Hello everyone. I’m Kazuhiro, not my real name, of course. In the NFT world, identity is flexible. What matters is not who you are, but who you pretend to be.
I used to be a street painter. Now I'm a digital artist. My first work on OpenSea is titled "8 Bit Chicken Soto". The description is deep (a lie), the price is 0.01 ETH (around 250 thousand), and the result?
One like from a bot named “NFTNeko420.eth”. Motivation? Still… a little.
Then I tried to create a new collection:
"Fat Mouse Full of Hope"
There’s a mouse wearing a helmet, a mouse holding nuggets, and one wearing a gamer headset. I sold all of them on OpenSea. One sold. The rest linger.
Is Discord busy? Yes. But sells? No.
Finally, a friend said, “Bro, ETH has expensive gas fees. Move to Tezos, to objkt.com. There, artists are valued.”
I joined. I registered on Tezos, bought XTZ, uploaded a new work:
"Identity Crisis in 24 Pixels."
Meaningful pixel-art.
I set the price: 3 XTZ (about 30 thousand rupiah at that time).
The result?
Same thing. Quiet.
Then I moved again. Tried minting at:
- Kalamint (closed)
- Rarible (still alive, but as quiet as a Friendster blog)
- Fxhash (trying generative, even though I can't code)
- I even once casually minted on Binance NFT, because it was said to be "liquid."
But still, one pattern I found everywhere: My work still doesn't sell.
And then, I saw this:
📸 An NFT named “Dot No. 7913”
What's inside? A blue pixel dot in the middle of a white screen.
Description? “The void within.”
Selling price? 38 ETH.
Me? Want to cry. But afraid of being called emotional on Twitter Web3.
I realized something:
🧠 In the NFT world, concepts can be more important than quality.
📣 What goes viral isn’t what’s good, but what’s absurd + lucky.
👨🎨 A sincere artist can lose to a casual trader using mass minting bots.
But I'm not discouraged.
Because NFTs taught me one important thing: Sometimes, you’re not failing... you’re just not absurd enough to be considered successful.
Today I still draw. I still mint. Sometimes on Tezos, sometimes on Polygon, sometimes just stored in my own phone gallery. Because now I know:
1. Great works are not necessarily sellable.
2. What sells isn’t necessarily great.
And sometimes... the world just wants to see a blue dot worth the price of a new car.
So, if you want to be an NFT artist, my message to you, Kazuhiro:
- Don’t stop creating just because it’s not viral.
- Don’t follow the current filled with jargon that lacks meaning.
And if someday you get tired... remember that right-clicking is still free, but the spirit of creating cannot be copied.
