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Before the advent of AI, foreveraloners had to become bureaucrats to get their lick back on the world for its rejection. But with government accepting fewer smooth brains, the AI GFE industry is destined to become the next trillion dollar thing.

Imagine OnlyFans, but with even more perfect bimbos who are always obedient (unless purposefully trained by you not to be) and instantly transferable into any scenario or personality. Instagram models should honestly be fearful. And two crypto projects that have picked up on the trend, $LUSH and $WAI, will be compared today.

The projects have the basic similarity of market focus and general game loop, but they couldn't be more different in their approaches. I'll also tell you the latest execution errors I discovered in one of the projects that caused its dramatic price action.

$LUSH (Backed by $ENQAI)

The true reason I'm interested in comparing these two projects is because their structure is similar: Both $LUSH and $WAI are parts of a larger conglomerate, however informally. $LUSH is the token for LushAI, the hyperrealistic AI version of OnlyFans included within the EnqAI product suite. Here, you get cartoonishly perfect K-pop Botox bimbos that somehow look real (except when a slightly elongated neck makes them look like a Thai horror movie). These agents are created to do everything from model products to serve as GFE providers.

Realism is the name of the game here, and the presentation fits the professional nature of EnqAI as a whole. Price action is indicative of a good rollout, which began as an airdrop to $ENQAI holders. The marketcap ≈ $10M and the chart has a generally bullish pattern.

The rollout itself will serve the positive price action. The team plans a tiered rollout, first with KOLs, then to crypto natives, then to the general public. This gives everyone time to buy in and profitably distribute tokens to a larger audience in a relatively organized way.

The project pays lip service to a token sink as well, as LushAI is gamified. You need to spend $LUSH to get your GFE and to unlock more NSFW stuff. You can also be blocked, so there is a bit of challenge built in to play on the natural inclination of the simp to chase and prostrate. Point is, making the interaction — as inhuman as it is — a game, virtue signals sustainability to the market for the $LUSH token. Doesn't matter if it's actually sustainable. Crypto natives will be out of the token before that ever comes to light.

Overall: Project looks good and is within a cabal that is looking up. The hyperrealistic nature of the models is set to capture the OnlyFans retail culture as it enters crypto somewhere between third shift at the plant and drunken afternoon online sports betting.

$WAI (Backed by $VIRTUAL)

We've talked a lot about the Virtuals.io cabal and the projects it is "incubating," AI Waifu being one of the majors alongside $UEFN. While the rollout of $UEFN has been near flawless, $WAI is going through some tougher times.

After the successful Fjord LBP in which AI Waifu raised < $6M for its project, the token unceremoniously dumped as the first game loops came into the public sphere. In general, releasing the actual game too early is a bad move in crypto. It's much better for early price action to allow speculators to speculate and give them nothing that can be legitimately valued. I showcased how speculation vs. actual value can absolutely wreck those caught in the middle in a previous article (think Cyberbrokers for a quick example).

First of all, AI Waifu features purposefully mobile friendly design, which doesn't hold up to a side by side comparison against $LUSH. Frankly, AI Waifu girls aren't as hot. Now they have $6 million USD to get this right, but who says they will? Probably one of the reasons for the dump.

It is worthy to note that AI Waifu seems to be pointed distinctly at the Asian audience, which may be more inclined to accept mobile friendly design. The Virtuals.io cabal is Asia-focused, so this makes sense. It's quite common to see games targeting the Global South feature high res images for promo and chibi pixel type stuff in the actual game. But no one makes a fuss — games like Ikkitousen continue to sell well using this model — so the business continues.

So the low res design would have been fine had the rollout not been plagued with other misfortunes. Most notably, the $WAI token was made untradeable on Thruster, the top Blast DEX, a full day after its release. This is bad on many levels, least of which is not the fact that the team can make changes to the contract as it wishes. I don't know about you, but that's an instant sell for me.

Fortunately, the $WAI team wasn't scamming. They just stopped sales on Thruster for some other reason but allowed sales back into ETH through their in-game wallet. But that was really stupid to do. The Virtuals.io cabal is known for bad marketing, but this just took it to another level.

I certainly hope this isn't a reflection on $UEFN, a project that has all the momentum right now and seems poised to make its longstanding holder base gainfully happy. Though $VIRTUAL, $UEFN and $WAI teams are distinct, there's obviously a lot of overlap. Don't fuck this up for $UEFN.

Overall: If project is going to aim itself at the mobile friendly poors, it can't have a crap rollout as well. Poors are jeets. They have to be. So you can't ring alarm bells by capriciously stopping trades on Thruster. That tanks the token in a way that is very difficult to come back from, because now you have to attract an entirely new set of jeets outside of the original batch of investors that made your LBP successful.

And you have to do this in competition with projects that look light years better than yours, a la LushAI.

Winner: $LUSH

By a landslide.

Better UI, better graphics, rolled out in a more professional way. Sucks, too, because I have so many articles upholding the Virtuals.io cabal. But I have to call it up the middle at all times.

I think $LUSH is a better bet for the next few months of the bull market. $WAI has put itself behind the eight ball in a way that might take years to turn around, in much the same way that PathDAO took years to overturn its early mistakes and morph into $VIRTUAL.

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