‘Bored Ape Nazi Club:’ New Documentary Calls NFTs Racist
Are Bored Apes racist?
It’s “NFT week” in New York City baby!
And we are off to a bad start, a tremendously bad start, with a new documentary coming out accusing Bored Apes of being Nazi propaganda.
In the one-hour documentary, YouTube filmmaker “Philion” calls out the Bored Ape Yacht Club for their supposed use of racist tropes and Nazi imagery.
The video dropped like a bombshell garnering hundreds of thousands of views and opening the door for “BurnBAYC” to trend on Twitter.
So —is there any truth to all of this?
Well, where there’s usually smoke, there’s also fire.
Bored Apes: Alt-Right Trolling Campaign
According to the film, Bored Apes are a “dog whistle.”
What’s a dog whistle? It’s a covert political campaign that only a few people can understand, in this case, it would be alt-right trollers from the infamous social media website 4chan.
Now without getting too bogged down in what 4chan is — Author Michael Malice has a great book about the site; it’s a much more complex take than how the mainstream media describes it — the website has its own “language.”
