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jesus fucking christ crypto...

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zw...er-bets-go-bad

MONKEYHAMMER BLOODBATH DESTRUCTION

IM HARD ASF RN

Dunno...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpH3O6mnZvw

...maybe. Currently removed from search results. You can only find react videos related to it.

goldman just downgraded coinbase to 'sell' and their stock plummeted 10% immediately.

In all likelihood it's mostly just edgy dog whistles that got filtered through 4chan and at the end of the chain got appropriated by BAYC. There are few things that support the theory that it wasn't unintentional. Such as random PR BS that all apes have a "meaning" and cryptographic messages by one of the devs. Also a history of cryptographic things in few BAYC related things. On the other hand they are pretty lazy and tone def at times. Like this bit...

"On Yuga Labs website they state that another NFT series, The Hashmasks, was a great inspiration. The Hashmasks are made by a Swiss company, Suum Cuique Labs, a phrase used by Nazis on the gate of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The phrase was also used on the face of Prussian Helmets that are in the BAYC collection. Yuga Labs is inspired by Suum Cuique Labs to the extent that even their Terms of Service was taken from Suum Cuique Labs."

...alse their "defense" isn't exactly compelling. They clearly can't be nazis because ethnic diversity and also ADL points that they lack consistent ideology. Where as if you look at 4chanesque internet culture those 2 points have never been remotely needed for shitposting/memes. The least damning version of events is just ignorance and/or "rogue" outsourced artists. There's really no version of rising sun flag that's a good look.

Here's the original site...

https://gordongoner.com/

...and the state of NFTs/Journalism...

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...sort of how fucking lazy can you be.

Oh and it doesn't really matter how guilty you're of anything when it comes to how much of a brand risk you become. Since it's the internet and crypto almost only way you can get fucked if you take yourself to court. Obv i don't expect anything else.

yeah honestly once youre even mildly adjacent to chan culture, there just isnt that much stigma associated with nazi fetishism. and for a lot of the people involved, that cultivated sense of ironic detachment plays, they legit dont care. but it attracts the people who do care, and who are deeply sympathetic to white nationalist ideologies. and that people is how you end up with a PFA on your hands.

absolutely fucking hilarious.

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I can’t begin to convey the entertainment all this has provided me.

Coming in too fast and furious. Gonna need more Kleenex and lotion.

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