Ethereum

Pepe with Balloon

Collection

Vinnie M

Description

Banksy’s Girl with Balloon once symbolized fragile hope, floating just out of reach. In the years since, Pepe the Frog became the internet’s most infamous mascot-playful at first, then politicized, then financialized as the face of meme coins and NFTs. This project fuses those trajectories. The girl is gone; Pepe reaches instead. The balloon, now green, transforms hope into the language of speculation where value is often inflated by hype cycles and scarcity. It is both corrupted and enduring, tethered to markets yet still floating above collapse. The edition size of 250 mirrors meme culture’s replication: too many for exclusivity, too few for infinity. Priced at 0.005 ETH, the work resists elitism, inviting broad participation while critiquing the speculative bubble that defined NFT culture. Each token is not just an image, but a fragment of commentary: a reminder that even amid collapse, irony, and commodification, hope continues to rise.

Traits

Artist

Vinnie M

Token

Contract: 0x5903...d550
Token ID: 1129

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