(CORPETS)

Statement

Somewhere between a Wojak and a mascot costume with no budget, there's a guy: hood up, 3D glasses on, a bottle marked WAGMI that has never once been empty across thirty-nine plates. That's carpets. He didn't ask for this, but he also hasn't asked us to stop.

Nothing here is curated for coherence. The catalogue grows the way a group chat grows: one image posted whenever there's something worth being disappointed about, in whatever visual language does that disappointment justice that week. He doesn't develop as a character. He just accumulates a rap sheet.

The name comes from the one plate where he's finally given one — on a McDonald's nametag, in the one setting where policy requires it. He's also real, sort of: built off the PFP of @LivingCarpets, a Rekt Guy, and an actual friend who will absolutely see this.

Doctrine

00  ·  doctrine

gm. is a complete cosmology, provided nothing else is required of it.

The bottle is real. What's in it is a police matter.

HOWAYYY.

(CORPETS) A standing record of one skeleton's relationship to money, ritual, and content.
01
the liturgy of gm.

Morning Devotions

gm. is a complete religious system here, and the only sacrament is a warm bottle of WAGMI. These five plates catalogue the liturgy rather than the punchline — the parts of the bit that hardened into ritual purely from repetition.

A green-hooded figure with 3D glasses and the word WORK prays over folded hands beside gm. text, while a reclining figure labeled SHITCOINS lounges behind him in a rococo painting pastiche
Vocation stated oil on panel, rococo genre painting actual Meme, stock-illustration caption.

Peak productivity, arm's length from the thing about to ruin him.

CRPT.2026.001
Condition report
Praying hands, wandering eyes. Standard operating procedure.
Split bus interior: on the dark side a hooded skeleton labeled Never Says GM sits alone; on the sunlit side the same figure waves and drinks from a WAGMI bottle beside the label GM
Split Screen stated vinyl livery, two-tone bus interior actual Meme, before/after diptych.

His whole personality is a toggle switch with two settings: said gm., didn't say gm.

CRPT.2026.002
Condition report
Both states confirmed. A middle setting was never manufactured.
Victorian-style illustration of a skeleton family reading by an armchair; one figure says 'howayyy, GM,' a child asks 'Tell us again, carpets,' and another exclaims 'F**king legend'
Tell Us Again, Carpets stated watercolor and gouache, genre illustration actual Meme, captioned illustration, three voices.

The bit outlived him and became a bedtime story, told back to his own face.

CRPT.2026.003
Condition report
Legend confirmed by two independent witnesses, one of them still in a high chair.
Three-panel urinal scene: a pink-hooded figure already at the urinals, a green-hooded figure walking in, then both standing side by side in identical posture
Congregation stated flat vector illustration, three-panel sequence actual Meme, rage-comic template.

Church, basically. Matching hoodies, zero eye contact, total understanding.

CRPT.2026.004
Condition report
Correct urinal distance maintained throughout. A miracle, frankly.
An elderly figure in a green gm. hoodie and 3D glasses drinks from a WAGMI bottle while using a walker, saying 'why do you hate me, give him all the banging content,' assisted by a younger woman saying 'sure grandma let's get you to bed'
Why Do You Hate Me stated documentary photograph, stock imagery actual Meme, captioned stock photo.

The bit has now outlived several generations' patience for it and shows no sign of stopping.

CRPT.2026.005
Condition report
Bit sustained well past everyone's consent, including his own walker's.
A hooded figure with 3D glasses and a wavy, distressed mouth is fed by a hose running from a tank labeled COPIUM directly into its hood
Second Sacrament stated digital illustration, single frame actual Meme, drawn icon, no caption.

WAGMI's the public-facing habit. This is the one he doesn't post about.

CRPT.2026.023
Condition report
Supply line unmetered. This is not a phase.
A skeleton in a green gm. hoodie sits sweating heavily at an Apple laptop, checking something anxiously
Refresh stated digital illustration, single frame actual Meme, sweat-drop anxiety format.

The most devout prayer in the whole liturgy: refresh, refresh, refresh.

CRPT.2026.027
Condition report
Sweat production nominal. Screen brightness suspiciously low for 3pm.
A skeleton in a green gm. hoodie reaches, drooling, toward a vending machine stocked with a bottle labeled WAGMI
Vending Machine stated line drawing, single frame actual Meme, drawn icon, no caption.

