image credit: @satchmo & @atopy & @yunkzilla on Steemit.com
(btw, I have paid 20 SBD to each of the four orginators of the #yunk trend in advance of this post. Their yunk contribution is precious to me, and deserving of rewards. If there is a co-originator that I left out, please comment below. I learned that @mobbs is a co-originator, too.)
Bitcoin is getting divorced tomorrow but Yunk has just been born.
All your yunk are belong to us.
You know that feeling that comes over you when you find something earth-shattering by accident, something that has the power to change everything in your life as well as, even the course of history?
Well it is happening to me right this second. I cannot sleep. I cannot eat. I am in the process of being yunkified.
Yunk is now in me. Yunk is me. I am yunk. I will never be the same as before I found yunk. I know you’re confused, so let me explain how this all began.
I first learned of the word, yunk, from one of my students. I just opened up a free Bitcoin School in Kansas City, Missouri last Saturday. Ten people showed up, and one Steemian (a Steemian is someone who is on Steemit.com) named @empath told me about yunk. He didn’t tell me what yunk meant, but I felt confused and intrigued, so I looked it up on Google. It popped up in the Urban Dictionary and here’s an excerpt:
Yunk
The yunk term used on the social media steemit (A social media that based in Steem cryptocurrency) for a community of people who support themselves and the same cause through the #yunk by posting relevant and irrelevant new and original content of quality. I used as a verb that’s yunking is awesome in the strangest way, unique.
It’s started at Steemit chat around 3 hours of random conversation on 7/12/2017. Even though there are different definitions on the word/term, the main purpose started just for fun, by a group of users followed by the “motheryunk” so created the first post tagged #yunk. -Urban Dictionary
The word, yunk, originated on the social media site, Steemit.com. A group of friends were chatting in the Steemit Chat app, in a room named #general. Spontaneously and organically, the term yunk emerged and it was reported that the spark came from a user named @yunkzilla. It was this yunkness that formed, then began to spread the word about voting for the @yunkzilla witness.
Yunk was born.
After being seized by a mad desire to fully grasp this yunk way, I joined the #yunk channel in Steemit Chat to find out who was behind this, and how it came to life. I met @siragrays in there, and she embodied the yunk spirit to an extreme degree. I felt the yunk hooks digging deeper and deeper into my brain crevices. I wanted more yunk. Yunk was beckoning me. Yunk was becoming part of me. I was powerless against the force of yunk.
Now come with me, and explore the meaning of Yunk, as defined by the co-originators of yunk: @yunkzilla, @siragrays, @satchmo and @saywha.
From the mouth of @yunkzilla:
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image: @yunkzilla
“After countless messages, countless phones calls, and with countless people out front of my house, I have to set the record straight. I am not yunk or “the real Yunktoshi Nakamoto.” The world didn’t need me and didn’t want to hear what I had to say. They needed the spirit of something collectively. They needed the yunk, so the yunk was conjured into existence by a collective force. This projecting has formed an entity, a way of life, a thought, an all encompassing belief. They didn’t need me to do this, they just needed me to be the spark. Now yunk is everything, it’s all things, it’s no one, and everyone at the same time. Yunk is not something that you understand, and it’s not something that takes long at all for you to grasp. Yunk is just something you never knew that was missing inside of you.” — @Yunkzilla
From the mouth of @siragrays:
“Yunkers do support @yunkzilla as a witness, but I wanted to clear up that these two things are different. @yunkzilla alone is not yunk, but as we all are yunk, he is yunk, too. HE IS YUNK AS WE ARE TOO”. @apsu
Yunk isn’t copying your friends work and getting profit from it.
Yunk respect is the key.
Engagement is not just hellos.
A serious movement that might change the world we are living in and end the over population problems.
Yunk isn’t that serious and a one color palette, it’s more bright and relaxed. Yunk is what we make of it. Yunk can’t change your personality or the mistakes you make, however you can spread Yunk in the way you want it to be, improve yourself through Yunk and learn more.
Yunk has its own planet, town and even train.
