Did you know that much of internet culture, including your favorite viral dance trends, came from black creators? In this special Juneteenth episode Jadu AR Founder, Asad J Malik, and Isaiah Chavous share how they immortalized the 3 original creators of The Renegade (Jalaiah Harmon), Throw it Back (Cookie Kawaii), and The Git Up (Blanco Brown) dances with NFTs and holograms. We discuss how interactive digital assets can lead to “a creative chaos” and help change the way content is credited and consumed.

• (3:16) Everyone knows the Throw it Back, but no one knows Cookie Kawaii who literally made the song.
• (5:09) “Do you think NFTs can become the standard of ownership of digital goods?”
• (8:57) Black culture has been exploited in all areas specifically when it comes to dance and music
• (15:05) The permission-less nature of the blockchain and the interoperability that comes with it allows new companies to compete with larger centralized platforms.
• (18:30) When assets from various virtual worlds can interact with each other, it will lead to “a creative chaos”.
• (20:50) NFTs need to have some weight, not just artificial scarcity.
• (21:05 ) What's really exciting is the collaborative culture that's emerging in this space. Centralized control of content is the opposite of the future we’re working towards.
• (25:35) Mainstream articles may proclaim NFTs dead. But the NFT boom inspired many new people, companies, and projects the results of which we will see in next three or four years.

This episode is brought to you by our friends at SeekXR who create, manage, and deploy 3D assets anywhere in the Metaverse.

View the 3 AR NFTs on Opensea, read Taylor Lorenz’ NYT article about Jalaiah Harmon “The Original Renegade”, and learn more about Jadu AR on their website.

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