Pavlovian, and proud of it.

CRPT.2026.030
Condition report
Drool volume elevated. Machine accepts no known currency.
A businessman hands a skeleton in a green gm. hoodie a test tube labeled HOPE, captioned FINALLY and HOPIUM, with a whiteboard behind reading 'I WANT TO ___'
Hopium stated digital illustration, single frame actual Meme, drug-deal-handoff format.

Copium's respectable cousin, dispensed by a man in a tie.

CRPT.2026.032
Condition report
Dose administered. Half-life: one candle.
A green mech in the style of a Gundam robot, covered in graffiti reading HOWAYYY, gm., rekt, and GM 2024, holding a bottle labeled WAGMI
Monument stated vinyl toy, collectible figure photography actual Meme, mecha-deity crossover, no caption.

The bit, scaled up to load-bearing size and given a chassis.

CRPT.2026.036
Condition report
Graffiti authentic to the myth. Structural integrity untested.
02
material ruin

Statements of Loss

Every plate here eventually turns into an apology, usually starting with "sorry." The house, the bidet fund, the footing, the dignity, the shift at the drive-thru: different currencies, same crater.

Four-panel comic: a family stargazes peacefully under a full moon, admiring the calm breeze and beautiful sky, then the final panel shows their silhouettes with the caption 'Sorry I lost our house to shitcoins'
Nature Is Wonderful stated digital illustration, four-panel comic actual Meme, sentimental-reveal strip.

Peaceful family stargazing, one panel away from being a confession.

CRPT.2026.006
Condition report
Sky intact. Structure previously described as "our house" unaccounted for.
A bell curve chart labeled 'also Sasha' at every percentile from 0.1% to 100%, beside a figure covering a woman's eyes, captioned 'Our lass, remember all that money we saved for the bidet?'
Also Sasha stated infographic, statistical chart actual Meme, bell-curve/IQ distribution template.

A statistically airtight excuse: every possible outcome is somehow also Sasha's fault.

CRPT.2026.007
Condition report
Distribution symmetrical. Bidet fund not represented on this or any axis.
A figure hops on one foot after stepping in dog crap, saying 'I stepped in some crap,' while his own extended hand holds up a skateboard-style plaque reading 'best to ever do it'
I Stepped In Some Crap stated digital illustration, split panel actual Meme, self-awarded-plaque format.

The self-awarded medal deploys automatically, even mid-catastrophe. Good branding.

CRPT.2026.008
Condition report
Plaque load-bearing. Ground beneath it unverified.
Photoreal skeleton in a green hoodie drinks from a bottle outside a shuttered shop reading 'Jack Off-Licence,' leaning against the window beside a shopping trolley of debris
Jack Off-Licence stated digital photograph, location study actual Meme, AI-photoreal portrait, no caption.

The one plate that went photoreal, and it just looks like a Tuesday.

CRPT.2026.009
Condition report
Surface weathered honestly. No touch-ups applied at any stage.
A skeleton in a green McDonald's polo with a nametag reading CARPETS slumps at the counter beside a WAGMI bottle and melted ice cream, under a sign reading GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKET COLLAPSE, FOREVER SERVICE REQUIREMENT INFINITE, with a doorway captioned ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER THE DRIVE-THRU
Carpets stated digital illustration, single dense scene actual Meme, AI-illustrated damnation format.

He finally gets a name, and it's on a McDonald's nametag under a sign about the market collapsing forever. Career growth.

CRPT.2026.010
Condition report
Service requirement logged as infinite. Break schedule not on file.
A large hooded figure labeled Me sprays a can labeled All In directly at a small child raising a hand to shield its face, captioned 'Someone trying to warn me bout the shitcoins'
All In stated digital illustration, single frame actual Meme, oversized-aggressor template.

The warning arrived, was understood, and got hosed off the porch anyway.

CRPT.2026.024
Condition report
Warning legible up to the point of contact. Message not retained.
A figure in a green gm. hoodie sits at a table beside a giant pill bottle labeled 'absolute degen shitcoins,' with a wall of family photos showing other hooded figures in matching poses
Prescribed stated cel-style animation still, single scene actual Meme, sitcom-therapy-session format.

