cornea burning man https://t.co/2qEUsGJZmt — zeddy (@Zeddary) November 6, 2023 From what I can find, they’re only temporarily blinded, so IMO that puts the whole thing juuuust inside the ‘okay to mock’ zone… >pay a zillion dollars for a cartoon monkey picture>head to celebration of this monumentally good investment >go blind>now can’t even see the …
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Spending one hundred thousand dollars on one of ten thousand monkey pictures to blind myself at an exclusive and extremely shitty concert in Hong Kong https://t.co/bdqUVblrGv
— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) November 6, 2023
Just love that crypto-libertarians keep getting to show off how their zero-regulation, total self-reliance utopia would play out. Risk cholera in the Hippy Thunderdome Mud Pit. Lose your life savings to a cartoon chimpanzee. Be invited to the Stare Directly At Lasers Conference.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) November 6, 2023
Albert Burneko, at Defector:
You remember the Bored Apes. Maybe. These were the dumb ugly worthless JPEGs of, like, dressed-up cartoon apes that various suckers and dolts were buying—or, like, investing in?—very loudly a couple of years ago. This was in 2021, back when NFTs (non-fungible tokens) were only a laughingstock among people capable of critical thinking.
One of the late-night Jimmys had one! And Paris Hilton! And Steph Curry and Neymar! They were very proud of their shitty ugly junk JPEGs of no artistic or functional value whatsoever. Those were crazy times, man. Somebody said Justin Bieber’s crappy digital image of a stupid-ass ape was worth more than a million dollars, despite looking like the sort of thing you would get annoyed at a friend for doodling on the brown paper you’d wrapped around your biology textbook in ninth grade and representing nothing other than its purchaser’s unfitness for scissor privileges.
Anyway it is almost 2024 now; humankind has had more than enough time to reevaluate the value of minimally varying public-restroom-toilet-stall-graffiti-ass digital drawings of monkeys as speculative assets, with the deeply unsurprising result that their prices have cratered…
Nevertheless! The apes have their enthusiasts, even now, more than two years after the roughly 47 seconds they spent as avatars of a pandemic-boomed, giddily nihilistic society’s addled half-belief that you could impart value to virtually anything by calling it an NFT. Some number of these sad deluded HODLers gathered over the weekend in Hong Kong for ApeFest, hosted by Yuga Labs, the company that made enough money to host a festival in Hong Kong by generating F-grade JPEGs of cartoon apes and selling them to nincompoops. The 21st century is going incredibly…
You may find yourself wondering, Just what type of activity goes on at an ApeFest? Well, for one thing, there seems to have been an opportunity to stand there like a goddamn grandfather clock while improper stage lighting fries your eyeballs and face! Many attendees availed themselves of this, and are blind now.…
Listen. I like satire as much as anybody. But this is simply far too on-the-nose. A bunch of Bored Ape dead-enders, holding onto underside-of-a-Walmart-skateboard–grade ape doodles whole entire years after the last of their fluky, illusory, momentary speculative value blew away like a fart in a tornado, now going blind because they traveled across the world to stand in front of a gigantic bank of lasers and blacklights and stare and stare and stare while their eyeballs melted? No! No, I’m sorry, this simply needs reworking…
this kind of constant outside the box innovation is why bored ape remains the brand leader in the NFT space
— flglmn (@flglmn) November 6, 2023
The next tweet is *chef’s kiss* https://t.co/zlIT3JgWO5
— Sam McBride (@sammcbride19) November 6, 2023