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What is the purpose of the FWB Discord for its users?
Raihan Anwar
Co-founder at Friends with Benefits
Raihan: I think initially, based on that user cohort I spoke about, it was people trying to figure shit out at the same time. In December or January, people were asking, "What are NFTs? How does this interface with my body of work as an artist or as a creative person?" All of a sudden, you have a smart contract engineer stepping up, saying, "Hey, I can help you with that." You have someone who understands tokenomics and crypto fundamentals saying, "Hey, I can help you build out a social token platform," or something like that. I would say the early energy was people getting really excited about owning their own creative destinies. That's what I see day in and day out. People who are pushing the edges of art and tech figuring out -- to date myself here -- how to go from DeviantArt to Myspace to this, saying, "I used to make JPEGs for fun, and now I'm actually getting paid for it. I can pay my rent."
That’s what a normal day looks like. People are saying, "I made this thing. Who can help?” Or, "I have this weird idea. Where do we take it from here?" Like Colby said, it's the coolest people talking about -- I don’t know, death metal coffee events all around the country. You name it. There’s a very strong kind of early-message-board energy where we talk about everything except crypto.