# Re:Envisioning Web3 | Who is Behind the PFP?

Host: Lyss (@Lysss302) with cohosts Jed (@jed_131) and Burningbush (@BurningBush_eth) · Sat 3 Oct 2026 · 2:03:23 · ~14 active speakers

## TL;DR
- The Saturday "who is behind the PFP" edition: Burningbush took the two-and-a-half-minute hot seat, SLICK RIC made the case for grabbing a mic, and Nelson (@nelsphere) gave a full origin story from Dogecoin at a cent to Frankenpunks.
- Burningbush read Chapter 2 of Regen Noir live — "The Case of the Missing Kowski" — followed by the Kowski song [1:39:45] / [1:46:35]. Twelve chapters are done, with ghostwriters and co-writers planned for season two.
- McFly returned after a 17-day PFP absence and was welcomed with a custom AI diss track about changing his profile picture [40:16]; he also shared Ape Fest plans, including a regen dinner in New York before Charleston.
- TROY (@TroyCaylak) joined and made the room's sharpest argument of the day: crypto doesn't have a product problem, it has a storytelling problem — "we're in interest media" [1:32:12].
- Dingus revealed a full-blown Nee-Doh squishy toy addiction, which Burningbush instantly reframed as an NFT ecosystem complete with rares, fakes, and a whitelist [32:35].
- Housekeeping that mattered: a De Stefano's steak-sizzle sound bite went live on the soundboard [1:00:36], the Instagram is being revived, and an events menu is in the works for Brooklyn startup dinners.

## Highlights

**[9:10] Lyss sets the tone: ignore the noise.** After a week she describes as heavy and drama-adjacent, Lyss opened with a reminder that time and energy are finite and allocating them to noise is a choice. "October is fresh and new. We're building, we're working, we're grinding" — and a pointer toward the people actually shipping things in Discord and on the new site.

**[20:23] SLICK RIC on the mic that changed everything.** Ric, who opens by admitting he mostly thinks about poker ("don't count the money, Rick"), gave the clearest articulation of the space's whole premise: he doesn't run projects, never launched anything, but four years ago he hit the purple pill and introduced himself, and it opened a world. His ask to lurkers — drop the "I don't add value" mindset.

**[23:57] Burningbush in the hot seat, timer running.** Given two and a half minutes, he described a lifetime of being the man behind the curtain on other people's projects and coming away with nothing to show for it, and why the last few weeks with the regens have felt different. He's building Regen Noir and Re:gen Radio: songs, websites, and stories for people in the community. He ran fifteen seconds over and announced it himself.

**[29:15] Donny Ðoge gets talked into being a builder.** Donny introduced himself as a supporter rather than a builder — NFTs since 2020, crypto since 2013, nearly walked away before meeting the regens. Then he mentioned the notebooks of poems he's never published, and within ninety seconds Jed had floated him for Regen Noir season two and Burningbush confirmed co-writers were already in the plan [32:08].

**[32:35] The Nee-Doh economy.** Dingus explained his new obsession with squishy sensory toys, and the room's NFT brain took over immediately: rares going for $350, fakes flooding the market, Walmart as the only reliable mint, and Dingus noting that getting one at retail is "basically like on the whitelist." Burningbush keeps four or five on his desk at all times, stress-dependent. Jed realized his daughter had a pile of unofficial ones and briefly considered flipping her stash. It ended with a text from Dan proposing a generative art collection of magnetic giblets, each shipping with a Dan-branded Nee-Doh [39:12].

**[40:16] The McFly PFP trial.** McFly's return was scored with an AI courtroom diss track ("Change your face, now answer why") interrogating his 17 days without a regen PFP. He took it in stride, countered that he'd only accept a walk-up song if it's Bad Bunny, and got roasted about the braids, the 27 days since he'd been to De Stefano's, and his VIP menu status. Underneath the ball-busting: Ape Fest is under two weeks out, there's a regen chat for apes who hold regens, and he's trying to get another ape dinner at De Stefano's before everyone heads to Charleston [53:31].

**[1:07:23] Nelson's whole arc.** Born in Boston, raised in Chicago, two households after his parents split — "my mom was Jewish and my dad was Christian, so I always felt really lucky because I got to celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas. I was like, double presents." Golf scholarship in Minnesota, two years in a call center doing phone sales, two failed companies, then crypto via Dogecoin at a cent and the gas-war era of five wallets across five Chrome tabs. He now works commercial real estate, still holds his regenerates, and notes Frankenpunks outlasted Blast.

**[1:18:18] Jed on the Frankenpunks reveal space.** Jed described the mint crunch — 72 hours awake, everyone looking half-dead on FaceTime — and the reveal space with ~1,500 people where a duplicate issue turned the room on Nelson. Jed had never spoken on a space before and got up to defend him anyway, blacking out and choking up. Nelson returned the favor later: "This guy will die for the project, he'll die for the mission" [1:26:28].

**[1:32:12] TROY on why crypto marketing doesn't work.** Troy — actor, 500k followers in eight months on short-form skits, Gutter Cat Gang lore in his past — argued the space keeps marketing to the thousand people already in it. Acronyms, dancing mascots, and product-first hammering don't convert; serialized characters and story do. He's grown his own audience from 700 TikTok followers in January to 272,000 with no clippers and no boosts, and his advice was unglamorous: ten seconds a day, be a machine, accept that your friends won't support you at first.

**[1:39:45] Regen Noir, Chapter 2: The Case of the Missing Kowski.** The room went quiet for a full noir reading set at De Stefano's, in which a canvas vanishes from the wall, Woof locks the doors unprompted, Slopfather demands "conviction" in exchange for information, and a nearly dead portable phone charger under a table serves as a fingerprint. The culprit confesses that he moved it to storage because it was simply too big. Lyss gets a line about how enhancing the security footage isn't CSI. It's followed by the Kowski song [1:46:35], and Lyss later pinned the actual painting up top [1:57:48].

