A Note From the Producer:

Over the past year high-volume profile picture projects have become, for better or worse, an integral part of NFT culture. As an artist who traffics in NFTs, their impact has been impossible to ignore.

What started as a joke among friends and a jab at BAYC holders tendency to fumble their apes to dubious phishing links quickly evolved into a much more ambitious project. A tweet I made combining a crude tracing of a bored ape and the elaborate feeble minds of the Brainlet Wojack “went viral.” As a result some devs reached out see if I wanted help realizing it into a generative PFP project of my own. Eager to put my spin on the phenomenon, I gladly accepted.

Quickly a small community formed around the concept art and suggested many of the traits included in the final collection.
As a result the collection is packed full of lore, memes, and intertextual references to crypto & internet culture. My goal was to produce a PFP project that satirizes the current state of digital art in regard to NFTs & their enjoyers. A collection that, when considered as a whole, touches on the NFT and crypto communities subconscious obsessions with ancient memes, imageboard culture, losing all their money, and of course, expensive pictures of monkeys.

To make Dumb Wojapes extra special, there are seed phrase traits with a unique phrase generated at mint peppered throughout the collection. We reached out to artists we love who contributed traits and some beautiful 1:1 works. @RSTYCG, ENJOOYER @B0DKO @MASHINE @COCO @EGREVORE As well as traits created with real BAYC assets contributed by graciously by @totty. I deeply appreciate everyone in Discord who has been incredibly patient as I have spent the last 6 months bringing this project to life. Your hilarious contributions made this project what it is today and I tried my very best to do you proud.

Being on the building side of one of these projects has been very eye opening and I have nothing but respect for all PFP teams who bring a good project to mint and continue to deliver value. Your hard work pushed me to create something that I feel will stand the test of time. I aim to build a positive and irreverent community of memers, artists & devs around Dumb Wojapes who will continue create value and contribute great things to our NFT ecosystem.

Through this project I connected with many talented people and am pleased to announce the formation of Bofa Labs, our artist run digital asset production group. (With much assistance from UWU Crew) Dumb Wojapes will be the first project produced under our umbrella, but definitely not the last. I am very excited for what’s in store. Follow us on Twitter and get involved.

I hope everyone enjoys minting, trading, and collecting Dumb Wojapes as much as I did making them. In the spirit of the memes, all artwork related to this project is CC0 and in the public domain. Feel free to make any kind of derivative collections, merchandise or whatever other crazy stuff you can dream up using Wojape assets.
Thank you for your support.

Love,
Avery Famous