051. $clout preps for a big Q3
Yooooooo,
How we all doin’ gang? Did we all have a nice weekend? From the looks of our BitClout feeds, most of y’all were enjoying some time off screen (*tumbleweed blows by*). Maybe some of you were fraternizing with internet friends and clout-izens at the LA x BitClout meet-up? We had solid @BitsTODAY representation there, but more on that later.
Before we dive in and cover what’s been going down over the past few days, we want to wish our fearless leader @ASG a very happy birthday today 🥳🎉. He’s taking the day off so the kids (aka @dripcult and @nvo) are home alone. Let’s see what kind of mischief we can drum up, shall we…
Guest cover design by @joshua_cottrell 🤙
Today’s Clout Covered:
BuzzClout: Exclusive look at today’s Movers & Shakers presented by @bitcloutsignal and by @BitHunt! ⚡️
Ubiquitous UX Drops: Tide draws out before the tsunami 🌊
Clout Controversy: Diamond embargo ❌💎
BitClout IRL: @BitsTODAY visits LA 🌴
General Absurdity: More roasts 🔥🥩 and stuff
Diamondhands’ drops 💎:
#1 BuzzClout
In partnership with @bitcloutsignal, here’s an exclusive look at today’s movers and shakers:
And further, here’s what was going down (and up!) on BitHunt today:
#2 Ubiquitous UX Drops: Tide draws out before the tsunami 🌊
*Crickets* 🦗. That’s our update on UX and dev drops from the core team of recent.
We kid (a little). No, @lazynina isn’t taking a lazy summer vacation. She hit us with a couple small drops today, including updates to the ‘send BitClout’ feature and documentation updates, which are well worth reading through, especially as it pertains to recent FUD on Twitter about the role of “super-admins” on BitClout nodes.
Still, much in the same way that the tide draws out before a tsunami 🌊, when things get really quiet like they are now, you know that there’s something massive inbound. And @diamondhands corroborated this in response to calls for an open community AMA:
Sounds like the dev team is ferociously and feverishly hammering away at the next big release, which many suspect will be NFTs. Let’s watch 👀
Speaking of the AMA, it sounds like things are progressing and the team may have time after their next big release to conduct one with us. In the interim, the rest of the dev community isn’t sitting on their laurels either. Well organized as ever, @tijn has already aggregated a key list of questions that the community would love answers on (see here).
All of this of course comes against the backdrop of a precipitous decline in $clout prices, with prices sinking as low as $100 over the weekend.
What’s driving the flush in $clout? Many factors, but there’ve been some conspicuously large transfers of $clout off-platform in recent days (see above). As some 🐳 exit, the question now becomes whether there will be new waves of retail buyers (or other, new 🐋s) to pick up the slack? We hope so 🤞.
#3 Clout Controversy: Diamond embargo ❌💎
There are innumerable challenges and opportunities that devs building on BitClout face. For one, there’s basically a blank canvas of what can be done on the frontend side of things; considering how barebones and v1 the current BitClout.com is, apps replicating the feed on iOS or Android basically have tabula rasa to go #ham. We imagine that’s both challenging and exciting.
Over the weekend however, we got official word from apps like @cloutfeed about a more pressing challenge that currently limits the BitClout experience on apps. The problem?
We can’t say we’re surprised by this in the slightest. In many ways it’s good to have the official confirmation that apps like @cloutfeed and @flickapp won’t be able to support diamonds and creator coin investments out of the way. Obviously, we hope this will change in the future. For now, browser is your place to be if you’re looking to transact in creator coins 💰📈.
#4 BitClout IRL: @BitsTODAY visits LA 🌴
Last Saturday, June 26th, the first public LA x BitClout meetup happened. In fulfillment of our duties, @BitsTODAY made damn well sure we were there! @drtymlk, @nicolek, @dripcult braved traffic and a long-haul up from San Diego to make it and experience the awesome event that @just_in put on for everyone at the @btcltgallery. Of course, LA local @alinaferry was there representing, too 💪.
The event itself was a hybrid show combining NFT art, live music and an all-purpose meetup for folks on BitClout as well as those interested in the platform who still needed a smidge of on-boarding. The night was a great reminder of how amazing this community is and can be, complete with tons of positive energy even amidst a $clout bear market. There wasn’t a single person there that wasn’t excited to chat it up about BitClout. Refreshingly, there were also a lot of normies who didn’t have much previous exposure to BitClout but who were eager to learn more and to get involved.
As far as a little general absurdity is concerned? We thought we might have had a @fungibles sighting (🚨), especially in light of our previous conversation with him about how to attend live events while still staying pseudonymous 🎭. It ended up being a false alarm, but we did get to meet @BobbyDigital42 as a result, who was a great sport about being misidentified.
In sum? We were #hyped on seeing everyone and experiencing the power of the BitClout network in real life. Can’t wait for the next meetup! Word on the street is @nvo is gearing up for Berlin in August 👀… any other meetups we should hit first???
#5 General Absurdity: More Roasts 🔥🥩 and stuff
That Deadmau5 reference landing for anyone?? … No sweat, @dripcult didn’t get it either. Moving on…
ICYMI, yesterday night we had the pleasure of enjoying @drtymlk’s first inaugural LIVE roast. How’d it go?? Well, ask @drtymlk!
For the uninitiated, @drtymlk originally decided to bring friendly banter and ‘roasting’ to BitClout, as he joined at a time when the platform was inundated with hustle porn and over-the-top positivity. Now, with the first $clout depression in full-swing, we’re not 100% sure we need to pile more burns on top of people’s bags … but we’re rolling with the punches anyways 🥊
In any case, last night’s live event was certified 🔥, with roasts of @drymlk, @artz, @asg, @100, @charliehilton, @olmstead and many more flying around the Clubhouse room. One sick burn from @luce in particular was crowned victorious 👑:
Congrats, @luce!!! ❤️ For the rest of y’all, wish you had been around to catch the rest of the show? Lucky for you it’s all been recorded for your consumption here. We’ll see you at the next one!
Speaking of competitions, while the @Cloutted x @JakeUdell $20,000 contest is focused on much more *sincere* submissions, it sounds like we can expect announcements re: the winners 🔜 as well. They were originally going to announce yesterday, but have since provided an update as follows:
We’re super excited to see the results here; the submissions we saw on our feeds were some of the most well-thought out, humbling, and inspirational we’ve seen on BitClout in our first ~💯 days.
And with that, we’ll let you get back to clouting (or sleeping or w/e). Here’s to hoping we get a strong week of engagement, positivity, and creation on BitClout. Lez get it!
Appreciate you,
@dripcult & @nvo