nov 29, 2021 - Drooling Ape Bus Club

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The Drooling Ape Bus Club is a series of open-submission art pieces that make fun of the well known Ethereum project 'Bored Ape Yacht Club'.

The project was started by Brad Mills somewhat by a single idea in a tweet posted November 20, 2021. Brad was upset and annoyed from all of the celebrity interest and fake popularity spike of the Bored Apes, calling them 'sham jpgs' and invited any artist to create memes to make fun of them. He offered to pay 10 million satoshis per art piece sent to him that made fun of Bored Apes. Brad explains he was angry that people like Jason A. Williams (a very Bitcoin centered voice in the community) who hopped on board to the Bored Apes hype.

Eventually Jason was convinced and hopped onto the 'Drooling Apes Trolling' going on to tweet something very similar to Brad offering to pay per art piece sent to him.

This tweet by Jason influenced a very large twitter audience and this new interest and satoshi reward incentive not only inspired many indiviudals to create 'Drooling Apes', but would be eventually include influence by Aryan Jabbari to create a Telegram group to record all the art and start a Counterparty community.

Aryan Jabbari also began the work to start Counterparty collection/website and MikeInSpace would also be involved as a curator of the project. Later in time, Joe Looney and Aryan would be accepted on as curators for DABC. This happened in a very quick fashion after the twitter hype, to which Brad was frustrated and said 'these are not NFT's, they are JPGs'.

He originally thought it was hypocritical to start an NFT project with art making fun of an NFT project, but the artists and admins eventually kicked Brad out because he was against the idea of minting these pieces or even calling them NFTs. The project is currently up to series 6 and is still accepting submissions at this time, though few spots remain.

The submission rules as written require the art to be square, a non-divisible asset with at least 69 tokens issued and mentions 'the drawing should be original, not just a copy of a Bored Ape'. Most submissions, many by existing Counterparty artists, mock Bored Apes using grotesque, raunchy or ridiculous meme trolling and generally reference Counterparty culture as well.

Though even with these requirements, some submissions use GIF's and are not limited to just square images as is in the Bored Ape collection. Many of the tokens also simply include an 'imgur' image link in the description, something that was common with submissions in the Rare Pepe Collection during 2016 and further exemplify the 'JPG' nature of tokenized artwork.

Issuer: Brad Mills, Aryan Jabbari, MikeInSpace

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