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The Eternal Beings team stated on Discord that Lil Uzi has only temporarily walked back from the NFT project to work on his new album.
The floor price of Eternal Beings NFTs plunged after affiliated celebrity rapper Lil Uzi deleted his promotional posts about the project.
The Solana-based NFT project consists of 11,111 computer-generated alien avatar NFTs that feature similar traits to the Lil Uzi, such as hair, tattoos, and fashion style. The NFTs were minted at a price of 2.5 Solana (SOL) worth roughly $337 at the time of writing.
While it is unclear if the popular rapper was on the team behind Eternal Beings or working purely as a paid promoter, the 26-year-old year apparently deleted his promo posts after the project’s launch on Sept. 28.
The NFT collection sold out at the 2.5 SOL mint price, however after Lil Uzi scrubbed his Twitter of mentions of the project, the floor price dipped to 1.67 SOL ($225) according to data from secondary marketplace SolanArt.
The Eternal Beings community — consisting of around 44,000 Discord members — was sent into a panic after spotting that Lil Uzi had removed all mentions, which led some to fear that the NFT drop was a “scam” or “rug pull.”
Screenshots of the project’s Discord channel raise further questions, as the team’s initial damage control consisted of a moderator launching into a rant full of expletives that urged the “pure idiots all fudding at once” to not panic, as the “floor will be raised and big money will start to pour in.”
This is what was just posted as an official announcement in the Lil Uzi NFT discord pic.twitter.com/CXs3w9BSoh
— BIG DOG (@MoonOverlord) September 28, 2021
This was soon followed up with an apology for the lack of professionalism, while the team stressed that Lil Uzi has only temporarily walked back from the project so that he can focus on working on the launch of his new album.
According to the roadmap on the project’s website, the team will seek out further celebrity ambassadors in the future, provide an exclusive Lil Uzi live performance, launch merchandise and drop a new collection of “Baby Uzi” NFTs.
In one of Lil Uzi’s deleted tweets on Internet archive WayBack Machine, he says that NFTs would reach a minimum floor of 6 SOL ($810) “easily”, which may be something the eagle-eyed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could potentially take issue with, if the regulator determines the Tweet to be the promotion of an investment product.
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At the time of writing the Eternal Beings Twitter account has been suspended, while the project’s Instagram account is still active.
A recent survey found that retail investors have a willingness to follow crypto investment advice from celebrities and influencers. On Sept. 21 Morning Consultant published a survey of 2,200 U.S. adults found that 45% of crypto users would be morlikely to seek exposure to a digital asset if it is endorsed by a celebrity, compared to just 20% of participants overall.
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