Let's Build Together the Future of Social Media

[pbnokb]

Good evening,

I've been thinking for the past 2 years about a way to revolutionise human communication.

The speed at which our civilisation's vision and understanding are evolving has become way too powerful to be handled by both our current tools and the current way we approach new ideas. We need more scalable communication solutions in order for the public discussions humanity is now able to have, and for the human debate to take place at the same rate ideas are being created by each one of us.

I can perceive that the technology and the mentalities that are now getting developed makes today the moment to build this solution.

In the form of a decentralised communication platform where any content can be an NFT, we will empower both followers and content creators. Ultimately, every user will be a creator.

Art has always been ahead.

Some would argue because Artistic sensibility allows perception of great changes before they happen, and artists to foresee events because their awareness let them grasp more about the mood and direction of an era. Other would argue because Art is leading the way and is the origin of great changes, for ideas grow from what we feed them : from the stories we share, to the images we observe and the music over which we bond with others.

Either ways, Art, in all its forms, is something we consume. And that consumption, necessarily, generates ideas in our brain, whether consciously or not, whether we explore them or not. The (subjective) definition of Art I'll assume in this paper is : anyone (or anything?) 's creation. Any creation can be called Art, for Art lies in the eye of the holder of artistic feelings towards something.

Imagine breaking the unilateral, linear creation-->consumption artistic process, and equally involving all parts of the artistic interaction, both the creator and the receiver. Imagine an artistic interaction where both the creator and the consumer are the artists. Circular Art.

[pbnokb]

ART FROM THE FUTURE : Social Media to Create and Experience Art

PROJECT.  An NFT social media empowering fans and content creator.

GOAL.  Break the linear creation-consumption artistic process. With multinteractive circular Art, Experiencing Art becomes Creating Art

AIM.  Unlocked possibilities of artistic expression, for anyone, will inject ideas into our perceptions in their purest form, will produce genuine, immediate responses, and will enhance human common reflexion.


1 - NFT Social Media

Content creators share their content as NFT
Followers can own these NFTs (buying or other ways) and create their own content on top of them
Each NFT is independant
Ultimately, any interaction is an NFT


2 - Fractional NFT

The NFT content of an user can be divided into many pieces, and they will also be NFTs
The full artistic experience is formed of many segments, each an NFT that can be enjoyed independently, while only the access to all those parts grants access to the full experience.
- Owning all the segments by collecting the NFTs until owning the whole content
- Lending your NFT segment to a Pool in order to get access to the other users's NFTs, are two possibilities.

It can also be the choice of the artist whether the nature of their content :
- allow any fractionized owner to experience Art
- on the contrary, allow only the owner of all Fractionalized NFTs to truly enjoy the full content.

> Ex : An NFT is a videoclip
- For ex : It can be fractionalized into 2 sub-NFTs : the music and video
2 people can individually enjoy their fractionalized NFT separately, but they will need to associate in some way (staking their NFT, lending it, or other possibilities) in order to access the full experience
- Or many other ways to fractionalize it

> Ex : a movie is an NFT
A secondary character becomes extremely popular on the Internet for some reason
Fans could purchase this character (or every apparition of this character in the movie in order to own its rights)
They could lend it
A fan could incorporate it in content of its own creation


3 - Change the way content is built

Contents co-exist : in this movie, the character will only appear if you connect a wallet that own it (or lend it)
If another movie is built to also includes that NFT, the same wallet will allow you to see your character in this other movie
In this example, a movie could be thought of as a collection : you can experience the whole movie if you've collected all its components
The specificity is that another collection can also include that same component : if you own this NFT character, you can see him in all the movies built in a way to include it
This can be true of anything : video games, songs, famous quotes or extracts from movies, memes...
Another example : Skins
We could build video games, movies or whatever, where characters can display whatever skin you own in your wallet : watch the new Batman movie where Batman is played by your favorite actor ; play a video game where George Clooney is your character, watch a 1st-person interactive movie in virtual reality, where the actress is your favorite Instagram influencer..


