blokC
BLACK IN THE METAVERSE
BLACK AMERICAN YOUTH
INSPIRED BY BLACK AMERICAN ICONS
INSPIRING THE WORLD
blokC collective
Who is the Black American Community
in the Metaverse?
Why will the Black American Community
use the Metaverse?
How will the Black American Community benefit from the Metaverse?
YOUNG
GIFTED &
BLACK
Collective Goals
Connect the Black American community, culture, and youth to the Metaverse
Empower our Black American youth to become icons inspired by their cultural icons
Organize economic ecosystems for the community through the Metaverse
Monetize ownership, production, and sale of Black American cultural property for its creators
Enable generational and transformative change in our Black American community
To be Young, Gifted, & Black in the Metaverse
Our blokC collective asked these questions, worked on the solutions, and committed to the mission of Black in the Metaverse!
Community Economy
The blokC catalyst for creative change is the principle of primary primitives that we use to understand socio-cultural-technological innovation and transformation. We can also apply the principle of primary primitives in order to surface the modal structures within socio-cultural systems that drive innovation, insight, and ingenuity.
And from that process came what we at blockC call the Protocol for Augmented Narrative Generation (PANG). PANG combines cutting edge Generative AI and Web3 technology, along with human creativity, to decentralize and accelerate the creation of production ready storylines.
These production ready storylines develop through what we have identified as Narrative Primitives. Narrative Primitives are a type of primary primitive structure within the larger frame of storytelling and its concomitant discipline of narratology. Building on this framework of Narrative Primitives, PANG can programmatically assemble IP assets, that in turn instantiate IP equity pools, royalty pools, and their commemorative NFT collections. Thus, empowering a new generation of stories and storytellers primed for creative collaboration.
Here’s what to expect…
Deal Makers & Partakers
The blokC Creator Economy generates two value pools, an Equity Pool and a Royalty Pool.
Royalty Pool partakes in the proceeds generated by sales of products from deals and Intellectual Property (IP).
Equity Pool controls the IP for deal making and funding from the token pool. Control is exercised through DAO voting rights.
NFT Ownership Value Flows
Get paid by Royalties.
Get heard with Governance.
Get seen through Membership.
Algorithmic Equity Formation in Web3 & IRL
Programmatic Intellectual Property (IP) and cutting edge AI Technology.
Narrative Primitive IP Assets become Feedstocks for Film, TV, Music, Graphic Novel Productions and more.
NFT Owners get Royalty Rights and Commercial Usage Rights.
Royalty, Royalty, Royalties!
Commercial proposals get selected for Collabs through DAO governance.
DAO governance is executed through the blokC token that carries voting rights. NFT Holders receive blokC token endowments.
Collab Deals generate Revenues. Revenues generate Royalties for NFT owners and staked blokC tokens.
blokC DAO Token Governance
NFT Owners get elevated Voting Rights in the DAO.
Staked blokC governance tokens get tiered DAO Voting Rights.
For Members Only
NFT Owners get benefits that only being a Member can bring.
Exclusive Events, Privileged Access, & Trendsetter Clout that can actually pay dividends.
BLACK IN THE METAVERSE
BLACK AMERICAN YOUTH
INSPIRED BY BLACK AMERICAN ICONS
INSPIRING THE WORLD
blokC collective
Who are we?
blokC is a collective of Black American youth and authentic allies across many communities who also happen to have ancillary identities as:
Yale researchers
Aspen Institute fellows
Media and Tech executives
Film and Music stars
Celebrated athletes
Berkeley and Harvard graduates
As well as…
Street artists
Storytellers
Musicians
Formerly incarcerated
Community activists
and more…
Vision Manifesto
Purpose Statements
Reclaim & Monetize Black American culture for its Creators
Diversify Web3 with the Richness of Black American Culture
Bridge the Technology divide in the Black American community
Reconstitute & Redistribute Value in Web3 & IRL
Value Statements
Enrich Others
Authenticity
Integrity
Responsibility
Black American Culture Creates “The Culture”
The creative prowess of Black American culture is undeniable in global popularity and unrivaled in international influence. “In the case of on-demand video streams, the ‘R&B/hip-hop’ category actually claimed over a third of all plays, at 33.9%,” according to Music Business Worldwide in 2020. In 2015 machine learning research revealed that “Hip-hop is the single greatest revolution in the U.S. pop charts by far,” recounted Armand M. Leroi, a professor of evolutionary developmental biology at Imperial College London and co-author of the study.
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Hip-Hop, rap, gangsta rap, old school
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Historically speaking, as well as in our current day, Black American culture is the most bankable creative reservoir on the planet.
“A large swath of American popular culture comes from Black culture and that is before the internet even existed. We can take any historical period and look at popular culture, at any particular historical period, and see the ways in which white folks who have access to mainstream capital and mainstream media and other forms of access were drawing inspiration from the art forms and creative forms of Black folks.”
Sarah J. Jackson, Associate Professor and co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication
Black Creators Lack Equity & Representation
The suffocating shadow cast from the current wealth gap of Black Americans looms large in the lives of the entire community including Black Creators, regardless of the inability of some in our broader American community to embrace these ugly facts.
Despite these circumstances, our Black American community leads in engagement with new digital media as consumers and creators. Nielsen reported in 2021 that in the era of personalization and inclusion in media, Black audiences worldwide are looking to see both their collective and distinct experiences represented. When surveying these numbers, we observe that Black America delivers over 1 trillion viewing minutes in a single quarter, but is also twice as likely to feel portrayals of their identity group on T.V. are completely inaccurate.
In the new Creative Economy, our Black American Creators disproportionately suffer from not receiving credit for their creativity and original work, robbing them of prestige and proceeds. In 2021, Black Tik-Tok creators went on strike in protest of this cultural and economic appropriation.
Black Community is a Leader in Tech Adoption
It’s a scarcely known fact that our Black American community is an early adopter of blockchain technology recognizing its transformative potential for individual and community economic empowerment. Even more specifically our Black American community realized how cryptocurrency offered a means to address the wealth gap through bypassing barriers to access traditional assets by opting into the crypto economy.
Regardless of being ahead of the trend for adopting blockchain technologies as a community, Black Americans remain left behind in access to broadband internet and a home computer, and are also largely locked out of employment in the burgeoning American Technology sector. This technology paradox of high engagement vs low equity is underscored by the increased hurdles faced in onboarding Black American youth into STEM careers. The Black American community is ready and seeking paths toward equity in this new technology landscape, where access to equity justly matches their ability to engage!
The Twin Win = Black + Metaverse
Black in the Metaverse in a convergence of the unique advantages of Web3 technology, the specific needs of Black American Community and the power of Black American creativity. This explosive combination stands to enrich the Metaverse with the depth of Black American culture, and enrich the Black community IRL with the breadth of opportunity offered by the Metaverse.
The Twin Win.