# Quirkies Sniper Sunday 🎯 — charity bounties, a Halloween last call, and DefiMike's wallet on blast

**Host:** Quirkies (@quirkiesnft, addressed on-air as "Sam") · **Date:** Sunday night, 11 Oct 2026 (01:00 UTC, 12 Oct) · **Duration:** 1:34:42 · **~10 speakers on stage** (plus COACH, who did not speak on purpose)

## TL;DR
- **Last call on the Halloween/spooky apparel** at thequirklife.com — Papii confirmed the order closes Monday morning when the bulk order gets placed [26:02]. New Cork City collector pins (40 three-packs, $24.99) went live on the site mid-space [28:56].
- **Charity sniping was the night's real event:** Papii put $250 per sale on any OG at 1.031 ETH or below, the host matched up to two, and Sho matched as well — **$750 per qualifying snipe**, and $1,000 on Quirk 2179 [30:38]–[35:50]. Donations were confirmed live near the end [1:31:07] and [1:33:27].
- **Charity changed** from Susan G. Komen to the **Breast Cancer Research Foundation** after Papii looked up program-spend ratios; CoJo pulled the 990s on air (63% vs ~83% to programs) [34:00], [1:29:23].
- **Papii's state-of-the-project:** in-house creative studio of five or six daily contributors, a refreshed quirkies.io with another facelift coming, conservative spend and real runway, and a first public collab with "a very, very huge brand" targeted before year-end — with the next drop landing on the Digitoys platform [14:46]–[19:51].
- **Actual snipes called and bought:** CoJo bought Quirkling 3803 (blonde skull beard + gold horns) around .03 [52:45]; Papii bought the 0.09 Rebellion ink against a 0.148 floor, calling it the snipe of the night across all collections [55:03], [1:21:16]; DefiMike was gently strong-armed into OG 185 [1:00:08], [1:25:05].
- **Piff debuted an original Walter T Quirk rap track** [1:05:12], Burningbush announced a community music branch [40:05], and COACH held his vow of silence for the entire 94 minutes.

## Highlights

**[8:17] The apparel line gets its flowers (and a jab).** Ash called the spooky collection the best line Quirkies has done, which the host endorsed for his own reasons: "It's because there's no pink dinosaurs in this collection." CoJo added the substantive version a few minutes later [11:17] — previous drops leaned on the logo and symbolism, this one actually puts the quirkies art on the garment, and the hat character reminded him of old-school Spitfire decks.

**[14:46] Papii's thirteen-month report card.** The founder's longest serious stretch of the night: ~13 months since the takeover, the brand "has gone like 10x," an in-house studio built around Molly, Piff and Josh, and real financial discipline. On NFT NYC — the event ran roughly $30–40k, sponsors covered a chunk, and he counted the friendships made as the actual return [18:19].

**[19:51] The next collab, and the abstract wrinkle.** Papii said a first public collaboration with a major brand is likely before year-end, and that Quirkies' next big collab drop will live on the Digitoys platform — with the caveat that Digitoys was tied to abstract, so there's a "what's the next move" conversation still to have.

**[26:02] How the drop machine actually works.** A rare operational breakdown: five community spaces a week (Quirkies 360 Wednesday, skate space Thursday, Papii and Sho Friday, Quirk Kids Saturday, Sniper Sunday), exclusive drops open Wednesday and close Sunday night/Monday morning, order placed Monday, garments in production by midweek, shipped in a 10–14 day window instead of the old month-or-two print-on-demand slog.

**[30:38] The bounty stack.** Asked whether any snipe came with a sidecar, Papii offered $250 to breast cancer charity on any OG at 1.031 or below, out of his own pocket. The host matched up to two purchases [33:43], Sho matched immediately after with "Let's go. Let's get it done" [35:50], and Papii stacked an extra bounty on 2179 to make it a $1,000 sale [36:47].

**[42:17] Walter T Quirk breaks the interdimensional barrier.** The Quirksville scientist arrived in full character, asked for a definition of "twerking," and was promptly accused by Burningbush of copying off his SAT. Walter denied it on grounds of personal integrity, then conceded it may have been one of his clones — about which we do not speak.

**[1:04:26] Piff's Walter track.** Piff admitted he'd made a Walter song long ago, never liked it, and had quietly been reworking it on stage while everyone talked. The result — a full Quirksville-scientist banger, hoverboards, robot DJ, pancake robot and all — played at [1:05:12], and still failed to make COACH unmute [1:08:18].

**[1:12:06] The DefiMike wallet excavation.** Papii, trying to deliver the OG he'd just bought on Mike's behalf, discovered Mike couldn't remember his own quirk, hadn't used MetaMask in three years, and — per the room's live block-explorer forensics — owns a mutant, a kennel club dog, 16 Quirklings and some alien friends he'd forgotten about. Mike threatened to floor everything, then to delete the wallet from the blockchain entirely [1:17:41]. The quirk (OG 185) landed safely [1:20:24].

**[1:22:23] Market check and the expectations sermon.** Prompted by DefiMike asking whether there's volume anywhere, Papii declined to relitigate the week's drama but made the broader point that no good project failing is good for anyone — then landed on his thesis: expectations are what break people, and NFTs survive long-term on people buying what they actually like. CoJo echoed it [1:25:12] with a plea to stop dunking on builders and to be more visibly active, admitting he's guilty of lurking himself.

