Note / Getting miffed with the owner of BAYC 3220

Now I'm not a petty person, but...

And the truth is, I could've done more due diligence, but...

And I'm sure he's a nice guy and all, but...

So the story is that I bought a Valet Ticket, which affords 5 votes and 1 license, but I wanted to be more involved with the Writer's Room. So I aped in again and got a secondary market Valet Key. Once I got it, I realized that it had already been licensed to an ape: BAYC 3220.

Well, I took that to be a great thing. After all, it was one less thing to do, and if this guy was already licensed to a key, then he must be keen to collaborate. So I tracked him down on Twitter. And I tracked him down on Discord. And I tracked him down in the Writers Room server. And I never got a response.

Digging a little deeper, I learned the license was not a generous one. The owner of BAYC 3220 gets 100% of the royalties generated by Jenkins' Book One. The key holder (me), gets what's left, i.e., 0%. AKA, zero things.

Which is totally within his rights! And I should've checked the licensing before thunking down that goodly fraction of an ETH! And anyway/besides, the license only holds for Book One, which means the contract will end in however many SHORT YEARS that takes, then I'll be free to do all the licensing I want! So don't be bitter, I say! Don't be bitter! Don't do it!

But...

And I'm not saying this is coming from a place of bitterness, but what I'm saying is that I'm sure there are plenty of people who want their apes to be heroes or (more likely) really badass anti-heroes. So there's probably a lot of room for assholes and doofuses. Right?

So here's the deal with BAYC 3220...

Rising tides raise all yachts, and BAYC 3220 is no different. In fact, I'm going to write my ass off for BAYC 3220. I want BAYC 3220 to make an appearance in the book, and I want the owner of BAYC 3220 to bathe in money because it proves the power of community collaboration at this incredible scale.

But BAYC 3220 will be the biggest twat in the Yacht Club. BAYC 3220's slimy, erumpent personality will make Joffrey Baratheon look like Jon Snow. People (and apes) will love to watch BAYC 3220 suffer.

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