thomasupernova

BAYC was never just 10,000 apes. Before it became a brand, a club, a company, or a Web3 status symbol, someone had to make the apes stick in people’s heads. That was Seneca. @allseeingseneca was the lead artist behind the original BAYC art. - The bored eyes. - The mouth. - The weird face. - The streetwear feel. That is the stuff people recognized instantly on the timeline. Yuga built one of the biggest brands in Web3. But the first thing people saw was the art. And the art came from her hand. That is the part I keep thinking about. Web3 talks a lot about artists. "Artist freedom, ownership and economy." But sometimes the brand gets remembered way more than the person who made the thing feel alive in the first place. Seneca has spoken before about not feeling fully seen in the story. That part stayed with me. Web3 history should remember the hands behind the art too. Yuga deserves credit for building one of the defining NFT companies. But if we are going to tell Web3 history honestly, Seneca belongs near the center of that story. Not as a footnote. As the artist who helped make the ape recognizable before the market made it valuable.