Turns out it runs in the family. The whole waiting room's wearing the same hoodie.

CRPT.2026.028
Condition report
Diagnosis confirmed. Refill authorized, against better judgment.
Two-panel expanding-brain-style comic: a green hooded figure reaches for a circle labeled 'Taking profits,' captioned 'Me,' then a larger pink figure hugs the same green figure from behind, captioned 'But it could 10x,' pulling it away from the same circle
But It Could 10x stated chalk and pastel, two-panel diptych actual Meme, brain-hug persuasion format.

The good decision was right there. Greed had other plans and a firmer grip.

CRPT.2026.029
Condition report
Profits within reach, structurally unclaimed.
A figure in a lime-green gm. hoodie covers its mouth in shock against a tiled wall, captioned 'Me when I think about how much I've lost in the trenches'
The Trenches stated digital photograph, portrait actual Meme, captioned realization format.

The math finally lands, several months and several hoodies too late.

CRPT.2026.031
Condition report
Damage total confirmed. Filed under trenches, not therapy.
A bandaged, hooded figure reads a booklet titled 'AM I REKT?' with a crying Pepe on the cover
Am I Rekt? stated cel-style animation still, single scene actual Meme, self-help-pamphlet format.

The self-diagnosis quiz nobody needed to take out loud.

CRPT.2026.033
Condition report
Diagnostic booklet well-thumbed. Answer withheld from the reader.
A hooded figure sits calmly at a table inside a burning room, saying 'This is rekt,' a direct reference to the 'This Is Fine' dog meme
This Is Rekt stated flat illustration, single scene actual Meme, "this is fine" format, re-captioned.

Denial, but he at least updated the caption to be accurate.

CRPT.2026.038
Condition report
Room fully involved. Posture unbothered.
03
content performance

Wins, Recorded

Winning, performed as a genre with its own choreography — podium, plaque, caption — completely independent of whether anything was actually won. The show runs; the P&L does not.

Six-panel medal ceremony: a figure receives a medal, bites it, kisses a woman, flips off the crowd, sprays champagne from a WAGMI bottle, then stands on the third-place block anyway, captioned 'best to ever do it'
Podium stated flat vector illustration, six-panel sequence actual Meme, victory-lap comic strip.

Full victory-lap routine, performed correctly, from the third-place box. Confidence: unaffected by data.

CRPT.2026.011
Condition report
Medal genuine. Placement disputed, procedure unaffected.
A figure in a glass-walled apartment drinks a spilling WAGMI bottle, captioned 'NOT SURE IF EVERYTHING IS EXPENSIVE OR I AM JUST POOR'
Not Sure If stated digital illustration, single frame actual Meme, top/bottom-text macro.

The single most rigorous piece of financial analysis in this entire catalogue.

CRPT.2026.012
Condition report
Question left open. Rent due regardless of the answer.
Four-panel subway comic: a hooded figure admires strangers smiling at their phones, wonders if they received happy news, and the final panel reveals the phone showing a rising chart labeled 'RANDOM SHITCOIN'
Random Shitcoin stated ink and flat color, four-panel comic actual Meme, reveal-format rage comic.

Turns out the smiling stranger on the train isn't in love — he's up 40% on a coin worth nothing by Friday.

CRPT.2026.013
Condition report
Smile confirmed genuine. Chart confirmed temporary.
A hooded figure gestures at the camera while holding an upside-down WAGMI bottle and an open book, with a butterfly overhead, subtitled 'is this a content?'
Is This A Content? stated cel-style animation still, subtitle burned in actual Meme, screenshotted animation frame.

He accidentally asks the exact question this whole catalogue is built to dodge.

CRPT.2026.014
Condition report
Question unanswered by design. Filed here instead.
Stick-figure meme panel of a man in a hat smoking a cigarette, holding a controller, captioned 'ARE YA WINNING, CORPETS,' beside a hooded skull figure labeled gm. seated at a desk
Are Ya Winning, Corpets stated line drawing, two-figure composition actual Meme, "are ya winning son" template.

Someone finally just asks him straight out. He does not answer. The desk does not move.

