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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I like the actual Bored Apes. I think they're well done and carry a lot of cool factor. Not as big a fan of the derivativ

• Zababa 5y ago
  I agree that the initial Bored Apes are better. Taste varying from person to person doesn't mean that everything is equally appealing to the same amount of people. From my observations, most people find them ugly, or at least far from beautiful or cool. Maybe most people in the NFT niche find them beautiful or cool, in which case the explanation is just a difference of tastes. But if that's not the case, my question about why people decided to do something ugly still stands.
  • TigeriusKirk 5y ago
    I think there's some nuance here, as there often is with art. Sure, you can look at the Bored Apes and say they're ugly. There is an element of that in them, and yes, I'm sure it's intentional from the team. But they didn't have "do something ugly" as the primary goal, they had "do something cool" as the primary goal, and the "ugly" was an aspect of the approach they took to achieve that goal. Specifically, I think they were going for a street art vibe that often uses an approach like this. It's not going to appeal to everyone, and to be honest, that's part of the point. It wouldn't be cool if it appealed to everyone. That's an easy dynamic to mock, but it's still a real dynamic in the real world.