Date: 2023-12-05 · basis: publication date recorded in the magazine inventory
Chewy
Chewy, the self-described memelord who taught the crew to meme, describes starting with personalized GIFs of stackers' profile pictures on special blocks, then moving to Piñata Farms composites, music, movie clips and iPhone Clipping as others caught up. He explains that dropping a meme in the block itself made a block hard to fork, and that the crew beat the Stone clan in a meme battle before turning their swords on each other. He credits LoKo, Doc, Vee, Waldo, Psy, Buddha, Freeborn, Dr John, Bob, Rat Poison, Jaime, Billy Bread, George, Lauren and Peter, and says the memes were the most important part of StackChain.
Archive summary written from the sources below — not a quotation.
To me, the memes became the most important part of StackChain.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/a-journey-of-memes/
Ultimately I figured out the play was to drop a meme in the block itselfhttps://www.stackchainmagazine.net/a-journey-of-memes/
When they quit, we moved to battling each other to sharpen our swords.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/a-journey-of-memes/
Chewy recounts how memes took over the chain, from pfp GIFs to fork warfare.
Machine-written summary, not an editorial statement.
Stackchain Magazine article, catalogue item 22, category chain-history. Summarised by the archive from the published piece; quotes below are verbatim excerpts. Original: https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/a-journey-of-memes/