You hear this a lot on NFT Twitter. We all know about the big communities and their ventures, the big brand drops and big name partnerships.  The gang has always tried to include community artists, but that’s the brand, the devs and founders, what are you building? 

What ideas had to be made, regardless of cost, or returns, or engagement?  Our community is full of creatives, artists. entrepreneurs with a whole host of backgrounds that wouldn’t seem like they would hang out and yell gang gang at each other all day, but we do. It’s exactly that frenetic blend of energy, creativity and balls that leads to the explosion of ideas and products that the gutter community is self funding everyday. That list of ideas continues to grow exponentially and that same crazy blend of people and ideas is why the alchemy keeps working. 

I know because I am one of hundreds if not thousands of community members actively leveraging my IP for a variety of concepts. I spent months designing and working on my BirdGang Physical Coin, a 2.25” black nickel finished coin with a custom flexible holder that converts it into the dopest keychain or gutter ornament in the game. I wanted a low key way to flex the gang in a suit or at the beach, something I always have with me and something that doesn’t immediately yell rob me. 😝 I think it hit the mark in every way and whether or not anyone else digs them, they had to be made. 

While I was working on the coin, I made a free coloring book site for all the parents in the gutter so their kids would have some gutter themed coloring pages and a place to share future lil gang events and activities. My son loves to draw and color and he owns a puffer clone, so giving him some coloring pages was a no brainer, but why stop with one or two for my son, when I could start a site that could house it all. Lilgang.xyz started as a few coloring pages that I wanted to share with other parents In the gang and grew into a much bigger idea and box to fill. The coloring pages keep growing as more gang offer their assets for the kids to color. Hopefully, we can include the lilgang and parents in the meetups, so we can degen too without having to bail on the fam for days. 

Like plenty of gutter, I make stuff, from quick edits and memes to hand animated gifs, elaborate edits, Ai, classic stuff and anything else I can get my hands on to flush ideas into reality.  Once the idea is out, most live their short and sparsely liked existence on twitter, but what about the designs that should live on a product?  What about the merch I can’t buy?  We all know the gang has some of the best merch in the game, but there are gaps. That’s what started gangthangs.xyz, after all I live on an island and don’t need more hoodies. 😎 Nobody had a water shirt (rash guard), swim trunks, tank tops, neck gaiters, etc, so I setup a way to make my own and do gear for the gang with my assets and theirs. My neck gaiter is a favorite starring my cat, but it’s not all my IP, 0xCase digs his custom slides with his doggo and Big Lou loves that gold jacket that matches his rat. 

That’s just the surface, the publicly known stuff I’m working on. Imagine how many dope things are coming with thousands more gutter quietly building just like me. If you don’t think the future is bright, maybe check out GutterMud, GuttersFinest,  BoredJobs, or any of the hundreds of new products coming out of the gang everyday… and we are just getting started. 

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