Ideas for CRYNJ & BASTE:
February 2025 - some newer ideas came up during discussions between myself and my rich developer friend; for launching a baste/crynj meme website, where people can vote on whether a social media post is based or cringe.
Inspired by the olden days of the internet, specifically hotornot, a baste-or-cringe website might let people earn baste and crynj tokens by voting, submitting posts for voting, or by claiming ownership of posts that have earned a verdict of crynj or baste.
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A philosophy of crynj has been emerging in the zeitgeist. To succeed in life, one often has to overcome a fear of being cringe. In this context, crynj embodies the concept that embracing cringe is based.
By inference, the philosophy of Baste might be that it is cringe to try to be based. To try to be cool is an admission that you’re not. To try to be cringe, alternatively, is an act of bravery.
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Another idea that emerged in discussions with my rich developer friend is that Crynj and Baste could be called a “binary memetic system.”
In a crynj/baste ecosystem, I can see a kind of warfare between the two camps of hodlers. Crynj hodlers and baste hodlers may engage in financial sabotage. Crynj hodlers would try to short Baste and Baste hodlers would try to short Crynj. Those who hold both will be called “memetic prophets” where prophet sounds suspiciously like profit.