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.
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2023
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The invisible hand of the free market blinded me.
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.
One of the perks of owning these NFTs was that you could attend exclusive events. What those events were going to be about was anyone's guess. Eye burn, apparently.
It's kind of like when you have Reddit gold and get access to the super exclusive private r/lounge subreddit... That has no actual purpose and nobody bothers posting in it because what are you even supposed to do there?
Laugh about the non guilded peasants. Or at least that is what I saw on the few times I was guilded.
Free fedoras, since they on the floor wriggling in pain xD
People blowing leftover VC money on propping up their failing industry.
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.
Basically, it's the same thing as buying a "permanent" ticket to a local sports team's home matches. What? Your local team doesn't sell "permanent" tickets? Exactly.
Well, they do: https://www.bvb.de/Tickets/Stadionplan/Dauerkarten
Not quiet sure what you mean but please, don't respond. That was already way more thought about something NFT related as I'd wish to have.
I was thinking Concerned Ape, the dev of Stardew Valley…and I was concerned
Ditto, after that talk about the TV show. I was like man, how far has he fallen.
I think if he sold NFT’s I would just about lose all faith in mankind. Now when the hell is haunted chocolatier coming…
Selling NFTs is some JojaMart shit. Concerned Ape would never.
Exactly
does he even host any events?
No, but I barely recall what bored ape is or how it is culturally relevant…which is why I thought of it
how it is culturally relevant
That's the neat part: it isn't.
how it is culturally relevant
It’s a fine example of modern idiocy.
if you give relevancy to idiocy, it's not my problem
What is with all the “not my problem” replies all of a sudden. This is a sad troll effort.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m not reading all that, congrats on having some opinion.
And you wonder why your comments are collecting downvotes.
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.
It was a stupid decision to attend a party created by the creators of a stupidly overpriced asset.
"asset" lol
asset
You mispelled "obvious scam"
To be fair, the keys are right next to each other.
It’s unfortunate that people were injured but fuck, I’m still scarred just by seeing these awful things. At least if they were going to do a scam art investment scheme they could have made the art not hideous.
So the financial harm wasn't obvious enough for the Bored Apes? The creators wanted to be sure everyone knew it was made to hurt them directly but burning their retinas.
Bored Ape NFT owners say: "Ow! My money! Ow! My eyes!"
You wanted deregulation, and ya got It, biiiachezzz
Wait I though bored apes """""creator""""""/ main bag holder split with the money and tanked the whole market for apes
This is probably the bag holders trying desperately to keep the apes relevant in hopes they can pump up the price again and offload.
For a moment I thought the title refers to the attendees as bored apes.