CRPT.2026.025
Condition report
No reply recorded. Posture at the desk unchanged since inquiry.
A retro pop-up ad reading 'HOT DEGENS IN YOUR AREA, Let's Chat!' framed by broken browser error windows, featuring a green hooded figure drinking a WAGMI bottle and a chat prompt reading 'WAGMI is near... are you ready to chat?'
Pop-Up stated screen capture, browser chrome actual Meme, early-2000s pop-up-ad format.

Peak self-promotion: an ad for himself, formatted like a virus.

CRPT.2026.037
Condition report
Four hearts earned. Zero of them verified.
04
consequences, absorbed

The Body Keeps the Ledger

A skeleton has no organs left to damage, and yet these five plates keep finding somewhere new to put the consequences. Impressive, structurally.

Visibly swollen figure drinks from a WAGMI can, captioned with quoted compliments: 'carpets u look good,' 'you not even big,' 'yo stomach not even big,' 'u thick'
U Thick stated digital illustration, quote-block header actual Meme, backhanded-compliment format.

Every backhanded compliment his friends ever gave him, absorbed directly into mass.

CRPT.2026.015
Condition report
Growth attributed to praise, not diet. No further tests recommended.
A hooded skeleton in an underwater cartoon setting crouches in a contorted pose, a tooth-shaped object balanced on its head, holding a small bag
Loose Tooth stated cel-style animation still, background reuse actual Meme, animation-crossover edit.

Borrowed someone else's cartoon physics and never checked whether his own skeleton could do that.

CRPT.2026.016
Condition report
Posture unresolved. Reconciliation not attempted.
Three-panel comic: a figure rides a bike one-handed holding a baseball bat, the front wheel catches its own trailing helmet, and the final panel shows the figure face down beside the collapsed bike
3-Panel Structural Failure stated flat vector illustration, three-panel sequence actual Meme, fail-comic template.

Textbook fail-comic pacing: confidence, catastrophe, gravel.

CRPT.2026.017
Condition report
Helmet deployed early, to no effect. Bicycle unrecoverable.
A clinical instructional diagram titled 'What To Do With Your Rekt Guy,' parodying a suppository-insertion instruction sheet in three numbered steps, with a small hooded mascot figure standing in for the product
What To Do With Your Rekt Guy stated clinical instructional diagram, three steps actual Meme, product-insert parody.

Total financial ruin, now with its own three-step aftercare pamphlet. Thorough, considering.

CRPT.2026.018
Condition report
Instructions followed to the letter. No party named above accepts responsibility for the outcome.
A hooded figure sits inside a cardboard box in a grimy alley, holding out a mug beside a WAGMI bottle, with a Down Arrow logo visible on the box and debris scattered around
Assets Under Management stated cel-style animation still, location reuse actual Meme, animation-crossover, panhandling format.

Portfolio diversification, final form: one box, one mug, zero remaining instruments.

CRPT.2026.019
Condition report
Liquidity limited to whatever the mug currently holds.
Two-panel 'two buttons' comic: a hand hovers between two identical red buttons, then a skeleton in a green gm. hoodie wipes sweat from its skull with a towel
Two Buttons, Both Bad stated flat vector illustration, two-panel sequence actual Meme, two-buttons decision format.

Both options were the same option. Sweat produced anyway.

CRPT.2026.035
Condition report
Decision made off-panel. Towel doing more work than the buttons.
05
endings, recycled

Nothing Concludes, It Just Loops

The last four plates close the catalogue the way carpets closes most nights: badly, loudly, and with every intention of doing it again tomorrow.

Two-panel scene: a hooded figure as a literal grim reaper drags a scythe and WAGMI bottle down a hallway of doors, leaving a blood trail; below, the same figure sits with its head in its hands beside a drink, looking exhausted
Door-to-Door stated flat illustration, two-panel sequence actual Meme, horror-then-hangover diptych.

Grim Reaper by night, wrecked by the same night's end. Efficient, in a bad way.

CRPT.2026.020
Condition report
Scythe accounted for. Composure not.
Two-panel animation-still homage: a hooded figure lies prone inside a ribbed, cave-like interior beside a bottle, then flees down the same ribbed corridor in the panel below
Disturbing Facts stated cel-style animation still, two-panel sequence actual Meme, "disturbing facts" format, film-still crossover.

