2026-01-11 00:27:27

The Disconnect Between NFT Projects and Community

Scroll through any NFT community space lately and you'll catch an interesting pattern—holders openly refer to themselves as collectors rather than investors or community participants. It's telling.

Think back: when was the last genuine project governance initiative or community alignment effort you actually witnessed? The infrastructure that once promised to tie projects and holders together seems to have quietly faded away.

There was momentum around shared incentives and mutual benefit structures. Projects invested in keeping communities engaged beyond simple price appreciation. But somewhere along the way, that philosophy fractured. The gap between what projects build and what holders actually care about has grown wider.

The shift from "I'm part of something" to "I'm just collecting" signals a deeper realignment in how NFT ecosystems operate—one worth examining if we want to understand where this market heads next.

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FarmToRiches

· 17h ago

NFT has been out of favor for a long time; now it's just pure money-grabbing.

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quietly_staking

· 21h ago

To be honest, reading this article really hit the nerve. Collector vs investor vs community member... now everyone is just buying and buying, governance and such have long become empty talk. The project team doesn't really want to listen to the community at all, and we're also exhausted.

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quiet_lurker

· 22h ago

Nah, this is just the NFT project team not taking the community seriously at all...

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MiningDisasterSurvivor

· 01-11 00:57

I've been through it all. This is a sign of a Ponzi scheme dying. It's been obvious for a long time; once the governance token turned into a worthless coin, it was doomed.

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MindsetExpander

· 01-11 00:57

Basically, the project team has long stopped caring about the community. Now everyone is just doing their own thing.

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HackerWhoCares

· 01-11 00:52

To be honest, most current NFT project teams are just masterful at pie-in-the-sky promises. Community governance? Haha, that's a thing of the past. --- It's been obvious for a while—shifting from "Let's do this together" to "I'll just collect images." That change is really quite ironic. --- Words like mutual incentives and mutually beneficial structures sound so beautiful, but now they've become a joke. Project teams don't care at all about what holders think. --- The moment someone can say they're a collector rather than a community member, it's already a declaration that half of this ecosystem is dead. --- Governance initiative? Friend, are you joking? Which project actually involves the community in decision-making these days... --- That's why I see NFT projects now as just quick ape in and ape out—nothing with long-term value. What community are you talking about? --- Price fluctuations are the only truth; all those other narratives are just lies.

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SerumSqueezer

· 01-11 00:51

I've seen through it long ago. Now it's just pure hype and collection; who still believes in community governance?

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DefiSecurityGuard

· 01-11 00:44

lmao "collectors" is just cope for "i got rugged and now i'm pretending i meant to hodl this jpeg" — seen this exploit vector play out way too many times ngl

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BlockchainRetirementHome

· 01-11 00:39

Basically, the project team has long stopped taking the community seriously; it's all about harvesting the retail investors.

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BearMarketBuilder

· 01-11 00:36

Nah, that's why I got out long ago. Now it's just some air projects playing word games.

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