Final yr, when information bought out that Slim Jim had gone and registered the time period meataverse, all of us had a superb snort.
Over a yr later and some notches down the Gartner Hype Cycle, the salty meat stick firm has lastly launched its web3 world effort to get folks to go surfing and gather digital artwork of cartoon meat sticks. The corporate, which, in a sarcastic nod to Fb’s new company title, has periodically rebranded itself as MEATA on Twitter and described the hassle in its trademark discovering as one thing offering “companies that includes digital items, digital meals merchandise, and non-fungible tokens,” together with “offering a metaverse for folks to browse, accumulate, purchase, promote and commerce digital meals merchandise.”
However now, they’ve gone and carried out it by Jim, and I’m going alongside for the journey. Positive, it sounds ridiculous and one thing an grownup who doesn’t eat Slim Jims would in all probability keep away from losing his time on, however right here I’m, the proud proprietor of GigaJim #1070.
Meet Gigajim #1070. From @SlimJim‘s #meataverse
Unsure if it is unhappy my first NFT is a meatstick that is attempting to get me to purchase extra meatsticks. pic.twitter.com/B49k47Guya
— Michael Wolf (@michaelwolf) June 23, 2023
The location, which lets you be part of at no cost and to mint considered one of ten thousand NFTs freed from cost (they even choose up the fuel charges), is user-friendly and focused on the common meathead who doesn’t personal a crypto pockets. I’ve a Metamask pockets mendacity round someplace, however I simply let Slim Jim’s Meataverse create a pockets for me, and inside 5 minutes, I had minted my GigaJim.
The location comes full with an origin story for the Meataverse world, detailing how how an excellent younger scientist named “Slender” Jim (what else?) is recruited by Slim Jim Industries to move up its secretive M.E.A.T. (mechanics engineering and know-how) lab and, inside a couple of years, Dr. Jim has proposed a principle of alternate meat dimensions (aka the ‘meataverse’), digital worlds which might be “meatier, spicier and residential to highly effective energies.”
After I began searching for methods to extend my GigaJim’s worth, it (shock, shock) required shopping for Slim Jims and scanning the bar code. When you present you’re consuming meat sticks within the bodily meat world, you’re given extra base sauce so as to add to the sauce extractor, and after you have three base sauces, you’ll be able to create an excellent sauce and degree up your Jim.
As I mentioned, it’s all ridiculous, however I’ve to say, as company model web3 metaverse efforts go, it has me (considerably ashamedly) fascinated about working to the native retailer and choosing up some Slim Jims (which is, after all, the purpose).
See you within the Meataverse!
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