I mean known in the crypto community. Surely a random person in the street has never heard of most crypto celebrities, but that wasn't my point.
The monkey NFTs that you mention are a perfect example, because they are the best known project after cryptopunks. Massive media reach, real world celebrities and almost all crypto influencers are in.
That's what I mean when I say they didn't come out of nowhere. These high value NFT projects come from massive marketing machines to create the hype. You as rando can't just draw something and sell your NFT for a million, it doesn't work that way.
> I mean known in the crypto community. Surely a random person in the street has never heard of most crypto celebrities, but that wasn't my point.
It might be due to my misconceptions about the crypto space then, but I always assumed people just kinda "pop up" relatively often (even if we just constrain this to within the crypto community). The whole crypto space seems to be very very "fast moving" to me, if that makes sense?
Back to the monkey avatar NFTs: I was under the impression those also just popped up. There's obviously a "ramp" towards reaching popularity in any community, but that ramp seems to be short (within the crypto community). Also, people will invest in any crypto-game/nft for promise of future profits, regardless whether they believe in the product/nft; they're going for coverage. This is fine for people with cash to burn, but there's more victims than heroes in the get-rich-fast crypto rush. Or is this perception wrong (it might very well be)?
So it's a bad example from my side to explain what would be a more planned launch, which may include a setup with marketplaces to get it on the homepage, and the paying of crypto influencers to shill the project.
Your perception on crypto gaming is correct. It's a hot market right now where many believe we're at the very beginning. Everybody wants to be early so they buy any game-related shitcoin.
The monkey NFTs that you mention are a perfect example, because they are the best known project after cryptopunks. Massive media reach, real world celebrities and almost all crypto influencers are in.
That's what I mean when I say they didn't come out of nowhere. These high value NFT projects come from massive marketing machines to create the hype. You as rando can't just draw something and sell your NFT for a million, it doesn't work that way.