✨VIXEN CHILL SPACE✨

Host: MetaVixens (@MetaVixensNFT) · Thu 6 Aug 2026 · 1:47:43 · ~11 speakers

TL;DR

• The Vixens are roughly a month past their ETH migration and briefly vanished from the OpenSea top-20 charts — Native flagged it, Anna emailed OpenSea, and the room decided to wear "glitch in the matrix" as a badge of honor.
• Jake reported a week-long cold-DM onboarding push, gifting exclusives to 50+ people with no strings attached, and made the case that the low-cost exclusives are the real front door to the project.
• Next Thursday's space will be an Other Side / metaverse AMA with Caleb; the first integration is a holder-only step via Terminus (partnered with Yuga Labs).
• Housekeeping: Discord verification is moving to Vulcan (~a month to register), the merch shop is being cleared and refreshed, and rumbles pause while Anna travels.
• Year 5 is coming — a new vixen pose for the monthly holder airdrop, custom reveals after Vixen 970 (last week of August), and a five-year anniversary in February.
• Avni (of a hand-drawn "food gals" project) was brought in by Tommy, immediately fit the vibe, got gifted an exclusive on the spot, and stayed for the cheesecake.

Highlights

[3:21] The chart glitch, reframed. Native explained she checks the charts nightly for her write-ups and noticed the Vixens had dropped off the OpenSea top-20 after the migration. Rather than panic, she landed on the framing that stuck for the rest of the night — [5:28] "we're the glitch in the matrix." Anna confirmed she'd screenshotted OpenSea and written in, but warned it's the season where a support reply can take two weeks.

[8:06] A month old to a whole new audience. Anna leaned into the onboarding mindset: everything built on Polygon is still there, but to most of ETH the Vixens are "a month old," so the job now is patiently re-explaining the project to people hearing about it for the first time.

[15:56] Physical art returns. Jeremy resurfaced a two-year ask — physical pieces — and Anna admitted the skateboard tease was really a commitment device aimed at herself: "if I put it out there, I have to do it." She's painting boards again for the first time in six or seven years, on a wooden, holey canvas that more than one person initially mistook for anatomy.

[22:14] Living on the Other Side. Kokai jumped up to reassure Native that the Vixens don't need to be deeply enmeshed in the Ape ecosystem to participate, described the Other Side Discord and weekly community spotlights, and offered to field "any random questions about just living in the Other Side." Anna set expectations: the first move is a holder integration via Terminus, with more event-based ideas coming into winter.

[29:48] Jake's DM campaign. Jake laid out a genuinely reflective run: 50+ personalized cold DMs, gifting exclusives to people who'd never heard of the project. Responses ranged from "why would you gift me something?" to one person who blocked him outright — which he took in stride ("you should assume I'm a scammer at a surface level"). His thesis: a few real DMs travel farther than a trillion posts.

[39:28] Flowers for the vibe. Jeremy caught Jake mid-sentence to name what was happening: money is flowing, "that's when the worst people come out," and the antidote is making good vibes the loudest voice in the room. "Flowers to you, even if you don't want them."

[42:43] Who inspired the Vixens. Prompted by Tommy, Anna traced her early influences among women-led projects — Honeys, Fame Ladies, World of Women — recalling how "sausage-first" the space felt at first and how finding those collections signaled there was room for everyone. She's since picked up a World of Women and a Crypto Chick of her own.

[1:13:41] Avni fits right in. Tommy's guest Avni turned out to be a natural — she creates hand-drawn "food gals" and lit up over the idea of "swinging in a pool of ice cream." The room drafted her on the spot: [1:15:19] "Jake is a food vixen aficionado," and Jake asked for her wallet to send an exclusive immediately. The clincher came a few minutes later at [1:18:19] over a "gals dressed in food" piece: "Did you go into my closet?"

[1:36:17] Do it for the vixens. Anna's fitness philosophy: web3 got her in the best shape of her life because she needs to keep drawing vixens for a long time — so it's the apple over junk food, except when it isn't, because there's a bakery she deliberately walks past on the way to and from the gym.

[1:41:37] Technical difficulties as a group sport. The app crashed on Tommy four times in one hour, Anna and Jake both blacked out of the stage view, and Drew's screen went "blurry." Tommy's proposed fix — two cups and a string — was upgraded by Anna to "draw some tokens in the cup," at which point it became a party.

Notable quotes

• [5:28] "We're like the glitch in the matrix… something special about us is that we're the glitch in the matrix." — Native
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• [37:03] "I'm never gonna say no to flowers… but I do not do this to get a post. That's not the point." — Jake
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• [1:22:30] "I need it. Pump it into my veins. I need more customs." — Jake
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• [1:37:00] "You do realize an apple is a hundred calories, and if you eat a cake that's also a hundred calories, technically nothing changes." — Avni
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• [1:37:08] "The cake I eat is not a hundred calories. The cake I eat is like two thousand." — Anna
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• [1:39:43] "We lost our pictures on our NFTs, no JPEGs, we just had ID numbers and we started raising our hand and we did it all summer. And I never stopped. I think everybody else stopped." — Drew
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Topic timeline

Who said what

• Anna (MetaVixens, @MetaVixensNFT) — host & artist; drove all project updates, the physical-art return, Year 5 plans, merch revamp, and the origin story of drawing the feminine figure.
• Native (@Native2Crypto) — co-host; nightly chart-watcher who flagged the OpenSea issue and coined the "glitch in the matrix" running bit.
• Jake (@JakeBalchNFT) — the collection's whale; detailed his cold-DM onboarding push and made the room's central argument that exclusives are the accessible on-ramp.
• Jeremy (@_jeremy_two) — longtime holder pushing for physical pieces; reframed the moment as choosing good vibes over money-chasing.
• Kokai (@TheKokai) — Other Side veteran; demystified metaverse integration and offered to answer questions ahead of next week's AMA.
• Tommy B (@realtommybibi) — dropped in to show support, pinned a shout-out, praised the art's instant recognizability, and brought Avni into the room.
• Avni Mohindra (@ItsAvniMohindra) — Tommy's guest and creator of "food gals"; slotted straight into the banter and was welcomed (and gifted) as a vixen.
• Marc o-matic (@14EmDubYa) — custom-club member whose new custom Anna had just finished; shared the collector's-eye joy of seeing pieces find their people.
• Drew Roberts (@DrewRoberts) — supportive drop-in "here for the ladies," with a soul-summer hand-raising tradition he never quit.
• Maaaaahhhaaaaa (@Maaaaahhhaaaaa) — offered to help chase down the searchability/chart fix once the contact is back from OOO.

Worth a full listen

• [29:48]–[39:28] — Jake's onboarding reflection followed by Jeremy's "flowers to you" — the emotional and philosophical center of the space, and the reason the room felt the way it did.
• [42:43]–[47:19] — Anna on the women-led projects that inspired her and the reality of being an early female artist in a "sausage-first" space; warmer and more candid than any bullet can capture.
• [1:37:00]–[1:46:00] — the closing stretch: calorie logic, gym-bakery masochism, a cascade of app crashes, and the cup-and-string "solution" that dissolves into a slumber-party bit. Pure end-of-night chill-space energy.