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The Wayne ([personal profile] thewayne) wrote2023-11-07 08:19 am
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Play stupid games.... Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT event attendees get severe UV burns!

My mind boggles.

Apparently someone installed the wrong kind of ultraviolet lights to light up the stage at an expo for Bored Ape Yacht Club in Hong Kong last weekend and a number of people experienced severe sun burn and EYE DAMAGE. I mean, I experience eye damage looking at Bored Ape NFTs, apparently this was much worse to the point of people being unable to see! Most sought treatment at local hospitals and I guess didn't require hospitalization, the article is pretty short. The organizers say that less than 1% of attendees and workers were affected.

So that's the new line: NFTs cause blindness and skin cancer!

Frankly, I'm amazed that there would be enough people to attend such an event, much less in Hong Kong.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/bored-ape-nft-event-attendees-report-severe-eye-burn/ar-AA1jsZ2x

UPDATE: the people who set up the lights installed UV-C lights which are used to sterilize ENTIRE ROOMS. Sounds like they used the same people who measured the track for the Pan Olympics Games.
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[personal profile] lilfluff 2023-11-07 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Big Clive over on YouTube put a video up (https://youtu.be/6DlfLthx89E) about this and he mentioned that what surprised him was that this was happening *again* as he apparently had talked about a previous event that was using UV-C lights as set dressing for an event. I know he's done multiple previous videos about UV-C lights and has not been at all shy in giving safety warnings and not liking the lax or non-existent safety attitudes many of the sellers seem to have.