Put Your Money
Where Your Mouth Is!

Original smiley NFT auction 8/5 on KnownOrigin



about the NFT


You might not know that the Money Mouth Smiley© was designed and copyrighted in 2007 by Under the Bottom, then a dashing duo of joyful, poor Black boys from the industrial armpits of Los Angeles who had their eyes on more and would do anything to manifest it.

What started as an inside slang symbol for a tight-knit community of SoCal art hustlers grew into an iconic brand in hip hop and streetwear culture, drawn on by rap icons from Diddy to Wiz Khalifa.


Today, Money Mouth Smiley© is reproduced and recognized by billions of people all over the globe, but only one can rightfully own the original design by its authentic creators.


This retrofuturist symbol embodies the aspirational mindset of creators, dreamers, and anyone trying to come up in the world, especially in the face of long odds.


The Money Mouth Smiley© is a brazen digital emblem of David standing over Goliath, sticking his tongue out at the slain cyborg-giant, sling in hand.






Before emojis, nfts, crypto, social media, and the "lifestyle brands" that run on them, there was UTB's Money Mouth Smiley©. Yet its lasting cultural impact shows through every social zeitgeist of our post-2000 metaverse, from music, fashion, and meme culture, to crypto, tech, and finance.


The Money Mouth Smiley© is a piece of universal language, a globally recognized letter of the internet alphabet. While pre-crypto, it uncannily encapsulates crypto's culture and spirit, a rallying cry for a grassroots economic independence and empowerment community at the confluence of tech, art, language, money, and mindset.


So, put your money where your mouth is this August and bid on the Money Mouth Smiley© nft.






who we are

Under the
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From the Creative cauldron of Moreno Valley, CA, grew a timeless luxury lifestyle clothing line, branding agency, and music label. Dre Bigg$ and Treem Heff grew up as Southern California sports stars , whose unique business, fashion, and entrepreneurial outlook became legendary and solidified their place in internet culture forever.

In 2007 the beginning ideas of UTB Lifestyle LLC were started in the dorm rooms of Arizona State University and Cal Baptist University on sidekick 3’s via Tmail; Dozens of copy written logos were created and from these trademarks rose a new age Millennial Lifestyle Brand.

more about us



Mixing art, textiles, prints and collaborative ventures with Sylvia Rhone (via Sony/ Epic) Jonny Shipes (Cinematic/ The Smokers Club) and Wiz Khalifa (Taylor Gang) have made UTB a true staple in the culture.

Fashion is not just about clothes, but about creating an allure that withstands the test of time. Much has been proven, but the story is still being written. $tay tuned to see what’s next…

On August 5th, Under the Bottom will auction off their original Money Mouth Smiley© design as an NFT.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own an authentic copyrighted artifact of the early 21st century digital revolution.

The revolution will be minted.




  • Smiley 1 & Smiley 2 scanned.

    First sketches were scanned on 18th of July, 2007.

  • Snow

    EPS Vectors created (Smiley1 & Smiley2)

  • 1st printing of UTB Smiley shirts

  • Tyga Wear UTB Rehab Hoodie on his way to MTV VMA’s

  • UTB Visual Arts Copyright registered

  • UTB Season 1 release

  • November 21, 2008.
    Emojis release in Japan (only)

  • Taylor Gang Lifestyle apparel official release with Wiz Khalifa

  • Stars like Diddy wearing UTB apparel

  • Mac Miller in UTB Rehab Hoodie in Pittsburgh, PA

  • Juicy J wearing Taylor’s UTB Hoodie

  • Snoop and Wiz drop video for “That Good” off the Album “Mac and Devin go to High School”

  • Taylor Gang official video releases with UTB logo embedded throughout the video via personal request

  • Emojis available in USA when the emoji keyboard was added to iPhone iOS 5

  • UTB x Vested In Culture Sony/Epic Records merchandising agreement via Sylvia Rhone

  • Money mouth face emoji submitted to unicode by Mark Davis & Peter Edberg

  • Money mouth face added to emoji 1.0 as part of Unicode 8.0

  • By now everywhere: Including Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and OpenMoji.

  • Oxford Dictionaries announced an emoji "word of the year"

  • WalMart selling the logo

  • Cashapp launches cashcard (money mouth face used in in-app promotions )"

  • We Buy Gold multimedia company is created with Money Mouth Smiley© as their main logo"

  • The Smokers Club collab for Smokers Club Festival 2019

  • Recent Jack In the Box advertisement



August 5, 2021

Russian Doll Auction



The drop will offer 3 nfts: in increasing order of rarity,
the original color UTB smiley designs;
the original vector designs;
and the original sketch design.

However, we will only consider bids for successively
rarer nfts once all previous nfts hit
their (privately held) reserve price.

We call this a Russian Doll Auction.

@ August 5

UTB.NFT.001:

The Original Color
Money Mouth Smiley©
Design



The first nft of the drop is the original color
Money Mouth Smiley©
design files, created july 30th 2007.

We made our first shirts with one of the designs,
which we released as early as aug 2007.

The collector of this nft will receive:

  • All 3 original color Money Mouth Smiley© design files,
    with metadata proving their date of origin.
  • Eligibility to propose to UTB copyright licensing
    agreements at no more than 69% royalty.


    • minimum bid 1 Eth.



    Hef
    hef2
    Biggity

    @ August 5

    UTB.NFT.002:

    Original UTB Smiley
    Vector Design

    if UTB.NFT.001 hits its (privately held) reserve price,
    then we will begin considering bids for the second nft
    in the drop series: original black and white vector files
    created July 28 2007.

    The collector of this nft will receive:

  • The origin scanned vector design file, with metadata
    proving their date of origin.
  • Eligibility to propose to UTB copyright licensing
    agreements at no more than 42.069% royalty.
  • 1% copyright ownership, if and only if the collector
    or their executors take actions that directly result
    in the recovery of substantial damages to UTB from
    the copyright's most egregious violators.


    • minimum bid 10 Eth.



    hef2
    Biggity

    @ August 5

    UTB.NFT.003:

    Original UTB Smiley
    Sketch Design

    If UTB.NFT.001 and UTB.NFT.002 both hit
    their (privately held) reserve prices, then we will begin
    considering bids for the third and final nft in the drop
    series: the original sketch design file,
    created July 18th 2007.

    The collector of this nft will receive:

  • The origin scanned sketch design file, with metadata
    proving their date of origin.
  • Eligibility to propose to UTB copyright licensing
    agreements at no more than 6.9% royalty.
  • 10% copyright ownership, if and only if the collector
    or their executors take actions that directly result
    in the recovery of substantial damages to UTB from
    the copyright's most egregious violators.


    • minimum bid 100 Eth.



    hef2
    Biggity

    Q4, 2021

    UTBniverse:

    Tokenized
    Physical Merch
    +
    Virtual Wearables



    Drop limited run physical UTB merch that
    come with corresponding nft virtual wearables
    and token reward incentives on our curator's
    cryptomerch partner platform Metafactory,

    airdrop the "first editions" of each product
    to previous UTB NFT collectors.





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    tokenized-physical-merch-02
    tokenized-physical-merch-02

    Q1, 2022

    UTBniverse:

    UTB smiley
    virtual currency