag the NFT project you’re most excited about
In Web3, we have the opportunity to come together and build a place that is accepting of everyone - regardless of gender, sexuality, race, or religion. Hate has no place here.
WAGMI means we’re ALL going to make it. Choose love and acceptance.
As expected, I’m being met with skepticism (and danger) regarding my decision to write a tell-all about my work as Valet at
@BoredApeYC
.
I was just told that some rare Apes are worried I will spill the bananas about their secrets.
They want me quiet. We proceed
@neilstrauss
.
We’ve teamed up with
@SaltAudio
, an award-winning Fiction Podcast company behind hit shows w/ Dave Chapelle, Mos Def, Rami Malek + more
We sought a group with deep expertise and the ability to adapt audio to Film/TV. We’ve found them.
Thanks
@variety
👉:
We’re writing the world’s first community-generative novel, with a NYT bestselling author. Every aspect of the plot is voted on entirely by our holders. Every character is licensed to us by our holders for royalties
Which NFT artist would you want to see design our cover 🤔?
We’ve come to an agreement with a multi-time NYT Bestselling author to write Book 1.
Writer’s Room members will receive the book NFT for free for being a member of our crowd sourced media group.
Not yet announced: Burn vs. Hold mechanics that will blow your mind.
More soon 🤐
Update: After discussing with the
@BoredApeYC
team, we are very excited to announce that Mutants are eligible for licensing in exchange for royalties in Book 1.
Looking forward to welcoming the
#MAYC
to the Writer’s Room and seeing some mutants in the book.
wgmi.
We have an exciting announcement coming — very soon. Cannot wait to share it with you all.
We aim to push the boundaries of web3 with everything that we do. This time is no different.
🎙
“I’ve got an unlicensed Writer’s Room NFT — now what? Burning, Staking, Roadmap 2.0”
We’re unveiling our full Roadmap in 2022 but we wanted to reiterate the benefits of owning a Writer’s Room NFT. The Writer’s Room goes far beyond Book 1 royalties.
In order to make Book 1 all that you’re expecting AND MORE, we’ve decided to call in a few friends. Each one of them comes with their own unique area of expertise.
We look forward to introducing you to these world-class talents over the coming weeks 😊
(1/9) As licensing draws to a close, we want to share what the future holds for Writer’s Room NFT holders.
We are building a media business, and your Writer’s Room NFTs are the key to it. And with a little too much Egg Nog in me, I may have even leaked PFPs… 😉
A thread 🧵 👇
We are so excited to reveal our collab collection with
@jakethedegen
. Full snapshot/claims info coming tomorrow.
Random mint. 3 pieces. Varying rarities.
PIECE
#1
: 75% Rarity
Unfortunately
@JenkinsMutated
intercepted the art and drew his infamous tentacles on my head.
Prepared for his moment of praise, Roman reached for a newspaper and presented it proudly. “We made the front page of the Bored Ape Gazette, right on schedule,” he announced.
After receiving the invitation to
@azurbala
yesterday from
@LadyVoTheRich
, it appears she’s not done.
I just received this video highlighting the glory of House Calypso. She really wants me to come tell their story.
I thought
@azurbala
was dangerous. This looks like a palace…
We received this email from a Literary Agent when we asked about one of their clients writing my debut novel.
We wondered if any authors/agents would get the importance of a community-generative book.
Web3 is here. Creative and distribution are changing. We’re going all in 📕
Many of you have been asking about Roadmap 2.0
While I’m not at liberty to share everything yet, I will give you all one nugget: Writer’s Room PFP’s are coming.
Epic game theory, same level of lore you’ve come to know us for, and the same member-friendly licensing. It’s time.
🚨GIVEAWAY🚨
I’m giving away 1 Writer’s Room NFT to celebrate my NFT launch TODAY! All our mints will be fully randomized and you’ll find out upon reveal what you get!
Yesterday’s winner:
@tokendigger
To enter:
1️⃣: RT
2️⃣: Follow me
3️⃣: Join discord:
In this Valet’s humble opinion, it’s impossible to understate how important it is to give your community FULL commercial rights to their NFT.
Without this, there’s no Jenkins the Valet. The spirit of Web3 = permissionless ownership.
Make money WITH your community, not OFF them.
Our upcoming novel Bored & Dangerous is a case study for mass IP licensing in the NFT space. 4,075 Apes and Mutants were licensed nonexclusively to appear in the book in all different capacities.
50% of Net Profits will flow back to them in exchange for lending their likeness 🧵