Yunk has nothing to do with a selfish movement that only wants to get people divided.
YUNK is open to all people, all races, all languages, all planets, all hashtags and all users (new, old, dolphins, sharks, fishes, and whales).
Yunk is art, research, language, fun, activities, science, wonder, poetry, cosmology, psychology, medicine and more…
YUNK isn’t only about Yunk, Yunk is about you.
A dog’s last name. Do I have to explain it?
Not Better than other people. Yunk isn’t better since Yunk looks for equality and diversity.
Logic. You can simply understand yunk by studying, yet you simply understand YUNK by using it and just yunking.
A flaggers meeting. Since Yunk doesn’t look to shame people, because yunk accepts everything, it’s above logic and accepts even people who hate yunk.
yunk is everybody and everyone is YUNK -@siragrays
From the mouth of @satchmo:
image: @satchmo
“The YUNKlosophy is about spreading good vibes to the people that matter, to encourage content that matters to you. To encourage people to explore themselves and the community on steemit as whole. To make new friends and to forget about enemies. There is nothing adversarial about YUNK. It’s not a cult, but yes we have kool-aid.
This is why it changed me. During my tenure on the internet(my whole life) on other social medias i have trolled a bit, there are times where I’ve been downright mean. But through steemit, I met the people behind the posts after a few hours in the general chat, and then YUNK happened, and it kept happening. It became a community where the door is always open…no literally it’s 24/7.
The Yunknomena drove me to realize that boosting the bottom line would become a monotonous task, boring and un YUNKable. YUNK drove me to care about the people I am interacting with and the content they post.” -@satchmo
From the mouth of @saywha:
image: @saywha
“Our speech became garbled, we started talking in code that I am not sure even we understood. It encompassed the entire chat… for a time. Hours went by, yunk yunk yunk, they were still yunking. @yunkzilla even tried to stop them yunk yunk yunk, it had NO effect. … And then it happened.
Yunk took me over completely, and within me deposited the yunky idea for a tag… A TAG that could surpass all tags. yunk. I went to my post from earlier that day, and was yunked into editing the last tag (it had nothing to do with yunk) and it became the first official Yunk tagged post on steemit…
https://steemit.com/design/@saywha/making-a-band-logo
and more followed….
https://steemit.com/yunk/@saywha/how-to-yunk
I made a simple tutorial on how to yunk… maybe to get it out of my system. I dont even know anymore…
All the while @yunkzilla was trying to stop it. He launched a counter-yunk campaign to try and stop the yunk, only to be adopted further by the yunklings……
What I woke up to the next morning was pure and absolute chaos.
Yunk tags EVERYWHERE
Posts were going to the moon left and right (Im not sure how many people are even left on the planet)
Everyone was getting upvotes
Everyone was getting resteems
We had NEW yunklings. Yunklings I had never even heard of before.
People started becoming Yunkosexual, They started claiming yunk as their savior, as their leader.
All the while @yunkzilla fighting it. All while trying to campaign for witness.
Then it happened.
The Whales came
@kevinwong was the first
Then @roadscape and @rok-sivante
They began upvoting the yunk tag… It was getting out of control. I have to stop it before the yunk tag becomes too powerful.
We have to stop. Or this could be the future…” -@saywha
These are the originators of yunk on Steemit, as far as I can tell. If you were among the originators and I have not named you, please comment (were @reneenouveau and @clevercreator in that first conversation?). There were many yunk early adopters, and supporters that quickly emerged. The thing is, yunk is truly infecting the Steemit platform, and using the tag #yunk is also increasing. Here’s a screenshot of how many posts and comments have been linked to the word, yunk. And you’ll notice that over $4,000 has been paid out to posts that contain the #yunk tag:
What I love about yunk is that it's universal.
It’s kind of like Taoism, but for the digital age. And it requires no specialized training, no schooling, no fees, no permission, no admission, no belief, no religion, no language, no age, no gender, no political belief, no race, no class level, no formal usage. It’s open to all. Yunk can be anything and nothing. You can create your own definition of yunk. It's like water for thirsty humans.
