apr 18, 2022 - Fake Commons

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The Fake Commons Directory is a sub-collection of the Fake Rare Directory that involves destroying PEPECASH (a card/currency from Rare Pepe) to submit artwork.

In a quick manner, the token used for Fake Rare submissions, FAKEASF, became very coveted and rapidly expensive for artists to submit to the directory. Since PEPECASH was burned by the artist for accepted submissions in the historical Rare Pepe project, the expansion into Fake Commons adopted this method.

This opened up opportunities for many new artworks from existing Counterparty artists and openly invited all artists to submit because the process was much cheaper and had much less strict curation from the Fake Rare 'scientists'.

At this time there are over 51 separate series of Fake Commons with wildly ranging themes, references to pepe the frog, political and cryptocurrency history, popular meme culture, and many hidden artistic gems.

Series 8, also called the Fake Commons Gallery Edition, stands out historically because the pieces included either had accompanying physical artwork shown in NYC during a 2022 event, or were given away to attendees using an in person Pepe themed ATM machine. Some series in the collection have themes such as KEKMAS and Pepertoy (series 47 and 48). Others have connections to in-person events such as Pepes in Paris (Series 44) and Bali Edition (Series 51).

It is remarkable that at this time the main Fake Rares collection have already reached a significant milestone of the time-span of submissions being active.

But it is also historic that the Fake Commons collection has surpassed the time span for accepting submissions for a longer time period than the original Rare Pepe project did.

Submissions for Fake Commons and Fake Rares are still open at the time of this writing.

Issuer: Scrilla

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