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Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by bethekind »

TLDR; Basically too much UV light resulted in people getting skin burns and burned, red eyes

The likely cause imo? Someone bought/used UVB fluorescent tubes/lights (~200nm) instead of LED UVA (~400nm) as blacklights. They're cheaper, brighter and have a stronger effect.

Unprotected skin/eyes can feel the difference in I don't think these were UVC, since the UV light affects DNA in a logarithmic scale. UVC is soooo much more likely to damage DNA, UVB is somewhat likely to damage DNA, UVC has a low likelihood of damaging DNA, blue light has an even lower chance of damaging DNA and so on. The time of exposure and effects were likely high nm UVB/low nm UVC. I could see this being the effects of a 280nm-315nm LED light source, or a skin treatment fluorescent tube. UVC bulbs and tubes are really hard to buy and cost a ton, so unlikely.

*I'm a nerd, wanted to solve myopia, there was a paper that suggested that UVB or UVA could help form crosslinked proteins that would prevent myopia from getting worse. It could explain why outdoor exposure helped so much. So I bought some of these UVB fluorescent bulbs and stared at them them for 10 minutes. Started feeling the itchy, burning feeling and stopped. Currently my theory of myopia has to do with regular defocusing to relax the eyes (that's what the myopia prevention glasses do)

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

#102

Post by zoklet-enjoyer »

IvyMike wrote: post #45
ceejayoz wrote: post #3

Cited in the article: https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1721222853394121193 "Thanks for great apefest logistiscs guys @yugalabs & @BoredApeYC. Incredible event and met plenty of amazing people. Still, as dozens of others, I’ve almost lost sight this night." I mean, c'mon. "Thanks, incredible event, it almost blinded me"?

It's a matter of taste, of course, but the event does not look incredible to me. https://twitter.com/slandermepls/status/1721352598945677544

The video pans to the audience near the end. 2500 people sounds right https://x.com/dj_soda_/status/1721510442621861925?s=20

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by GuB-42 »

There have been stories of venues using UVC (germicidal) lamps because they looked pretty and fit standard fixtures. It resulted in sunburns and lots or eye pain.

I don't know if that's what happened there, but I think that using the same fixtures for dangerous yet pretty looking germicidal lamps and regular lighting is not the smartest idea.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

#104

Post by JumpCrisscross »

IvyMike wrote: post #45
ceejayoz wrote: post #3

Cited in the article: https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1721222853394121193 "Thanks for great apefest logistiscs guys @yugalabs & @BoredApeYC. Incredible event and met plenty of amazing people. Still, as dozens of others, I’ve almost lost sight this night." I mean, c'mon. "Thanks, incredible event, it almost blinded me"?

It's a matter of taste, of course, but the event does not look incredible to me. https://twitter.com/slandermepls/status/1721352598945677544

I’m surprised they didn’t stuff the room with paid actors. The closest tangible value to NFTs is that they grant membership to an exclusive social club.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by krsdcbl »

ceejayoz wrote: post #3

Cited in the article: https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1721222853394121193 "Thanks for great apefest logistiscs guys @yugalabs & @BoredApeYC. Incredible event and met plenty of amazing people. Still, as dozens of others, I’ve almost lost sight this night." I mean, c'mon. "Thanks, incredible event, it almost blinded me"?

That tweet honestly reads like a pars pro toto of the whole NFT world ...

"visionary revolution, it's the future, it will change everything, also it absolutely ruined me!"

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

#106

Post by brink »

nameless912 wrote: post #46
latchkey wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

s/gift/grift/

I know this isn't what you meant, but "the grift that keeps on griving" gave me an excellent laugh.

It looks like latchkey edited their answer to be correct. lol Took me a bit trying to figure out what was meant by this.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

#107

Post by kosolam »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #104
IvyMike wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a matter of taste, of course, but the event does not look incredible to me. https://twitter.com/slandermepls/status/1721352598945677544

I’m surprised they didn’t stuff the room with paid actors. The closest tangible value to NFTs is that they grant membership to an exclusive social club.

Sadly, they don’t need to. The people who actually buy into this are so stup*d that it’s not worth spending a penny more than a lousy eyes blinding “party”

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by yieldcrv »

Always_Anon wrote: post #44

After I learned that NFTs were essentially just signed git commits, I wrote them off as a hilarious grift. I feel bad for the people that were injured, so here's my advice: run away from NFTs and crypto. RUN AWAY!

essentially. a whole industry cropped up around hosting them, which mostly defeats the point

there are a lot of NFTs that are better implementations, the primary improvement being that there is no external hosting and they build the visual data into the smart contract function for a renderer to interpret

Ive done a lot with SVGs that way. others upload dependendies like three.js on the blockchain in other smart contracts, so when called they can return into yours and you have more sophisticated renders

I think artblocks does something like that, not sure

Most of the financial sector NFTs have an onchain svg too, like all the Uniswap liquidity pools

first movers are often poorer implementations of the technology, its up to the consumers to discern and if they dont then there is no incentive to act differently

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

#110

Post by erik_seaberg »

snakeyjake wrote: post #19

Given 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.

Unfortunately, I wouldn’t expect the average guy to know how to tell whether a UV bulb is safe (regular non-quartz glass helps a lot) or that dangerous ones are sold without warnings.
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