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name: apex-brand
description: APEX, Ben's crypto culture brand/coin paired with SPCX (SpaceX) on long.xyz - concept, visual direction, X account. Read before any APEX, AIM HIGHER, orangutan astronaut or APEX content question.
sources: [cowork]
aliases: [APEX, APEX coin, apex x spcx, ape x space x, orangutan astronaut, STARS, stars brand]
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- [stated] Building APEX, a coin/brand to be paired with SPCX (SpaceX) on long.xyz; setting up its X/Twitter account (profile picture + banner)
- [stated] Concept: APE X -> SPACE X; humanity's drive toward the next peak (life, evolution, civilization, excellence, frontier); slogan AIM HIGHER; broader than [[lockedinu]]
- [stated] Plans hype videos: calm evolutionary start (cells, fish, apes, humans), then civilization/Renaissance, sports and iconic human moments, moon landing, SpaceX rockets and stars, music building to a driving climax
- [stated] Mascot: orangutan astronaut; eye contact important; smile fine but optional; wants less brown dominance, more futuristic, white astronaut gear
- [stated] Positioning: a culture/movement coin like GIGA, about progress and personal excellence people identify with (get in shape, hit the gym, make money, level up, deal with women and life, have standards, not everyone deserves your attention); see [[aspirational-meme-lane]]
- [stated] Taglines (final, 26 Sep 2026): "AIM HIGHER." is the one official slogan (action: chart, personal excellence, human progress, space); supporting line "We were made for more." (felt belief, identity); "We were never meant to stay on the ground" only as closing line for videos ending in flight/space. Earlier supporting line "For those that want more" retired; rejected "From the ocean to the apex" and "Destined for Greatness"
- [stated] Visual direction chosen: cyberpunk white-suit orangutan PFP (liked the marble bust but finds cyberpunk more compatible); banner = civilization climb that continues past the rocket to "living on in the stars", with some sports included (hype videos will carry lots of sports)
- [stated] Later preferred the ORIGINAL photoreal civilization-climb banner (pyramids to launch tower, dusk to starry sky) in HD, optimized for mobile, with only ~5% tiny sports (bodybuilding, sprinting, boxing, basketball, American football); sports must stay small, civilization is the hero
- [stated] Wants an X on the PFP chest (like the marble bust had); open to swapping the orangutan for another ape/monkey in the exact same cyberpunk white style, smile and stare
- [stated] Final PFP chosen: brown ape (not orangutan) in the cyberpunk white suit and helmet with HUD, glowing X on chest, one normal eye + one cyborg eye, "LONG" laser-engraved on the helmet top; called it "a perfect profile picture"
- [stated] Brand = progress, both personal (break family/life patterns, reach your goals, work on yourself physically and financially, support others, become what nobody believed you could) and societal (humanity moving forward, living among the stars, an adventure ahead); a supportive community proud of people who put in the work
- [stated] Content format: AI-style history-of-Western-culture video (ref @IterIntellectus) that transitions into GIGA-style fast-cut hype edits with music building, so viewers finish super motivated
- [stated] Feels the busy banners are "almost too much"; unsure the banner needs all that content
- [stated] APEX hype video rules (Sep 2026, supersedes the AI-history format above): no still pictures in videos; AI only for clearly illustrative animations (diagrams, a sketch of the pyramids, armies moving on a map), never to make anything look real; everything real uses real footage, iconic moments only; each of the five videos has different content; SpaceX and Elon Musk content welcome in some
- [stated] Wants APEX positioned as THE culture token of the LONG (long.xyz) and Robinhood Chain ecosystem: other LONG coins each try to "do something" (MU memory hub, AI etc.), APEX carries the culture, the PVE ethos (not competing with each other) and invites normies and big finance in
- [stated] Video outro standard (26 Sep 2026): "AIM HIGHER" with a small APEX mark over the running last shot; no monkey PFP, no second tagline (felt like selling a cheap token). Slogans may appear mid-escalation when they fit, not required. No old-school serif font; use the APEX brand font (Michroma-style) and the bold impact font
- [stated] Video concepts he proposed: "Come with us" (helping hand to someone who is down, "we all made it out of the gutter", invitation to a disciplined community); out of poverty / zero to a million incl. crypto trench wins; a LONG/Robinhood Chain video (Bitcoin new cycle, Vlad Tenev, Nate/@Natan_benish, ending "LONG." then "BOARD SIT."). Out-of-the-gutter footage must be iconic (Rocky-type), not random people
- [stated] APEX mission (26 Sep 2026, undecided): wants a free, idea-only destination mission like HOTDOG's $1.50 or AI's board seat; rejected arbitrary market-cap ladders; will not promise anything he won't deliver (no funded $55M space seat); likes a community-voted "#1 Ape" (who did the most for the project) and "The Ape is buying SpaceX" but wants a destination rather than a process; floated "the Ape on stage with Elon"; rejected "First Ape on Mars" because the mission must be about the holders themselves gaining power/a say (like AI holders' board seat), not the ape's achievement
- [stated] APEX video rules (26 Sep 2026, round 4): never play a clip as a loop or show the same scene twice in one video; no failures (crashes, falling rockets) in euphoric videos; text must stay on screen long enough to read; every video sets its theme with a short line at the start, maybe one note mid-way, then the AIM HIGHER outro
- [stated] Replaced "Come with us" with a "Reach Your Peak" concept (icons' peak moments: Wimbledon wins, crucial history and sport moments; lines "Reach your peak", "Join us", then AIM HIGHER) and "Warrior" with a sports-legends hype video (UFC, boxing, NFL, rugby, basketball, tennis; "Become a legend / Become iconic"); Zero to One must show founders before, their products scaling, then iconic stage moments
- [stated] Banner direction (26 Sep 2026): a SpaceX-style launch event, huge crowd with phones up, Starship/Mars on the stage screen, the APEX astronaut ape in the crowd taking a selfie (his idea, originally with Elon on stage); prefers the friendlier chimp-faced ape over the frowning PFP ape ("friendlier, something people can identify with more")
- [stated] 29 Sep 2026: brand moving from APEX (ape mascot) to STARS: primarily a SpaceX fan page and community of people striving for personal excellence and cheering on human progress; line AIM HIGHER. / SHINE BRIGHTER. / TO THE STARS.; not trying to win on big news; "SpaceX came to us" is not the mission; not worried that the STARS name/ticker is already used by other coins