This Is What You Can Learn From A Web3 Entrepreneur About Collaborative Storytelling

Justin Alanis is a tech entrepreneur.

A very successful one.

He's a member of Metacartel Ventures. A collaborator in Seed Club.

He's invested in over 50 start-ups.

He has electrolytes for breakfast.?

And wakes up at dawn to speak to the Thinking On Paper community.

But what can he teach you about storytelling?

The controversial take home?

Forget everything you know about creating world-conquering stories.?

The next Marvel or Stars Wars, even the next Peppa Pig, Pokémon, Mario or Last of The Summer Wine will be written in web3.

Far, far, far from the ornate ivory towers of Beverly Hills and Bel Air.

By unknown storytellers with nothing but an idea, ambition and the serendipitous fortune to be alive and awake and kicking in a time when ownership and control and monetisation can be stripped of predatory third parties.

The seeds of the script will be planted in a Discord channel.

Developed in a Zoom call.

Written in Notion.

The creators will share drafts across a community of writers and fans and filmmakers on Farcaster.

Artists will use #AI to seduce.

It will be sufficiently #decentralized.

The community will grow.

Barry in London will edit. So will Talida in Mexico and Jean-Claude in Calcutta.

Lunch break, scene break, point break.

#NFT holders will imagine profound and tumultuous backstories that dump flawed characters into relationships they never planned; riotous and romantic situations they never saw coming.

Soulbound.?

They'll create worlds and kingdoms and underground drinking dens where teachers and rappers and Japanese jazz singers coerce and manipulate for attention.

First act. Second act. Third act.

A thousand true fans will converge at the creative epicentre and stake their claim to a new story.

A news story.

And they'll tell the world.

And that's how it will happen.

Don’t believe me?

Check out the episode and make your own conclusion.?

You can watch it here.

Or rather, down there, in the comments. Because if I put a link Google will do Google things and cast this newsletter into the depths of your spam box where it will compete with all manner of internet nasties.?

Maybe just saying the word nasty is enough.

Such is centralization.?

We’ll have to do some A/B testing.?

Thanks

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