0x5d802e2fe48392c104ce0401c7eca8a4456f1f16 (Q525)
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The Nouns ecosystem is a bubble. (Maybe the best bubble around imo, but a bubble nonetheless.) Producing high quality video content is perhaps the most important thing we can do as a community to try and tell our story to people outside that bubble. The videos Nounish produces are doubly important, because while they reach many people in the moment and beautifully highlight what we are accomplishing as a DAO, these videos are also pieces evergreen content that are being woven together into a net to catch newcomers in the future, no matter how they find out about Nouns to begin with. If Noggles are featured in a SuperBowl commercial and there is no “net” of engaging Nounish content to catch the resulting eyeballs, did it even make a sound? Finally, all of Nounish’s content is CC0 and as a result, it is routinely remixed and reused, like a multimedia embodiment of Nouns itself. We are extremely lucky to have such a talented team dedicated to proliferating the Nouns brand, and in my opinion, it would be a mistake not to extend their engagement here.
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Wet wipes are the new moonbeans. Thanks to the proposers for iterating and coming back, looking forward to seeing these come to market. It was very hard to choose a design (good problem to have), but I’m going with Skipper’s design (A.)
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I have been invited to attend a PizzaDAO pizza party in my city, and my vote is easily bought with pizza. 🍕
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In recent months, I don’t feel like the DAO has been in danger of passing any proposals that would not have been worth the experiment, but I do feel that some creatives and builders have been discouraged by the new higher barrier to funding. Discouraging would-be builders from participating in the ecosystem is as much a cost to the DAO as funding some ideas that might not work out, and I think we should err on the side of taking more calculated risks.
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While I do resonate with Scott Lews Tweet saying that nounsdao can do the most good by directly pursuing its core mission of making crypto soft, anti-scammy and socially positive, at the same time, I don’t feel like helping to ensure that the freedom to transact remains in place for the average American is necessarily contrary to that mission. One of the greatest things about nouns in my opinion is that it can be many similar things to many people at the same time. I’ve often felt that one of the secret weapons of a brand like nouns is that we can integrate public goods as part of our very identity (rather than a corporation doing charity for the tax benefit/good PR/whatever for example) and I don’t think we should lose that inside of the weirdness that is also nouns. Thanks to Wilson for championing this initiative!
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Arash has been working on this concept within the Nouns ecosystem for many months now. He has taken feedback to refine the idea and has taken time to learn about nounish culture. If you havent seen them, check out all the animated music videos and gifs he has made to familiarize himself with the art vibe and build his reputation here. With his agencys experience in building successful mobile games, I think he is the perfect candidate to take Nouns first foray into this sphere and I wish him luck.
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CoralOrca has been building in the Nouns ecosystem since before Nouns were launched (really) and the AR filters he has made so far are really high quality. I have personally used them often to make content for The Noun Square videos. I would have liked to have seen more information in the prop about efforts to market the AR filters to get more use, but I will just ask Coral here on chain to please focus on that aspect as part of his efforts if this passes. Getting more filters ready for prime time and then maybe making a quick how to use these video for new folks would be a start. Maybe pay to have them promoted on Snap/Insta/TikTok, and make sure other subdaos like Gnars, Esports, etc all know how to make use of them for maximum impact.
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I was back and forth on this proposal, to be honest. Love the energy of the builder (Martin) but wasnt sure about the format. But ultimately, I think he will do his best to try and find really great candidates for these Nouns Fellowships, and Im curious to see what good could come from it. If even one of their recruits produces an outsized impact, the ask will have been well worth it. Also, I dont think Nouns is even close to being out of its experimentation stage yet (something the bear market has maybe caused us to forget.) So Ill vote For. Disclosure: Martin isnt my friend, Ive never met this man in my life, we dont cheer for the same sports teams, I would never drive the model of car he drives as his daily driver, and we are members of separate political parties.
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On September 6, Zach tweeted Really am unsure how much longer I can continue doing this. It’s been fun but burnout is a real thing and it has taken a toll on other aspects of my life [...] To give even more context one single person operates this account, answers DMs, and does the research [...] balancing this isn’t sustainable. If funding his important work exposing grifters and scammers helps to alleviate that burnout and allow him to continue providing this public good for the ETH ecosystem, that will be very nounish imo.
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This kind of repository is really badly needed. The nouns community creates so much UGC (user-generated content) and currently, it is all scattered to the wind on Twitter and other socials. I think the flywheel benefits of this kind of fan art that is so common in our community is greatly diminished by the fact that it is so difficult to find easily (and therefore difficult for other artists to find inspiration, remix existing pieces, etc.) Ask seems reasonable for the amount of work involved, and the builder (Voadz) has proven himself on previous proposals.