But there is one important thing about those who yunk, and it’s something you must know.
People who yunk give credit to others. Yunk and respect live inside each other. Yunkers don’t steal, intimidate or do violence to others. People who yunk share their yunk, in the same way that tribes have done for thousands of years.
The world’s people need yunk more than ever, because yunk is precious.
It was not born in the backroom of a media strategist’s Powerpoint presentation, hence, it’s not a staged corporate trend, manufactured for profit. Yunk is abundant, just like our imaginations, and nature itself.......and Steem.
Yunk was born from friendship.
It was born from that magical feeling of being accepted, trusted, loved and respected by others. It was born from something that exists in all of us, but which has been left out to rot by our decaying, overly superficial society, and all those who symbolize that superficiality.
Vapid people can embrace yunk, and yunk will not reject them, but they will not embody yunk in its most precious state at the beginning. In time, yes, in time, they will begin to embody yunk.
Open-source software is yunk.
Creative Commons is yunk.
GIFs are yunk:
GIF by @atopy
Co-opting ideas without attribution, stealing ideas, putting locks on innovation is not the yunk way. Silencing others is not yunky, either.
Yunk is air, yunk is your blood, yunk is the sound of your heart beating. Yunk is free and alive when you dream and when you draw.
Yunk is Bitcoin. Yunk is Bitcoin Cash, too. Yunk is already inside of miners. And yunk is in China, South Korea, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, France, Germany and………
And yunk is turning Japanese now, too:
art by @granturismo89
Cryptocurrency needs a makeover. Bitcoin was a technological innovation not a social revolution. Bitcoin is getting divorced tomorrow. Yunk has just been born. Let yunk money be free.
Satoshi is the original yunk.
But I think Dan Larimer is the practical yunk. Dan helped set me and a lot of others free, therefore yunk=freedom. Yunk is unconditional love, too.
Dan=Yunk.
We all are Yunk.
Yunk it like you mean it on Steemit.
(growth idea from mars....hey, by the way, where are those marketing boyz? Haven't seen them posts in a while.)
In Yunk We Shall Be,
Stellabelle
(Bitcoin School info coming soon! Also, don't forget to enter my Steemfest2 Giveaway! I might need to rebrand it as the Yunk Giveaway)
psss: I first published this article in Hackernoon. I am waiting on the editor to approve this story. Let's bombard his Twitter with tweets, begging him to publish Yunk: https://medium.com/@stellabelle/what-is-yunk-410745b70428
Take Action: Go to Twitter and send a tweet like "I want Yunk story on Hackernoon" to this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/hackernoon
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I couldn't resist.
Yunktastic! Yunk on!
ha ha
Stella... this post was dripping with #yunk ...
Where you trained by the same shaolin-yunks as I?
You must check out my blog that takes you down the rabbit whole searching through the origins of #yunk through out our recorded time.
The #yunk seems to be flowing hot through your veins now and "we" could not be happier that you have found suck #yunk deep within yourself.
We owe much thanks to @empath for introducing you to both the #steemit community and #yunk community.
Keep spreading #yunk and join us for our next meet up in #yunky-town at steemit.chat... where the part goes on 25/8, 416 days a year.
(we usually fly via Steem-Air)
gif by @atopy
Yunk is something I can get behind. I love the universality of it, that it's a free communal energy that flows through all and embodies the spirit of originality.
I think I've been yunking without even knowing it.
Photo of me ... taken by Eben Brooks
You are very Yunky in this photo upvoted your comment because of it. keep on yunking
Agreed! You and I have been yunking all along! Yunk it like you mean it on Steemit!
i love this photo btw.
Thank you, I'm trying to encourage Eben to get a Steemit Account. He' s a great photographer and pretty interesting guy.
right away I resteemed this Yunk post as I support Yunk.. Yunk on my friend!
