I let my thoughts about @coolcats recent events sit with me for 24 hours before writing. After the Discord talk with @cloncast, I had a mixture of feelings. Gaslighting Clon started on the defensive, "Why are you here?" I found this to be a form of gaslighting. We are here for the team and the roadmap that was promised. We are here to build alongside the Cool Cats brand with the IP that we own as well. Are we not supposed to express our feelings about the team and friends that were let go? Or show our dismay at the sudden change of direction without any form of communication? Clon gave a clear indication that Cool Cats NFT is now an art project alongside Crypto Punks or, let's mention another art project, Creature World. He made it out as if this was the case all along, which is simply not true. Cool Cats was always about the brand and the people building the IP to bring it to the heights of Disney. Cool Cats has never just been about Clon, and never just about his story with Blue. It’s been many things. First, gaming incorporating Web3 technology, then branding, with merch and billboard displays, Comic Con and Macy's, and most importantly, community activation, which helped achieve all these things in the first place. Clon is now taking the whole treasury, mostly funded by the Cool Pets mint, for his one goal of making an animation. Clon leaves behind a devastation of promises, pivots, and roadmaps yet again, but we are told to "like it or GTFO." Conflicting Thoughts and Counterarguments You might say this is a bitter attack, but wait. I do agree with the changes. Having a full-time staff to man the Discord 24/7 and dev teams working on projects that only a couple of hundred people will use is wasteful. We all know NFTs are in a nuclear winter and there are now only the Amazons and Walmart's left: Pudgy Penguins, Azuki, and Yuga. I don't agree with the way the changes were done. Although tech companies like to fire people this way, the board and especially Clon should've been more sensitive and considerate. After all, these were people executing Clon's plans. Sapphire Town was something he oversaw since February only to cancel the project on the eve of launch, firing all the people on top. For the team that has left, I can only imagine the hurt, confusion, and sense of injustice in these decisions. The Future If Clon is reading this, @aaronmcdnz and @SharaSenderoff too... If you are going all in on the animation, the current state of the show is weak. The characters are tepid, the story is a bit lame, and the message is empty. Please work on developing a script with some leading writers in the industry. I want to see characters we care for, I want to see conflict and resolution, I want to see black comedy that parents can laugh at while also watching with their children. I want you to take me places and make me feel emotions I have never felt. We all want to see this show being picked up by a network and we want it to succeed. Premieres should be on Netflix, not on YouTube. You might have the amazing Titmouse studio and amazing voice casting, but there is still something seriously lacking with the shorts that have been made. Currently this studio and cast comes through connections and money (funded by the Web3 community), not through merit. If these previous shorts were better, perhaps there could already be a network deal in place. Please don't just make more of the same. Go hard or go home. I expect the show to be amazing if all the resources are focused on this one goal. Don't mess it up and waste this once in a lifetime opportunity. 🙏 Should I Leave? Cool Cats has benefited me so much through the community, friends, laughter, alpha and experience. So my CC will forever be on my mantelpiece as a reminder of all that can be achieved when people come together and build. I wish Clon and his story all the luck, but I believe Cool Cats is much bigger than Clon, something that if he doesn’t know already, I’m sure he will come to realize in the future.