David Choe’s Discord server, Munko, immersed users in an ever-evolving version of the artist’s world—a world that some users were pulled more and more tightly into.
I surrender, I want ‘the full Munko.’Munko was advertised as a non-fungible-token, or N.F.T., project based on Choe’s art. In a practice common on Discord servers hyping N.F.T. launches, buyers of the tokens were granted access to V.I.P. areas on the server, behind the virtual velvet rope. But Choe’s N.F.T.
Steven wasn’t the only one who felt this way. Many Munko users were pulled ever more tightly into its world. David Roa, a.k.a. Mocha Munko, is a thirty-three-year-old coffee roaster in Bushwick. One day, while driving to work, he tuned in to an audio channel on Munko designed to connect two users at random. The first person to arrive was instructed to stay silent while the second person talked.
Like Steven, most had been Choe fans through “DVDASA” or all the way back to the Vice years. And many saw their own journeys mirrored in what they viewed as Choe’s transformation from a gonzo, punk, train-hopping artist who tagged buildings and courted outrage to a grown man seemingly striving for maturity and spiritual growth.
As the weeks and months passed, some of Choe’s most avid fans rose within the ranks. Some were appointed moderators—they were known collectively as Choes—while others, including Newman, were named helpers, a.k.a. Hongs and Lees. Steven’s box included a pile of pennies. He brought them to zoos and an aquarium to put them through penny-press machines. He visited a friend at a train yard to crush others on the tracks, in homage to Choe’s rail-riding past. He worked on his construction after the kids were in bed, sometimes until two or three in the morning.
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