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A brief history of mfer: there is a little jerk living inside of us
Summarized by AI
Original title: "A brief history of mfer: a little bastard lives inside of us"
Original author: Shi Zhong, Light Black Technology
(Zero) Little Bastards
Let's start with a circle.
Look at this circle, is it white, big and round?
Now, let's draw a few random strokes:
How about it, does it look like a brainless, harmless face?
Then add some details.
A self-portrait is done!
What, whose self-portrait you ask?
Isn’t it you!
Can you guarantee that you have never sat foolishly in front of the computer and put on such a foolish posture? I even doubt that you are in this posture now.
And you may have a cigarette in your mouth.
Smoking, surfing the Internet, doing some happy things, not wanting to study or work, that’s how we spend a lot of time. Chances are, you've spent more time in this position in your life than you've spent sleeping in bed!
Here comes the question:
Have you ever carefully observed yourself like this? I mean, like admiring the Mona Lisa.
If you draw everyone sitting quietly at the table and put them together, it seems,,, pretty cute!
In November 2021, someone really made this "everything of the times" into an NFT avatar, named it "little bastard" (mfer), and everyone snatched it up null. . .
If the story only ends here, it is not worth writing a special article for Brother Zhong.
The magic thing is:
When more and more people (and others Few online celebrities) changed their avatars to "little bastards", discussed little bastards, and even started to draw these stick figures by themselves. Little bastards are not just little bastards.
It became Big Asshole "a language".
Someone made it ride on an electric car to deliver food.
Someone turned it into a foot pincher. . .
Even the service process is complete. . . (I am so familiar with the business, I strongly suspect that it is a picture made by a pinch master himself...)
Foreign netizens are also very good. They changed Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" into a "little bastard" version.
There are also ruthless people who put the "little bastard" on a train. . .
In the world of "little bastards", "nationality" does not seem to be important.
After all, it is a "stickman". People from all countries feel like themselves, and people from all countries think they can draw, so the kings of all countries compete for pictures . . .
In my impression, the scene of Chinese and foreign netizens having fun together like a family seems to have not been seen for many years. . .
Is the world better again? !
Well, this is a question worth thinking about.
(1) Did you win?
The deadliest thing in the world is when your father pushes the door open and you are doing something indescribable.
For example, like this:
I struggled for a long time Do not code. Decided to forget it. . .
Pay attention to the details, the guy in the picture is probably wearing Oculus VR glasses on his head. How do you know? Because this picture was posted on January 11, 2014 by a water friend under the Oculus Rift post on a game forum. . .
But that's not the point.
The point is: this is an Apocalypse Now.
This old man seems to want to care about his son who loves to play games. But in his head, games are nothing more than "losing" and "winning".
That's why he pushed the door open and asked without hesitation: Did you win?
But some "games" really have no winners or losers. . . for example. . . Picture this. . .
At this time, you look at this nonsensical painting again, the rough and unaesthetic lines are actually a flag, which is inserted on the ridge of the historical divide ——From a certain moment, some people migrated their meaning, life and death, and love to the virtual world.
The cheerful old father obviously couldn't understand all this.
They live under the same roof, they are people of two worlds, and may *always* be people of two worlds.
If you see through this magical background, you will probably feel sad.
We had a similar experience.
I mean that we may not necessarily wear VR to do indescribable things, but we have probably played computers and games.
Many parents regard computer playing as a devil, thinking that it is the black hole of life, the door of eternal doom; but we know that the virtual world is not as evil as they imagined, We just squeezed a little one of ourselves and put it there, empty, lazy, poor and happy, and occasionally escaped like a little bastard.
Since 2014, that meme has been adapted by countless people, and this child has also experienced many "tragedies in the world".
What's really interesting is that history doesn't stand still.
The parents who hated the "virtual world" are getting old, and now we hold the power to explain the world. Just like Zhang Chu's song: "He is old when sitting on the stairs, and he is no longer a match."
On May 17, 2020, someone tweeted Turned out that old meme again, and redrawn the child.
Old Bean: Did you win?
Son: Dad, I won!
