To be honest, there are many things i will probably never understand about NFTs cos I couldnt understand the inspiration behind its ugliness. I think it was odd how the first generation NFTs, especially this ape club, were ugly as hell. Sure, the whole nft idea was bewildering really, but why was it all so ugly as well?
is there a hidden utility in ugliness or am i missing something?
I believe it could have something to do with the fact the first generation of Non fungible tokens were created by using templates or partial parts of each NFT which were changed in order to create a new one which was different from the previous one.
Many of the first generation NTFs were not intended to be a piece of art on its own but rather several pieces of individual parts placed together. It was a easy way for the creators of those NTFs to offer a high quantity of those in the market with relatively few effort.
Though, not all the generation 1 projects were ugly of poorly drawn, I recall a collection called "Waifu Project" which offered very well drawn anime girls inspired in crypto currencies, they actually hired professional artists to do each NFT. The catch is that those of those NTFs were more common than others the animated ones would be as scarce as only having 3 copies in existence.