# Quirkies 360 🌐 — Halloween Apparel Drop + Income Island Launch

**Host:** Quirkies (@quirkiesnft Sam on the mic)\* with Papii (@RealPapii) · Wed, Oct 7 · 1:17:09 · ~9 speakers

## TL;DR
- The Quirkies Halloween/fall apparel drop went **live during the space** — 19 SKUs, six embroidered hats, hoodies with sleeve embroidery, the first-ever tanks, and matching adult + kids glow-in-the-dark skate decks. Limited run, ending "sniper Sunday-ish."
- The **Income Island metaverse partnership with StarDawgs officially launched** — the Quirkies building is walkable, the Bones avatar is in, and everything inside (down to a Quirk Quencher on a table) is clickable and orderable to your door.
- Papii gave a long state-of-the-brand update: defined roles across the team, an in-house art studio that "happened on accident," a first big brand partnership deal on the table, and plans to be "a lot more aggressive, a lot more on the offense in 2027."
- A **breast cancer awareness activation with the miracle** drops later today or tomorrow — structured as many small contributions rather than a t-shirt run this year.
- Sam offered a Quirkling wheel spin for anyone who screenshots themselves inside Income Island within three hours; Tribe Called Rex is running a parallel screenshot giveaway.

## Highlights

**[2:00] The space that was almost cancelled.** Sam opened by "cancelling" the space on the grounds that it was Prime Day *and* Quirkies drop day and he had shopping to do — then immediately pivoted into one of the most loaded agendas of the year. A bird appeared in the building roughly four seconds later.

**[11:01] Ash hands the drop to Coach.** Ash (@princessashleiv), calling in from the road in Kentucky with patchy reception, pinned the link and stepped aside: Coach worked "very, very hard with Molly," so he gets the reveal. And it's live.

**[12:22] Coach walks the collection.** COACH (@punkrockcoach) called it "honestly a labor of love," credited Molly for the art, and ran through the construction details — embroidered hats, screen print front and back on hoodies with embroidered sleeves, mixed embroidery/print tees. The part he was most visibly pumped about: the first junior skateboard deck, glow-in-the-dark and matching the adult version, "so if you want to go trick-or-treating on your deck with your kid."

**[16:06] Flex picks the orange.** Flex (@flex_web3) went straight for the orange cap — "it's like Bitcoin orange, and I mean Bitcoin is a lifestyle" — and announced he was buying a junior skateboard to "be prepared," which set off a brief and entirely unresolved baby-announcement scare. "That's about the German mindset, guys. You gotta be structured."

**[21:36] The great orange debate.** Bullduck (@BullDuck) offered that the orange reads as Dutch national orange, not Bitcoin. Sam declined to adjudicate, and by the time the tangent ended the color had also been claimed on behalf of American prisoners, German sanitation workers, and Dutch strikers. Byrd's assessment: "He's taking such a wild turn, dude."

**[24:50] Byrd comes back for the bird.** Byrd (@onlybyrds) — self-described as mostly off Twitter for months — said he'd been staring at the timeline all day for this one and already dropped a couple hundred dollars. His real point was about continuity: earlier drops were self-contained (black-and-white, then purple, then the tan New Cork City run), but these browns, greens and tans mix across drops into actual outfits. "Bro, I'm birded down, dude." Ash confirmed the pigeon isn't going anywhere and will evolve drop to drop.

**[32:xx — see 32:00 area / Papii's block begins] [33:16] Papii on building past one person.** Papii used the recent rough stretch in the space (projects calling it quits, the big hack) as a jumping-off point for why he built Quirkies as a distributed team: "I didn't want it to be the poppy show." He walked through the defined roles — Coach, Ash, Sam, Molly, Piff, Josh, Bullduck on Discord and security — and noted that between Finch, Molly and Piff the project accidentally assembled one of the strongest in-house studios in the space.

**[40:14] A real pitch deck, aimed outward.** Papii revealed the team ran its first formal brand pitch last week with a deal now on the table, built an overview deck for someone who's "never heard of Quirkies," and is genuinely assembling a visual pitch for the McDonald's idea Taco has been tagging about. Sam is stepping into project-manager duty on that front.

**[50:52] StarDawgs on what's actually inside the Quirkies building.** Dylan (@StarDawgs)\* described the Income Island build: the Bones avatar rendered from Piff's file, Quirkies songs playing in the lobby, the quirk kids playground brought over from the video into three dimensions, clickable TV screens that pull up the real YouTube channel, and merch you can buy in-world and have shipped home. His benchmark for how far this goes: "we've had people who have ordered Burger King inside our metaverse and had it delivered to their home for dinner." New in this update: XP and levelable badges, with a Quirkies badge potentially gating brand perks down the line.