Then the whole family will eat noodles happily together. . .
That's it? ?
That's it, 5,831 retweets and 56,000 likes.
Because this picture is also a banner, a banner of victory.
With this Happy Ending, we can probably look back at the "character arc" in the entire "series":
Once upon a time, those addicted to the virtual world were regarded as internet-addicted teenagers who needed electroshock therapy;
Now, everyone has an identity in the virtual world , we use it to chat, play games, and explore the world we like-sitting in front of the computer has become a very normal state of life, blameless and happy.
I suddenly remembered two reports I had read:
In 1987, the Chicago Tribune interviewed a George, the owner of the game room, complained: "A lot of people are very narrow-minded. They think the game room is where punks go."
2020, MEL Magazine I interviewed several retired grandpas, they are in their 60s and 70s, some are veterans, some are veteran programmers, but they all love to play games, and they play them seriously. Some people chop firewood to feed horses in "Minecraft", and some people can play every shot in "Fortnite".
I guess, after many years, the little punks grow up and the big punks get old.
Countless people have waited too long for the arrival of this era.
In the era of cyberpunk, there should be cyberpunk operations:
In 2021, it will suddenly rise I launched a campaign called the "web2 vs web3" challenge, which roughly means that your "real appearance" and your "virtual image" are compared together.
Most of the participants are young people of Generation Z.
How about these avatars, aren't they cool? Moreover, the real person and the avatar are somewhat similar, and they belong to the "same set of characters", don't they?
But I guess you have also discovered that these people with cool avatars are also handsome men and women in the real world. And look at ourselves in the mirror, we seem. . . It's not like this. . . .
Then we ordinary people, those who sit in front of the computer all day or work or relax, don’t we deserve to have an avatar that suits our personality? !
In 2021, a buddy was startled, and suddenly thought: Give *ordinary people* full NB avatars, is there any trick?
When he thought of this, he was sitting in front of the computer, leaning lazily on the back of the chair, with a cigarette in his mouth.
This buddy is called "Sartoshi".
(2) Nakamoto stupid
Bitcoin’s God of Creation Ben Satoshi wrote Satoshi in English, and this buddy added an "r" in the middle to become Sartoshi. He explained that because it is about art, it should have "art" in the middle of the name.
But no matter how I read it, it looks like "silly toshi".
So I decided to translate his name into "Nakamoto silly". (And I don't think he minds me calling him that.)
Sartoshi's Twitter page.
Nakamoto Sha is as mysterious as Satoshi Nakamoto, but I know that he has at least two identities: 1) cartoonist, 2) blockchain enthusiast.
He once told his own story in a self-report:
2021 3 In January, he came into contact with digital art by accident, and then he got on top.
At that time, he fell in love with the most popular NFT avatar at that time——CryptoPunks. It's a pixel guy like this:
For shallow friends who don’t know about NFT and CryptoPunks yet, you can read "NFT Spiritual History: Tin Cans, Frogs and Ordinary People’s 15-Minute Heroes "Dream", there is a super detailed introduction there.
In April of that year, Nakamoto bought his first CryptoPunks avatar, a guy with a mohawk and a cigar.
Then it got out of hand, and he started all kinds of business. That summer happened to catch up with the fire in the NFT market, and he made a fortune. NFT generally adopts the auction method, and sometimes the killing is crazy, and he even kills each other with his good friends-bidding for the same NFT. . .
But soon, Nakamoto discovered some small problems:
Compared with crazy people, he is already quite calm.
Due to the NFT craze, all gods, horses, ghosts and snakes have come out of the street, and one of them has claimed that it is the best digital art since shit.
That’s not counting, there are people holding their feet for all the crap, a group of people rushed over and said: "That's right, this is the first time in my life The best work of art I’ve ever had! Hold my tongue! I’m so fucking sold!”
Nakamoto was stunned.
It's like, a dude opened his mouth and said, "Oh my god, this artwork is so awesome." Nakamoto reminded him stupidly : "Brother, we are in the supermarket, you are boasting about a box of cereal..."