**[1:55:44] chazzgold offers to animate it.** After the reading, chazzgold.eth volunteered his setup and stockpile of monthly AI credits to help turn Regen Noir into longer-form animated content — one of several unprompted offers the story pulled out of the room, alongside Troy's pitch to submit the episodes to Showrunner [1:48:51].

## Topic timeline

| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| [0:58] – [7:41] | Mic checks, anonymous-listener bit, Jed's soundboard warm-up |
| [7:41] – [17:11] | Lyss's opening, "ignore the noise," live Country Roads karaoke |
| [17:11] – [22:12] | SLICK RIC's walk-up song and his case for grabbing the mic |
| [22:12] – [29:06] | Burningbush's two-and-a-half-minute hot seat |
| [29:10] – [32:23] | Donny Ðoge: supporter, writer, recruited for Regen Noir S2 |
| [32:35] – [39:43] | Dingus and the Nee-Doh squishy toy market |
| [39:51] – [54:30] | McFly's return, the PFP diss track, Ape Fest plans |
| [54:30] – [1:00:00] | Woof, De Stefano's socials/events, DARKM N on showing up daily |
| [1:00:36] – [1:07:12] | Steak-sizzle sound bite, the other side games, shoutouts, Kentucky bodegas |
| [1:07:21] – [1:27:32] | Nelson: life story, gas wars, Frankenpunks, golf as therapy, community as the real asset |
| [1:27:47] – [1:39:30] | TROY: content creation, storytelling vs. crypto marketing, The Chosen |
| [1:39:45] – [1:48:11] | Regen Noir Chapter 2 read live + the Kowski song |
| [1:48:48] – [1:56:00] | Showrunner, AI animation, chazzgold and DaFameless chime in |
| [1:56:00] – [2:03:23] | Closing, Bills anniversary song, Jed's fired-up outro |

## Notable quotes

- "About four years ago, I grabbed a mic and it changed my life." — SLICK RIC [20:23]
- "I honestly don't give a shit about the art. I don't give a shit about the price. I don't give a shit about any of it. I am here for people." — Burningbush [23:57]
- "The Burningbush is a man of many emotions, but of all those emotions, his favorite to feel is love." — Burningbush [26:43]
- "Y'all gonna stop treating me like a fucking stepchild because I changed my PFP. All right, because at the end of the day, it's not what I look like. I show up every day." — McFly [52:01]
- "We're not in fucking social media, we're in interest media." — TROY [1:32:12]
- "You stole a Kowski to put it in storage?" / "I didn't steal it." / "I was helping." / "Helping who?" / "The wall." — from Regen Noir, Chapter 2, read by Burningbush [1:44:13]

## Who said what

- **Lyss** (@Lysss302) — host. Set the week's tone, ran the shoutouts, pushed the October challenge to first-time speakers, and gave the De Stefano's update (Instagram relaunch, events menu, verification pending).
- **Jed** (@jed_131) — cohost and soundboard operator. Ran walk-up songs, introduced Nelson and Troy from the old Frankenpunks days, and told the story of the reveal space that briefly put him off spaces entirely.
- **Burningbush** (@BurningBush_eth) — cohost and resident builder. Hot seat, Regen Noir chapter and song, the McFly diss track, and a running stream of hot takes about squishy toys and Kentucky gas stations.
- **SLICK RIC** (@richj530) — opened with the best argument of the day for stepping onto a stage you don't think you belong on.
- **Donny Ðoge** (@DogeDonny2013) — self-described supporter who turned out to have notebooks of poetry and left with a writing slot.
- **Dingus** (@DingusUSA) — brought the Nee-Doh market report and an update on his Genzio Spaces cadence and DABA timeline work.
- **McFly** (@MrMcFly100) — took the PFP roast gracefully, confirmed Ape Fest logistics and a potential regen dinner, reiterated that IRL is the alpha.
- **Woof** (@WoofArmyXX) — weighed in briefly, mostly to register his opinion of McFly's former hairstyle.
- **DARKM N** (@Bryan36krun) — fought through rough service to say he shows up daily, which prompted Lyss's riff on consistency.
- **Nelson** (@nelsphere) — the deepest personal segment of the space: childhood, sales, failed companies, Frankenpunks, 70 ETH on NFT Worlds, and golf as therapy.
- **TROY** (@TroyCaylak) — actor and content machine; the room's outside perspective on why crypto's marketing doesn't reach normies.
- **chazzgold.eth** (@chazz_gold) — offered animation help and credits for Regen Noir.
- **DaFameless** (@DaFameless) — pulled up to tell Troy his kebab-guy skit had him cracking up at midnight.

## Worth a full listen

- **[1:39:45] – [1:48:11]** — The full Regen Noir chapter and the Kowski song. A summary can list the plot beats, but the deadpan delivery, the running gag about a phone that's always at 3%, and McFly volunteering "because IRL is the alpha" as evidence in a theft investigation only work at full length.
- **[1:07:23] – [1:23:49]** — Nelson's unbroken arc from double Hanukkah-and-Christmas presents to gas wars to the honest post-mortem on NFT Worlds, landing on why the community outlasts the projects. Jed's account of defending him at the reveal space sits right in the middle of it.
- **[1:28:00] – [1:35:35]** — Troy on content: the 10-seconds-a-day method, the fake Cuban food truck that inspired his Turkish character, the OpenSea meeting, and a genuinely interesting detour into how The Chosen funded seven seasons without a studio.