Yunk you for your support. I am late to the Yunk train (I have an excuse: I was on vacation for a week and a half when Yunk was born)
thanks for for the upvote I saw your vacation post .. your daughter is beautiful.. we met at your Steemit meetup and I missed you in here when you were on vacation. Don't take anymore vacations lol @stellabelle
I agree that yunk is in every human but we try to cloud it and hide it. Something which society deems as not okay or outlandish but they don't realise they are being manipulated by the elites. We are told to repress and opress the yunk but all of them are so ignorant. Yunk will always rise no matter what we do. It is embedded into us and no manipulation or alteration can change us. We are told to fear yunk but in true essence, yunk is the cure to fear. With yunk you are safe and all you have to do is embrace it.
Let your yunk free as @kevinwong and @stellabelle have mentioned and you will become a revolutionised person.
Others may control your life but yunk will let you be free.
It seems like the post was approved on medium, I think.
This was yunkarrific! I like the way your yunkish mind thinks! Very yunkius.
I am infused with yunkuziasm after reading your yunktastic blog about yunk. Perhaps I may be one of the oldest member to join the #yunk henceforth but I respect the creativity and original content concept so I am going to yunk! Thanks. Wish you a great and yunky day. Yunkvoted.
Yunk you for your ongoing support and readership. I wouldn't be able to yunk without it.
Ohhh so that's what it's all about. I've seen this word all around and I didn't even have a slightest idea of what it meant. This clarifies it now.
Yes, you're yunkified now.
Allright @stellabelle, I just spewed coffee. No, really... actual spewage happened, and that's a rarity. So thanks for that-- and on a Monday, even.
This is sort of like a "historical document," officially recording the origins of Yunk to the blockchain... which is a permanent record, in and of itself. Yeah, and Well Done.
May the Yunk be with you!
And i love your yunking me constantly!
This helps as writers need readers, PASSIONATE READERS!
You're among my most yunkarrific reader for sure!
I had an awakening and could not sleep.
YUNK HAS TAKEN OVER AND I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT FOR YEARS!
It's true. History is being made, and documenting is the first step. This is going big.
just wait.
The possibilities are almost endless... "You take two steps to the left. You've been eaten by a Yunk!"
This is EXACTLY what we needed around here... effective countermeasures to influx of mediocrity.
It is the real, true 'growth-idea'. It's the original.
Thanks for explaining.. I think I know what yunk is now. I believe the majority of steemians have yunk and want to see each other succeed. There are probably 10% or so that are on here for only selfish reasons
Mainstream world is old paradigm, and when you feel scarcity (as i did once), all you can think about is yourself, and your own needs, your own survival. But being selfish doesn't yield big rewards on steemit. This is what noobs don't get. They need training! They could become dolphins with the correct understanding of how the mechanics of Steemit work! It's an advanced system, and requires a shift to abundant thinking.
Exactly! Thank you
YUNKZILLA !! Yesterday I learned about him , voted for witness and couldn't be more proud of making a good decision . Yunk is now , Yunk is forever @stellabelle
Yunk is life!
Yes , YUNK forever
I kept seeing the tag, so now I know, maybe when I write insted of resteeming I too will be yunk.....yunk on everyone, and to everyone Good Yunk!
upvote & resteem Sharing the yunk around is very yunk.
Convert! one yunk 😘
so yunk is a new matrix pr new paradigm? yunk us out of the old one? Thanks for yunking
yes, you are now yunkified.
lol, I'll make sure to you the tag yunk in my next post which is coming up soon :)
Cool, thank you! You just inspired me to write about something yunky! Stay tuned... ;)
yunk on it.
Here it is: What Dialogue really is and how we can achieve Collective Meaningful Thinking
Is this yunk?
You can't find yunk you finds you! LOL @empath is only the way, yunk is responsable. :D Once agai great post, I still have a ton of posts to see, :) But I came here to see how our new yunker was doing, Thank you for your mentions we also had @mobbs on that first conversation he is the responsible for some YUNK tones, the best tracks on yunk that ur hear could ever hear.
ok I will add @mobbs to the tale! Thank you dearly!
I have been waiting for a tribe, a Yunk tribe since day 1!
I hope I am yunky enough.
Everybody is yunky enough.