There are so many suffocating artworks in this world Ah, you suffocate every day, why don't you suffocate to death?
Nakamoto couldn't bear it anymore, and wanted to satirize this group of "suffocating madmen" who were catching horses.
He thought about it, I can also draw comics, I will make a set of NFT with stick figures, as simple as the one drawn by a 6-year-old child , Let those who hold stinky feet get messy in the wind. . .
Just do it!
What are you painting?
Nakamoto leaned on the back of the chair with a cigarette in his mouth, his eyes were as wise as Erha, thinking. . .
Speaking of which, our story is connected with the previous one. The idea he came up with was to draw this "stupid look" of himself sitting at the desk and playing with the computer!
As soon as he rolled his eyes, his favorite meme immediately appeared in his mind, "Are u winning son?"
Then, as long as you make a little change, let the "son" in front of the table have a cigarette in his mouth, isn't it just like me (and many ordinary people). . .
cker".
I am in a good mood after speaking.
Of course, in English culture, this word is not as vicious as its literal meaning. It probably means "little bastard". In life, even you You can also say to your friends: "Good morning, little bastard!"
motherf*cker has an abbreviation - mfer.
Decided! The name of this set of NFT digital avatars is mfer. (The pronunciation of this word is: Love Buddha)
To be honest, using "dirty words" for the name is somewhat risky.
But Nakamoto thought about it stupidly, it doesn't matter much.
Ordinary people on the surface may be adventurers in life!
Some of them are professors, some are doctors, some are code farmers, salesmen, and part-time workers. When they sit in front of the computer, they will open their own bizarre world. Some worlds are dark and deep, while others dance floors are bright. Some worlds are plush toys and strange forests; some worlds are vast seas, with lighthouses revolving obstinately.
"What if there is such a little bastard living in our hearts?"
(3) Bastard logic
Don’t worry, before acting like a mad dog, you must be calm and paralyzed first, Think carefully first.
Assholes have their own asshole logic.
For example, the first "asshole logic" is: We are just ordinary, not badass!
As a manga artist, Nakamoto still has pursuits - mfer should look "like" drawn by a 6-year-old child, but it can't really "be" ” Drawn by a 6-year-old.
So, he carefully selected several lines of different shades, fiddled with them carefully, and drew a lot of drafts before finalizing them.
Look, these are drafts:
Look at the details of the final draft. . .
Based on the villain, he drew exquisite watches, hats, clothes and so on.
Then use the computer to automatically distribute these accessories to 10,000 avatars according to the preset rarity.
In this way, 10,000 mfers that look similar but are different are made.
Delicately concealing the traces of the design, in fact, two careful tricks are hidden:
First, a lot of people draw stick figures, but people don't know why they like this version of mfer.
Secondly, when everyone sees mfer, they all think "What's so good about this, I can draw it too", so they are eager to try and draw two strokes by themselves .
You may suddenly think of a question: Do you draw whenever you want? Wasn't Nakamoto sued for copyright infringement?
This gets to the core. Nakamoto has been holding back his "big trick" from the very beginning, and he especially wants everyone to "infringe" himself. . . .
What is this shaking M operation?
Nakamoto’s starting point is actually very simple:
First, as long as you agree with mfer’s philosophy people called mfers.
Second, you are mfers, I am mfers, we are all mfers.
Third, in the world of mfers, everyone is the same. No kings, no administrators, no five-year plans, no hundred-year dreams.
So, in the world of mfers, what a mfers wants to do, *shouldn't* look at other mfers' faces at all, and certainly not my Sartoshi's.
Empty words are not proof, words are evidence, Nakamoto left a free and easy two lines directly on mfer's website:
The translation is:
mfers is generated with Sartoshi's hand-painted works, this project is completely open, you can use any Pose uses mfer.
This is the second "asshole logic": buddies! Use whatever you want! You're welcome!
This doesn't look like "modern society" at all. . . It feels like the last time people could copy other people's paintings without any pressure, was it on the rock wall of Chauvet Cave? ?
