Hamily × The Memes by 6529

The card’s code runs to 470 lines and keeps the robot class of 210328 Strange Robots as it was: each robot has its own width and height, antenna, colours drawn from a palette and eye size. What is new are mouths (smiling, sad or a flat line, opening into an oval when they speak), round or square glasses, growth and easing as the mouse comes near, paper-cut shadows, and a layer of speech bubbles that, when their turn comes, blow out one letter of WAGMI. The grid is eight robots across and ten down, one every hundred pixels, with a sine wave staggering each row up and down; around it an eighty-pixel black border carries THE HAMILY and a vertical WAGMI.

His handwritten signature sits in the lower left, a sequence of coordinates recorded in advance. The random seed is fixed at 42069 × 2 and the noise seed likewise; the 690 ERC-1155 editions have no hash of their own, so every edition opens on the same crowd of hams and the same wave.

When the mouse comes near, the hams around it grow and shake, shake harder while the button is held, and every ham within two hundred pixels blows a bubble. Two hundred frames after the mouse stops, the picture takes over: an invisible cursor circles the centre, so the card keeps moving even when left alone. S saves the current frame, H opens hamily.life, the space bar pauses, and on a phone it answers to touch.

What he wrote in the card’s description is a poem of three stanzas in English, from “Amidst the crowd, the hams lie low” to “With our crazed creativity on full display”, followed by three lines of instructions. The full text is in the original-text section below.