The text in this article is an unedited paste of Swedetoshi’s free flow rant in a Telegram chat with hodlonaut about his FUCK FIAT sticker series, thoughts on his artistic process, what motivates him and his interactions with Bitcoin Twitter.

Oct 5th

That was the day that the FUCK FIAT started to happen

I remember it like it was yesterday

I like to imagine some heroes of the past and what would be their reaction to bitcoin

It was very late one night or early depending on whoever would judge

I was looking at that striking image of the johnny cash picture

He looks very anti authority

Pissed off

So the idea was to do just do a few photoshops of some ppl that had been following me

And it grew very organically

Nothing was preplanned

And a lot of ppl started showing up

Which surprised and motivated me to keep going with it

And they were done rather rapidly which surprised them  because they did not expect it

I started adding some funny comments to the posts to make it a bit more humorous

Because i really was having a blast

I stayed up about 30 hours straight memeing it out

It was quite a marathon

The Twitter Thread

One thing i will tell is this

I like to just randomly surprise ppl

When they do not expect it

I was doing it back on myspace in the mid 2000’s

Just pick a random person and come up with something photoshopped or animated

And their reaction is always interesting

Even if there was no reaction at all

So

I have a history of doing this kind of thing

I am self taught, no formal training

I mainly just do it for fun

So the fuck fiat thing took a natural evolutionary path when there was some gravity attracted to it

And learning a bit about twitter and new ppl too

Many ppl who i interact with today

I might have never known about

Possibly introduced some ppl to others as well

I did a few animations related to later

Around that time i started messing around with making my own stickers of some things i had come up with

I had never made stickers before

It was all experimental and they turned out with fairly good quality from a variety of factors.

then shortly thereafter decided to surprise everyone once again with a big video featuring their own stickers that they had no idea about

I took the vid down a bit later because u know the music rules but it was pretty popular

Also something incredible happened

Unexpected

I think before the vid post

I got anonymous tips

Huge ones

100,000 sats at first

Then a million sats

It was mind blowing

I did some digital vids also before the sticker vid

Some ppl were immediately interested in the stickers

Which blew me away as well of course

But i was not set up for it and my process was not set up for speed plus I had some issues to work out with tools of production

And no online store obviously

So i kind of had to take a step back and think about it all

every part of the process is done by me

Design, template, print, laminate, chop

For quality and opsec reasons of course

Interacting with ppl on DM is interesting

Because some ppl will be very interested and then do nothing and others jump right on it and have a high time preference for getting some of the stickers :)

Some ppl ordered over 100

It was crazy

Once i had a good process down

It was not an issue in production.  I found ways around the past problems

But another issue came up unexpectedly

I would send ppl some bonus fuck fiat stickers of other ppl on twtr

And they were confused as to who to tag or who they even were looking at

There was another issue with the letter spacing that needed to be fixed

So i revamped all of the previous ones i had done

And there were a bunch

It was a huge undertaking too

fuck fiat 2.0 became a reality soon after a few orders had already been fulfilled

Names added in

Better spacing on the FIAT word

And bitcoin symbol

It was late november by that time

And i felt a little bad somewhat

Because ppl had ordered & Received the older 1.0 type

and then i did this redesign

i was troubled a bit on how to make it right somehow without them possibly feeling jaded or something

So i decided

everyone who had ordered these 1.0’s before

I will make the new 2.0 updated ones for them and send them a few of those with a letter and holiday card

one thing was how do i do it in a way that is still a surprise because these were all being sent to different parts of the world simultaneously

I’m telling you

I get a thrill out of surprising ppl and the holiday timing of it was great

So there is a little background on fuck fiat for you :)

what i do is very random mostly

An idea just pops up and I run with it sometimes

I visualize it and then tinker with it until i like the outcome

I get a rush from creating