Chauvet Cave, the murals on it about 36,000 years ago are the earliest art known to mankind. (Obviously there was no copyright protection at the time)
Shouldn't the plagiarists be sneered at and sued for bankruptcy?
emm. . .
Actually, not all. All around us, there is a group of rebellious artists who have had enough of the rules and regulations of modern society. Their idea is that truly great works should be free, just like air, everyone can breathe freely.
So, they came up with an open copyright statement called "CC0".
The full name of CC is Creative Commons (creative ordinary people), which is an organization set up by a group of American professors. Let those who are willing to share their creations for free find their kind.
They invited the most professional lawyers to draft a series of copyright notices.
The so-called CC0 is the most lenient of the many statements. Simply put, it is: all copyrights are abandoned, and only trademark rights and patent rights are retained.
Are you a little dizzy with so many legal provisions?
Actually, I explain this to tell you that behind "CC0" there are very professional legal endorsements and profound spiritual origins, not some stragglers On a whim. (The link to the complete CC0 agreement is attached at the end of the manuscript.)
Nakamoto also knows that people don't like to read these terms, so he didn't mention CC0 at all, just a simple sentence Words: follow! easy! use!
The later facts just proved that if thousands of people "plagiarized" and reprocessed mfer's meme for free, it could become the "moat" of the original work ".
As Lao Tzu said: Husband is the only one who does not compete, so the world cannot compete with him.
Talk back to our story.
Nakamoto is very popular on the Internet. He contacted his good friend Richerd and asked him to help deploy these 10,000 avatars into the NFT smart contract and issue them.
In the NFT world, Richerd is a big cow who makes people want to kneel when they hear it. His team WestcoastNFT (West Coast NFT) has helped a lot Artists have released NFT products.
One more word of gossip, Richerd’s well-known avatar is a Cryptopunk wearing 3D glasses. He didn't sell it for $10 million. . .
November 30, 2021, mfer purchase website It’s not cheap to go online, 0.069ETH one (equivalent to RMB 1,000).
Without any publicity, 10,000 avatars were sold out within 10 minutes.
The follow-up story was more or less foolishly guessed by Nakamoto.
This unremarkable match figure comes with an internet celebrity buff, everyone likes it for some reason. Soon, many celebrities changed their social avatars to mfer.
Note that the reason why celebrities have these avatars is not that Nakamoto gave them to them, but they bought them themselves. Because of the inside story, the privilege, this is not in line with the spirit of mfer at all! You remember: In the world of mfers, there is no need for kings, no administrators, no five-year plans, no hundred-year dreams. You are mfers, I am mfers, we are all mfers.
A few days later, things got even worse. Nakamoto's silly Twitter was surrounded by netizens who heard the news.
Everyone said that your painting is amazing! Is there a camera installed in my house? I usually hang like this in front of the computer!
In private messages, one of the most frequently asked questions is: "How do you plan for mfer's future development?"
Nakamoto’s stupid reply is precisely the third bastard’s logic: "What plan? No plan!"
See everyone With stars shining in his eyes, and wanting to put himself on the altar every minute, Nakamoto decided to write an article to tell his heart. So, there is this "What are mfers" ("What is mfers", the link is attached).
In the article, he posted a lot of suggestions from water friends, and also gave his own answer:
「Sartoshi, you have to create an official discussion group!」——No, we don't need it, mfers will create a discussion group themselves.
"Sartoshi, then I will pull you into our group!"——No, I don't need it. The mfers are pretty good on their own (but I'm glad many mfers have told me about their ideas).
"Sartoshi, you need a roadmap" - no, mfers will go their own way.
Anyway, it is: "Don't care, don't care, don't ask". . . .
This kind of operation is actually a bit like the Dogecoin back then, which is the "Dogecoin" that Musk blew up. Dogecoin was born to satirize Bitcoin and those "digital currency fundamentalists" who pursue Bitcoin. A broken air coin is still a treasure, so I will be a Dogecoin. Are you also a treasure? ?
Do you have a roadmap for Dogecoin?
A dog, what road map do you want?
In short, the story is like this.
A nonsensical little person, started the road of counterattack detonation on the Internet.
