"We’ve seen it all in the bear market: free mint metas, goblins taking reign, and an exodus of traders, collectors and flippers surrendering their NFT quests, perhaps to return for the next cycle… or perhaps not. What this has meant for the NFT market as a whole is a cataclysmic downturn of sales volume, and participants and observers of the market are in agreement that this is one of the worst crypto crashes to date. Whilst buyers turn out their pockets, asking ‘wen moon?’, one must also consider what the bear market means for artists. How do creators continue to build their careers in web3 whilst sales volumes plummet? What strategies can they employ to weather crypto’s winter? And come spring, will these efforts mean that cryptoart will finally prove a safer investment than PFPs?"