Bitclout? How does something like this, hint at the future of influence becoming affluence in the metaverse?
In relation to my hypothesis on Gen Z and the digital sovereign individual.. who’s influence is carried within their storyworld and is used by XR music industry to create a feedback loop of promotion, active participation and drive traffic which can be monetized by the industry.. equally what bit clout is promposing is that you can invest in influencers and creators.. as a FTSE of people.. you can invest in yourself and also, that of people whom you admire, follow or even hate…. i feel bit clout is the first experiment into creating a virtual influencer space, which can be traded.
This creates a dual economy — the artist earns from the audience’s attendance in the digital metaverse and in turn the audience earns by how its digital sphere can influence the digital realm it connects with.. we all become a representation of nodes on a network, with a value which fluctuates…. how does this connect to the idea of the digital sovereign individual, which is no longer constrained by the bounding of RR boundaries (boarders and geo politics) who carries its digital self across a metaverse…
Age of affluence becomes age of influence becomes affluence via NFT and Crypto blockchain technology. We become a vessel, a wallet for our IP.
Generation Z are digital natives / digital first — this is how they see the world, combination of its natural fragile state and also an overlay of apps / AR / Video game / Gamification and screens that you can touch — it would make sense that this will be the Generation to adopt or be co-opted first into Digital Sovereign individual…
There is a connection here with XR music — ……………………. which could be in the way digital communities organise themselves — camp fire stories, music being the progression of this basic human need to express, what can’t be said…. emotional levels which make up humanity — frequency and vibration???. — when was music first discovered???? Update** Lab 9 talk by Graham Shanknell had some interesting facts in it, which focus on ancient ritual of mask work in ancient communities, specifically the Dogon tribes, who use cosmology via mask, costume and initiation to synthesis a working hypothesis of space, time and consciousness… and i commented that a head-dress worn by a shaman, to this day, looks very much like a ‘facebook timeline’ although displayed linear, image and symbol on top of one another, it also actually contains Meta information, so its a 3D, universe, and song, dance and performance allows this information to be extracted (downloaded) from the mask via ceremony and ritual? — like a hard-drive of data.. more research needed and how this connects with Sovereign individual and indeed music! — in my head, we have a digital avatar wandering about the universe with a load of data inside ‘IT’ — which MIGHT correspond to represent how the ancient Dogon tribe perceived consciousness and the universe — maybe with LSD, you can?
Does this research start to look like this..
- Gen Z — Who are they and why this matters?
- The Avatar / My Profile — Digital representation and ways of seeing the creative body. (The artistic self)
- The Wallet — Blockchain / Digital passports / Crypto — ultimately data and control of the sovereign digital individual (The data self)
- The Metaverse — the digital world we live in — XR music and its role in connecting the network — audience as creator — the new paradigm (the Persona of the self)
- Age of affluence to the age of influence, how Gen Z are affecting the music industry via XR Technology — key discoveries / Findings and summary.
Which brings together — the artistic self — the data self — the persona of the self and how the influence of this creative construct by a Gen Z architect will come to affect the XR Music industry — is the artist the audience, or the audience the artist — where do we look, does it matter?
6. The Future — technology like Bitclout — which creates a FTSE of creators and influencers and creates stocks / tokens in their digital presence — how does this mechanic play in the aforementioned world — Future Research.
