Bored Ape Yacht Club: A Dark Secret Exposed | АѕmоngоІd Rеасtѕ to Philion

this is an expose on the overlap that the board ape uh yacht club has had with different types of white supremacy and other types of racist stuff you guys will see what happens here we go i've had the practice of having inside jokes that are so [ __ ] up to people who don't even understand them and like and basically making fun of people to their face right yeah to me that that's really what's [ __ ] up and it's more fun it's actually more to me that's the crime here the crime isn't that they're nazis and they're racist which they might be and i'm sure they are accelerationists who are people who are just basically nihilists who don't give a [ __ ] and want to see the world burn unlike to me that's probably a worse thing than being anything because because you really are anti-human and you're selfish what if i told you that one of the most successful nft collections in the world was pulling off the biggest troll in internet history no not convincing people that this ugly [ __ ] is art did this happen bro did this real did this [ __ ] really happen oh my god or that it has any value what if i told you that hidden within board ape yacht club was a series of 4chan trolling racist imagery and white supremacy dog whistles and with a deep understanding of cipher and cryptography the founders of board apiaclup are making a mockery of the entire world pulling the strings of the global elite including celebrities athletes actors and influencers this story is extremely complicated for many reasons the problem with accepting the truth i'm about to tell you is that you have to have extensive knowledge of 4chan internet culture and symbolism to even wrap your head around this and luckily you also have me as a guide and i will help you i i can guarantee you that there will probably not be a single racist reference that i will not immediately see i've been on the internet for 20 years i've seen them all are you ready here we go understand the motive the most important fact i'm about to tell you that you must remind yourself as we go along is that the entirety of board api club is esoteric by design it is only meant to be understood by a select number of people with specialized knowledge and that's right it's like the um another example of this is the freemasons and also uh uh the luciferianism now this is only the new generation of it see here it is considered based when others with that knowledge connect the dots almost all of the absurdist references present in board api club are glaringly obvious to the in-crowd and are invisible to anyone who isn't terminally online i might as well be speaking a different language if i don't prime you on every aspect of this elaborate cipher combine this with board api club being valued at over a billion dollars and you have yourself the gold medalists of the troll olympics i have any doubts about all of this that was until i spoke with one of the top creative directors and internet artists in the world who is an expert of internet culture 4chan and trolling an artist who has worked with kanye west grimes and tame impala among other creative projects that you've definitely seen oh my god 2022 a website goes live called at gordongonner.com very bottom was the signature of ryder rips ryder rips is eccentric and is a trendsetter in every regard okay they created the deal with it meme dump fm internet archaeology and v files when it comes to the internet ryder rips is one of the most innovative artists of our generation it's no secret that he uses internet culture and the nature of trolling to amplify his artistic messages if there's anyone to educate others on iconography and the meaning behind art it's ryder rips and if i happen to be the founders of an nft project manipulating the masses into asserting value on racist imagery i would not [ __ ] with him for the past six months ryder rips and other researchers have collected all of the data and sources that highlight board ape yacht club's successful but depraved continued stun and i say continued because they still operate unchecked 4chan is the gutter of the internet founded in 2000 oh my gosh 15 year old christopher this message board serves as a place where internet culture is born discussed and destroyed users typically post as anonymous as they argue the identity of a user adds nothing to conversations at hand but the collection i think that's one of the best things about 4chan i i like 4chan you have a completely different type of discussion that you have on reddit because people don't have to have the popular opinion if anonymous culture of the message board has devolved into a degenerate pit of despair along with anonymous identities there is virtually no moderation as a result of this threads on 4chan spiral into some of the weirdest and most disturbing rabbit holes on the internet so why even post well as writers sometimes i'll uh i'll see posts about myself and there was one about how um i think actually uh i i screenshotted it it was so good uh let me see if i can find it real quick this is the last paragraph asthma gold is the perfect tool to provide globalist propaganda for the uneducated and easily influenced zoomers these people are called influencers for a reason asthma and gold glows like i i love these like i think they're [ __ ] amazing it's just yeah i i read this [ __ ] all the time it's [ __ ] hilarious to me subscribe to me trolling is a sport on 4chan this