BAYC founders call Nazi conspiracy video ‘crazy disinformation campaign’
Founder of Bored Ape Yach Club (BAYC) Responded In a recent debate over a documentary accusing him of promoting the image of the Nazis.
Wylie Aronow, known as Gordon Goner, co-founder of Yuga Labs, said the company has been the target of a “crazy disinformation campaign” that is spreading “ridiculous conspiracy theories.”
Aronow and the other founders of Yuga Labs have challenged these claims several times, calling them “tremendous.”
As you may have heard, we are the target of a crazy disinformation campaign that accuses us of a group of Jewish, Turkish, Pakistani and Cuban friends as top secret Nazis. became. 🧵
— GordonGoner.eth (@GordonGoner) June 24, 2022
A letter from the founder of BAYC challenges a controversial documentary
A video that the researched YouTuber Phillip Rusnack accused BAYC of adopting racist and Nazi images for NFT was talked about last week, causing controversy throughout the industry about the purpose of the collection.
The video was based on Website Created by concept artist Rider Lips, he blamed the project for embedding racism and the Nazi dog whistle throughout the BAYC collection. Ripps is known for creating and selling imitation NFTs as a form of satirical art and uses this website to promote RR / BAYC, a copy of BAYC.His imitation NFT Temporarily exceeded BAYC as the most popular collection on OpenSea.
Rusnack claimed that BAYC was a “massive alt-right joke” that originated in 4chan. The video further called on the community to burn BAYC NFTs and said they wanted to force “everyone from Stephen Curry to Post Malone to Jimmy Fallon” to take action.
Web3 analyst NF Therder told CryptoSlate that the video is framing and manipulating data from the original accusation released in January 2022, making it more annoying to the company. He said:
“Except for the method used, conflicting information was withheld. All of this is unacceptable when it comes to proper journalism research and impartial presentation.”
Not surprisingly, the video quickly caught the attention and sparked industry-wide debate about the impact of the accusation. After intense debate, many celebrities and athletes have abandoned BAYC’s profile picture.
Wylie Aronow, co-founder of Yuga Labs, said the company has no plans to address this claim and is “insanely far away.” However, he explained that the #BURNBAYC movement became so large that it was urged to come up with a response that would put an end to the “ridiculous controversy.”
The letter explains the origin of BAYC and Yugarabo name, And the BAYC logo design, which has been accused of imitating the Nazi Totenkopf emblem. The letter states:
“We didn’t want to take ourselves too seriously, so the club looks awkward and capricious. Everything about BAYC was aimed at conveying a spirit of irreverence and absurdity.”
“Overall, I think it’s crazy that these conspiracy theories were able to spread. It really shows the power that molested trolls on the Internet can have.”
