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Never saw you support Pudgy once. Abstract shuts down and suddenly you're the loudest Karen on the timeline. Silent while they were building. Loud the moment there's something to complain about. Sit down and read the details. In early 2022, @pudgypenguins was a dead project. The community had voted out the founders. The project wallet was empty. The floor was under 1 ETH. Luca Netz bought the entire thing for 750 ETH. Four years later: Walmart shelves, a NASCAR car, the Las Vegas Sphere and San Diego Comic-Con. People underrate how hard that is. Doge and Pepe were already famous memes before anyone gave them a ticker. Pudgy had nothing to borrow. No existing meme, no built-in audience, just a collection everyone had written off. Luca's team turned that into the most recognizable crypto-native character in the real world. The NFTs were just the beginning. Retail: - Pudgy Toys rolled out to 3,100 Walmarts, plus Target, Walgreens, Hot Topic, Five Below, Smyths in the UK and Amazon - 1M+ toys sold - VIBES, their trading card game, is in every Target in the US, with 15M cards in circulation Sports: - NASCAR partnership, with Pengu on Ricky Stenhouse Jr.'s #47 Chevy at the Southern 500 - NHL Winter Classic - Manchester City Entertainment • Kung Fu Panda collab with DreamWorks • Lil Pudgys animated series with TheSoul Publishing, the studio behind 5-Minute Crafts • A children's book with Random House • Their own comic trilogy, launched at San Diego Comic-Con Brands and licensing • Schleich figurines • Visa, through the Pengu Card • LINE FRIENDS, PEZ, Scrub Daddy, Kung Fu Tea • Official trading cards with Kakawow • IRL events from NYC to Tokyo Then the Sphere. Dogwifhat holders tried to get their coin on it and couldn't. Pudgy got on for Christmas, as a toy brand. That's the whole point. The outside world doesn't see Pudgy as a coin. It sees a character. The numbers: - 100B+ views across social media - 50B+ views on GIPHY, at one point more than Disney - 2M+ followers on Instagram And NFT holders get 5% of net revenue when their penguin ends up on a product. That's real IP, not a roadmap. Yes, Abstract is shutting down. Yes, Pudgy Party got cut. They could have launched an Abstract token and dumped it on the community. Instead they ate tens of millions in losses, shut it down and put everything back into the brand that works. That's discipline, not failure. Last cycle's biggest NFT company spent the bear market selling off its IP. Pudgy spent it getting theirs into Walmart. What the fuck has any other NFT project accomplished at this scale? You can hate solana:2zMMhcVQEXDtdE6vsFS7S7D5oUodfJHE8vd1gnBouauv . You can short it. You can question the valuation. But pretending Pudgy Penguins haven't executed is pure cope. And yes, I used Claude to get all these partnership details right. The list is humongous. Nobody keeps all of that in their head. That alone should tell you something. No crypto project has done more to bring IRL people into our community.