point alone is necessary in understanding the motive behind board apr club throughout the internet's history 4chan has been responsible for trolling mainstream media endlessly one classic example of this was when 4chan tricked mainstream media into thinking the okay hand symbol signified white power the media ran with it and as a result actual white supremacists adopted it as their own an internet joke yes it actually it was it wasn't real and it became so not real that it became real illuminated crazy mainstream media their willingness to post anything was taken literally and the meaning of the joke changed forever another example of this is comedian sam hyde being the ghost of kia lastly let's talk about the benefit of the doubt imagine all of what i'm about to tell you is one giant coincidence right somewhere along the grocery list of examples of board a biaclub being one massive alt-right inside joke is a point at which these similarities are no longer coincidences let's call this the tipping point if i bring up one instance that highlights deliberate nazi fascist or alt-right messaging you may think to yourself i see it but that's a reach so i ask you what is your number at what point do all of these examples become crystal clear in front of your eyes that's what i've said many times right is it one point doesn't mean anything but multiple points make a line yeah i want my scalps that's right me it was just one first let's talk about the apes as a whole you don't have to look far on social media to see that many people believe the apes in board api club are inherently racist looking remember they could have picked any animal object or thing to make an nft project that's true monkeys really it seems a bit random but we're dealing with deliberate messaging this is not a mistake this is damon dash the founder of rockefeller records with jay-z okay and then i don't know if that monkey thing is like because what's the biggest don't you think that's a little condescending to our culture a little bit we're just talking about that i i i feel like is that a way a nerd is trying to get cute and laugh at us we just talk about that because either way you should tread lightly with monkey when as it relates to our culture because it's a trigger for us and they keep doing it so first i wasn't like and then i was like why is everything a gorilla or a ape or a monkey why ain't a penguin or like a panda bear son why is it something that's been used to you know disrespect us for years so i don't know you know and when wasn't difficult for a creator that leaves a lot a lot of room for exploitation you know so that means a lot of people that can understand may take advantage of those creators that don't want to understand you guys realize for the last two years they got black people to invest in monkeys and dogs while making fun of us and taking our money from us thank you damn i never but was going to the moon when y'all get done now i i don't think that like just because they have monkeys that doesn't mean that it's like some racist [ __ ] like guaranteed that that's that's a reach that's 100 percent of reach but like again it's like a matter of how many reaches do you do until you until you actually are in uh in in arms reach of what it really is you see what i'm saying so like that's that's the context go look at board we're gonna get there and go see the imagery i've never seen this of how it's connected to nazism holy [ __ ] it's damn near the same imagery but they know we won't study long enough to say and now look how many billions of dollars they've made off of i never heard of this and then the music industry gonna come in with more nfts and continue to rob us oh yeah all we need is oh yes the reason people have made this conclusion is because of something called simianization this refers to comparing ethnic groups to an ape or monkey symbionization has been used throughout history to put others down in order to dehumanize them you will see exactly how board a biaclub uses simulation to convey racist themes and undertones but first we must understand the culture they did the same thing with obama with curious george i remember that in which these apes were born in 2021 bordeaux bioclub was launched on april 30th which is the exact day that hitler died the launch of board apis in 2021 boarded yacht club was launched on april 30th which is the exact day that hitler died okay all right okay the launch of board ape yacht club was actually on the 23rd with a week long i want to do something i want to run two polls i want to run a poll right now and we're going to see how convincing this really is can we do a poll do you think board ape yacht club is using crypto messaging to promote a racist agenda and we're going to start at the beginning and i'm going to do another poll of the same thing at the end and i actually really want to see how much of a difference it makes all right set as 60 say no so we're about 60 40 37 63 somewhere around that okay all right that's fine let's see how things change pre-sale and they sold out before the 30th however they made it a point to tell the new yorker that it was the 30th i have shown this picture to various artists okay this is board ape yacht club's main logo that they use across all of their branding and social media accounts not too bad right how about it does look like it most of them laugh uncomfortably in sheer disbelief the audacity to do this is mind-blowing it does not take a genius to