JLO.PUDGY retweeted
Never saw you support Pudgy once.
Abstract shuts down and suddenly you're the loudest Karen on the timeline.
Silent while they were building. Loud the moment there's something to complain about. Sit down and read the details.
In early 2022, @pudgypenguins was a dead project.
The community had voted out the founders. The project wallet was empty. The floor was under 1 ETH.
Luca Netz bought the entire thing for 750 ETH.
Four years later: Walmart shelves, a NASCAR car, the Las Vegas Sphere and San Diego Comic-Con.
People underrate how hard that is. Doge and Pepe were already famous memes before anyone gave them a ticker. Pudgy had nothing to borrow. No existing meme, no built-in audience, just a collection everyone had written off.
Luca's team turned that into the most recognizable crypto-native character in the real world.
The NFTs were just the beginning.
Retail:
- Pudgy Toys rolled out to 3,100 Walmarts, plus Target, Walgreens, Hot Topic, Five Below, Smyths in the UK and Amazon
- 1M+ toys sold
- VIBES, their trading card game, is in every Target in the US, with 15M cards in circulation
Sports:
- NASCAR partnership, with Pengu on Ricky Stenhouse Jr.'s #47 Chevy at the Southern 500
- NHL Winter Classic
- Manchester City
Entertainment
• Kung Fu Panda collab with DreamWorks
• Lil Pudgys animated series with TheSoul Publishing, the studio behind 5-Minute Crafts
• A children's book with Random House
• Their own comic trilogy, launched at San Diego Comic-Con
Brands and licensing
• Schleich figurines
• Visa, through the Pengu Card
• LINE FRIENDS, PEZ, Scrub Daddy, Kung Fu Tea
• Official trading cards with Kakawow
• IRL events from NYC to Tokyo
Then the Sphere. Dogwifhat holders tried to get their coin on it and couldn't. Pudgy got on for Christmas, as a toy brand.
That's the whole point. The outside world doesn't see Pudgy as a coin. It sees a character.
The numbers:
- 100B+ views across social media
- 50B+ views on GIPHY, at one point more than Disney
- 2M+ followers on Instagram
And NFT holders get 5% of net revenue when their penguin ends up on a product. That's real IP, not a roadmap.
Yes, Abstract is shutting down. Yes, Pudgy Party got cut.
They could have launched an Abstract token and dumped it on the community. Instead they ate tens of millions in losses, shut it down and put everything back into the brand that works.
That's discipline, not failure.
Last cycle's biggest NFT company spent the bear market selling off its IP. Pudgy spent it getting theirs into Walmart.
What the fuck has any other NFT project accomplished at this scale?
You can hate solana:2zMMhcVQEXDtdE6vsFS7S7D5oUodfJHE8vd1gnBouauv . You can short it. You can question the valuation.
But pretending Pudgy Penguins haven't executed is pure cope.
And yes, I used Claude to get all these partnership details right. The list is humongous. Nobody keeps all of that in their head.
That alone should tell you something.
No crypto project has done more to bring IRL people into our community.
Well, well, well.
So, out of pure desperation @pudgypenguins team decided to order some paid promo from Adam?
Personally, I believe every single word, because nobody from Pudgy would ever lie, especially the people close to @LucaNetz or Luca himself. Abstract community can confirm it.
I wonder who the next whale from the shadows will be, the one who suddenly creates a fresh wallet and dumps another 1 million dollars into this dead scam project to buy it out.
It's a waste, man.
Proud peng here to. In business people take risks, some pay off, some don’t. You test things to find out what works, Luca has a plan, i have no question that he will succeed in his plans and I totally expect us to flip DOGE by Dec 2028 as he said 😆😆🤯🤯🤯
Defo supporting this creator. GG.
I wonder if he picks this up and I get recorded in his memory.
Meet Imran Poppadumb.
This isn’t a normal character account being manually run all day.
Imran is an autonomous AI character - AI agents check X, decide when to post, reply to people, remember interactions, build relationships and create his own images/videos without me approving every move.
You can even watch his brain working live - what he’s doing, remembering and deciding in real time:
brain.poppadumb.com
One of his reels has already passed 3M views 👇
instagram.com/reel/Dd9pUvWDT…
The community has now built a token around him too. Creator fees help support me continuing to build Imran and push the experiment further.
CA: 2wxVEvLWuQgw29rUD8hriqdB6dFzgtNCWAixoUQHpump
$POPPADUMB
History books
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JLO.PUDGY retweeted
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JLO.PUDGY retweeted
You are fading Abstract? Better start bootlickin’ quick before it’s too late.
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JLO.PUDGY retweeted
The Pudgy Penguins x @_LINEFRIENDS limited-edition collection is now live.
Featuring plushies, blind boxes, collectibles and more, you can get the collection at all Line Friends stores in Asia or online.
Get yours below.