Thanks :)
Yunk is the new universal symbol for love, peace, respect and all of the great, positive aspects of the human race! The yunk priest @saywha has enlightened me and changed my life! Yunk on Steemians!!! 🤘☮
What the YUNK is going on here...
Is this real life? lol
Let's sing this song... "Forever Yunk, I want to be, forever Yunk..."
OMG YES. IT'S YUNK.
Yunk is refreshing. That is where to come to get a push in the back. @stellabelle
well, it seems BCC already in coinmarketcap :O
I think i have yunk growing between my toes.
ha ha.
The Yunk club
A new philosophy or way of life that transcends and revolutionizes humanity = yunk
yunkxactly.
Holly .. graal! I've read all post and not sure understand or not what is Yunk :)
Wow, kind of sad I missed this train! So much yunking lost out on =P
but so much yunking to do to today!
We better get to it! So much yunking so little time. =P
I did a thank you post to you @scrooger ..well in the post I throw it your way.. the title starts with 'Gut Instinct'.. since you most likely did not see that .. my thank you to you here.. I found your post through google and told others about you. :)
I checked and voted for you post. Good stuff, keep going at it. You are doing well =)
Thank yunk very much @stellabelle :)
I LOVE YUNK!!!
I laughed at @saywha's yunk story!!! The birth of yunk sounded like a wonderful experience :) I'm glad to be part of the yunk and thanks for your great yunkticle :) P.S. I'll be sure to tweet as recommended.
I RESTEEMED YOUR LAST ONE. I feel the power of yunk!
Thank you @stellablle. You are too yunk :)
Oh my!! I'm going to be dreaming about Yunk tonight :O
Let me show you all my YUNK @stellabelle! :)
oh my goodness....this sounds potentially vulgar?
haha, sorry! Not meant like that!!! ERRRR!!
@stellabelle, you have yunked me up! :D
By chance I was reading a few days ago in #general to @satchmo yunk this yunk the other and did not understand anything. After reading you I understand yunk as a whole for personal development not only with oneself but with the relationship of people with whom we live. Yunk is everything. Live yunk.
yes yunkxactly
For me Yunk was acceptance. I was no longer the new small fish, but I got that spot...that place that took me in. No commission, no questions just a blind welcome. It was also a big inspiration (as u can see from my gif.s)...i have not done animations in years...
Yunk to me is....having a voice and be seen.
Yay @siragrays is trending on., I support this yunk, @satchmo is such a sweet soul she is my friend too.
I still have much to learn. But I am definitely feeling the Yunk...
I think we need to look for a good Spanish yunk translation. Give me time.
I had not heard of yunk until just this week. Once again, you have opened my eyes to a new world! I totally want to get on the yunk train! I'm checking out the posts next...I want to be worthy of yunk!
Yes! I was there at its inception! I was one of a select few pairs of hands that pulled the yunk sword from the stone. Now we can all enjoy it together and help it grow exponentially. I can't believe actually came into the real world in this way - wonderful!
Loved this explanation of yunk and it's birth. Now I know the whole story. I first heard the word "yunk" after kevinwong stopped by my blog and was very kind to me. I was a brand new steemian and struggling to find my way here. Thanks so much for presenting a historical perspective of "Yunk".🐓
no problem! thanks for yunking.
thank for the information and explanation.. I didn't knew about this..
Yunk is meant to be shared and I am happy yunk is still yunk in us all.
Great post!
I have been looking for a way of life where I can help others in a way that fits me for a long time. With every decision I made, I felt like I was either doing it for myself, doing what others told me to do or not helping others enough.
Today I had some kind of revelation and - to be honest - the seed might have been planted when I discovered Steemit a week or 5 ago. I feel that I finally found a place where I can help others. In short, I have now discovered that what I have been looking for a long time: I want to be a YUNK-ie. Today I decided that I want to start telling stories about other people. Reaching out to creatives all over the world and share their stories. I want to be more than just a teacher, I want to be a student again and Steemit seems to be a place where I can learn more than I've ever done in a long time.
Keep up the good work!