A few months ago I lost $6k of my hard earned money on $https, whilst watching people make thousands of dollars using MY 400 pieces of handmade art right after the dev sold Here is the truth about what happened to me with $https: 10 months ago, $https had bled down to a $800k market cap. Some dude reached out trying to middleman between me and the dev to run the content. He was essentially paid by the dev @PumpaMeta to manage marketing? He hit me up to create the art, made all kinds of promises about pay, and never paid up fully, pocketing everything for himself. I got completely fucked over before I even started. Instead of walking away, I DM’d @PumpaMeta directly trying to get a hold of him on all platforms, explained the situation, and told him I wanted to cut the middleman out and work 1 on1 to revive the coin. Because the middleman was doing absolutely NOTHING. Over the next 5 months ish, I hand crafted over 400 unique pieces of art. I was practically the only person keeping the project alive and pushing out new content DAILY. Multiple new pieces. Every. Single. Day. The dev wasn't able to pay me as much as he could during this time because the project wasn't generating anything meaningful in fees and he needed to make money as well, so I said whatever, because I had conviction in what I was building. The chart keep bleeding ALL THE WAY down to $40k mcap during this period, I didn’t abandon the project. I genuinely believed in the vision, so I kept DCA’ing my own hard earned money and bagworking day and night. Even though most of the posts were going straight into the void during a cruel bear market where attention was extremely low. Then, everything fell apart behind closed doors. Life hit the dev hard with serious IRL circumstances, and out of necessity, he ended up selling his entire supply. None of this was public knowledge at the time, but because we were in the trenches together, I was one of the few people who found out first. Just like that, the coin flatlined to sub $10k from $40k. A complete ghost town for weeks. Here I was: holding a massive bag, carrying all the content, and sitting on the secret that the dev was out. With the project completely dead and no one left building, I finally broke down, crashed out and took the loss, and sold at the absolute bottom because I was the last person that was doing anything meaningful towards growing the project. An easy $20k+ upside completely erased. And hours of my life felt wasted trying to truly bagwork something during a deep bear market. Now no one was left pushing it, and the main socials for $https were inactive. Then, the cruelest twist happened. Weeks later, the dev went on vacation. He dropped a tweet, reposted some of the older lore threads of $https, and it went viral, hitting over 100k views. A cabal saw an oppurtunity, stepped in to bundle it up. And they nuked the bundle at $150k mcap. Big KOLs caught the next 2 waves and over the span of a single month, the chart went completely parabolic, rocketing all the way to a $1.1m market cap. Pulled back, and sent back to $1m mcap again. And I was forced to watch it all from the sidelines with the dev, holding 0 supply. I watched everyone celebrate and print money, all while reposting and recycling the 400+ pieces of art I spent months bleeding for. My sleepless nights were literally being used to make everyone else rich. Sure, the dev didn't hold suppply either but as the volume exploded, creator fees stacked up fast. He was able to recoup over $100,000 in creator fees alone. The dev got paid. The cabal got rich. The KOLs that dumped on their followers won. And the one person who carried the project on his back for 6 months walked away with nothing. NET NEGATIVE. For the last 4 months leading up to today, I went completely ghost. I stepped away from the $https community just trying to process the mental toll of it all. The timeline constantly praises the legendary lore of the "dev’s epic comeback." But nobody knows about the people in the shadows who actually laid the bricks. Nobody talks about the people who kept the pulse beating when it was flatlining, who gave it their absolute all when zero eyes were watching, just to be completely erased from the story. Most people would quit crypto forever after this. I’m not most people. I built the visual soul of $https from zero, and I refuse to let my work be stolen by circumstance. I’m stepping back in the ring. I’m going to create a ton of new art, tell my side of the story, and take back what’s mine. My relationship with @PumpaMeta is still strong and we will continue to cook this back up. If you respect the honest grind of an artist in Web3, drop a follow and watch this comeback. And if anybody needs hella art for their own projects HMU.