'Couldn't See Anymore:' Bored Ape Conference Attendees Wake Up With Searing Eye Pain, Vision Loss
'Couldn't See Anymore:' Bored Ape Conference Attendees Wake Up With Searing Eye Pain, Vision Loss
“Been to lots of concerts, festivals, Burning Man, and never have I ever experienced fucked eyes like this.”
Are you serious, they did not use proper filters to block the really harmful UV? One can only hope that they get sued to shit.
It's not that they didn't block UV, it's that they installed UV lights in the DJ booth because it would "look cool".
It was a purposeful choice, and no one stopped to think about why it was a bad idea. Which is totally on brand for people running a convention based around NFTs.
Apparently they were UV tubes meant specifically for sterilization. It's almost poetic.
I saw a case of this in a documentary, a club installed 'pretty' powder blue UVC lights everywhere and it crisped up the attendees. The UVC part of the light doesn't register to your eyes, so your pupils stay wide open and the designers added tons of it because it wasn't that bright.
They used the wrong type of bulb. Ordinarily the bulb will be made of a UV blocking glass, and not be quartz based. I think? So it’s not usually the shroud that stops UV except in cases of Halogen bulbs. These would be CFL without any shield except perhaps a cage to protect against things thrown.
Sorry but who the fuck attends the "Bored Ape Conference"?
Thankfully a bunch of deuche bros
Techbros
Boring apes?
Laughing at these people for getting their retinas burned like I see many people do (not just here) is in really bad taste imo. Even cryptobros don't deserve that.
“Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.” ― Charles Bukowski
Which is saying something, coming from him.
ChinaskiBukowski did not have a high opinion of humans, in general.
Who'd have thought that a group of conmen would skimp on safety to make some money... I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
It's more likely to be down to incompetence. I can't imagine the party UV lights are more expensive than the fuck-you-up UV lights.
EDIT: Someone else mentioned these might've been used during COVID for sanitation, and are extremely cheap leftover wares now that the pandemic is "over", which would actually make them a lot cheaper.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by plain incompetence is a saying. But I think a new modern corollary can be made. Never attribute to incompetence what can be easily explained by greed, which just circles back to malice and is stupidity at the same time.
Come to think of it, Radioactive Man looks kinda like he could be a differently coloured "bored ape"
Misread this as Concerned Ape and became... Concerned. And also mad I didn't know there was a convention.
No this is not our Lord of Stardew :) These are actual dumb people that think NFT’s are a good idea and went to a conference for them. Ick.
To be fair the idea behind nft’s is great when its about tracking a commodity, item or piece of information.
Its making them “THE” commodity that is cringe levels of stupid.
I still hope that one day press will have professional onlines cameras generating an nft with location, time and camera id for every piece of footage. No more fake news with misused imagery.
Please, don't post paywalled content.
It was paywalled after I posted it! Here's a link that's unrestricted https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948464/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sunburn-uv-exposure
lol
Does anyone have the full article?
No, but there are.many other articles covering the topic if you search for it, e.g.
I think so, because two comments clearly had more info than was available in my click.
it was already posted here on lemmy, idk where, but i remember it on my feed and the comments
New fear unlocked!
Not a particularly surprising sort of capstone to finish off this whole stupid NFT thing.
Sorry this link has been paywalled for some people after I posted. Here's an article that is unrestricted https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948464/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sunburn-uv-exposure
reminds me of the Blade movie https://youtu.be/KZnb8InfpHI?t=42
Wait… What?
You have to read the article to understand the headline. Intense, I know.
What is going on in the world?
It’s like I blinked and then… This headline existed.
that's what you get
