'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.
156It'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.
149Apparently they were UV tubes meant specifically for sterilization. It's almost poetic.
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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.
61They 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.
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Sorry but who the fuck attends the "Bored Ape Conference"?
105Thankfully a bunch of deuche bros
41Techbros
12Boring apes?
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Damn, screwed twice by the same Ape...
80Omg event was for holders of the NFTs then this! That’s a 2nd degree burn
37Right to the eyeballs
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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.
69“Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.” ― Charles Bukowski
40It's temporary arc flash from UVC exposute, it's extremely unlikely that any of them will suffer long term effects. Just feels like sand in your eyes for a few days.
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57Who'd have thought that a group of conmen would skimp on safety to make some money... I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
36It'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.
28Never 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.
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Come to think of it, Radioactive Man looks kinda like he could be a differently coloured "bored ape"
34Misread this as Concerned Ape and became... Concerned. And also mad I didn't know there was a convention.
29No 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.
8To 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.
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Please, don't post paywalled content.
17It 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
8lol
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Does anyone have the full article?
16No, but there are.many other articles covering the topic if you search for it, e.g.
11I think so, because two comments clearly had more info than was available in my click.
7it was already posted here on lemmy, idk where, but i remember it on my feed and the comments
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New fear unlocked!
14Not a particularly surprising sort of capstone to finish off this whole stupid NFT thing.
12Sorry 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
8It's scary how one retards mistake can cost other people so much, and there's no way of even knowing it's happening until it's too late
6Not sure why you were voted down, because I feel the exact same way. No one should have to suffer vision loss from a public event, horrifying.
9The sentiment is fine but 'retard' is a slur the way it's used here, that's probably why.
4Whoa, I think my comment (and yours) was removed. Or am I missing something? Wierd
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reminds me of the Blade movie https://youtu.be/KZnb8InfpHI?t=42
4Wait… What?
2You have to read the article to understand the headline. Intense, I know.
4What is going on in the world?
-1It’s like I blinked and then… This headline existed.
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that's what you get
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