<aside> 📜 The origin of Stoner Cats

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This project was started when three fearless creators, Ash, Chris and Sarah, quit their day jobs to make their dream animation show.

To quote their manifesto:

At Stoner Cats we believe that storytellers deserve an outlet where they can be valued and supported without having to bow to the machine of big media. So we’re tilting the model on its head and testing a new architecture using NFTs that can connect storytellers directly with their audience and essentially decentralize content production.

Maybe a strangely touching story about cats who get high, and the woman they love coming to terms with her memory loss and her mortality can be our unlikely hero in the story of decentralizing entertainment. The creators have lots more amazing Stoner Cats stories to tell (there are ball gags involved and it’s great.) If we’re right with this experiment, then this tribe we’re building online, anchored around access token NFTs, is structured to reward early believers, community participation and breaking down barriers between creator and consumer. If we’re right about all of that… then this will be a wonderful way for innovative, unique stories to be told for years and years to come.

Ash, Chris and Sarah were friends with Lisa Sterbakov and Mila Kunis, and through the teamwork of their production company, Orchard Farms, and their crypto/business incubator, 6th Wall (formally 3050 Gang), they came up with the idea of funding their dream show with an NFT. The creators and 6th Wall partnered with Mack Flavelle and BigHead Club for the NFT’s, and that’s how we got here.

As part of that funding, they wanted to empower the NFT holders and Stoner Cats community to explore if the community could be used to build a DAO that could help solve 3 business problems:

  1. Primarily, determine if producing media content using a non-traditional / crypto / Web3 based model could produce a viable product,
  2. Embed the creators in the community to provide an almost instantaneous feedback loop between show and community, thereby shortcutting traditional, biased and slow feedback methods
  3. Build a decentralized organization that would be able to curate and produce future decentralized content in a financially sustainable manner that rewards creators and outside the box thinking.

And that’s why the DAO is here. Through voting proposals, the community has the chance to easily help guide the story, characters and anything really that we as a community decide! The artists, designers, writers and cast are all NFT holders too and together, we’re making something better than we could apart.

As we learn and experiment with Stoner Cats, we’re also working to bring the community that we’ve built to help produce other shows, bridge other creator / community gaps.

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