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Andrew, Prof Werder, Brad and Woody have been working hard for months to help builders on discord and discourse, and help them navigate the sometimes-labyrinthian corridors of Nouns DAO funding. Anyone who doesnt think there is a need for helpful, skilled people to empower would-be builders and plug them into nouns DAO ecosystem, I would argue probably do not spend much time on the front lines of the DAO. Because those who do, will have their DMs full of exactly these types of requests on a daily basis. I would like to see this team get funded and either prove the thesis wrong or right over the next quarter. If they are able to unlock the nounish potential of 30+ builders and get them funded by one of the funding sources within nouns, I think the outlay will be well worth the cost.
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Maty works really hard and the documents he keeps are really useful. Also, his work pretty much pays for itself with the funds he tends to recoups for the DAO in the process of his follow ups and tracking.
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There is an awkward gap in nouns funding currently and Im glad to see some nounish folks trying to solve for that. Would like to see regular rotation in the membership and hopefully an elimination in overlap between NSFW and DCS (not because of the people, they are awesome, but just in the interest of having the widest breadth of perspective in nouns funding.) Look forward to seeing some builders funded for exciting medium-sized endeavours.
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I have followed Dom (@dotnouns) on his nounish journey since literally day one, when he came onto our Prop House Spaces to pitch his mvp for a Nouns naming service. Since winning that round (2 ETH), I have seen him work so hard to set up and roll out the .⌐◨-◨ network and identities that many of us love and use every day. He has also reached out to every corner of the nouniverse to make sure .⌐◨-◨ is natively resolved almost anywhere you want to interact, from nouns.wtf and Agora to basically any nounish auction site you can think of. He built all this foundation nearly for free, almost seven months of blood, sweat and tears for a couple ETH. Now he is asking the DAO to believe in the potential of the network and his plans for it, and I think it’s a worthwhile endeavor to give him some funding and runway to do so. Phase 2 is all about proliferation of the .nouns (NNS) network and I think the planned 3-pronged approach of 1) continuing to integrate more communities to resolve . ⌐◨-◨ natively, 2) running social media campaigns and the Nounish Club initiative to make nns names more desirable and 3) seeding/spinning up a DAO with Nouns builder to create a flywheel of community proliferation using Prop House and other methods to reward community members who help spread the .⌐◨-◨ meme, is a powerful strategy to get as many nounish people as possible using this network daily (and therefore proliferating nouns across web3.) Nouns will never have a token like $APE and I don’t think it ever needs one. But absent that, I think .⌐◨-◨ is a really cool and low-friction way to unite communities all over the nouniverse, and I’m looking forward to seeing what Dom and team can do with some ETH and a little runway. Also, if the team does NOT knock this out of the part with their efforts in the first 3 months, Benbodhi and I have the right and obligation as multisig signers / milestone checkers to send the second half of the funds back to the DAO instead of releasing them. I of course don’t expect this to be necessary, but it does nonetheless lessen the outlay risk in my opinion, if you trust our judgment. I was happy to support Dom by sponsoring this prop on chain after seeing all his work on NNS to date, and happy to vote yes here.
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As many people have expressed in their vote reasons and discussions in Nouncil and on The Noun Square this week, the 1000ETH ask DOES initially feel high, and has made many (myself included) think twice about supporting the proposal in its current form. However, I think what Noun40 said in his reason sums up where I have landed, in framing this as a “very ambitious rather than a greedy proposal. As he points out, the ETH will not be earmarked for retroactive development, but rather paid forward to the new DAO to drive new nounish proliferation. So, while I would have preferred a smaller ask or a stream for risk management reasons, I do think Zora has proven their alignment (by purchasing 20 Nouns and building free infra for the DAO) and I think we should take a chance and afford them this ambitious mandate to match and magnify the impact of Prop House on the ecosystem. Over the past week, I have heard of at least 6-7 people anecdotally in my circles with plans to use the builder imminently for various projects and I think it can play a really important role as a 1-click-align-with-nouns tool, especially when paired with Prop House mandates and strategic builder funding going forward. I also want to say that I think the future success of the DAO depends greatly on allocating funds to a bigger number of trusted groups, who can do more targeted allocation than the DAO as a whole can do with on-chain proposals alone. This is what makes flexible pools like NSFW important. Its what makes Prop House so damn effective. Its what makes The Noun Square contests and challenges so Ev+. And so likewise, I think (hope) that having a talented, ambitious and fully-aligned team like Zora allocating capital to an even broader pool of builders alongside the above initiatives will hopefully help bring nounish proliferation to the next level. For that reason, Im voting YES with my delegated votes.
