Bozo Collective, and the Free Mint grifters that followed

Bozo is a real one. Goofs? Not so much 🤮

Bozo Collective, and the Free Mint Grifters that followed

My bozo chef: “What’s cookin’?”

Free mints were all the hype a minute ago. Bozo Collective. Goofs. Penguins. And a gang of other shite derivatives. Let’s get into it.

Bozos in the front

Bozo Collective kicked off the free mint meta, and we’re not just talking about the meta. We’re talking art, Discord strategy, Twitter game strategy, etc. Everyone thought it would be a rug, but how do you rug a free project?

Well, today we know better. It’s been a couple weeks, and Bozos look like they’re here to stay. But we did learn from Goofs how you actually can rug a free project.

Grifters done goofed 💀

What quickly followed Bozo Collective were a string of shitty derivatives.

My Peng Collective

Peng Collective, a bunch of cute-looking penguins, followed suit. Art was similar, but I dug it ngl. What was interesting is that they relied on art only and still managed to sell out, without having to push hard for collabs and marketing. Needless to say, post-mint, they went a bit quiet, and the project is effectively dead.

Discord deleted. Apparently some $PENG token is getting airdropped to holders, but who knows what they’ll be worth? 🤔 

Bozo Girls, an obvious copycat of Bozo Collective, sprung up and died as fast as it came. I never looked at ‘em closely, and I’m glad I faded.

Goofs… This one stings a bit. Let’s get into it.

I ran a giveaway with them. The project founder, Director Goofs, told me I’d get 20 wl spots. He also told me they would run 20 giveaways on a space I’d be hosting for the project with the founder, Director Goofs.

We started the space at 9 pm my time. Twitter rugged us 4 times. Some more technical difficulties ensued, where we couldn’t see the founder in the audience, so we couldn’t listen to him. I had to hop on a Discord call with him during the live space, and boost my volume to have him talk while I held up my phone.

We ran the space for 1h25min. It was fun af. We did a feet pix giveaway based on feet pix in the comments. We had people come up and tell their funniest sex stories. (Some were more weird than funny.) There was some white list begging…

Here’s the link if you want to run it back:

twitter.com/i/spaces/1yoKM…

— Valerioshi X+ (@valerioshi_)
Oct 5, 2023

The next day, I took some time to collate a list of all the OG role winners + wl spot winners. I sent that stuff over at least 2 days before mint (48h+), via Twitter DMs. Strangely enough, he was incredibly communicative before the space. After the space, I had to ping him multiple times on Twitter, and then follow up on Discord:

Look. I get it. Project founders are busy. But we held a community space and hosted a giveaway. Now I’m getting hounded by your community members, who are upset and angry ‘cause you failed to deliver.

Wild.

Then someone DM’d me this from another Discord:

Bruh 💀

Goofs launched on Taiyo Robotics’ launchpad. Taiyo’s founder Solport Tom and I had a chat about it, and he shared the wallet addys that were sent over. Surprise, surprise. The wallet addys were missing. 😒

Now they're blaming the Atlas3 platform, saying something went wrong there with wl allocation. They also held auctions, making roughly US$10k to $15k off this grift. (So, not free?)

Then their collection got hacked, and all the NFTs were displaying like what’s shown below:

Come on, bruh. At this point, I gotta ask:

Are you grifting, retarded, or both?

My final thoughts

At the end of the day, I’m sorry for the folks who trusted me with Goofs. A founder DM’d me yesterday and said that Director Goofs is a rugger who’s been involved in several rugs on Ethereum.

Shame. If this sounds negative to you, too bad. I’m not going to sugarcoat shit or not talk about something because it’s negative. I think there’s a line between being real, being positive, and being toxic. I want to be real without being toxic, but I reject toxic positivity as well. If these frauds don’t get called out, what are we doing?

I don’t watch Big Brother, but this GIF is on point

There are a bunch of derivatives I haven’t mentioned here. No need to give them attention. Whoever you are, I hope you make money off of free mints. Just think twice before you choose to buy a free mint on secondary.

Btw, Bozo Collective and I are still in DMs. They don’t have much to gain by continuing to engage with me… unless they do see a future path for their project. Either way, the Bozo founder has been cordial, responsive, and timely in his DMs. Respect for that.

Bozos lead the way 👑

Next time, on Degen Reports:

I think I’ll talk about Hashlings. Just joined the team as their CMO. It’s got a lot of strengths, and I like the project a lot (or I wouldn’t have joined it, obviously!). Anyway. See you next time, and thanks for reading! 🧡