BAYC founders call Nazi conspiracy video ‘crazy disinformation campaign’
The founders of the Bored Ape Yach Club (BAYC) responded to the recent controversy surrounding a documentary accusing them of promoting Nazi imagery. The co-founder of Yuga Labs, Wylie Aronow, known as Gordon Goner, said that the company has become the target of a “crazy disinformation campaign” that was spreading “ridiculous conspiracy theories.”
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The video was based on a website created by Ryder Ripps, a conceptual artist, where he accused the project of embedding racism and Nazi dog whistles throughout the BAYC collection. Ripps is known for minting and selling knockoff NFTs as a form of satirical art and has used the website to promote RR/BAYC, a copy of BAYC. His copycat NFTs even briefly surpassed BAYC as the most popular collection on OpenSea. Rusnack claimed that BAYC was a “massive alt-right inside joke” that originated on 4chan.
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