Yellow Panther: The gamer who wears many hats
Web3 gaming star Yellow Panther wants to set the record straight: full-time gaming is so much more than just playing; it is basically running a multi-operational business without the suit and tie.
Speaking to Web3 Gamer at the YGG Play Summit in the Philippines, Yellow Panther, aka “YP,” reveals that becoming one of the most popular Web3 gamers while still just 26 years old has landed him gigs “advising several big gaming companies and projects.”
“I realized that I have a lot of knowledge and a lot of first hadn’t information from the market, and I was able to use this to make a lot of connections and help these games go to market or even advise them on how to launch successfully,” the Forbes Web3 gaming creator of the year explains.
“I wasn’t the one that thought I would ever be an adviser,” he laughs, having built a loyal fanbase in the Axie Infinity esports days, where he was a regular in the top 100 leaderboards.
Yellow Panther spoke to Cointelegraph at the YGG Play Summit in the Phillipines. (Ciaran Lyons)
The Web2-to-Web3 gamer says that creating gaming content for his social media followers is already a full-time job on its own. And, of course, he still has to play games regularly to stay good at it. He first made his money through gaming tournaments.
“So it is a very interesting journey from playing games to actually doing business and doing content creation,” he says.
“We obviously cannot really disclose the figures and stuff like that, but it is very niche, and not everyone can do it.”
Meanwhile, Yellow Panther says a lot of games are screwing up their token launches.
“They are really, really annoyed at the launches of the tokens because many of these games are rushing to launch, and usually the [price] chart will go up to straight down upon launching,” he explains.
“There is not enough liquidity, there…
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