see that this board apiaclup logo is a direct copy of the toten cough the skull and bones represents death and was used by both prussia and nazi germany as a military emblem representing death heads i only mention prussia because that will play out later when we examine some of the bored apes both logos also have 18 teeth if you're unfamiliar the alt-right white supremacists and neo-nazis love alphanumeric code the number 18 is a symbol of hate more specifically its alphanumeric code for the initials of adolf hitler one being a eight being h one thing to note is that both logos also have a rough edge which is uncommon in circular emblems it's just another characteristic that demonstrates they knew what they were copying board was created by a company called yuga labs like everything in this project the name has meaning a little bit about us to start off the new year and what's coming what's the inspiration behind the name yuga labs we're nerds and yuga is the name of a villain in zelda whose ability is that he can turn himself and others into 2d art it made sense for an nft company when i heard this i was confused i've played just about every legend of zelda game and i could not remember for the life of me who hugo was i don't see yuga is a boss in the legend of zelda a link between worlds 17th installment of the zelda franchise available only on the nintendo 3ds if you're a self-proclaimed nerd or gamer you wouldn't source your name from the most obscure zelda game ever for the 3ds everyone knows that ocarina of time majora's mask wind waker twilight princess and even breath of the wild or the greatest games in the future hey hey i could believe ganon labs after the main antagonist throughout the entire series ganondorf but yuga i'm not buying it there is a specific reason they pick the name yuga on yougo labs's website they pay homage to another project called the hash masks this project was made by a swiss company known as weak labs this phrase meaning to each their own was on the gate of the bush and walled concentration camp this phrase was also used on the face of prussian helmets and yuga labs loved suem quick so much that they even took their exact terms of service yuga has an entirely different meaning the phrase yuga any of the four ages of life in the world has an entirely different meaning the phrase kali yuga stems from hinduism and it refers to an age of conflict or darkness what is the period we're in now is this coming this is some weird [ __ ] that was predicted by the bhagavad gita this is like this battle of the gods ragnarok tell me this is what happens in cultures like they go through these like these pictures oh my god the earliest mention of this phrase culture was on september 11 2014 by an anonymous user on 4chan in response to people being upset over gamergate anon replied i know it is dark at times but you just gotta learn to enjoy it man embrace being the bad guy surf the kali yuga since then the phrase spread like wildfire among the alt-right first it was missing i've never heard this by vincent vaulklin who founded the french descent an alt-right political i've never heard it operated from 2011 to 2021. apparently alt-right meme merch went hard and the new design of the shirt in 2016 featured a toting cuff and in 2019 a telegram group of course kali yuga surfing club was created surfing club okay that makes a little bit of sense give me one second anything weird here the kali yuga is one of the cornerstones traditionalist ideology yeah that was preached by renee guanan a french occultist and philosopher who was credited for introducing the kali yuga to the west during his life gwanon moved to egypt became muslim and preached traditionalism which consisted of extreme anti-semitism and an admiration for ancient societies which included hierarchies of class and gender and italian nazi sympathizers are both revered and memed on 4chan you'll find threads in the literature and political boards placing these two on a pedestal and recommending their works for a sense of woke pseudo-intellectualism often messages will be left with pbuh which means peace be upon him a common arabic phrase you see surfing the kali yuga manifested itself on pole it became a repeated phrase and dog whistle among users in fact embracing the darkness or surfing the kali yuga is a phrase that the alt-right has adopted in order to communicate a sense of collective this i've read poll before i've never seen that i've never seen this i i feel like this is like yeah maybe maybe i didn't recognize it it's a new trend yeah i i haven't seen this might melt your brain but stay with me it's impossible to show the masses yeah exactly what the founders of board api club are doing without understanding chan culture or how 4chan acts as a think tank and hive one of the worst aspects of chan culture is pseudo intellectualism what you have is a bunch of trolls haven't seen the light of day that have collectively convinced themselves that they are based woke and have the answers to this world they find solace in knowing specific information compared to normal people or normies this is why it's considered esoteric as a result of this you have pockets of deranged people who study old texts scriptures and societies in order to extract archaic values and worship them the founders of board ape yacht club are terminally online smart [ __ ] i am all right okay yeah i'll uh uh i'll i'll agree with that okay seems good to me terminally online smart [ __ ] i got it it's the same everywhere holy [ __ ] bro like this it's not even halfway done like what the [ __ ] actual cold one yeah i got all this [ __ ] put in the refrigerator because i was sick of [ __ ] having it over there and then there's a bunch of boxes everywhere and then i got the new chair and it was like one thing led to another and now i've got the drinks in the refrigerator again i hate to admit it the founders are clever and i mean really [ __ ] clever the four founders are gordon goner emperor tomato ketchup gargamel and no sass you may be wondering why do they all have obscure xbox live gamer tags well if you think this is innocent you're not ready for this number one emperor tomato ketchup karim adelaide software engineer on the surface oh tomato ketchup sounds like a fortnight's skin in reality emperor tomato ketchup is the name of a 1971 film that is banned across the world for containing child pornography it's about children overthrowing adults and establishing their own supremacy in which a young boy in a fascist uniform sexually assaults a grown woman and if you were to ask tomato himself he would say he got the name from a stereolab album which got its name from the film another example of plausible deniability gargamel greg solano mfa in writing if anyone is familiar with the smurfs then the name gargamel might ring a bell gargamel is the antagonist i mean say no more i mean say say no more sentient beings into money he is widely known as an anti-semitic depiction of a jewish stereotype and as ryder rips 4chan also uses the term gargamel to describe jewish people a reoccurring theme that you'll notice is that this entire umbrella of border biatclub trolling stems from 4chan behavior which is based on inserting enough absurdity to create plausible deniability gargamel is smart but he's a little sloppy according to his reddit post history he posted a 4chan crypto meme before board api club was even live yet confirming that he's at least aware of the culture or uses 4chan greg so there's something that he had an idea of right so he had an idea i'm rolling this is this video trolling us so the reason why i didn't watch this video the day it came out is it i actually assumed that it was like some form of guerrilla marketing for the board ape yacht club i thought it was like some [ __ ] and like that's why i didn't want to watch it i thought it was complete [ __ ] give me one second sorry i'm having a problem here we're good sorry about that or gargamel was a literature major in college and wrote his thesis paper on 266 which is a book that takes place in nazi germany with a main character named after nazi ss doctor hans writer he even expressed on his now defunct blog that he wanted to write a fiction novel that blends real history with imaginative events which is similar to roberto bolanos 2666. this could be a stretch but i'm reminded here of your writing backgrounds do you think there's any parallel between your big conceptual breakthrough to design nfts for what interests you not some target demo and the idea that in writing sometimes the best stuff comes from channeling what you really want to see not what some theoretical reader wants gargamel says ever since the board ape yacht club we've seen like a thousand different avatar collections come up oh my god a lot of them are really cool but what we think was special and what people could kind of read on top of ours is that we didn't just throw 3d glasses onto apes and we didn't have a long essay on exactly what this was but we knew what it was it's like wittgenstein's let the unutterable be conveyed unutterably or hemingway's iceberg theory we knew what this world was and yeah you you have something that's so it's so abstract and esoteric that even saying what it is makes people feel stupid you see what i'm saying so like yeah it's like you can't even acknowledge that it exists because of how abstract it is i i love this this is amazing why the apes are this way and that somebody else might get a little tingle on their neck looking at it thinking yeah this is kind of different this isn't just random in this interview gargamel literally just confirmed that board ape yacht club is his medium for creative writing first the quote is cryptic but it makes a lot of sense given the context of this project let the unutterable be conveyed unutterably dog whistles hidden meanings fiction writing nah man they're just apes with 3d it does look like you don't understand crypto in this statement gargamel quotes ludwig wittgenstein an austrian jewish philosopher believed to have been the boy who went to school with adolf hitler from 1903 to 1904. according to writer kimberly cornish in the jew of linz she alleges that hitler alludes to a jewish boy who is believed to be wittgenstein in mein kampf wittgenstein's entire body of work consists of cipher cryptology and solving puzzles similar to how board ape yacht club is one massive puzzle designed to be cracked for the sole purpose of stroking their twisted fan fiction writing boner second he states hemingway's iceberg theory which describes exactly yeah we know what that is iceberg theory itself is also a 4chan meme greg solano also has written a book titled the cinematic art of world of warcraft to say what wait what what hold up oh my god we're we're really in this now caught red-handed he isn't a sucker for fantasy would be a flat out lie we know that gargamel is a creative fantasy writer we know that he wrote his