Most of us have heard about the climate activists throwing tomato soup at a Van Gogh in London.

I respect the message, but I’m not sure how effective it was in promoting the message of taking more action around climate change.

For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s a 1 minute TLDR.

This clip made waves everywhere.

One more point about the above clip and the ‘Just Stop Oil’ shirts that these two activists are wearing.

If you switch your gas-powered car to an electric vehicle, it’s important to note that the EV still uses electricity which comes from…maybe renewable sources, maybe coal. And is the supply chain and energy used to manufacture an EV net positive for the environment vs. a gas car? No idea, but worth considering if you’re serious about climate change.

And reusable bags are net better than plastic bags, but how much better?

I have like…25 reusable totes (most were free) in my house and probably only regularly use 3-4. So isn’t the influx of totes bags a net negative? Not trying to get into semantics, but it’s something to consider.

Oh boy, TPan is going off the rails, I’m unsubscribing!

I’ll one-up that. Mail me a can of tomato soup and I’ll pour it on my head. And then I’ll make sure it goes into a bowl and I have it as my lunch. Now THAT’S called recycling 😂

(Please don’t mail me tomato soup because then I’ll have to actually walk the talk lol)

This reminds me of Web3 at times. Some folks have strong opinions like:

Or

Who knows, maybe they’re just engagement farming 🤷🏻‍♂️

But…how do you expect the next billion people to onboard to Web3 platforms and use blockchain technology? I We can’t even remember our passwords.

IMO we need to have a symbiotic relationship and make tradeoffs when it comes to decentralization vs. centralization or Web2 is evil vs. Web2 can help onboard the next million/billion people onto Web3.

Alright, getting off my soapbox before I receive a gallon of tomato soup.

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🍅 Splat 🍅

After the tomato soup Van Gogh incident, NFT twitter did what it does best — provide commentary and jokes.

Cryptodamus.eth @Cryptodamus44

NFTs solve this lol, can’t ruin an NFT with tomato soup https://t.co/DdCI208DEz

PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK

🚨 Just Stop Oil protestors have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery https://t.co/LkJpar1SVv

3:26 PM ∙ Oct 15, 2022

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Math_Averse @math_averse

At least my NFT art collection is protected against these kind of things.. worst i guess that can happen is they airdrop a jpeg of a tomato soup can into my wallet.. #utility #nftart

Damien Gayle @damiengayle

Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall. https://t.co/M8YP1LPTOU

11:42 AM ∙ Oct 14, 2022

Yesterday Devotion (a company founded by a few well respected individuals in the space) created a project called Splat, inspired by this tomato soup incident.

Splat is Devotion’s first project.

andrew 🥫 @andr3w

Introducing #001: SPLAT 🍅 by @devotionxyz Van Gogh wasn’t safe from the sauce, and now, neither are your JPEGs.

12:08 AM ∙ Oct 18, 2022

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A thousand of these tomato soup cans were minted yesterday and earlier today the ‘museum security’ went down so holders were able to Splat their target

andrew 🥫 @andr3w

To begin, mint 1 of 1,000 Devotion-manufactured Soup Cans (0.05 ETH) here: mydevotion.xyz (Max 1 per wallet; link redirects to etherscan) Soup cans will be deployable once museum security goes down (Current Status: Armed. Cannot splat yet. ETA: ~10:30 pm EDT)

12:08 AM ∙ Oct 18, 2022

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I coincidentally tuned into the Twitter Spaces yesterday evening to learn more about the mechanics of the Soup Cans:

The Splat contract pulls the metadata and image files of the target collection and NFT, and replaces the metadata of the soup can once splatted. The new image is a composite image of the target NFT and the tomato soup splat mark.
This works on different types of NFTs: static, video, GIF, SVG, aspect ratios, etc.
Each NFT can only be splatted once
You can even splat another soup can 🤯
You can hold onto your can and splat something in the future that doesn’t exist yet
Is this IP infringement? Not really. This is more parody or satire, which is protected free speech. Plus the people like this, wouldn’t be a good PR move to send a cease & desist to a fun project.
@Poof_eth splatted the burnt MAYC of WAGDIE fame which is pretty trippy to think about, adding to the lore of that MAYC

From Thoughts #39

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to climate initiatives, everyone wins!

Fans of the project asked about future plans for Splat…or ‘Splatception’.

There are none at this time, but Andrew did point out that the Tomato on the can is actually holding another can of…tomato soup?!

Tomato cannibalism?! THE HORROR

Hopefully there were no real tomatoes harmed in the process.

There are levels to the Splat game theory:

What do you want to splat?
When do you want to splat?
How do you want to publicize the splatting?

What’s been splatted so far? 18 different collections, ranging from the rarest NFTs from top projects to famous digital art pieces.

And as the title of today’s piece indicates…this is FUN.

It’s been a while since there’s been fun in the space. The bear market, regulatory concerns, hacks, scams, royalty issues have all dampened the cheer of the space. Splat is a project that lightened people’s moods, reminded everyone in the space to have fun, and was a creative approach to what NFTs are and what they can do.

Is there monetary value and flipping involved? Sure, but that’s not the point.

Splat has been a breath of fresh air, and the turnaround time to push this live was impressive. I imagine sleepless nights were involved.

Devotion didn’t exactly plan for this to be their first project, but they put themselves on the map with Splat.

Cool Cats Contributor Map

Some Cool Cat community members created a contributor map earlier today! Link to the interactive Webflow map is here.

dill.eth @neicras

😺Cool Cats Contributors Series😺 visit: coolcats-contributor-map.webflow.io (available as desktop & mobile web app) @coolcatsnft #WLTC

2:48 PM ∙ Oct 18, 2022

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What’s cool is I’M ON THERE. What’s even cooler is that there was a typo and my link goes to BivNFT (we’re buddies, he has as daily newsletter as well!)

That’s not the point though. This a great community initiative and should be something that all communities should consider, not just NFT communities:

Everyone loves to be recognized for the work they do. This is a lightweight way to show appreciation to the community
This fosters community engagement. If these creators connect, they already have a pre-existing connection as Cool Cats holders
If you combine this concept with yesterday’s topic around Azuki Collector Profiles, you can integrate special badges and achievements based on contributions to the community and the broader space.

I appreciate seeing all the various strategies and tactics to engage community. The little things do add up.

See you tomorrow folks, let’s have more fun in Web3! 🤗

[Short #124] 🥫Splat - Having fun in Web3