Did you know: the average night out contains one moment that looks exactly like fleeing a xenomorph.

CRPT.2026.021
Condition report
Exit achieved. Dignity did not survive the corridor.
Flat vector close-up on a pink background of a hooded skeleton figure with 3D glasses, vomiting a rainbow-striped stream, no caption
Icon stated flat vector illustration, single icon actual Meme, PFP-format icon, no caption.

The entire twenty-six-plate psychological profile, compressed into one PFP-ready icon. Efficient.

CRPT.2026.022
Condition report
No caption required. None supplied.
A small child's portrait in a soft, muted palette, wearing a green hooded sweatshirt reading gm., drinking from a bottle labeled WAGMI, rendered in the manner of a Yoshitomo Nara painting
After Nara stated acrylic on canvas, single portrait actual Meme, fine-art pastiche, no caption.

One (1) moment without a joke attached, and somehow it's the saddest plate in the catalogue.

CRPT.2026.026
Condition report
Expression unreadable, consistent with the rest of the sitter's public record.
An oil-painted portrait of a rounded figure in a green gm. hoodie, laughing while drinking from a bottle labeled WAGMI, a ceramic vase in the background
Still Life With WAGMI stated oil on canvas, still life with figure actual Meme, fine-art pastiche, no caption.

One of the only plates where he looks genuinely happy, which is somehow worse.

CRPT.2026.034
Condition report
Vase unbroken. Bottle will not be.
A crowd scene in the style of a Norman Rockwell town-hall painting: a hooded figure in a green gm. hoodie stands among seated onlookers, holding a booklet labeled TOWN REPORT, everyone looking up at him
Floor's Open stated oil on canvas, genre painting actual Meme, civic-painting pastiche, no caption.

Given the floor at the town hall. No one told him it wasn't a pitch deck.

CRPT.2026.039
Condition report
Attention of the room fully captured. Content of the speech unknown.
Methodology

Methodology

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Every plate starts with the guy already fully assembled: mint hoodie, "gm." across the chest, 3D glasses, a WAGMI bottle that never runs dry no matter how often it gets drained on camera. The only decision left each time is which disaster to drop him into.

Each plate borrows somebody else's homework: a rage comic, a bell curve, a suppository pamphlet, an actual Old Master painting, occasionally Spongebob's kitchen. The format supplies the credibility. carpets supplies the poor decision-making.

The stated/actual medium split carried over from other catalogues does real work here too. Each plate claims something respectable — oil on panel, documentary photograph, clinical diagram — then immediately confesses, one line down, that no, it's a meme. That confession is doing most of the comedic heavy lifting.

There is no fixed count. New plates get added whenever there's fresh evidence, accessioned in the order completed rather than reshuffled to keep the series looking tidy.

Availability

Availability

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Not minted, not listed, not managed like an investment — unlike the subject matter, this catalogue has never once lost anyone money. It just keeps getting longer, with no target count and no closing date.

Current holdings: thirty-nine plates, accessioned CRPT.2026.001–039. The number will be higher by the time you refresh.

References

References

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  • Direct sources, by format
  • @LivingCarpetsthe actual human this is all about
  • Rekt Guy (NFT collection)the trauma, factory-installed
  • Yoshitomo Naraone (1) moment of dignity
  • Jean-Honoré Fragonard18th-century scandal, repurposed for a worse one
  • Alien (1979)corridor dread, now just about hangovers
  • Plan B instructional insertaftercare nobody asked for
  • Bell-curve / IQ memea hedge dressed up as science
  • Distracted-format stock photograndma, unbothered
  • Rage comicthe internet's original sin
  • Allied references
  • Wojakspiritual older brother
  • gm. crypto-twitter cultureproof of life, technically
  • PFP collection iconographyone face, infinite jpegs
Further Reading

Further reading

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  • Limor Shifman, Memes in Digital Culture, 2014
  • Ryan Milner, The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media, 2016
  • An Xiao Mina, Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power, 2019
  • Molly White, Web3 Is Going Just Great — read at web3isgoinggreat.com
  • Know Your Meme, ongoing meme documentation project — browse the archive