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They Live Fan Art aka What NFTs Really Are

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Based off these two news posts:

CIEIRMusic NFTs

Anti-NFTs


Using a Copy of the Second NFT and Third NFT as the basis and like the third one, inspired by the hit movie They Live, I created a gif designed both to advertise mine and parody the NFT thing as a whole.


For those that don't know, They Live is the cult John Carpenter Classic starring Carpenter Alumni Keith David. Whom you may remember as the following:

Goliath of Gargoyles

Al "Spawn" Simmons

Dr. Facilier of Princess and The Frog

And Keith the Arcade Man from Mister Rogers Neighborhood.


Also Starring the late great WWE..no fuck that. WWF Legend himself: Some know him as the masked Canadian, some know him as The Piper Machine. Some know him as Hot Rod. His family knows him as Roderick George Toombs. Trained by legendary Grapple Master Gene LeBell. THE TOUGHEST SON OF A BITCH IN ALL OF GLASGOW SCOTTLAND EVEN THOUGH HE'S NOT REALLY FROM THERE!!! LADIES AND GENTELMEN!!! ROWDY RODDDDY PIPER!!!


Piper and David star as Nada and Frank. To Average Joes trying to make a living during the Reagan Years in L.A. Nada is a drifter going town to town to escape his past with his abusive Father. Frank has a wife and kids to support back in Detroit. While Nada gets used to a life of honest labour he notices, something strange going on. For starters a blind preacher, in the middle of the streets trying to warn people about an Evil that has taken over Earth. Next a television gets hacked, with a bearded man warning people the kind of Monsters they are gonna deal with. Many of them exploiting those lower class than them. Then one morning a Church Soup kitchen/Shanty Shelter gets raided by cops and military. Gotta hand it to the preacher, he went down swinging. Nada and the others run and hide until it blows over. After the Church has been abandoned and the Shanty Town trying to restore itself, Nada discovers that the Church left a box behind. He opens it and sees what looks like ordinary sunglasses. However upon trying them on he gets monochrome vision and sees what the billboards really say:

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Just when things can't get any weirder, he notices that some of the locals are not humans. Humanoid aliens whom have taken control of L.A. plastering subliminal messages like the one you see above. Nada tries to warn Frank prompting the mother of all fistfights. Eventually they work together to try to stop the signal covering the messages up. As well as revealing to the world who their puppeteers are.


This movie had everything. A wrestler who could act well and look like a legit badass, Keith David being just as tough. No joke, save for the face shots and nut shots, he and Piper were hitting each other and throwing each other for real. Piper once busted a bottle over his own head, he could take a beating and give one. While the movie wasn't quite a success in it's release it gained a cult following among John Carpenter Fans and Filmmakers alike. Two of which, being Trey Parker and Matt Stone, whom numerous times, referenced this movie. Their most famous example. CRIPPLE FIGHT!!!


Even those who haven't seen this movie will remember it's homage when two famous mentally and physically disabled 8 year olds, beat the everloving shit out of each other over a silly hat.


Now when I started advertising NFTs, the reception I got was bad. It reminded me of They Live. When you get right down to it, it's digitized product. Pixels on a screen run by a server, who's sole purpose is to entertain those that can afford to buy it. Take all that away and you got simply the words "Buy this." Putting it into play, I did a little gif, based off my Second NFT. Which will have Sunglasses revealing what's really underneath.


Oh ya I almost forgot, what's a They Live Tribute without a classic Piper One-Liner


"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum."

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whats dis ranbow thing?

CIEIRMusic responds:

Back when I was trying to sell NFTs I was trying to advertise them in a way that some people hate NFTs for various reasons. That way even if they hate them, they'd get a good laugh. The rainbow thing was an abstract Art NFT I was trying to sell and I thought it'd be funny to reference They Live.

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