Thread by @dappergander

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Okay.

Based on my experience, I would say this comes from pro-NFT guys who saw the response to the "Nazi Ape" blog and decided to run the age-old scheme of saying easily disproved things while pretending to be a member of a community they actually hate.

It's like an AITA thread saying "I am a committed vegan. AITA for asking my friend to publicly apologize for serving the cooked flesh of innocent animals during my toast at his wedding dinner?"

I mean, yes, you're the asshole, duh. But the real message is 'vegans are assholes.'

This might seem like grade-school shit.

It might seem really obvious as a technique to bring public scorn onto someone you dislike by pretending to be them and saying nonsense things.

But it works.

Okay, that literally took one click on Instagram

UPDATE: I got the timeline wrong on this, assuming it was in *response* to the BAYC blowup a few days ago.

The meme was developed *concurrently* with the writing of the blog post and the 4chan discussion. It's all part of the same nonsense.

A few people have commented that this is a real attack on NFTs and crypto that just so happens to use an easily disprovable social justice argument.

I'm pretty unconvinced.

Ryder Ripps owns $100,000 of NFTs. I truly don't think he wants to destroy crypto.