Why is this news? Doesn't buying a bored ape kinda guarantee you're blind to begin with?
Given the demographic overlap with Funko Pops, I'd tend to think so.
Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
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#32Given the.. qualities.. of people involved in the NFT space the organizers probably bought a bunch of UV-C lamps off alibaba because they were cheap and looked cool-- doing absolutely no research and with no regard for others.
I think that is 100% true. I had a friend keep his grow lights on a little too long, a little too often, because they looked cool. I got instant migraines when I walked in his room.
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#33it was the My Eyes Are on Fire Festival
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#34Why is this news? Doesn't buying a bored ape kinda guarantee you're blind to begin with?
It’s a double-blind test.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
nft enthusiasts are not the sharpest tools in the shed
Crypto on the whole is a scene where Sam Bankman-Fried was considered very smart while he was busy conducting the most inept financial crimes in modern history. The bar is low indeed.
The NFT grift is the truest example of the Greater fool theory.
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#36The Financial Times [1] has attendee numbers: “About 2,250 people attended the Saturday evening party at a cruise terminal, said organiser Yuga Labs, one of the pioneers in this market. Since then, more than a dozen have posted on social media complaining of a burning sensation in the eyes and sometimes also impaired vision.” Honestly that’s a lot more proud Bored Ape bagholders than I would have guessed. But what do…
Clearly, Yuga Labs has no incentive to either exaggerate the number of attendees or understate the number of people harmed. =)
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#37If I remember correctly, your eyes don’t adjust to black light the same it would as full spectrum, and will stay mostly dilated as if it were in the dark. This can increase the chances of photokeratitis, or basically sunburn on the eyes with high powered shows like this. I am obviously not a dr
Just like looking at a solar eclipse.
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#38Blacklight so strong people got sunburn?
This sounds to me like someone put in real UV fluorescent tubes instead of blacklight tubes, those things are dangerous.
Cheap blue LEDs will leak the dangerous parts of the UV spectrum. I've had projects hit import snags in the EU because they got spot checked - the overseas contract manufacturer used parts which were out of spec.
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#39I really am surprised by all the “lol you buy NFT so already blind” folks. Actually pretty disgusting.
Disclaimer: I don’t own NFTs.
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#40The Financial Times [1] has attendee numbers: “About 2,250 people attended the Saturday evening party at a cruise terminal, said organiser Yuga Labs, one of the pioneers in this market. Since then, more than a dozen have posted on social media complaining of a burning sensation in the eyes and sometimes also impaired vision.” Honestly that’s a lot more proud Bored Ape bagholders than I would have guessed. But what do…
Clearly, Yuga Labs has no incentive to either exaggerate the number of attendees or understate the number of people harmed. =)
Everybody in crypto is so honest and the numbers they love to tout are always real, so I don’t see any reason to be so cynical. Unless of course one is a fiat-blinded NPC sheep who hates disruptive innovation and wants to kill the children in Africa and El Salvador who are being rescued from poverty by the limitless power of blockchain energy.