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Bored ape NFT event attendees get their faces burned by event lighting (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by lnxtx@feddit.nl to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7879294

Who’d have thought BoredApe NFTs would be such an actual eyesore?

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[–] crypticthree@lemmy.world 63 points 10 months ago

I'm guessing they didn't hire an event lighting company and did it themselves. No one I know in the industry would do that.

[–] bentropy@feddit.de 54 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wtf is a boerd ape NFT event? I know the bored ape images and I know what an event is... But wtf? Are people supposed to go somewhere to look at those ugly images? People should know they can enjoy this meaningless garbage online. For free.

[–] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

People blowing leftover VC money on propping up their failing industry.

[–] bentropy@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago

Oh thanks I get it know. Buying NFTs is like buying tickets to a concert. What if the events isn't anywhere near me? Still a very stupid concept.

[–] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking Concerned Ape, the dev of Stardew Valley…and I was concerned

[–] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

does he even host any events?

[–] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No, but I barely recall what bored ape is or how it is culturally relevant…which is why I thought of it

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

how it is culturally relevant

That's the neat part: it isn't.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

how it is culturally relevant

It’s a fine example of modern idiocy.

[–] joel_nio@talk.macstack.net 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

if you give relevancy to idiocy, it's not my problem

[+] mateomaui@reddthat.com -6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is with all the “not my problem” replies all of a sudden. This is a sad troll effort.

[–] bh64@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

what do you mean? I haven't seen one myself yet. It's just a common expression.

I don't think that comment is trolling, just a bit low effort post. But that's nothing rare in Lemmy/Reddit.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have received something like 5 different replies to separate replies of my own, from new accounts with only one comment, all of which end with “not my problem.” It’s almost like a bot keyed off that phrase from my reply in a privacy community post, or there are some butthurt people with too much time on their hands.

[–] bh64@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It sounds like a weirdly specific thing for a bot to do.

It could be a case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon:

Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias referring to the tendency to notice something more often after noticing it for the first time, leading to the belief that it has an increased frequency of occurrence.The illusion is a result of increased awareness of a phrase, idea, or object – for example, hearing a song more often or seeing red cars everywhere.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I was just informed that someone is following me around downvoting everything, which is hilarious since my instance has downvotes disabled. It’s definitely some idiot or a group of them.

edit: also, its adorable that you suggest it’s all in my head, it’s not. I have the receipts. And the fact they are all coming from new accounts with only the one comment each is pretty obvious.

[–] bh64@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh that's bad. Good luck getting rid of them.

I personally find downvotes useful because there are a lot of low quality comments and content. Downvotes help me (and others) to avoid seeing them. Thus not wasting time with uninteresting posts or comments. But you aren't supposed to downvote everything that someone says.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not that bad, the block feature works great.

I place zero value on downvotes because they’re used as a weapon, such as right now for me if my instance actually logged them, or as a harassment strat against lgtbq individuals, etc, and they have the potential and often do hide perfectly valid solutions in help threads because someone suggested an unorthodox method for a specific case that gets downvoted to oblivion because that solution didn’t toe the line with everyone else’s preferred one.

So feel free to engage with that, I’m not.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry pal I'm gonna have to give you a downvote for this, lol.

Downvotes are incredibly valid. They mean "not only do I not approve of this content, I think it's actively bad". Simply not upvoting and moving on is the shrug of the internet. I probably give out 50x the upvotes as I do downvotes, but when I do serve one up it's usually because the comment outright promotes misinformation.

Look at the current state of YouTube sans downvotes. You used to be able to look at the ratio to tell if a video wasn't even worth looking at. Now, you see oh, 100k people liked this. But what if 200k disliked it and it's actually hot garbage? Oh, we'll never know!

Removing downvotes is just an attempt to drive "engagement" over quality, part of the downward slide of the internet.

Note: I didn't actually give you the downvote, lol. A valid discussion or debate should not earn a downvote. I don't agree with your take, but it's not trash.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m not reading all that, congrats on having some opinion.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And you wonder why your comments are collecting downvotes.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com -2 points 10 months ago

I don’t wonder at all because I don’t see downvotes or care about them, advantages of being on a downvote disabled server. Y’all can circle jerk and I can ignore it.

[–] bh64@lemm.ee 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It was a stupid decision to attend a party created by the creators of a stupidly overpriced asset.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

"asset" lol

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

asset

You mispelled "obvious scam"

To be fair, the keys are right next to each other.

[–] AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

[–] Suspicious@lemmy.wtf 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait I though bored apes """""creator""""""/ main bag holder split with the money and tanked the whole market for apes

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 13 points 10 months ago

This is probably the bag holders trying desperately to keep the apes relevant in hopes they can pump up the price again and offload.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

For a moment I thought the title refers to the attendees as bored apes.