The Nephews

Join us on August 7th and the site buttons will automatically change over to "MINT NOW." When this happens, you'll connect a Metamask wallet through https://metamask.io and then buy some Wrapped ETH and bada-bing you'll be a proud owner of a Nephews! We are limiting all Nephews to 10 per person so everyone has a fair chance at a Golden Yerman if you want one. The mint price will be .1 ETH plus gas fees (we're minting on the Polygon Network to lessen gas fees) and then The Nephews will live on OpenSea. If you miss the Mint Date and want to pick one up, you'll have to secure yours on the OpenSea Marketplace and the Floor Price will more than likely be more expensive than .1 ETH since these are limited to 1,111. Join us on Discord to keep up to date and get whitelisted!

To put it simply, whitelisting basically rewards early adopters of the project so you can get a Nephew a bit cheaper and save money on gas fees. We'll put the requirements in the Discord so you'll have to join us there!
To read more about whitelists, you can click here!

After making physical goods for 10+ years, we're tired of adding to the landfill problem in this world. It's fun to sell thousands of t-shirts and hats, but at the end of the day we don't want to keep putting goods out in the world just to put goods out in the world. We're trying to move fully into a digital-only offering supply chain so we aren't creating unnecessary waste. It's our hope that through NFTs, we can still provide art for you to collect and that the apparel/vinyl toys we do release will be held onto forever since they're tied to a digital membership through NFTs. If you have any questions as to why we're doing this you can always ask us in the Discord!

Sure you can screenshot it and make it your iPhone wallpaper but that's about as far as your ownership goes! If you want to explore the full ownership perks of the Nephews community (and support the artist creating the art) then you'll need to mint a 'Phew through this minting site to officially show your ownership through the blockchain!

Sort of! Once you own a Nephews NFT, you'll get to enter the secret area of our official Discord to hang out with other Nephews. You'll also get the full commercial rights to your NFT so if you want to print it out and put it on your wall, go for it! If you want to use it for your band's t-shirt? That sounds cool! People ask to collaborate with Ryan Brunty/Depressed Monsters™ and this is the easiest way to officially collab if you want! Can't wait to see what you make! Other perks include random airdrops of NFTs to holders, apparel drops exclusive to the community, giveaways and special events!

This is a common misconception which I'm happy to give my two cents on. Basically, the energy costs for mining ETH are high and aren't exactly good for the environment but there are ways to offset this by using alternate minting options such as KlimaDao or Solana which we can explore as the project moves along.
However, it's in my opinion that the biggest threat facing the world and climate is textile manufacturing especially that of fast fashion like H&M and Shein and Forever 21. In fact, according to Earth.org, "Nearly 3 in 5 garments ends up in landfills, oceans, or an incinerator within just one year of being produced." Also the Co2 emissions from creating these garments is staggering. You can find graphs by clicking here.
So, after making physical goods for 10+ years, I want to stop adding to landfills across the world. I had a call with Mike Becker, founder of Funko, a few years ago and he was helping me strategize the next few years of my business and he said something that I thought was very profound. He said, "don't make more plastic crap that muddies up the world's landfills." This could have been a throwaway comment but to me, I feel as though he had a moment of realization that the millions of Funko Pops being manufactured were just littering the world and making it a dirtier place. So, after being in the designer toy scene and fashion world for better part of a decade, I'm tired of adding to this problem and want to move fully to digital offerings while only offering limited runs on toys and clothing to those that truly want to collect my work instead of playing into the hype beast culture that is plaguing the world and making everyone think they need to collect, collect, collect until they die. No, let's collect with purpose and creat communities that can actually do good for each other and the planet. So, yes, NFTs do impact the power structures of the world, however, the offset is that we're now decluttering the planet which to me, is a much more worthwhile cause. If you have any more questions about this, please hit me up in the Discord!