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The DAO is spending a lot of ETH already to have a the presence at the Rose Bowl, and the long form video (documentary), so it just makes sense to make sure we maximize our on-the-ground impact as well with Aubtoshis activations, short form video content and social media exposure.
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Big supporter of passionate nouns builders shooting for max proliferation, especially outside North America.
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Nouncil has onboarded and supported so many builders in this ecosystem since its inception in February. Many builders, myself included, probably would never have found our home in nouns without it, and I think a builder-forward group of nouns-passionate individuals, governing and sharing ideas together is a really special thing that shouldnt be underestimated. Looking back on the past 7 months of Nouns DAO governance, I think youll also find that the majority or fruitful discussion about Proposals, thoughtful vote reasons, and help/feedback provided to Proposers, all came out of Nouncil. The Permissionless grants program was a really unique idea (h/t Joel) that inspired tonnes of proliferation projects that took all kinds of forms (see our summary thread about it here: https://twitter.com/nouncil/status/1571956714915733504?s=20&t=b7l9UaOXAyXfw1UUPWSJ0g.) I think a further experimentations with this model (of empowering builders who have proven they care about the DAO and the community) are worth funding. Also, Nouncil administrators have been running the day to day operations for most of Q3 unfunded, so this Proposal is part retro reward, part current operating budget, and part runway to continue to build and grow in Q1 2023.
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NounsDAOAmigos have been killing it ever since their first Prop House win. Seeing the activation they did in Bogota was awesome and I cant wait to see more of the same here! BTW, they have also been running a really great weekly nounish Twitter Spaces en espanol on The Noun Square SoapBox. You can catch it on Wednesday at 7PM EST here: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ZkKzXabBpDJv
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Last time this type of proposal was made, except with an exaggerated time hook that ultimately distracted from the purpose of the prop, it was defeated... but I saw all brand new nouners voting Yes. In my opinion, that means that the 2 noun minimum is probably unnecessarily disenfranchising people who want to be active in the DAO. We dont yet have a problem with spam, and noun ownership is still a lofty bar (nobody is spending 50 ETH for the lulz), so I support lowering the threshold to 1 noun for now. This can always be revisited in future, if and when an over-concentration of low quality proposals becomes a problem. I think it is much more likely that a good proposal will not make it on chain due to the threshold being 2, than a bad prop will make it on chain because the threshold is only 1.
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The sample video created by AI was brilliant and the work coming out of this pod is impactful and very interesting. As a delegate, a Nouncil member and an UglyDAO member (aka someone who is discussing every nouns prop at least 3 times) I am excited at the prospect of helpful proposal and discussion summaries completed by AI.
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CDT for President (gremplin can be Secretary of Pizza)
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I think Yitong and team have been killing it with Agora so far. They have been building an important and much-needed piece of DAO infra while also making great efforts to engage with the community and encourage broader use. I also appreciated the teams willingness to iterate on the initial proposal; the lowered total ask and milestone-based funding should allay any of the concerns some had before. The future plans for Agora outlined in this prop are ambitious and Im excited to see them come to fruition, especially plans to enable time-bound, fractional, and supercedable delegation by a proxy contract.
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I would trust VERBS with my private keys. (NFA)
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I have seen firsthand many builders and artists empowered by grants from nsfw. I connected Aubtoshi with 22 and small grants after a couple near-miss prop house rounds, and the funding she received as a result of that started her nounish journey and gave us Nouns OTG. Another example would be Jhee, a talented artist from Korea who won a contest on The Noun Square. Benbodhi then connected her to nsfw and she was funded to launch a nounish collection as a result. I could cite many other examples, but the point is: I believe flexible and nimble capital is an important tool for the DAO. I also think 22 is a very committed and hard-working contributor who does a very good job of combing through discourse and DMs to find solid proposals to fund. Having said all of the above, I think more transparency with the day-to-day decision making of the pod would be good for the DAO generally. I also think that it could be a real unlock for nsfw if they were to explore empowering some focused sub-pods with ETH to help further decentralize the burden of uncovering and vetting fund-worthy projects. Eg. pods for different geographic areas or niche types of proposal. Happy to help brainstorm on this concept further with 22 if interested.
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This is the only process we currently have available to buy Nouns for the treasury and sometimes we need extra Nouns in the treasury.
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Andre has been supporting Nounish extensions with sales bots for 10+ months and is a reliable, skilled builder. I look forward to seeing what he can do here.
