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Yancey Strickler

@yancey #1495

CoFounder of Metalabel, Kickstarter, The Creative Independent, Bentoism, Micd | Author “This Could Be Our Future”
805 Follower 73 Following
Individualism is not an endpoint
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/77b90ff0-e9a3-4eb4-6269-085c5efd8e00/original
Added more releases to my Metalabel catalogue

Page starting to grow. Subscribe and autodistro of releases coming soon

New creative era forming

https://ideaspace.metalabel.com/
Metalabel Fall/Winter 2024: RELEASE

The first release platform for creative work

Together with 28 extraordinary artists

Join us and release the world you want to see

https://www.metalabel.com/fw2024
After five days of experimenting with a new model for releasing work:

— 225 of 250 editions collected
— Collectors on track to pay $1,000+ (release is pay what you want)

This is the most money I've ever been paid for a piece of writing (other than books)

https://darkforest.metalabel.com/postindividual
Meditating on lessons from building Kickstarter, Metalabel, and many projects in between

How do you build a machine that stays on?

https://ystrickler.com/2024/02/26/the-machine-stays-on/
The Dark Forest Anthology is not an NFT

But it is a digital record that has verifiable provenance, a unique edition number, and unique identifier that will be exportable to other contexts in time
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agoston nagy
@stc·19:26 22/02/2024
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet - a book by Metalabel on cozy web, the dark web, dark forest, the clear net, dark net, and a new social world emerging around us. With contributions by @vgr @yancey among others

https://darkforest.metalabel.com/dfc
Quality lore
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reka
@reka·10:11 19/02/2024
Sir @yancey you made it to tiktok

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeARcvwR/

Woop 🙌
Loved this from Simon
https://i.imgur.com/wLi31lU.png
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Simon de la Rouviere
@simondlr·07:46 18/02/2024
For this week's newsletter I tackled tax write-offs of films/media and thought about some solution. Enjoy!

https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/understanding-film-tax-write-offs
Almost time

For a new model for creative work

:) :) :)
https://i.imgur.com/mUZVl03.jpg
"When the means justify the ends"

A new talk detailing Metalabel's origins, our exploration of blockchains, and the tech stack we will soon introduce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsO8DwV0eaQ&t=179s
https://i.imgur.com/q2a8tew.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/5Rr9SpT.jpg
Platform teaser chat with Seed Club
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Yancey Strickler
@yancey·20:53 04/02/2024
Talking Metalabel and building crypto without crypto with @jess, @joshcrnls and @seedclub https://www.youtube.com/live/g30iG4Xveos?si=k5FmJWqtl9VkYJiX
First post in the new Metalabel channel

We're counting down the days until the new platform is revealed

Coming, very very soon :)
For the past two years I've been working with an amazing crew on a somewhat mysterious project called Metalabel

In 2024 our vision will become clear when we introduce a new space for releasing, selling, and exhibiting creative work

A model for a new creative era

Join the waitlist:

https://www.metalabel.com/
Nothing slower than a lack of conviction
The phrase I keep hearing in conversations with people in creative industries:

“The old shit doesn’t work anymore”

https://open.substack.com/pub/ideaspace/p/the-old-shit-doesnt-work-anymore?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Quality Drop 03 is hot off the presses

Nathan Schneider, MEDLab, and seven citizen journalist communities coming together to produce:

“Sacred Stacks,” an 80-page illustrated zine exploring decentralized communities

Limited to 300 onchain records + physical zines

https://medlab.metalabel.app/sacredstacks
Quality Drop 02: Songcamp and Catalog unite to put on two IRL shows in NYC

Signature Editions offered first dibs on tickets to both shows — all sold out in *six minutes*

Open Editions for those not in NYC still available

🤌Quality Drops are quality🤌

https://songcamp.metalabel.app/b2b
Final day of the “Quadratic Funding Collection”

After one week:

2,300 open editions collected
12 signature editions sold out (~4ETH each)
150+ ETH in sales
$225,000+ in public goods funding

2.5 more hours to go

Doing a Tw*tt*r space at 11:30am ET to celebrate

https://gitcoin.metalabel.app/quadraticfunding
We made a bootleg shirt to celebrate Gitcoin’s record release

Record collectors can claim for free

Very limited quantities

Vitalika.xyz
New drop from Metalabel + Gitcoin:

“The Quadratic Funding Collection,” an onchain record by @vitalik.eth, Glen Weyl, Zoe Hitzig, Scott Moore and Kevin Owocki that reissues the 2018 whitepaper that introduced quadratic funding and raises money for public goods

https://gitcoin.metalabel.app/quadraticfunding
“What I don’t understand is why you didn’t tell me about this until now.”

👆My seven-year-old after I explained to him the Law of thermodynamics
Metalabel is an operating system for groups of creators to release work, collaborate, and support each other

The next era of Metalabel begins March 1 2023

Get notified when it drops:

Metalabel.substack.com
GM Farcasters

Wrote a long piece about how worldbuilding is creative resilience

https://ideaspace.substack.com/p/worldbuilding-is-creative-resilience
My friend Rob likes to say that what you make is your autobiography

Then here's mine

https://www.ystrickler.com/projects
✨Reinventing the record ✨

A new path for releasing, selling, and preserving creative work online

https://ideaspace.substack.com/p/reinventing-the-record
My fav page in the new Metalabel drop is the page showing the opening and contents of a collector's record

Here's mine:

https://collect.metalabel.xyz/record/53
Today Metalabel dropped:

— An in-depth, constructive exploration of what's "After the Creator Economy"
— A beautiful physical and digital zine
— A new onchain format

+ lots more

https://collect.metalabel.xyz
The ETH merge marked:

The end of the Crypto Era: a period driven by speculation on crypto's potential future value

The beginning of the Onchain Era: a period when better consumer experiences emerge as culture and info go onchain

Honored to publish w/ onchain 👑Zora https://zine.zora.co/onchain-era-yancey-strickler
Metalabel will be making a big release this week

Think the FC community especially will appreciate

Subscribe to get the drop

Supplies will be limited

https://metalabel.substack.com
A magazine about "a more gentle internet" *printed* the Bentoism website in its pages <3 <3 <3

https://bentoism.org https://i.imgur.com/RuIhjRZ.jpg