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09 Dec 21 - 08:24 PM (#4128525) Subject: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: keberoxu ... and you know why I'm starting a thread about an Internet thing? Because it turned up OUTSIDE the Internet, that's why. I go on an occasional pleasure drive through Pittsfield, Massachusetts. And on one state highway, there's this stupid BILLBOARD and you can't help but do a double-take as you drive past. Yes ... it features Bored Apes. Somebody else can explain about Bored Apes: non-fungibles, blockchains, all manner of stuff that this senior citizen can live without ... ... but why promote them on a highway BILLBOARD, I ask you? Does somebody profit from doing this financially? Is it going to go away as mysteriously as it appeared? I just wonder. |
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09 Dec 21 - 08:26 PM (#4128527) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: keberoxu Well, there is a magazine article about this, so I may as well do a blue clicky link. But it still doesn't explain the necessity of a billboard on the highway. |
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09 Dec 21 - 09:16 PM (#4128542) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: Donuel The experience isn’t inherent in the event; it resides in the event’s psychological construal. Of course I remember the pet rock. |
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09 Dec 21 - 09:46 PM (#4128543) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: Jeri "Bored Ape Yacht Club, which launched in April, is a strange combination of gated online community, stock-shareholding group, and art-appreciation society." A bunch of people who also don't care if anyone can figure out what the fuck they're talking about. I know of a couple of people who'd fit right in. (I'm in snark mode tonight.) |
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09 Dec 21 - 10:35 PM (#4128545) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: keberoxu Jimmy Fallon is mixed up in this, it seems: him I have heard of, through late night television. |
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10 Dec 21 - 12:14 PM (#4128587) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: Stilly River Sage If The New Yorker covered it at least there will be some understanding of the topic by the end of the article. :) |
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11 Dec 21 - 05:04 PM (#4128682) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: keberoxu This must be easier to comprehend if you are fluent in social media. ( don't look at me ) |
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11 Dec 21 - 06:17 PM (#4128686) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: Sandra in Sydney fluent in social media????? don't look at me, either, a very dear friend has tried more than once to get me on facebook co I miss a lot of important? stuff, & explained how I could avoid the ads & only have the friends I want & ... but I do prefer to miss important stuff that EVERYONE knows. I started reading the New Yorkers article & gave up soon after reading this "Bored Ape Yacht Club’s initial batch of N.F.T.s brought in more than two million dollars. The collection has since seen almost a hundred million dollars in trading ..." sandra |
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11 Dec 21 - 07:22 PM (#4128690) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: keberoxu Now, this I did not expect: a musical angle. Billboard magazine: Music's Latest Supergroup |
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11 Dec 21 - 07:42 PM (#4128694) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: keberoxu And then there is this interview with the four young-ish men who started the whole thing. "None of us have really slept in almost seven months now" |
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27 Feb 22 - 10:19 PM (#4138006) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: keberoxu By the by, that Berkshire County, Massachusetts billboard went away as stealthily as it appeared, and now the same billboard frame advertises for a local automobile dealer. You would never know the Bored Apes had passed through in the first place. |
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27 Feb 22 - 10:33 PM (#4138008) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: keberoxu And for what it's worth, this group of people is under scrutiny -- their true names have been outed in the press. Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow go by Gordon Goner and Gargamel, only don't ask me which is which. Here is a link to a feature story from the Wall Street Journal. sorry, there's a paywall |
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27 Feb 22 - 10:43 PM (#4138009) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: keberoxu However you can read the following bit of news for free -- you just have to scroll down the page a little further. Bored Apes unmasked -- BuzzFeed backlash, Forbes |
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02 Mar 22 - 08:07 PM (#4138261) Subject: RE: BS: Internet follies: and now, bored apes From: leeneia Something fungible is able to replace or be replaced by another identical item; fungible things are interchangeable. Dollar bills are fungible - I can exchange one for another. Snickers bars are fungible. If I buy a Snickers bar, I don't care which one I get. The Mona Lisa is not fungible. If I buy the Mona Lisa, it better be that particular painting. Non-fungible tokens are iffy digital "currencies" which the holder cannot freely trade or cash in. A chunk of such a currency can be called a token. Probably the owner of such a token can do business with other owners of tokens, but not with outsiders. In contrast, I can exchange U.S. dollars to Swiss francs, but I can't exchange certain (or maybe all) cryptocurrencies for other cryptocurrencies. That's why they are non-fungible. Forgive me if I don't know all the ins and outs, because I wouldn't touch these deals with a ten-foot pole. There are deals going on where buyers purchase art which is only stored digitally, using non-fungible tokens. Apparently the music of a band called The Bored Apes is one of those kinds of art. If you're interested, you pay with a non-fungible token and you become owner of a piece of music which only you can access. Unless somebody hacks it, I guess. To me, it's amazing that after centuries of prosecuting counterfeiters, the governments and central banks of the world stood around and looked dumb while unknown people developed vaguely-defined money called cryptocurrencies. |