I’ve been messing with NFTs for like two months now and this is the impression that still lingers with me:

That the part of me that likes minting NFTs on scatter.art is the same part of me that likes spending $5 to $15 on blind boxes when I go to the mall with my gf.

But NFTs are a little better:

• They let me hoard while keeping my physical environment minimal
• I might be able to sell them back
• Supporting independent artists is cool, and I’d rather support them through minting than through the commission-based slavery I see on the rest of Twitter
• Identifying with them is part of the fun

But blind boxes bought from a mall aren’t so bad:

• Maybe some of their qualities can influence an NFT collection
• I don’t mind having a little shelf devoted to plastic figures of my favorite brand name characters
• I’d rather be a consoomer for little tiny figures than some other things