4 - Involving the community

A fan can own all or some of the NFT segments and use them in one of their own creation, as segments of their own Fractionized NFT.
- To use another creator universe
- To incorporate an element of their liking into their own Art or universe
- To get their own Art known / To get another creator's Art known


5- Slots

When creating and fractionalizing an NFT, content creators can make some fractions empty slots, on which the minter can build anything
- For the creator himself to fill later
- For the buyer of that segment to fill
This can be used :
- in the event of a featuring or a collaboration
- To giveaway one or many slot(s) to fans


6 - Change the way stories are told

Schedule : ensure information contained in a certain NFT remains secret until a specific date
> Ex : Schedule scenario delivery

The unlockable content is the neuronal link between 2 ideas
If the NFTs are the Art, but only the owner can see the idea attached to each NFT, the story is actually the ideas. Therefore, ownership means being the only one able to produce the content. This is the incentive for content producers to buy your NFTs.


7 - Own your content

Vote for the content producer
> Ex : Netflix or Disney ?
Veto rights


8 - Scalability : build a new blockchain

This platform needs its own blockchain : in each block, every transaction is an NFT.
Each block has the opportunity to be the genesis block of a layer-2 blockchain on which creator can produce fan content
- Ex. Writing Fanficitions
- Fans can re-order the blocks in the order they like better on a layer-2 blockchain, or re-order NFTs within one block with a fork to adapt it the community's liking.
- The community of followers of a project is the one creating and owning the project
Ultimately, each creator's project will have its own blockchain.
Holders of the governance tokens will be able to vote to select which content producer will mine the next block.

[pbnokb]

I want to build a platform allowing content creators to mint NFT as components of a whole project, on a blockchain belonging to a made-for-artists ecosystem. Each block of that blockchain contains, instead of transactions, NFT slots on which you can mint your content as NFT.
  - Artists can easily create their own blockchain, choosing the threshold of NFT slots per block, mining the blocks, and minting their content on NFT slots. They can also sell some or all of those slots to people willing to contribute to the project, that might have an appealing graphic identity, idea, universe or story.


The user-friendly platform will both allow access to the content shared by Artists, as you would enjoy TikTok, Netflix or any entertainment platform, and make it ultra-simple for anyone to create content using the platform studio, or upload a creation, and mint it as an NFT so easily that you won't even notice it.
  - It has to be so pleasant and simple to use that in the endgame, the word 'NFT' will be forgotten, and the only enjoyment will be creating and experiencing Art.


The future of Art is Collaborative Art.

  - Currently, the best way artists have to express and share their creations is Digital Art.
  - As Art goes more and more towards involving the spectator, laying the Beauty in the eye of the viewer, making non-artist people be a part of the art, empowering the consumer, we are ultimately heading towards the abolition of Art as a Creation-and-Consumption linear process.
  - The next step is Circular Art, where a creation is just someone's concept and can be owned by anyone else. Who wishes to add its own touch on top of a piece of Art, before giving it back to the community to build together something ever-improving, can do so using an additional layer, preserving the original art and only making it richer for who agrees with that new thought. People who connect with an idea can contribute to its flow by contributing to the artistic process, allowing others to then add their own view, advance the common reflection and let people answer to their inputs. And so on, just like any other form of communication. Because that's what Art is.
  -  Art isn't anymore to be a statement to be listened to, but rather a discussion. Ultimately, all Art is is joint thinking.
            - For this reason, it is primordial to allow anyone to access and contribute to the common human ponder. Anyone has to be able to let their ideas out in the easiest form they can express them. Common knowledge can only be reached if we have everyone's piece of the puzzle.



