Frank the founder of DeGods was telling the Legend of Manoj and the OG Lore that ultimately led up the recent DeGods Ordinals mint.
Seemed like a great chance to show a simple repurposing of an audio clip π€¦βοΈ
I instantly regretted mentioning that I’d use this story in the video for today, because it took forever to dig for old tweets lol.
It’s a great practice though, using different screenshots to break up the visuals through the video.
"ββIt's long story short, we made this marketplace but it totally bricked. Like we had so much of traffic on the first day cuz people have been waiting two days to floor their fucking degods cuz they were so annoyed. And then when they did, they all hit the page at the same time and literally hundreds. I shit you not hundreds of degos got stuck in the marketplace.
The program. Bricked out and there's nothing we could do to get these fucking degod out. And so this started this whole saga where metaplex had to make a poll request, help us fix this shit. We ended up refunding literally like $800,000 back to all these people that lost their degods. They were like, just gimme a refund.
I'm out of this bitch. Like, they were like, I'm done. And, and so long story short, there's this kid named Che and he was like, fucking relentless, bro. He was like in the chat every day, he's like, my degod is stuck. Like, please help me. Like. Like, and he was just funny about it, bro. He sent me dms of his like medicine drawer and he's like, I'm really depressed.
Like please, I need my degod back. And he was in these things. Everyone was just memeing them and he was like, he really loves, he kept saying, I love D Gods, I just want my D Godd. I don't want them, I just want my D God. And then when he got it, two hours later, he floored it and like, it was like a three week thing bro was waiting for his fucking de god.
So that's what started this legend of manoj. So when he floored it back in the day, that's the degod that we burn. We take the money that we made from like these royalties and the paper hand bitch tax. And uh, we would buy the floor gods and then burn them and the team would, so we spent our own money on it.
You know, they all just debate about that. We spent our own money on it. We burned the fucking degod. And that's what we do. And then when mano. Floored his de ego. We burned it and that was like the moment, right? It was like, holy fuck. Everyone in the discord knew this kid for like three weeks, was just begging for his Deon back.
He finally gets it back broke, undercuts the floor and we burned it and it was like, goodbye Manoj. And he's in there, bro. He's one of the burned de egos. So that's like og og degods lore. Cause that's the one I'm looking out for. There's the beautiful ones in there, don't get me wrong, but like that's the one I'm looking for."
It sounds like you've been through quite an eventful experience with the marketplace and the degods. The situation you described with the marketplace crashing and degods getting stuck must have been challenging to handle. It's unfortunate that so many people lost their degods and had to be refunded.
The story of Che and his relentless pursuit to get his degod back is quite memorable. It seems like he became a legend within the community, and his determination and humor left an impression on you and others. Burning his degod after he finally obtained it must have marked the end of an era and created a significant moment within the community.
Lore and legends often add depth and character to communities, making them more engaging and memorable. It's interesting to see how specific events and individuals can become iconic in such contexts.
If there's anything else you'd like to discuss or any further information you'd like to provide, feel free to share.