(4) Life opinions of bastards
Someone put Michelangelo The "Genesis" changed to mfer's round head.
This seems to be an excellent metaphor, the world of mfers is out of control.
Raphael's famous painting "The School of Athens" (The School of Athens) has been changed into mfers version.
The "Declaration of Independence" ("Declaration of Independence") has also been changed to the mfers version.
Since famous paintings can be changed, so can movies of course.
"This mfer is not too cold" and "Vulgar mfer" have popped up.
To be honest, the cost of this kind of creation is simply not too low. It doesn’t even take five minutes to change a few heads. . .
It doesn't take long to create a "mfer universe" where demons dance wildly.
The story ends here, and it may not have anything to do with Chinese netizens.
However, on the third day after mfer was sold out, things took an interesting turn.
On December 2, 2021, a Chinese celebrity named laserCat397.eth (Laser Cat) posted a post on Twitter: mfer is An attitude towards life, I want to launch a challenge, everyone can use my 10 avatars (or yours) to cosplay, and the top five can get prizes.
In order to tell everyone that mfer is not cutting leeks, he also explained the background in Chinese.
In the future, if someone writes a history for mfer, this should be recorded as the first time mfer appeared in the Chinese community.
Sand sculpture netizens responded one after another:
Some put on masks, and some put on soap. . .
Afterwards, things calmed down. In some sporadic WeChat groups, someone threw in some unexplained stickman emoji packs. Everyone enjoyed it and didn't pay much attention.
Until. . .
A mysterious organization appeared. . .
This organization is called: FootDAO, and its Chinese name is: FootDAO.
On January 26, 2022, a user named BigK.eth suddenly tweeted: You know we Asians like to pinch our feet, right? it's coming! Foot path, mfers' exclusive foot massage~
Then, I posted two pictures below:
This way The number, at first glance, is an authentic domestic foot track.
Then, something even more amazing happened. On February 10, 2022, the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, "FootDAO" actually set up its own Twitter account, A Discord community was also established, and then a WeChat group. . .
This is the FootDAO Discord community.
Thus, in the festive and peaceful Chinese New Year atmosphere, a "Riverside Scene During Qingming Festival" infused with Chinese characteristics appeared.
There is a delivery guy from Meituan.
There is Sichuan ear picking.
There is a horse with a head to kill a chicken.
There is also a big northeast scrub.
And play mahjong.
Those two days coincided with the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and even the Lantern Festival became a big part of mfer.
The creativity of Chinese netizens is obviously not inferior to AIA. After the first lunar month, mfer has become a holy place for fishing.
From "Pikachu" to "Brokeback Mountain", we will not let you go.
Some people have made fashion blockbusters with mfer.
After a wave of drawing masters, it's the programmer's turn to rush.
Someone made a web program that uses mfer to automatically generate mobile phone wallpapers, and someone made a mfer version of Lianliankan.
The programmers rushed over, and it was the anchors' turn again.
Some anchors began to organize mfer live discussions on various platforms, all kinds of Amway.
The fact behind this is that the number of Chinese people who understand mfer is increasing rapidly.
How many are there? Anyway, it is no problem to arrange a few disco games.
Someone specially organized an online party on the Internet, and there are nearly a hundred people on the dance floor. In the video clip, the background music is the classic "Wild Wolf Disco": cover your forehead and shake your hips and elbows, as if you are worried about something~
When I came out of the video, I was somewhat confused. . .
The most ridiculous thing is that someone used the recently popular 3D space generator to make a neon shining "Foot Hall". . . I seem to have heard: "Guests, please come inside!"
Seeing this, some people may say, it’s just a group Are full people messing around?
If the above are just nonsense in the illusory world, then what happened next will not be so light.
For example, just two days ago, someone really put mfer's profile picture on a building in Melbourne.
At this time, a mfers happened to pass by, he took pictures of this scene with trembling hands, and then posted it on the Internet. In the video, he shouted excitedly: Let's fucking go baby, I'm mfers! (Come on baby! I'm mfers!)
The comments below the video are all LFG (Let's fucking go).
