Are you ready to own a piece of "meme history?" If so, Republican Jesus NFT Club invites you to its soft-lauch event on Jan. 22, 2022!
Republican Jesus NFT Club is a collection of genuine human artist rendered and generated, meme inspired, messiahs that incorporate the attributes of the ever popularized political and comical parody of the biblical Jesus. As of its launch, there will be an undisclosed quantity of originally created pixel-art JPEGs. This is a one man team as of the time of launch, but with plans to bring on talented folk should the project substantially grow. And while there are PC tools and apps to generate 1000s of various NFTs so as to distribute a voluminous collection, this “experiment in controversial community building” is designed with other mapped-out goals in mind.
Republican Jesus NFT Club artwork fuses the concepts imbued in the popular political genre of memes with NFTs aimed at providing both “value” and strong community building in a manner that has yet to be tested. The artist behind this project admits that this could be too vitriolic” to become adopted by NFT collectors by and large; but, by the same token vitriol - the highly controversial - has often times created unpredictable “viral storms of interest.” While most NFTs do not center around a polarizing or controversial social media “joke,” this means there is a space begging to be explored. The Republican Jesus “joke” has expanded into a very large international discourse and popculture phenomenon that seeks to expose, or at least mocks, conservative or right wing religiosity which re-brands “The Prince of Peace” as a figure in their own image.