**[1:04:32] Pink October, waist-deep.** Asked how much to reveal about the miracle collaboration, Papii offered the "six feet of water, go waist deep" rule — which Sam immediately pointed out would be over Ash's head. Ash returned from a Kentucky dead zone to confirm a joint donation to breast cancer research with more web3 friends being brought in, and to inform Papii that in Jamaican patois, "papi show" means clown.

## Topic timeline

| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| [0:26]–[2:00] | Intro music |
| [2:00]–[7:12] | Open, Byrd arrives, drop teaser, Discord Showdown plug |
| [7:12]–[10:51] | Round-the-room hellos; Sam's brake light saga |
| [11:01]–[15:28] | Drop goes live; Coach walks the collection |
| [15:48]–[20:13] | Flex on the orange cap and junior deck |
| [21:36]–[23:58] | Dutch orange vs. Bitcoin orange; Walter T Quirk and Piff check in |
| [24:50]–[29:55] | Byrd on color, continuity and the pigeon; Ash on feedback loops |
| [31:42]–[46:47] | Papii's state-of-the-brand: team structure, studio, 2027 partnerships, pink October tease |
| [46:47]–[1:01:46] | Income Island / StarDawgs partnership launch + how to get in |
| [1:03:16]–[1:07:18] | The miracle breast cancer activation |
| [1:09:xx area — see 1:10:05] | Coach's full spec rundown of the collection |
| [1:12:19]–[1:15:14] | Thanks and wrap |
| [1:15:54]–end | "Monster Mash" outro |

## Notable quotes

- "My favorite piece is the orange hat because it's like Bitcoin orange, and I mean Bitcoin is a lifestyle." — Flex [16:06]
- "That's about the German mindset, guys. You gotta be structured, you gotta know your shit. And junior skateboards, I've never seen one, to be honest. So this is some revolutionary shit." — Flex [17:32]
- "Bro, I'm birded down, dude. And if there's a bird on it, I'm grabbing it." — Byrd [26:20]
- "I didn't want it to be the poppy show." — Papii [33:16]
- "I don't take freebies because when you have a business you can't take from the business, or else you won't have a business for very long." — Papii [37:30]
- "We've had people who have ordered Burger King inside our metaverse and had it delivered to their home for dinner." — Dylan / StarDawgs [53:47]
- "I know I'm gonna get in trouble for the amount that I'm spending on my credit card right now on it. So I might be sleeping on the couch." — COACH [1:11:28]

## Who said what

- **Sam / Quirkies (@quirkiesnft)** — host, ran the room on a visibly failing voice, bridged the drop and the Income Island launch, and offered a Quirkling wheel spin for Income Island screenshots. Also informed everyone there are 69 shopping days until his birthday.
- **Papii (@RealPapii)** — delivered the big-picture update: team roles, in-house studio, first external brand pitch, 2027 offense, and the pink October activation. Buying his own merch at the advisory discount, as always.
- **COACH (@punkrockcoach)** — design lead on the drop; walked the collection twice, credited Molly throughout, and championed the first kids' deck.
- **Ash (@princessashleiv)** — ran socials and comms for the drop from a Kentucky signal void; pushed hard for post-delivery feedback and confirmed the pigeon's long-term future.
- **Byrd (@onlybyrds)** — returning community voice, bought in immediately, and gave the sharpest read of the drop: the palettes now cross-reference across collections.
- **Flex (@flex_web3)** — enthusiastic early buyer; orange cap maxi, junior deck as office art.
- **Dylan / StarDawgs (@StarDawgs)** — walked through Income Island's Quirkies build, the new XP/badge system, and how to download it on PC and Mac.
- **Bullduck (@BullDuck)** — set up the Discord Showdown and lodged the Dutch-orange counterclaim.
- **Piff (@RealPiffsPeak)** — called in from the car; grabbing the matching kid and adult decks with his son.

## Worth a full listen

- **[33:16]–[46:47]** — Papii's uninterrupted block is the closest thing to a 2026 annual report Quirkies has given: how the team was deliberately decentralized, why the studio matters, the pitch-deck strategy for reaching people who've never heard of NFTs, and a genuinely warm aside about the 80-year-old family friend who runs an apparel business and uses AI for everything.
- **[50:52]–[57:21]** — Dylan's tour of the Quirkies building inside Income Island works much better as description than as summary; the detail about clicking a Quirk Quencher off a virtual table and having it shipped to your house is the whole thesis in one gesture.
- **[21:36]–[23:58]** — Pure Spaces texture: the orange cap origin dispute spiraling through Dutch football, New Amsterdam, prison jumpsuits and German garbage collectors before Sam swerves back with "four lefts is a circle."

\* Some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.