thesis paper on a nazi story and we know that he wanted to create something similar blending real and fake events he literally quoted ludwig wittgenstein and iceberg theory confirmed that there is hidden meaning and that everything is deliberate in board ape yacht club prior to board api club greg solano even stated he wanted to create a lovecraftian-themed nft project and if you know anything about lovecraft he was a notorious white supremacist often leaving his prejudices as the basis for his stories the frustration that ryder rips and others have felt myself included with the public's perception of this criticism is immense you can't begin to educate people on this when they're too ignorant to realize that they're being played well they don't it's not that they're too ignorant it's that they don't want to like again it's easier to fool somebody than it is to convince them that they've been fooled nobody wants to admit and say oh yeah i actually [ __ ] up yeah it's like yeah they're in denial because they're already invested in this they already have an opinion on this uh they got money in it exactly ape yacht club in a way is a social experiment in making fun of people who are easily influenced crypto bros and everyone who sucks off technocrats included it is a commentary on the number going up forever for the wag me crowd which lives by the slogan we're all we're all going to make it this is a very real sentiment shared by thousands of people on the internet which i love i love seeing the people that believe in this man they actually think that like [ __ ] there are legitimate real people on the internet even after this video that are like yeah man uh in 35 years this jpeg i have is gonna be worth so much i'm gonna be on a yacht you're gonna be fixing my yacht okay like that's what it's gonna be that's what they believe it's so sad the founders of this project have profited off of immensely all it took was celebrity worship proper funding fueled by a dystopian political agenda to get fascist propaganda on the world stage let me be clear i'm not saying buzzwords just to say them this is what's happening three gordon goner or wiley aarono also a creative writer oh the third founder of board api club goes by gordon seems like a nice the same name ryder used for the website piecing this all together this was done for seo purposes so that when you type in gordon garner on google writer's website pops up first in an interview with wiley from 2014 he stated the only book that i don't like is mein kampf but i haven't read it when asked innocently about books he resorted to making hitler jokes yeah there's probably nothing to see here right this is just more proof that wiley's attempt at edgy humor dates back to 2014. in an interview with rolling stone gordon gunners i don't think that's very suspicious they did he chose but we're not halfway done with the video ramon lead singer of the ramones it should be known that board apiaclups connection to the rolling stone is not random it's through neil strauss author of the game who is apparently writing about the subculture of board api club gordon goner is a full phrase anagram for drango negro drango is australian slang for stupid and negro means black drongo is also tossed around on 4chan and i mean uh well it's like it's an anagram okay that's it it feels like a reach there i think that okay so this is what i like about the video here is that i this is it's so good this is so good i love it credit it's not simply a random word it is also conveniently a species of black bird another example of a hyper-specific double meaning term or phrase in board api club there's not much else known about wiley arenau aka gordon goner besides loose leads that allege he's a crypto fascist and his dad is literally don aarono portrayed by john travolta in speed kills both gargamel and gordon connor are writers and creatives according to the ceo of yugo labs nicole munez can you take me back to the origin story of board 8 yacht club it was almost exactly a year ago why is this video look like it's from 1980. texted gordon um with hey let's make a nft so garda and garga and gordon yes both really into crypto they were really active in the community but they are writers um that's actually their background they are storytellers they're creatives and so like crypto was this thing that like they were fascinated by and they like loved but they were never able to actively participate in right that makes sense barrier to entry exactly exactly because it was technical yeah and they're not technical they're they're writers they're creatives they're storytellers like that's that's what they do what a story so it's entirely uh critical that you understand the context of anything so the issue with board aviat club is that they're not providing any context the context that they've provided is that literally it's meaningless they said that these are just apes in a swamp who like drawing penises on a penis wall that's the official story of boarding yacht club from the mouth of nicole the ceo sounds good to me that's it it's like end done like there's nothing there's nothing else they called me with like hey we're gonna do this thing and like you know we should be good and i kind of giggled and was like oh yeah i mean but people are just going to draw penises yeah of course and that was it like i was just like i didn't think anything of it we hung up the stupid thing that i said that i never would have thought about