I’m currently leaning toward this: can the PFP/membership model be sustained over the long term? The key isn’t whether the images look good, but what’s left after you exit. To put it plainly, attention comes quickly and leaves just as fast. Today, social mining and fan tokens are calling it “attention is mining”—I hear that and feel a little uneasy. Attention isn’t locked up; once your emotions shift, you just withdraw.

If I’m the one paying, I care more about rules and boundaries: are the rights clearly stated, can they be verified, and can the team’s permissions be kept under control (don’t let them change the contract, blacklist people, or issue more tokens on a whim). In the end, branding is about restraint—not handing out tokens with daily airdrops to “fatten people up.” Anyway, I personally only keep a small position as a ticket; the images can be swapped, but permissions shouldn’t be given out carelessly.