Back to collectionA Popularity Prize Brings Recognition and New Expectations
Over the weekend, the community was still talking about the Iron Pigeons fan-art contest. The Night Watchman won the contest's popularity prize: one place on the allowlist. The allowlist place made him a prizewinner as well as a participant in the conversation, and made him more careful about how he spoke.
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Over the weekend, the community was still talking about the Iron Pigeons fan-art contest. The Night Watchman, a longtime member of the group, had entered too. As his work drew attention, he found that others were more likely to take his words as the studio's position.
The Night Watchman won the contest's popularity prize: one place on the allowlist. When someone asked him about the minting schedule, he made clear that he knew only what had been announced, then talked about the ideas in his work. He was pleased to win, but did not want the recognition to become a reason to promise anything on the studio's behalf.
The allowlist place made him a prizewinner as well as a participant in the conversation, and made him more careful about how he spoke. He planned to keep answering questions about the artwork that he could answer, while leaving unannounced matters such as the release date to official statements. The community still had to work out how to handle the questions yet to come.