When a network meme is sharp enough, it will pierce the dimensional wall.
Someone started drawing mfer with a real brush.
Someone also posted that his nephew drew the mfer version of the zodiac map.
There are crooked nuts made of coffee cups.
There are also Chinese gourds made into plates.
Someone made a badge.
Some people turned mfer into a car post.
There are girls who turn mfer into manicures and pillows.
There are also sturdy men with mfer tattooed on their bodies. . .
As mfer becomes popular all over the world, some people imitate its face, and others imitate its face.
As of March 2022, there are probably hundreds of NFTs imitating it.
For example, there is a kind called Dad mfer, which is the image of dad in that meme.
Did you notice that the lower right corner says: "inspired by Sartoshi" (inspired by Nakamoto's stupidity).
People did not ignore the tribute to Nakamoto because he was stupid and generous to give up the copyright.
There is also Dead mfer, who replaced the human head with a skull. It may be that he sat for too long and didn't pay attention when he died. . .
There is mfer ahead, turning mfer's wise face to the front.
There is even a butt mfer (buttmfer). . .
My TM. . . Why would someone make a face into a butt. . . The author of Buttface mfer expected that everyone would have this soul torture, so he posted a monologue on the official website:
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It turns out that he (maybe she) is really a person with a face like a butt. . .
As a child, he had a big round face and a receding hairline, and was teased by his friends that his face looked like a butt. . . He felt very inferior, but he had to bear this harsh nickname.
Until he found mfer, he felt a kind of power.
Maybe we are not good-looking or good enough, but no one can stop us from living peacefully.
"Don't worry, now I have the right avatar!" he said.
This frank confession has received many blessings.
There is more and more information about mfer, so that someone specially built the "mfer encyclopedia" website and collected all the information he found.
Look, in this world, everyone seems to be able to do something, if they have money, they can contribute. There is nothing, you can still draw pictures, you can play disco.
Everyone is a consumer and everyone is a producer.
This seems to be a long-lost supply and demand pattern in human history. . .
Weak water three thousand, these just now are just a scoop for you to taste.
As designed by Nakamoto, mfer has no roadmap and is full of unknowns. Therefore, it is difficult for anyone to sort out how mfer developed into this way, and no one knows what talented mfers will come up with tomorrow.
But looking back, in this suffocating world of rules and regulations, isn’t the unknown the greatest glory?
(5) A country without a king
Everything is is illusory, but the relationship between people is real.
For example, "gm culture" has appeared in both Chinese and English communities.
The so-called gm means Good Morning!
Every morning, the paddling mfers will greet everyone in the group. I guess, at that time, their physical bodies may be shaking in a daze on the subway; they may be sitting at their desks, just brewing a cup of warm coffee.
Everyone will respond enthusiastically, and sometimes throw in a few newly acquired mfer emoticons.
However, pouring water is just for self-entertainment, how to find new partners to enter the pit? Someone came up with a good idea-report a group to keep warm.
This is the popular "mfer follow mfer" activity in the community.
To put it simply, if you are a mfer, you can ask your group of friends to watch and pay attention to your social accounts. Therefore, in the unofficial mfer community, a special "mfer-follow-mfer" section has been set up, and everyone will throw their own accounts into it for everyone to follow.
With more people and more power, memes will spread faster. The effect is: a stranger who accidentally breaks into the mfer world will find it very interesting in an instant-why do these people use a broken-headed avatar, and they can play new memes every day, so happy? ?
So far, the mfers group has begun to gain momentum, and there is a feeling of "mfers all over the world unite".
Meanwhile, their world crossed a watershed:
mfers began to spawn "Awakening" consciousness, they created their own values, and defended their values with actions.
In February 2022, the Russian-Ukrainian war broke out.
The fledgling mfers community tried to voice their opinion on the matter, but they acted very differently from the average internet user.
In the beginning, it was still a traditional art, so I changed the picture.