SUCCESS.    "This platform is going to work, for I have myself a story I want to tell in a way that requires exactly such an infrastructure. "


How Does It Work :
  - An artist can write his project on a blockchain and by selling it, allow the community to own the story, or pieces of the story, and therefore to remake, reorganize or remodel it.
            - Additional layers will allow to produce additional content on top of the blocks you like, thus maintaining creation no longer horizontal, but also vertical : one fan project built on the top of a block could become bigger than the blockchain of that original block.
  - The advantages of the platform are the exposure content creators can easily get and the empowerment they benefit from using blockchain technology and a marketplace with healthy price mechanisms.


Use Cases :
  - Imagine having 7 blocks representing Harry Potter's 7 books. Anyone could make a hard fork of that chain of block, using only the first 3 and rewriting the 4 next.
            - If someone liked that project, they could also "insert" between the book 6 and the book 7 of that fan version, another story taking place on the summer, by creating another block on a layer on top of that fan blockchain. Thus, readers could choose to experience the project :
            -> looking only at the original's author content ;
            -> or with the additional content on, by accessing that extra layer while they are on the hard fork.

But the content doesn't necessarily have to be a book. It could be music, comics, a dance, podcast, video clip, fanlifestyle, drawings, any audio or any form of art that can feed the shared artistic process. Like a Decentralized Wattpad, but the story truly becomes alive.

With that logic :

  - A singer could mine an album, and sell a slot as a featuring. In a single, a verse could be an NFT slot.
         - Any Artist willing to perform with Kanye West could buy a featuring with Ye as an NFT, if Ye is willing to sell parts of his song as empty slots to be filled by some promising musical performers.

  - A scenarist could write a script on a blockchain, each page or sequence being an NFT that cinema producers would need to buy to access the script.
        - The scenarist would not have to sell all of it right away, as if they were signing a contract and selling their rights to one company. Instead, they can keep creating blocks and making distributors and producers competing for getting the next episode, ensuring a fair price as the project grows.
        - Those productions could even be distributed on a layer built on top of the scenarist's blockchain and broadcasted on our platform. As not all the content has to be revealed right away, creators can adapt their prices if their project has grown.
         - This is also a protection for sharing content for collaboration purposes, as you don't commit to exclusivity. Rather, you make your project evolve with the community, and the community rewards you if they like your project.
 
  - In the same logic, you can create a fantasy world, the baseline of a story, a character and sell the slots to let people make whatever they want with it. By allowing the expression of even the slightest idea, we can reach true artistic creation, because someone else might just have the piece required to give your idea another perspective. Only by making advantage of each idea, we can truly paint a picture of humanity, the human consciousness.


How the Community chooses / the Governance token DIM
  - Let's say Snoop Dogg wrote an amazing story, and sells it on the platform for it to be produced. Say Warner Bros buys the project and is the only one to know what the story is about. If the episodes are bad, holders of the plaftorm's native governance token can vote for another content producers to receive the NFTs (the plot).
        - Staking the governance token DIM generates a yield, and part of this yield is used to buy the NFTs that the vault is designated for.
        - The idea is that if a content creator, say some cinema student in Belarus, wants to be the one to produce Snoop Dogg's story, he can create a vault, in which people would stake DIM. Say they would receive 10 DIM per month ; 5 would be for them, and 5 would be put in the auction that tries to buy the NFT.
        - If a Youtuber is famous for his high-quality content, he can ask his community to help him buy Snoop's NFT because he wants to be the one have the secret plot and to produce it.
        - If someone is not famous yet, he can wait for the content producer that currently receives the NFT with the plot to realize the first part. Then realize the same part with its own way and present it to people. If he is good, people will vote for him and their staked DIM will buy him the plot.
        - People can make fan productions of an official content. But the fan productions can become the official production. The official production is the one that receives the NFT with the plot before everyone else, because it owns that NFT. That is why it is important to make the reveal of each NFT chronologically separated.



Art doesn't have to be linear and constrained to one support. Neuronal communication allows flexible storytelling

I'd like the community to own, build and use the project the way they understand it. I want the community needs to be answered without any centralized limitations. This is why we need a new platform and a new technology.