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Goldy and 142 are so good at what they do. As 4156 has said, the @nounish videos they have made already have helped to close so many key partnerships and ventures that they have already been worth their weight in ETH. I am excited to see the long form and short form content that they will be able to produce with this kind of runway and mandate. LFG, @nounish!
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1) I respect Klim. I think hes a passionate, committed builder who has given a lot of time and effort to nouns. I want to see him continue to invest his time and energy here. 2) I dont collect figurines of any kind, but would probably still buy a few of these as a nounish novelty. I also trust David Horvath when he says there could be a much broader potential market for them. 3) I appreciate the efforts Klim has made to iterate and modify the original designs to something with more appeal, and I think the final designs are pretty cute. 4) I like the fact that the proposal is broken down into Milestones. 5) ⌐◨-◨
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Im a simple delegate: I see Prop House, I vote YES.
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There is a huge need for a repository of cc0 music to be used in Nounish media (as someone who hosts a lot of live spaces and helps to produce a lot of nounish media, I can personally attest to this.) Additionally, as Woody says in the Prop, there is currently no defined sound space for Nouns, and it is something that is badly needed— If nouns is building a decentralized brand, so far we’ve forgotten to hire the sound engineer. Music tends to get ignored sometimes in this space, relative to other kinds of art, and it’s a shame. Woody is a Grammy-winning producer and imho Nouns is lucky to have someone as talented and passionate as him who is interested to create a music platform like this for our community. Also, the video proposal was novel and really well produced. Woody and Papaya (dev) have executed on every single project I’ve seen them work on in the toadz and nouns communities and I am confident this project will be no different. **airhorn**
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Have had the great pleasure of seeing Necfas come first through Lil Nouns PropHouse, then Nouns Launchpad, and now on chain, bringing nounish public goods to children in need in the DR. LFG!
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Incredible high-effort proposal, cant wait to see the outcome.
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When I look at the votes FOR on this proposal, I see a lot of new Nouners, who undoubtedly feel disenfranchised by the recent 100% jump in Nouns required for proposal submission. I think the 26 years piece muddied the waters on this proposal unnecessarily, but ultimately the threshold could be raised at any point in the future and I feel like solving this problem later, when the problem actually exists, makes more sense to me than the inverse. If this proposal should fail, hopefully an alternative for a shorter period of time will be more palatable to the DAO.
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Love the builder (Mintfaced) but agree with many that the price tag just feels too high. If he was not retro rewarded for out of pocket efforts on volume 1 (I dont know if he was) I think that should happen. I hope to see Mint iterate or shift focus because hes a Nouncillor in good standing and an asset to the Nouns ecosystem.
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This is the best and most ambitious team Ive ever worked with and we have so many awesome things planned for the next half-year of The Noun Square. Thank you everyone for your support. LFG! ⌐◨-◨
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Prop House Mandates are the future of focused funding allocation in my opinion.
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This is a vote of confidence in Sam Ellis, who is here building in Nouns every day (Blocks, Nouncil, Auction Tracker, Story Bible, The Noun Square and more.) At this point it does look like this Proposal will fail, but I just want to encourage Sam to iterate and come back with something on a smaller scale and with broader support, so he can knock it out of the park and then go on to create the next Archer or Adventure Time (but make it Nounish.)
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1) B is awesome. 2) International proliferation is probably the single greatest opportunity for Nouns imo. 3) B and team did a really great job at Art Basel on a tight budget and Im sure they will get the DAO plenty of bang-for-buck in Brazil as well.
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I would never wear eyeglasses with a different color on the ear hook, so I am voting yes.
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This explainer is badly needed. Cant wait until we can have a single landing page featuring a professional video breaking down the essence of Nouns for new folks to easily digest. I see this being useful for initiatives similar to Nouns on the Ground as a target landing page for QR codes, for example. LFG.
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No-Brainer. GL to Brennen, Sasquatch and the gang, keep killing it.
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DAOs are powered by people. There are tons of jobs and tasks that need to be done daily to make sure the momentum of Nouns doesnt wane, but without talented people who understand the culture and are committed to the longterm success of the DAO, that momentum would slow to a crawl. Noun22 is a person who has does a lot of important core work for the DAO and would be impossible to easily replace. Incentivizing people like him to continue building here is important, so I support his Proposal for this reason. I also think there is lots of opportunity for ongoing DAO tasks to be put into buckets and bid on using Prop House tech in future, to increase decentralization and longterm sustainability, but these two things are not mutually exclusive, and we will nonetheless always need passionate core contributors to drive growth.
