I ended up understanding poaps later on .. I only have a few but I understood that there are certain use cases where they can be fun. Same case with badges I think. Did you work at decentraland?
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No I found decentraland when I was shitcoining and wondered what the MANA token was back in 2020/2021.
They had these events and areas where you’d be able to redeem a poap and it would show up in a special Ethereum wallet.