WTF happened? Wen reveal?
Surprise! The FUCK YOUs aren’t a rug and have future plans after all. We wanted to keep it a secret but now we’ve had to reveal some of our plans. Here’s what happened:
FUCK YOUs still aren’t revealed
FUCK YOUs went on pre-sale on 7/14. The FUCK YOUs art reveal was then scheduled for last night (7/23) but it didn’t happen. Fuck us, right? If you have a FUCK YOU you still have a placeholder image.
The Smart Contract for the reveal has secret cool shit in it
What the fuck? How hard can it be to reveal art? Well that’s the thing. The Ethereum Smart Contract that reveals the art has some secret cool shit in it that we hadn’t told anyone about.
Most of the cool shit is related to the art, which is on chain. It’s not possible to reveal the art now and add the cool shit later.
The cool shit makes the contract too big to deploy
Well, fuck us. At some point Ethereum introduced a contract size limit. When we tested our Smart Contract for the art reveal we discovered it was too big. We spent the day trying to make it smaller and also pointlessly worrying about gas fluctuations.
Making the contract smaller made the cool shit lame
To make the contract smaller we tried to make the cool stuff smaller.
For example one of the secret things we wrote into the FUCK YOUs art reveal contract is what we call Gene Editing.
We’ve been designing Gene Editing for months. Gene Editing would give the owner of a FUCK YOU the ability to change its traits (and would show which FUCK YOUS have been Gene Edited).
We cut parts of Gene Editing and then re-tested the contract. It was lame as hell. We tried to like it but we just couldn’t.
It was shit.
We asked the community what was more important — art reveal or cool shit
Giving you shit is not an option. So our options were:
- Take out the cool stuff completely and just have the art, that’s it.
- Delay the reveal of the art work, rework the contract correctly, and have the foundations we need for cool shit in the future.
We asked everyone on Twitter and in our Discord what they thought even though it meant we had to reveal our secret of Gene Editing. We were legitimately prepared to do either to make you happy:
Overwhelmingly we heard that you would rather have the cool shit. So that’s what we are doing.
And by the way if you were looking for the coolest community in the NFT space this is it. You fuckers get what we’re doing, and we’re so fucking grateful.
Why we made secret shit in the first place
We sell FUCK YOUs. That’s it. Buy them if you like them. They aren’t an investment. We aren’t money people. We draw dicks and middle fingers.
We want you to be happy with your FUCK YOU even if it never does anything other than be a FUCK YOU. We like surprising you with cool shit you didn’t know was coming but we also don’t want you to feel cheated if it never comes or you don’t like it.
No promises means we get to make cool shit then share it with you when it’s ready. If we work on things where we know exactly when it’s ready to give to you, then it’s probably not cool. Cool shit takes iteration. It takes pushing the boundaries.
So, there you go. That’s what fucking happened.
What’s next?
Wen reveal?
We don’t fucking know. Soon? Soon. We’re working on it. You want us to do it right. We want to do it right. We really shouldn’t have set a reveal date in the first place. It was against our no promises policy. But we really love our community and wanted to have a party and give people something to look forward to. Lesson learned.
Wen Gene Editing?
We also don’t fucking know. What we do know is we are NOT launching Gene Editing when the art is revealed. Even though it’s in the reveal contract we still have to build an interface for you all to use it.
This is another reason why we like to make secret shit. We don’t know what to tell you about when any of this will be done. It takes time to get right. We have to fucking invent this shit. Sometimes it takes a few tries to get perfect.
Thanks for giving a FUCK
To those of you who read this far and who are still with us as we work toward revealing the FUCK YOUs, thank you. We sincerely appreciate it. Our work is nothing without you. We are so grateful for your support and the support of our community.
You can keep up with our progress, ask questions, or tell us to get fucked in three ways:
- Here on Medium in the comments below
- On Twitter @fuckyousNFT
- In our Discord
TL;DR: Fuck you, fuck us, fuck your mom, fuck promises, fuck reveal dates, fuck boring shit, fuck the Ethereum contract limit, fuck us for not knowing it. We’re getting to fucking work. We fucking love you.
