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The Financial Times [1] has attendee numbers: “About 2,250 people attended the Saturday evening party at a cruise terminal, said organiser Yuga Labs, one of th
by pavlov 3y ago
The Financial Times [1] has attendee numbers:
“About 2,250 people attended the Saturday evening party at a cruise terminal, said organiser Yuga Labs, one of the pioneers in this market. Since then, more than a dozen have posted on social media complaining of a burning sensation in the eyes and sometimes also impaired vision.”
Honestly that’s a lot more proud Bored Ape bagholders than I would have guessed. But what do I know — maybe Beanie Baby meet-ups also pull crowds of thousands.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/fe9a3fa3-edfc-41df-a333-1f91e62483f7 https://www.ft.com/content/fe9a3fa3-edfc-41df-a333-1f91e6248...
- SrslyJosh 3y agoClearly, Yuga Labs has no incentive to either exaggerate the number of attendees or understate the number of people harmed. =)
- pavlov 3y agoEverybody in crypto is so honest and the numbers they love to tout are always real, so I don’t see any reason to be so cynical. Unless of course one is a fiat-blinded NPC sheep who hates disruptive innovation and wants to kill the children in Africa and El Salvador who are being rescued from poverty by the limitless power of blockchain energy.
- mikhael28 3y agoGrade A sarcasm.
- reactordev 3y agosaving the world, one block at a time...
- plagiarist 3y agoThis isn't even sarcasm, this is just collecting various actual statements in one location. I know I have been called genocidal for expressing an opinion that we should maybe run medical studies prior to massive ivermectin doses for everyone in the third world. Same energy.
- mikeyouse 3y agoI was curious when I heard the initial reports so I went looking for pics on Twitter — the ones I found looked absolutely nothing like the 2,500 attendees and more like 250..
- dylan604 3y agoAre these the same people that count attendees at inauguration speeches?
- Kye 3y agoThat's about the attendance of an average furry convention (or roughly one NordicFuzzCon) where the A/V crew will know what they're doing with the lights. Questionable ideas and their events and services struggle to attract competent staff for some reason. They're always getting hacked or melting faces.
- astrange 3y agoI help run an anime con with, uh, 15 times this reported attendance. The most important thing is to keep your competent volunteers entertained so they're happy to run a rave one weekend a year that doesn't blind anyone.
- seanp2k2 3y ago+1 I've also got some friends who do sound, lighting, and DJ for anime / furry cons. It's a fun little niche.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoLots of requests for "Hamster Dance"? (Sorry, couldn't resist the pun. No actual offense intended.)
- Kye 3y agoWe'll know the furry and anime communities are finally back together after decades apart once a cosplayer and a fursuiter go head to head with Caramelldansen and Hamster Dance at Floor Wars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMmGSsy7IEo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMmGSsy7IEo
- CoastalCoder 3y agoThanks for the link! I would never have imagined an event like was real.
- kayfox 3y ago
- somsak2 3y agohttps://archive.ph/sgHix https://archive.ph/sgHix
- bragr 3y ago>Honestly that’s a lot more proud Bored Ape bagholders than I would have guessed The breakdown of locals vs people that flew in would be revealing. e.g. passionate owners vs cryto-casual hongkongers looking for a party.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y agoAccording to the Zeke Faux book "Number Go Up", one needs to "own" a Bored Ape YC NFT to be admitted. The author had to pay $20,000 for one of these in order to gain admission to this event.
- Nursie 3y agoIn this case there appear to be other ways. Ape holders could '+1' for the whole three-day event for $269 (US$ I think). It also appears[1] that the party was after an open day of sorts, and you could buy tickets[2] for the open day and party for 388HK$ (about $50 US). It is a little hard to tell exactly what the open house included and whether it gave access to the event that had the problem, so I could be wrong. [1] https://www.artazine.com/news/apefest-2023-nft-bored-ape-yacht-club-hong-kong https://www.artazine.com/news/apefest-2023-nft-bored-ape-yac... [2] https://openhouse.boredapeyachtclub.com/ https://openhouse.boredapeyachtclub.com/
- rospaya 3y agoI'm more interested in the gender distribution.
- zoky 3y agoOh, we all know that these things are just the wurst.
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- harambae 3y ago> wurst Took me a second but I got it
- Nursie 3y agohttps://twitter.com/CryptoTurkweb3/status/1721363989211627731 https://twitter.com/CryptoTurkweb3/status/172136398921162773... Looks almost exclusively male to me.
- NavinF 3y agoAre any tech related conferences not like that?
- Nursie 3y agoWell, yes. I went to a conference here in Perth recently that had a decent proportion of female speakers and attendees. It's not the 90s any more. I think the point here is also that this was supposed to be a social event and a party.
- hhsectech 3y agoThat is lamest thing I've ever seen.
- fennecfoxy 3y agoSkewed towards male for most events involving technology. Does it matter?
- anigbrowl 3y agoSuperb picture editing work
- qingcharles 3y agoI was once (probably) the largest secondary market retailer of Beanie Babies, 1997-1998. I used to organize "Beanie Fairs" (which were scams). Can confirm attendance of thousands.