Rare Pepe's - Happy Birthday to the Historic meme

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Happy Birthday to Rare Pepes🥳 🐸 In 2016 the idea of a thriving NFT market was just a dream - but today is a reality in large part because of the work of the Rare Pepe project. Here's a little backstory to get you up to speed on why you see Pepe's in your feed daily. 🧵

The birth or Rare Pepes starts with artist @Matt_Furie who's original artwork appeared in a comic series called “Boy’s Club” in 2005. This grew into the "Feels Good Man" meme upon which all dank frog memes are built.

Side note - Matt's original artwork of the cartoon sold as an NFT last April for 420 Ξ to @punk4156 who sold it just a few month later for 1,000 Ξ to @StarryNight_Cap 🤯

The Pepe memes did what all great memes do and spread across the globe. And in 2016, the Rare Pepe community formed in a Telegram chat with a core idea - that the community would create the art. Facilitated by @wasthatawolf's creation of the Rare Pepe Wallet, which made..

..trading easy, the community took off. Growing to over 1,000 people in just a few months. Users submitted artwork and a small group of "Meme Scientists" (aka judges) would decide which Pepe was dank enough to be considered Rare. 🤣 The first card selected..

..was RAREPEPE, commonly called the "Nakamoto Card" it has a total supply of 300 and the most recent sale was to uber collector @seedphrase for ~ $157,000 For Historical NFT collectors, joining the "300 Club" of Nakamoto holders is a big deal.

Matt Furie himself even contributed a card to the collection. FEELSGOODMAN from Series #20 - Card #50 has a total supply of 100.

In total the Rare Pepe collection is massive, with 36 series, and a varying numbers of cards in each series. Cards range from a supply of 1 - like for HOMERPEPE - to millions. So before you buy some, it's important to DYOR. 👇

The best place to start and see the complete list of cards and pricing. pepe.wtf/

Then jump into the Discord. It's the best spot to ask questions about the project or specific cards. discord.gg/fn344yRSER