Hello.
If you’re completely new to this website and stumbled into it by complete novelty, welcome! I do a bunch of funny stuff, and some of that funny stuff is getting some bigots salty.
A while ago, I wrote a signal boost about how Bored Ape Yacht Club is founded by a bunch of Neo-Nazis. I stand by this fact because, apparently, Yuga Labs and Bored Ape Yacht Club have been doing some damage control regarding the situation, and this thing is pretty much getting out of control for them. And I just love every single minute of it if it means NFTs are gonna be history.
So, what happened afterwards is that Yuga Labs made a sub-tweet response, but not a direct response, to the so-called “allegations” that they were facing, most of the time they were keeping their heads low along with the guys at Bored Ape Yacht Club (except for the fact that they blocked Ryder Ripps on Twitter, the guy responsible for the evidence of my previous article and the website where I took it from), but it’s pretty evident that this response is so full of goddamn shit it might be as well called Bolsonaro.
So let’s dissect their response bit by bit, starting with the tweet I show you above:
We’re nerds, and Yuga is the name of a villain in Zelda whose ability is that he can turn himself and others into 2D art. Made sense for an NFT company.
Yuga, right? A character from Zelda. Would make sense.
Only one slight issue:
Doesn’t it seem weird that they had to pick a character from Zelda with a goddamn hooked nose?
Look, I don’t want to make myself the particular connection between hooked noses and jewish people, like many white supremacists do, but the circumstances are really fucking icky at best that picking up a Zelda character with a hooked nose similar to that of an anti-semitic cartoon for the inspiration behind the name of your company, and all the while people and not just random “schizos” like me are finding the evidence, seems like quite exacerbating the problem.
This second part of the response seems a bit icky too, because the so-called ape Cryptopunks are not so rare considering there’s around trillions of variations of Cryptopunk NFTs around, and a lot of them might be of the ape variation.
Yes, there’s 24 ape Cryptopunks generated so far, but that’s without counting how many more ape Cryptopunks the Cryptopunks algorithm can generate, which can be many more, because, after all, this is run by an algorithm that generates Cryptopunk jpegs and mints them, so practically speaking, no, they’re not that rare. Especially compared to the alien Cryptopunks.
So, again, full of shit.
This one. Are you sure about that, Yuga Labs? Because this rather looks like a last minute, rushed response in regards to the Bored Ape Yacht Club logo, for which I need to remind you, the 18 teeth in the BAYC skull are no fucking coincidence:
Bullshit. Next:
Won’t deny precisely that it should sound like a relief that your staff holds a certain diversity quota of Jewish, Cuban, Turkish, Pakistani, etc. employees, but even then, that seems like a really awkward way to deflect criticism of your hidden swastika propaganda by just appealing to diversity quotas. A usual Nick Fuentes-style way of deflecting criticism for being Neo-Nazis.
There’s articles like the ones from The Daily Beast explaining why young men of color are joining far right groups, and when that happens a lot in white supremacist groups or the alt-right, this sort of deflection from criticism falls moot.
Look, I know this might sound like schizo-posting, and again, these allegations are heavy, but the evidence in the Bored Ape Yacht Club staff hiding so many nazi easter eggs in their Bored Ape NFTs and the culture surrounding are immense. I’d recommend also watching this Twitter thread made by Fennor Linnik which goes into detail of how much neo-nazi tomfuckery the Bored Ape Yacht Club culture hides.
That’s all. Stay mad.
PS: Now that you’re at it, why don’t you buy a t-shirt to remind everyone you’re so much into NFTs?
