Awards · Season I
Six categories, the Audience Prize and the Jury Grand Prix. The categories are not split by format: video, photography, GIFs, drawing, digital art and NFTs compete on equal terms. Every award is an NFT on the TON blockchain.
The principal award of the season — for a body of work, not a single lucky post. The jury looks at how the posts add up to a line: quality and originality, a recognisable manner, growth from one work to the next, a contribution to the language of the genre.
The channel as a complete work: concept, visual system, the mix of formats — video, photos, GIFs, drawings — rhythm of posting, texts and captions. The community is judged not by its size but by the kind of conversation the author holds with the viewer.
A performance award, on video and in photographs. Presence in the frame, leading the scene, physical technique — and attention to the partner, without which initiative turns into display.
An award for range: conviction in both roles, active and passive, and the ability to shift register without losing one’s own voice.
A performance award, on video and in photographs. Surrender, expressiveness, trust in the partner and in the camera. The receiving role is not passivity but the most exposed form of performance.
Conviction of power in the frame: drive, control, rhythm — and the clear edge of the game on which consent rests. Dominance is judged as a direction of relations, not as force.
The only award decided by the number of votes. An open vote of subscribers: the audience has a taste of its own and the right to declare it.
An award outside the rulebook. The jury gives it at its own discretion — to a work, a gesture or an author that fits no category but shifts the idea of what the genre can be.
Two votes
One does not affect the other.
The jury picks the category winners and the Grand Prix — after seeing everything, not excerpts.
The Audience Prize belongs to subscribers, in an open vote.
Epigraph
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
The categories are not a ruler but a vocabulary. We do not measure works; we name what is already in them: light, rhythm, tone, gesture, a way of being in the frame — on video, in a photograph or on a sheet of paper. To name is to make visible. That is the work of an award.
There are no metal statuettes. Every award is a collectible NFT on the TON blockchain: one copy, one owner, a public date of award. Each winner gets a design of their own.
To the winner of each of the six categories.
To the author the subscribers chose in an open vote.
An award beyond the categories, at the jury’s own discretion.
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The statuette
A two-lobed ribbon circles the hole and turns one and a half times in a single loop, so it seems two ribbons twist around the opening. A form with no beginning and no end on a black marble plinth.
Why not metal
The blockchain record is public: anyone can check who was awarded, when and for what. Recognition stops being hearsay.
Only the awards can mint it, and only once. A copy can be saved but never claimed.
The NFT lives in your wallet and in Telegram. No customs desk can hold it and no search can seize it.
Laureates
Every year new names will appear here. The first ones after the first awarding.