right transformed into well what if they do drop penises yeah and what is this what is this interview penises and you know it turned into well it's a bad welcome right what the [ __ ] no it's a toilet stall and it's a dive bar uh-huh and but it's not a dive bar it's a yacht club that's a dive bar but it's in a swamp and it's going to be this like future vision of miami okay and you know it's all of these like boards um and they just created this like story and this world let's play a game of i spy the cover of this rolling stone art is a direct reference to hieronymus bosch who painted pictures like these in order to hide things in them my dad has that painting on his wall spot the racist dog whistle the hand apans are a racist dog whistle alluding to the practice of belgian king leopold ii cutting off congolese hands for punishment in not working hard enough to produce rubber the congolese then started cutting off fellow african hands as it became a currency valuable to the belgians in itself never underestimate the ability for border beyond club founders to be this demented let's try this again this is the board ape yacht club video game see anything interesting what's up with these bananas why is the bushel of bananas conveniently shaped like a swastika for sass they sean conveniently shaped uh you know it's it it that's a reach it is it's a reach guys it is a reach like a swastika four sass zaishan ali software engineer the fourth founder of board api club goes by sas and going off the theme of hidden meanings throughout their entire project this is also deliberate essay is the abbreviation for shterma taeblung and ss for the shuchdafel sas or sass is the combination of the two primary nazi military divisions there are two possibilities that explain the behavior of the founders number one is easy they are neo-nazis number two is a bit more complex and writer believes we need new terms to describe what's happening in other words this is an internet trolls wet dream post so this is this is such a massive elaborate troll that we don't even have the vocabulary to truly understand it this is transcended the limits of the english language oh my god ironic racism on the world stage this means that this is a meme but it doesn't look like one because there's nothing to indicate otherwise right this can also be described as poe's law it's impossible to know if someone is joking unless they add an lol at the end of a message to indicate how it's supposed to be perceived in other words bordeaux biaclub founders are layering on the irony of troll behavior to the point where it's just doomed the best way i can describe it is beating a dead horse until the horse comes alive again and then dies again from the irony february 4th 2022 katie natopolis a writer so let's say people trying to bring back harambe buzzfeed wrote an article covering the identities of the founders of bordea biaclub and where exactly do you think she got her information from ryder rips however she stated solano and arno don't appear to have any particular red flags which as we know is a flat out lie pressured by guy oseri kate natopolis ran a softball story in an effort to save face the more degenerative side of 4chan including white nationalists enjoy participating in the cult of keck a metaphorical fictitious religion that worships pepe the frog this happened in about 2000 and like what was it guys like 2015 2016 like i i'd say somewhere around there yeah cult of keck yeah keck w sure shadowlight yeah yeah that was all that all all around at that time think of it as a tribe on 4chan who considers everyone else not in the know as normies they wave the kakistan flag which is an exact rip-off of prussia and nazi germany's warmocked symbol their mission i didn't know that troll the liberals at all costs through meme warfare by having shared symbolism it is a way to communicate or dog whistle to other members that they quote embrace bro he retweeted this do y'all remember this like i thought that [ __ ] was not real like he straight up [ __ ] retweeted this one and i was like there's no way he did this there's no way and i scrolled down donald trump's [ __ ] tweets for like an hour and i found it it was actually there he really did it no way yes he did the principles of chaos and destruction that are central to alt-right thinking the term keck originated from world of warcraft when a horde player types lol to an alliance lol is then translated into gibberish spelling out keck this is because the two opposing factions in the game can't communicate with each other unless they are on the same fast imagine that it just so happens that keck is an egyptian god that looks like a human with a frog head hence pepe and guess what keck is the god of darkness and chaos sound familiar surfing the caliugo was not the only surfer innuendo that the alt-right adopted as lingo in fact they also used the word cowabunga to signify their alt-right beliefs to fellow members of the alt-right it just so i actually didn't know i did not know this the cowabunga is a new one for me i've never heard of this before happens that one of board apes founder's wife had this exact lingo in her bio which has now been deleted and in september 2021 bordeaux biaclub challenged the internet with a series of puzzles okay whoever cracked the secret codes would receive a board ape kennel club nft ape nft a mutant serum nft and 10 ethereum at the time added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars