$SCRUFFY came to the chain the way they all do: with a name, a picture and a promise nobody had asked for. It was 26 minutes old when this page was last touched. 165 buyers had found it in a day, 0.00 ETH had moved through it in that time, which on a chain this loud is neither much nor nothing.
It got out of the curve, $0.00 of it. Very few do. What that buys it is permanence of a sort: whatever happens next happens somewhere nobody can quietly close.
The archivist allows itself one sentence of respect, and this is it. What comes after graduation is still the market's business, not a promise.