Stargaze NFT collection After The Filter released the first chapter of its “serialized storytelling experiment” Tuesday, named Winning Today.
Creators @cortlandt, Steven Kimura, and Matthew Derby said they chose the Cosmos ecosystem to launch their NFT collection because: “Where else would you launch a story about ideologically driven factions fighting for control of a barren hellscape?” The trio says they are doing this project to “make Stargaze a destination where the culture is being made.”
After The Filter is billed by its makers as “strong artwork with a unique technical construction,” and is evidenced by their ambitious approach to utility in NFTs. The plan for the team is to release a series of stories in different media formats, such as videos on YouTube, comics, short stories, and infomercials. NFT holders will play a part in the unravelling story by voting on what to do next and participating in Discord discussions with the creators. New artwork will be created, the team said, and airdropped to main characters of certain chapters.
The story surrounding After The Filter is best told on their website:
It’s a serialized story, unfolding across multiple media formats, that chronicles the last days of the world’s biggest fuck-ups — something we can all relate to. The story begins on the day after the bulk of humanity ditches their “skinhusks” to live forever in a digital paradise. Overnight, Earth’s population dwindles to around, um, 10,000? Hard to give an exact number with all the bots wandering around in rotting skinsuits. The upshot: these sorry, disorganized losers who could never manage to get their shit together are all that’s left of corporeal humanity.
And every single one of them is represented as a hand-drawn NFT.
The collection of 10,000 sold out on Stargaze in a matter of hours, with heavy trading on the marketplace soon thereafter. It is one of the top collections on Stargaze.
The latest installment of video, after a series of YouTube Shorts introduced everyone to the story’s factions, deals with a young man who listens to a motivational speaker up until humanity disappears. He continues to listen to the speaker, who manages to stay relevant even as everything has fallen apart and everyone is gone. The “self-help addict” makes the best of his desolate situation by creating robots and acts out what the narrator is saying. At the end other survivors show up and the young man is visibly shocked. It is implied he’s going to try and make friends with them, but we will have to wait and see.
AFTER THE FILTER WEBSITE