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I have had the pleasure of seeing Aubtoshis Nounish passion grow from Day One when she pitched her first Nouns of the Ground proposal on our very first Prop House Weekly Spaces. Has been awesome to watch her journey and imo she is an asset to Nouns. (If anything, this Prop maybe underpays her for her impact.) Keeping this reason relatively short so Honk doesnt perform a Scaphic execution on me.
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I like to support good people with interesting ideas. From what Ive seen, Jacob has been very polite and collaborative in all his dealings within Nouns-- Asking for feedback, taking it, incorporating it. I think fashion is an important vertical to proliferate the meme, and so even though the pieces dont necessarily speak to my fashion sense (referred to by Vogue as Canadian lumberjack chic), I think this is a very cool, creative idea from a proven builder and am excited to see what happens.
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In my opinion, this proposal is the perfect example of a public good campaign that the DAO can fund without wading into the murky waters of politics and special interests. Helping children to afford much-needed prescription glasses feels both culturally nounish, and quite literally nounish, as it helps to physically bespectacle a new generation. ⌐◨-◨ ⌐◨-◨
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Removing single points of failure is an important step in the maturation of the DAO toward true, full decentralization.
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I was on the fence about this Proposal like some others have mentioned, because Im not sure noggles on everything is the best way to build a cohesive global meme, and beans are not the most exciting product to piggyback on. However, for a little more than the cost of one Noun, ultimately I am interested to see the results of the experiment that is an IRL business giving real world ROI back to the DAO in exchange for the use of its art. Worth it to see if this kind of project is viable and worthwhile in the future vs. more common metrics of attention and proliferation (which this one also hits to some extent.)
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I was impressed by how much proliferation is on offer in this Proposal, especially for such a conservative ask. I also love seeing different teams independently springing up to spread the Nounish Meme across the world (like Noggle murals and skateboards coming to NYC while Nounish sandwich boards roam the streets of Basel.) Its what decentralization is all about. But I digress... Great proposal, Great Proposer. Good luck and have fun in Switzerland, B! (Please reserve me one Nounish Toblerone.)
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As I have said in the Nouncil meeting and on The Noun Square during discussions of this prop this week, I love Mr. Beast and think a collaboration with him would be amazing. However, I think the bounty is life-changing money for many people and so worry that people on the fringe may stoop to some weird tactics to try and get Mr. Beasts attention, and hurt rather than help the reputation of Nouns in his eyes. Love the creativity in this idea, but just think it needs a rework from its current form. On TNS PropTalk (Thursdays at 4PM EST) when we were brainstorming this topic, there were some interesting ideas presented, like running a Fake Ad campaign for one of Mr. Beasts product lines like Feastables encouraging people to make short nounish videos promoting them. I think an idea like this is a lot more likely to pique his attention.
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I like this team very much, and I think they have all done, can do and will do great things. Unfortunately, I cannot support this prop in its current form. Feedback was given from Nouncil and elsewhere about providing more clarity on metrics, potentially lowering total ask and focusing on building a nounish presence on TikTok, but I didnt see any of that feedback incorporated in the proposal that went on chain. I like and respect Leo a lot, and if this prop is not successful, I hope he and team will reach out to other nouners and nounish builders to find out how to better focus on the pieces of the machine that are working, and craft a proposal that really highlights these strengths.
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After discussion on weekly nouncil call, I left feeling like the timing could be a little better to try something like this (maybe try in Miami for Basel or something similar.) Its a relatively low ask and I could have potentially been convinced to give it a try as an experiment in traditional outdoor advertising, but with dynamic quorum now in effect (shoutout Verbs!) this version will not pass, so Ill vote against and encourage the proposer to come back with a more detailed plan and maybe timing pinned to an IRL event if possible.
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I dont see a compelling case for the project here and the mockups werent great imo (the TikTok Noun doesnt have a hand.) Maybe a more fleshed out version could be interesting.
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As I said on Nouncil call, this feels like a case of this is my startup, please seed fund, but I dont really see the benefit to the DAO compared to other types of proposals. I do think wellness is important, but wellness apps is also a crowded vertical. Maybe a smaller proposal for a Youtube/Tiktok series concentrating on wellness and using Nounish art (or even a less complicated app) could be a good alternative to this Proposal.
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Abstaining due to conflict, but wanted to thank 142 for spearheading this effort, and the rest of the NOC team for making The Noun Square happen every day for the past 2+ weeks. Thank you also to Nouners for the overwhelming support of this proposal. Looking forward to seeing how we can grow this in a months time! Time to get to work...
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