## Topic timeline

| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| [0:34]–[5:55] | Music intro (a false start, then Kate Bush) |
| [5:55]–[12:10] | Spooky season apparel drop, the quirklife.com, art-forward designs |
| [12:30]–[14:36] | Sho / Ash banter, pink PFP recruiting |
| [14:46]–[21:12] | Papii: 13-month state of the project, in-house studio, NFT NYC, big-brand collab, Digitoys |
| [21:12]–[25:22] | Pigeon hat goes to church; PFP pinking; general chaos |
| [26:02]–[29:50] | Drop mechanics, turnaround times, New Cork City pins |
| [30:38]–[37:46] | Charity bounties, matching pledges, OG snipes under 1.031 |
| [38:15]–[44:48] | Burningbush, Quirkies music branch, Walter T Quirk's entrance |
| [45:02]–[57:44] | Core sniping block: OGs, Quirklings, inks, Rebellion at 0.09 |
| [58:27]–[1:00:08] | COACH's silence bet; DefiMike recruited to buy |
| [1:02:34]–[1:04:16] | Adam Whiteman buying everything, collector-not-trader talk |
| [1:04:26]–[1:08:18] | Piff's Walter T Quirk track |
| [1:08:45]–[1:21:16] | DefiMike's wallet hunt, OG 185 delivered, Papii buys the Rebellion |
| [1:21:34]–[1:27:09] | Broader market: Pudgies, Yuga/Luca discourse, ApeFest, expectations |
| [1:29:10]–[1:34:16] | Charity 990 deep-dive, donations confirmed, Halloween last call, wrap |

## Notable quotes

- **Walter T Quirk [43:10]:** "My dear friend, that is not something that I would do within my character. I operate with the utmost of integrity. Thank you very much. However, it is possible that it was one of my clones, but that is... we do not speak of my clones."
- **Burningbush [39:33]:** "So you can pay me one ETH, Ash, or give me a dozen donuts. I will take payment in either because I know your dozen donuts is probably worth about an ETH."
- **CoJo [56:50]:** "I've reached peak NFT collector status recently. I now just buy NFTs and I just completely forget about them. And it's amazing. I don't even know if they're going up, they're going down. I don't even care anymore."
- **Papii [1:14:57], after Mike asked the room to stop broadcasting his wallet:** "Oh, blockchain, bro. It's blockchain. Everything is transparent."
- **DefiMike [1:15:42]:** "Look, CoJo, I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. Uh probably lost uh maybe a rental property or two through these pictures. Let's just move forward. Thank you."
- **Papii [1:23:59]:** "Expectations are everything, man. Like what people are expecting when they buy something... I think that's what NFTs will really survive on long term is people buying what they actually like."

## Who said what

- **Quirkies / "Sam" (@quirkiesnft)** — host. Opened with Kate Bush, ran the drop reminders, kept the charity math straight, matched Papii's bounty up to $500, and supplied the night's driest commentary (including a full account of wearing the pigeon trucker to church).
- **Papii (@RealPapii)** — founder voice. Delivered the project update, explained drop logistics, started the charity bounty, researched the charity switch, bought OG 185 for DefiMike and the 0.09 Rebellion ink for himself.
- **CoJo (@CoJ04)** — the designated sniper. Called 2304, 1602 ("that should be Walter T Quirk's PFP"), 3480 and others; bought Quirkling 3803; pulled nonprofit 990 filings mid-space; closed with a push for people to post and reply more.
- **Sho (@AgogoKaren)** — matched the $250 bounty, flagged kid traits on every OG mentioned, bought four Quirklings the day before, confirmed her donation before signing off.
- **Ash (@princessashleiv)** — apparel hype, pink-PFP enforcement, running affectionate sparring with Sho, DefiMike and Papii, and the closing last-call on Halloween orders [1:32:53].
- **Burningbush (@BurningBush_eth)** — dropped in from his own space, announced a community music branch, and accused Walter T Quirk of SAT fraud.
- **Walter T Quirk (@WalterTQuirk)** — in character throughout; clones, laboratory, interdimensional commute, and a brief Derek Henry touchdown call.
- **Piff (@RealPiffsPeak)** — quiet for long stretches because he was building the Walter track live; also explained the handle change ("people were saying... P-I-S-S").
- **DefiMike (@DefiiMike)** — reluctant guest of honor: bought a quirk for charity, had his wallet archaeology conducted in public, declined Halloween on principle.
- **COACH (@punkrockcoach)** — present, never unmuted, winning a bet whose counterparty nobody could identify.

## Worth a full listen

- **[14:46]–[21:12]** — Papii's uninterrupted project update. The clearest picture of where Quirkies is operationally (in-house studio, runway, NFT NYC economics) and what's queued up (Digitoys drop, major-brand collab). No summary carries the tone of a founder genuinely surprised by his own team.
- **[1:08:45]–[1:21:16]** — the DefiMike arc, from "I can't find your wallet, bro" through the collective block-explorer dig to the quirk finally landing. It's the funniest sustained stretch of the space and entirely unquotable in parts.
- **[1:04:26]–[1:08:18]** — Piff's Walter T Quirk track, start to finish. You have to hear it, and you have to hear COACH not react to it.