For example, they changed the famous "Make love, Not war" (to do AI, not to fight) into the mfers version:
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Gradually, they changed the slogan into: make memes, not war. (Make a meme, not fight)
At the same time, a "mfers help mfers" (mfers help mfers) movement started in the mfers community. If you have difficulties, you speak up, and everyone will spontaneously provide help within their ability.
On February 24, 2022, the day the war broke out, a mfers sent a post asking for help:
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I'm afraid I'll have to sell my mfers to keep my family evacuated from my hometown which is very close to the border. The airport was closed and I was a little scared. . .
Thanks to the strength of the mfers community, this tweet quickly got over 300 retweets and over 500 replies.
Some netizens said: Let mfers help mfers, you send the link up, we will buy it!
More people prayed for him, and some people asked him if he needed any supplies.
The mfers felt misunderstood as a Ukrainian and later clarified that he was a Russian working in Ukraine.
The really interesting thing happened: no matter before or after he clarified, everyone cared about him the same. There is almost no discussion of "good" and "evil" in the comments, and no discussion of right and wrong, mfers just see each other from the perspective of mfers.
The sands of the times are everywhere.
The mouse slides over, behind the lines soaked in various emotions, each mfers is an ordinary person in the hustle and bustle of history, No difference.
Someone wrote this creed into a "formula":
In the world of mfers, any two people are congruent.
This is a screenshot from the mfer WeChat group.
Speaking of this, we have actually set foot in a very important proposition in postmodern society, that is: post-ethnic identity.
Do you still remember, we just mentioned "Xiao Wei rock painting", which is the first painting that can be found since the beginning of human civilization.
Essentially, the ancestors in ancient times drew "stick figures" (to be exact, match animals).
The entire mural tells a moving story: nature, creatures and oracles in the eyes of ancestors 360 centuries ago.
The reason why a nation and a country can exist stably is because these people believe in the same story? If you believe that you are a descendant of the dragon, you are Chinese; if you believe that you are a descendant of the ancestors of the Mayflower and believe in the tradition of liberalism, you are an American.
Back in the 21st century, the moment the son in front of the computer said: "I『m winning dad", our spirit entered the cyberspace , our story also enters cyberspace.
Therefore, people of different nationalities who believe in the same story on the Internet have the opportunity to unite into a new ethnic group.
This is "post-ethnic identity".
There are many such examples. Might as well give another one.
Among the NFTs that will explode in 2022, there is one called Azuki.
Carefully observe these avatars, some unusual details:
1. The background setting of the story is that the people here are divided into four races: human, blue, red and spirit. But no matter what race, everyone grows from an "red bean" (Azuki).
2. Although the looks of the people in the headshots are Asian, but looking carefully at the expressions of these people, they are full of provocation and exploration, and quite Some Europeans and Americans look like. And their eyes are not deliberately enlarged like standard Japanese manga, which seems to be more in line with Chinese aesthetics.
So, people from many countries can find something in common with themselves. In other words, Azuki provides the possibility of group belonging to many people of different cultural backgrounds-"they are the same group of people in different races".
Looking at the NFTs on the market from the perspective of "post-ethnicity", you can find many interesting phenomena:
1. Currently recognized as the most popular NFT avatar BAYC (Boring Ape), it depicts a group of wealthy people, but they see through the hypocrisy in the world. Celebrities who are bored.
So, most of those who agree with the boring ape culture are also celebrities, specifically, rebels among celebrities.
2. CryptoPunk, the originator of NFT, draws punk villains with pixel style, who look down on the world in the digital world. Geeks and programmers get the most out of this beauty.
So, those who agree with the CryptoPunks culture are mostly rebels in the tech world.
So, if you look back at mfers, it will be easy for you to understand.
mfers draws a group of ordinary people sitting in front of a computer.
Although most of them are transparent and some are a little socially fearful, they have a strong heart, and they gently and firmly believe that "one should not be high for any reason to another person".
There is no king in their kingdom.
Some mfers made this picture, I think it is very appropriate. The boring ape who is Bai Fumei will definitely scoff at mfers who are ordinary people, but mfers won't care.
In order to verify my judgment, I decided to mix into a WeChat group of mfer.
