Schadenfreude Tuesday: Bored Ape NPC Festival Attendees Suffered Eye Injuries From UV Exposure

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Bored Ape NFT event attendees report ‘severe eye burn’ https://t.co/AujqIHuGvb
- The Verge (@verge) November 6, 2023

ApeFest - a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection event - in Hong Kong ran from November 3rd to 5th.

This same Bored Ape nonsense, yes.

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After the event, attendees posted on Twitter that they seeked or were seeking medical attention because they woke up with severe eye pain . One was even diagnosed with Photokeratitis or Welder's Eye.

Apes, we are aware of the eye-related issues that affected some of the attendees of ApeFest and have been proactively reaching out to individuals since yesterday to try and find the potential root causes. Based on our estimates, we believe that much less than 1% of those…
- Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) November 6, 2023

Some schaudenfreude after the jump:


Attendees of Bored Ape conference said they “couldn’t see anymore,” woke up with searing eye pain, vision loss. Looks like they were burned with UV light from the stagehttps://t.co/JXQwDX7mW9 pic.twitter.com/NQP2ofv3Qc
- Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) November 6, 2023

Anyone else’s eyes burning from last night? Woke up at 3am with extreme pain and ended up in the ER.

I saw a couple reports but just trying to figure out if there was a common thread.
- FΞLD | mrbayc.eth (@Feld4014) November 5, 2023

I woke up at 04:00 and couldn’t see anymore. Had so much pain and my whole skin is burned. Needed to go to the hospital.

The doctor told me the uv of the lightning of the stage did it. It has the same effect as sunlight.

Still can not see normally..
- Crypto June 💎🎯 (@CryptoJune777) November 5, 2023

not a single woman in sight at the bored ape fest pic.twitter.com/tVSUv6VSAr
- kate bush's husband (@airbagged) November 6, 2023

oh my fucking god they used UVC germicidal lamps as blacklights. they're just fucking OUT THERE. you should NEVER see this https://t.co/ZfFaFC5aDG pic.twitter.com/ylvMQu90Sw
- walking mirage (@atomicthumbs) November 6, 2023

ONTD, Would you buy a JPG for multiple thousands of dollars to get an exclusive invite to a party where you can go partially blind?

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