chatFUKR

Harvey Rayner is a popular generative artist who has benefited quite a bit from the rise in NFTs. 

But it seems all that time spent in this rough cyber-pleasure-island we call Web3 might’ve taken a toll. 

Clearly he’s seen some shit, and now he’s distilling all that madness into chatFUKR, a collection of 6,942 fully onchain PFPs launching on Bitcoin in batches starting next month. 

His target audience is “degens, art-loving degens, and art lovers who love degens”.

There’s a lot happening here.

The art consists of surreal characters on squares that resemble playing cards, and zooming in reveals impressively rich detail from the many chaotic patterns and crypto references overlapping each other. 

Plus, the underlying message is amusing. The weird character represents “a troll that has evolved in the wild of interconnected chat and social servers, consuming the discord of Web3 communities. It screams as its consciousness comes online, an AI that has evolved in the wild.” 

In other words, it’s a visual representation of  “what 2 years in NFTs does to a mfer”. 

I don’t know what an AI-trained-on-Web3 would look like, but screaming as its consciousness comes online sounds about right.