I asked in one of mfer's unofficial discussion groups, and a friend responded right away.
As soon as I became a WeChat friend, I immediately came to "Recognize family members with open breasts and breasts".
After entering the group, someone recognized me, and then. . .
A meal of washing feet, picking ears, and killing chickens.
I have to drink coffee after washing my feet.
At first I thought it was a "courtesy", but after a few days of secret observation, newcomers wash their feet first when they come in, which seems to be a standard procedure. . .
That's the way people get along.
I suddenly understood that mfer is like a sieve, sharp people sniff and turn away, while gentle people fall like snowflakes.
When looking at mfers’ creations, I happened to see: On Women’s Day, someone made a mfer T-shirt for his grandma, and grandma laughed so hard very happy.
"My grandma is mfer too," he said.
A little thing, no big deal, but his happiness definitely touched me. Maybe "the most delicious thing in the world is Qinghuan".
Generally speaking, the first letter of a fixed title in English should be capitalized, but in the countless posts I read, mfers mentioned himself, no one capitalized the first letter, it was written as mfers.
Maybe in their subconscious mind they believe that greatness is immortal and ordinary is eternal.
As Socrates said: I know that I know nothing. (I know I know nothing.)
(6) Cheers mfer
See this, you You may frown, feeling that being a mfers is so troublesome, there are so many rules, you have to change your avatar, you have to wash your feet, you have to get in touch with each other, you have to be united and friendly, and you can't even capitalize the letters. . .
Actually, I have to clarify that this is a misunderstanding.
In the confession of "what are mfers" by Nakamoto Sha, he specifically mentioned a suggestion from a water friend:
「Sartoshi, we have to get more people to change their avatars to mfers!」
Nakamoto's silly answer is very Clear: "I don't think it's necessary. If people want to, they will."
It suddenly occurred to me that before pulling me into the WeChat group, that A word from a brother:
Well, they have their own logic.
To be an mfers, you don't even need to have an mfer avatar at all, you just need to think you are, you are, and if you don't, you are not.
It's like the end of Nakamoto's silly confession.
Some people say, Sartoshi, my kids can draw anything you draw. I hate NFT, and I hate you too.
Nakamoto's silly reply is: Haha, cheers mfer.
A truth is self-evident: a person does not need the approval of others to become what he wants.
A girl group friend told me that mfers opened a cafe in Shenzhen, called mfer coffee, I can try it if I have the opportunity, I am looking forward to it.
Not long ago, the first mfers offline viewing meeting was also held in Shanghai-I can't guess what this group of mfers will talk about offline. . .
Thinking about it carefully, mfer seems to get a bit too much for a "stem map".
It was born out of a joke, and a joke always dies. After all, the world is beautiful, and people's attention and patience are scarce.
But this joke, at a certain moment, makes us fall into thinking about ourselves and others.
These thoughts are real and precious.
When I temporarily withdraw from the world of mfers, it is already late at night.
I realized that I had been maintaining the classic mfers position with arms outstretched and smiling all day long.
Eventually my computer page stopped on a tweet - March 11, 2022, Alex's birthday. He ordered a cake for himself with the words: best father, best husband, best mfer.
Alex is probably such a person:
There is no stage under his feet, no chasing light above his head; With headphones on at the table, sometimes thinking, sometimes smiling; they complain occasionally, but are willing to help in the end; his world is neither hot nor cold, and when you touch his hand, it is just warm.
Facing the cruelty of the years, maybe this is a sharp answer.
Cheers, mfer.
Reference article:
1. "Have mfers already "victory"?" "By Wenser
https://mirror.xyz/wenser2010.eth/Hj1TvQZNsLuZhtMPZHFr7Z7fQLfVhpleUvssG0rsYKk
A lot of important information in this article comes from Wenser and his inspiration, everyone is welcome to reward him~
2. "CC0 Statement" (Chinese Version) By CC Organization
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.zh-Hans
3. "What are mfers" By Sartoshi
https://mirror.xyz/sartoshi.eth/QukjtL1076-1SEoNJuqyc-x4Ut2v8_TocKkszo-S_nU
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