A phone conversation with my younger self
Authored by Peeps – copyright 2023 – cryptocurrencydramaclub
Main actor leaps onto stage and squats.
(holding a phone in hand with a photo on display)
Dear selfie of mine…
I took you barely 5 years ago…
Through that time, we’ve been through the ups and downs or as they like to say in this new world, highs and lows…
Yeah, we’ve had some pretty highs… to compensate for some ugly lows
Who would have guessed that a regular old green amphibian that was often laughed at and mocked for its glaring lips and baldy skin could make it to this?
Man! We’ve hit the limelight!
And it is hot!!!
(checks out reflection on screen)
No kidding, but it’s a new tint on my skin that makes me look more lime than green…
Nice hue…for sure…not gonna lie…I like it!
But it also feels really hot.
(taps head) It’s like the sunlight’s been shining on this baldy spot.
(shrugs and stares back at photo)
But you know what’s weird, you?
Yes, you!
You are weird. Or so they thought, right?
I mean you show up in unorthodox scenes as a comic of all things
And before you can say “jack” or rather “peep”, you’re all over the screens
Sailing the internet as a meme seemed all like a dream…
And then some people get you into a fight that you didn’t even start
But even that could never prepare you for the last two weeks or so where you’ve made the new web a wreck.
Everyone (well except those who are stuck up I suppose…) is making a shilling of you and you’re bringing them in more than shillings…
Wait for it, wait for it… you…
(flicks the screen)
You’re breaking their banks!
(raises left eyebrow)
No, no – don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean like those banks that got broke…this is a good break!
What I mean is, you’re turning hundredaires to millionaires.
Yes, you!
(laughing uncontrollably, sprawling across the floor)
Hahaha! Hehehe! Pepepe!
Who would have thought that you had such charm…
Just a regular old frog
Is now top dog…
Literally…
(cynically…)
Don’t believe me?
See, I have proof!
It’s all in the crypto news…
And check out the crypto watchlist…
(hits a trader’s screen)
Pow!
We made it!
Call mum!
Or wait… wait a moment….
We technically ain’t got a mum since we’re kind of like digits and all…traversing through this optical illusion lens…
(clucks lips in frustration)
Psst.
Whatever! Call a friend!
Oh wait, wait one moment…
We haven’t really got any friends.
Yeah we’ve got frens… but most of them are just in it for it…
(with a heightened tone)
Like that one we made unimaginably rich when they converted their 0.125ETH to Peeps….
And suddenly… BOOM!!!
$250 turned to $1.8m and last I heard it’s over $5m.
They even cashed in some of that amidst naysayers citing concerns of liquidity.
Anyway, this hundredaire we turned millionaire…
That one should be a true friend now yeah!
You’d think so.
(shakes head) But alas my dear younger me…life is more complex than it seems.
Wait until that person finds out about the next meme coin promising huge returns and then we’d be dropped like a hot potato.
Mercy on us if at that time, our BOOM has turned to b-u-s-t then we’ll be even worse off, at their sheer disdain for investing in us, more than those treacherous snubs who won’t even spend a dollar on us.
You know what they think of us? Those snubs?
Better not to say.
They hide their malice under the pretence of “no utility”…
Imagine that? Saying we have no real utility.
Or they cry foul and talk about wallet concentration referring to monopolization of tokens by few wallets.
(in apparent frustration) Like, what’s the deal with this decentralization palaver? Such a downer!
Ah, at least they’re true to their ideals or beliefs of how they want this ecosystem to work.
(starry eyed)
As for me, you’d think that with such unprecedented success that I’ve figured it out…at the pinnacle of my career I am…
Yes, we are! Cheers to our success.
(jumps to feet and begins to jiggle to a tune streaming from an old radio…while singing)
“And I’m feeling good… I’m feeling good…”
(stops midway and squats again on the floor rather poignantly)
(stares back at photo) But guess what young one?
I’m still as clueless as the day I took this photo of you…10 years nah…maybe more …but what’s a few years here and there, eh…
(grins bare teeth)
Anyway, as I was saying, I’m still as clueless as you are.
More so, I’m even more clueless…
(in a hushed tone) And keeping this between you and me, incredibly lonely in this wild wild Web3t…
One wrong leap and your tiny, scrawny legs are entangled… stuck… frozen out…
Ah, do I miss those days of just being plain old me, chilling with my peeps?
Yeah I do!
I sure do!
But those days are over.
(dramatically slams the floor) Gone!
I feel like this has been an unfair hijack of my identity in a world where sovereign identity and self owned data are enshrined in their discussions.
The irony!
Alright… hey hey… is that a tear I see you drip?
Com’on things are not too bad…
Like I said, we’ve made it beyond our dreams…
Cheer up you chubby old thing…
(touches the screen and then holds up cheeks in palms)
(in a startled tone) Oh wait, that’s not yours, that’s mine.
(looks at tear stained palms) Ha! Imagine that?!
Peeps!
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