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   +---
   +title: Gigi
   +type: character
   +portrait: /portraits/x-gigi.jpg
   +status: confirmed
   +aliases: []
   +sources:
   +  - raw/episodes/a-vibes-revival-with-walker-america-btp-episode-25/bundle.json
   +---
   +
   +Gigi is an offstage authority in the Bugleverse: a Nostr-adjacent writer who
   +never appears as a speaker but gets quoted by people trying to explain why
   +Nostr feels different. He is cited, not interviewed.
   +
   +His one recorded contribution to the record is an aphorism about zap economics,
   +delivered secondhand by Walker America during a discussion of why bad-vibes
   +posters fail to take root on Nostr: "like, Gigi says, you wouldn't zap a car
   +crash. Nobody wants to zap your bad vibes. You wanna zap good vibes."[^zap-car-crash]
   +Walker treats this as the mechanism under his whole vibes theory — rage posting
   +gets no purchase on a value-for-value protocol because there is no algorithmic
   +incentive to reward it, and nobody voluntarily sends money at a wreck. In the
   +same breath he distils the point again: "You'll look at a car crash. You'll
   +maybe be enthralled by it. You won't zap it. You won't give it your
   +value."[^zap-car-crash]
   +
   +He is also known in the universe as an author. [[characters/richard-greaser]],
   +listing podcasts worth hearing, credits Guy Swan's "narration of the 21 lessons
   +by,"[^21-lessons-swan] naming Gigi as the writer a beat later and pronouncing it
   +a "Great book."[^21-lessons-gigi] The ASR splits the attribution across two
   +cues, which is why the author's name arrives after the book's.
   +
   +His material sits inside [[storylines/nostr-watch]] and
   +[[storylines/fountain-podcasting-2-0]] without him ever showing up for either.
   +
   +[^zap-car-crash]: [[transcripts/a-vibes-revival-with-walker-america-btp-episode-25#t-3781|BTP Episode 25 @ 1:03:01]]. Walker America has no wiki page.
   +[^21-lessons-swan]: [[transcripts/a-vibes-revival-with-walker-america-btp-episode-25#t-4455|BTP Episode 25 @ 1:14:15]]. Guy Swan has no wiki page. The sentence trails off mid-attribution in the ASR.
   +[^21-lessons-gigi]: [[transcripts/a-vibes-revival-with-walker-america-btp-episode-25#t-4458|BTP Episode 25 @ 1:14:18]].