The disinterested apes that have taken over profile pictures– their owners decided the shame they get daily wasn’t enough, so they’ve opted to greenlight one of the worst animation projects of 2021: The Red Ape Family.
A hack-and-paste of Rick and Morty, the story follows Chucky, the cool monkey, and you know he’s cool because “fuck” is 40% of his lines. He says “Fuuuuuuck” about as frequently as Rick Sanchez burps.
Anyway Chucky has stolen a gold USB flashdrive that has “the world’s most expensive NFT” on it, so that’s going to change him and his family’s lives forever (somehow).
Does it matter that according to NFT enthusiasts there’s nothing inherently valuable about a USB drive with an NFT on it? Because the value is supposed to be in the record of the transaction in the blockchain?
No, apparently it doesn’t. The writing struggle doesn’t stop there.
Because the show is crowd-funded, they work in various different NFT characters and give them lines who seemingly have no real connection to the plot past the fact that they paid to be there.
For example two apes pull up in a car at one point while the family is standing on a street corner, roll down their window, and one throws up while the other bitches about traffic in an atrocious Jamaican accent.
In less than 15 seconds the Jamaican character says Bumbaclaat twice and then they just…drive off?
The only creative NFT justification, and by creative, I mean the oldest trick in the book, was having the Red Ape son Cesar reference Hamlet in order to give reason as to why he’s carrying a skull around the entire episode.
Yes, the skull is an NFT. He gets 15 words.
Save yourself, the whole project isn’t fit for human audio-visual consumption.
I don’t think it’ll make it to three episodes.
Come talk that chop on Twitter @readfryeye.
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