🎃👻🪦 Quirk-O-Ween Connection w/ Papii and Sho

Sho reported wearing a different Halloween shirt three days running — her first time ever wearing merch daily — and declared the hoodie the softest she's owned in Web3, across a lot of projects. COACH confirmed he went "real hard with the credit card": one of every hoodie (two of one), one of every tank — the first tanks Quirkies has done — and one of every shirt, if not every color. The receipts have a home, too: he has a closet dedicated exclusively to Quirkies and the New York Knicks, and it is full 11:02.

The confession unraveled in real time and the room enjoyed every stage of it: he dropped the ball, he has "friends in low places," and anyway he lives in Florida, where you can't really do hoodies. Bullish Beck (@BullishBeck)^* kept the bit rolling — "Papii, are you like a hoodie maxi? This is pretty disappointing to be honest" — and Sho narrated him slipping out of the Space in shame, rugging himself for a minute before coming back 10:11.

Bullish Beck asked whether a kids' line was coming; COACH confirmed it, as a permanent fixture, and said he wants the Quirk Kids pieces in both kids' and adult sizes so he can match with his daughter. That opened a very relatable parenting aside about buying kids clothes and shoes a size too big, then blinking and finding they're already outgrown — hence the morning's most practical philosophy: "why let a new pair of kids' vans go to waste."

Papii walked through the Quirky Recognition Cards: airdrops, claims, collabs coming. They were launched with zero expectations and deliberately can't be traded — not a secondary-market play, but digital recognition and collectible cards. He admitted he likes to just search the collection and scroll the whole grid of art for no particular reason, and called the Halloween card his favorite yet, specifically the bold, on-brand color choices.

COACH connected the Halloween card to the broader brand work: the palette on that card is the palette being used for the long-term brand, so when the website redesigns land, everything will read as one coherent system. Sho's follow-up was the community-side version of the same point — each team member runs their own lane, and somehow it all comes out looking like the same thing 27:19.

Sam (@SamAdoption), freshly out of the gym and calling in from his car, pointed out what holders may take for granted: every QRC is hand drawn, at a high talent level, at a time when that's increasingly rare. His framing — "art is what brought me here, the community is what has kept me here" — landed as the morning's thesis statement, along with a note that the project is expanding on the art rather than letting it fall away in favor of pure business.

Bullish Beck described an early-morning Warzone session with holders while his buddy was on vacation; Papii immediately angled for an invite. Piff suggested Arc Raiders instead, Papii had never heard of it, and within three lines the room had rebranded the whole thing: "We need quirk raiders." Also entered permanently into the record, to general approval: "If you ain't quirking, you ain't working."

Papii on why the brand works: it's a squid with a lot of arms — Quirk Kids, skateboards, music, the arcade — and the real feat is getting creatives to align, since artists tend to work heads-down in their own zone. He singled out the absence of "side text culture" from a previous company he now recognizes as toxic, and credited the in-person Quirky office meetups for the friendships that make the collaboration run.

On skin in the game: Papii holds 80-some Quirkies and noted that as the owner, if he sold one he'd have about thirty seconds to buy it back before being fudded to death. He tied it to the broader point that Web3 participation is mostly voluntary — people holding assets and spending ETH because they choose to — and said the team is more aligned now than it's ever been.

In the middle of thanking the team for handling the Halloween drop with minimal input from him, Papii detailed Sam and Ash as the brand's editors — nothing gets past them. Sam once called him after driving past a billboard with a misspelled word, and has flagged typos in Papii's own posts. The part about Sam phoning for prayer so he wouldn't take a sledgehammer to the billboard was, Papii clarified for the record, not true.

Papii recalled an old mentor's advice about peripheral vision being one of the most beautiful parts of being human — and about knowing when to block it out. Referencing the previous day's multi-billion-dollar exploit dominating the timeline, he said what struck him most was how glad he was to be heads-down building Quirkies instead, and that none of it touched the project.

Responding to Sho's point that a trusted voice sometimes owes the room a warning, Papii explained the "praise in public, punish in private" rule: when someone starts drama or calls out another project, he asks publicly to stop and then handles it in DMs. The reasoning is about first impressions — the holder who logs on once a month, follows seventy accounts that are all Quirkies, and sees whatever's on top. He also owned a past mint he'd promoted that turned out to be a rug, and the worry that cuts the other way: what if he'd been wrong about something good?