Thanks for great Apefest logistiscs guys. Incredible event. Still, I’ve almost lost sight this night. (preview)
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So, I think, Tony, I think we need to talk about Blind Ape Yacht Club.
About time.
I thought that one of the rules about Blind Ape Yacht Club is you don't talk about Blind Ape Yacht Club.
Exactly the opposite.
I think you must have misheard that slightly because it's exactly the opposite of that.
Um, that is what we're here to do today is talk about, about Blind Ape Yacht.
Yeah.
So they had a party in Hong Kong, the people who are still not just like, Proudly owning an NFT, but just making it their entire personality.
These people are like the best of the best crypto guys.
You're not only like partaking in crypto, you're not only publicly partaking in crypto, you're not only evangelizing about crypto, you're making a little monkey crypto guy.
Your personality, to a degree that I don't even like Steven Universe fans, maybe.
Are there any Steven Universe annual raves?
I'm sure there are.
I don't know.
My relationship with Steven Universe is definitely watching it with my now 10 year old.
So I'm not really in touch with the adult fan base of Steven Universe.
I do know I like it.
I tried to pick a fandom that I see.
You know what I mean?
We have to go back.
It's Bronies.
We have to go back a little bit to Bronies.
Even with My Little Pony, there's a plot and there's characters.
Yeah.
With Bored Ape, it's just about you have a picture.
That's the thing.
And it's it's odd to see these people still doing it.
I think Crypto or the Ape Yacht Club, the Bored Ape NFT is like at an all time low.
Yeah, that Rolling Stones article did a number on it, you know, which is good So what happened was they met up for a rave in Hong Kong and I'm reading here This is from 404 media by Samantha Cole Quote couldn't see anymore Bored ape conference attendees wake up with searing eye pain, vision loss.
Wow, this is like Gift of the Magi status.
You gave up $150,000 to get a picture and now you're blind.
Can't even look at it.
How ironic.
Attendees at a conference for a bored ape NFT for Bored Ape NFT owners.
So yeah, it's a specific type of NFT that's like the slack-jawed stoner monkey.
And it's just like every other NFT, they swap out hats or piercings or tattoos.
But this is the one.
This is the big gun.
This is the ape.
This is the ape, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know if I know any other NFT by name.
Unless it's like the celebrity's name that it's after or whatever.
Yeah, yeah. - Yeah.
Attendees at a conference for Bored Ape NFT owners are reporting waking up in the middle of the night following laser and blacklight heavy performances with extreme eye pain and vision loss.
Yuga Labs, the parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club, hosted ApeFest in Hong Kong from November 3rd to 5th.
The event was open to holders of Bored Ape NFTs, a crypto project that peaked in 2021 and recently crashed to a two year low.
OK, so a two year.
How long has the Bored Ape been around?
Has it been around for two years, I guess?
I think a little bit longer than that, but yeah, but barely.
That's kind of funny.
So basically, like the only reason it has value is literally everybody in the room with you.
Outside of that, it has no value.
Sure.
Right?
Yeah.
Quote, I woke up at four and couldn't see anymore.
Had so much pain and my whole skin is burned.
Need to go to the hospital.
One attendee posted on the last day of the event.
The doctor told me the UV lighting, the UV of the lighting, lightning.
Do you notice how everybody writes lightning instead of lighting now?
Everybody does that typo or like it auto corrects to that.
I mean, yeah, yeah.
I mean, typos are fine.
I'm not like, I'm just saying it's interesting.
I see it all the time.
Lighting is much more common than lightning.
Why is it defaulting to lightning?
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just, I think it's one of those ones that like nobody notices.
You know, it's like there, there, there, or whatever.
Just people don't even know to look for it at this point.
The doctor told me the UV of the lightning of the stage did it.
It has the same effect as sunlight.
Still not can see, still cannot see normally.
Another quote.
Same here.
For me and my plus one had eyeglasses, so it was a bit spared, but skin is burned and plus one had the same degree of issues with the eyes.
But skin is burned like people go to raves all the time.
Mm-hmm.
Raves are a common thing I've been in a warehouse or two.
Mm-hmm.
Um, what are these lights?
Well what these lights are somebody Had this theory and it sounds right to me for a while during the I guess way if you if you want to call it the public height of the kovat pandemic
They were marketing UV, really strong UV lights as disinfectant sanitizers, but it was supposed to be, you were supposed to use the lights like in a concealed environment, like it would go through the air duct system.
It's not a light you're supposed to be looking at or having exposure to.
And because of, you know, because we stopped, you okay over there?
Yeah, yeah.
Uh, because we stopped caring about COVID, um, all those lights that were mass produced, uh, had to go somewhere.
And so they went into, I'm, I'm again, speculating, uh, the hands of the Bored Ape Yacht Club.
That, that does make some sense.
Yeah.
Cause like even like the phone sanitizers, the light is in a box, right?
Like you're not supposed to be doing that.
See, I've never even encountered one of those.
Do you, do you like your hand can't go in the box, right?
Um, it's like it's it I mean, I don't know if it fit in the box.
Yeah It's usually not much bigger than your phone because you're supposed to sanitize like your phone and your keys and stuff I've never done it but Hmm.
Yeah, don't really care.
Um, I just know those.
Yeah, those lights are not safe Like, I loved this Oxtangle.eth, so Ethereum, but their avatar isn't a crypto avatar on Twitter.
Wow, faker.
Missed opportunity, yeah, fake fans.
The toilets may have been great, but what happened to our eyeballs last night at hashtag ape fest?
He's quote tweeting a post he did last night.
There was 10 out of 10 amazing facilities at Bored Ape Yacht Club.
Hashtag Ape Fest.
Best toilets in Hong Kong.
Would recommend.
And it's a picture of him on the toilet with his pants pulled down.
He's naked sitting on a toilet in what looks like a nursery room for adult children.