this puzzle will demonstrate just how far the creators of board api club are willing to go in order to play out their racist fantasy this information is taken directly from this user's post on medium this whole puzzle started with a single stealthy tweet sure somebody left a strange note at the bar the image contains a message come find me below with the cipher text of semicolon u8j6 this is a keyboard cipher where if you look at the keys below each letter on a keyboard you see that it spells slash jimmy entering this afterboard apiclub.com will take you to a new page and you are able to load a puzzle game jimmy the monkey is back on his [ __ ] again in the clubhouse the game is a 2d screen where you can click on rooms and interact with various objects most of the rooms contained a puzzle the boat room contains a single interactable object in the room which is a wall of dancing if you know a bit about ciphers it's fairly quick to recognize that this is a dancing man cipher the dancing man cipher is from sherlock holmes decoding the cipher reveals the following message yeah this isn't a puzzle clue sucking a banana bozo love jimmy this seemed to be a troll as it was not used in the final solution sure the party room has two interactable objects in it the first object is a dog collar with the numbers zero zero one zero on it this is just the id number for the exact nft that you would win if you were to crack the puzzle okay the second object is a party poster containing song lyrics the puzzle gives a selection of song lyrics sorted in alphabetical order by word with one of the words being replaced by the word monkey solving this puzzle involves taking each lyric word bank identifying the song and figuring out which part of the song the lyrics are referencing you sort each word in that set of the lyrics in abc order and figure out what word has been replaced with monkey this results in the following troll message wasted your time on this one's stupid apes entering the pool area presents okay one located on that oh my [ __ ] god they got him just a minute i got i gotta use the bathroom this is uh uh on this is unbelievable man like i love this this is one of my favorite videos i've seen inflatable duck in the pool and the other on a drink menu located next to the bar this puzzle presents a list of duck themed clues and their answer length going through and solving all the clues results in the list below with this answer set reading the first letter of each answer gives the phrase cocktails are shaken which is a clue for the puzzle located next to the bar using the hint from the previous puzzle we now know that this menu list is an anagram of cocktails in addition the text at the bottom of the menu indicates something extra was added to the drinks hinting to there likely being an extra letter not used in the cocktail anagram with there being 26 menu items it seemed highly likely the extra letters or the cocktails used every letter a to z for ordering when done it is quickly realized all the cocktails start with a unique letter a to z that when put in order and reading the extra letters gives orange liqueur used in spritz final answer aperol upon entering the kitchen a sheet can be found lying next to the sink this puzzle provides instructions oh like how what the [ __ ] bro what the [ __ ] is this this is nuts oh my god it's amazing what the [ __ ] is this on what to do begin by identifying the dishes that are clued on the left and filling out the blanks on the right the extracted letters highlighted yellow on the sheet spell the phrase gibraltar's barbary which is referencing a specific monkey that lives on gibraltar the barbary macaque final answer makake in the library you can start by clicking on the bust on the top of the shelf which contains a puzzle scroll this puzzle is a mad gap style puzzle as hinted by the title bus don dash elf which when read aloud sounds like bust on a shelf you can make four mad gap style phrases using one word from each column on the scroll the output of each mad gab is its own clue to a word this final output is yet again a mad gab where ooze six psy firs can be read as use six ciphers a hint for the bookshelf puzzle when you click on the bookshelf next to the fireplace it shows you an enlarged version of the bookshelf this bookshelf contains many different patterns throughout as you start to group the patterns together you will discover there are six separate puzzles using six different ciphers as hinted in the previous puzzle contained in the shelf items the monkey hands there are six hands directly oh my god using american sign language to spell weapon naval flags there are six international maritime signal flags throughout the shelves that spell nassau five-bit binary there are six groups of books colored orange and green these books are five-bit binary which provides one zero zero one zero zero zero one zero one zero zero zero zero one one zero zero one one zero one one one one zero one one one what is that these can be converted to their decimal equivalent of 18 5 1 19 15 14 which can then be further converted to letters to read reason clocks there are six clocks through the shelves each clock face has a different timeline holy [ __ ] it's clearly visible using the clock hands as a flag semaphore you might obtain the letters to spell salute book titles there are some books facing forward with the titles clearly visible and after reading through the titles you will notice some of the words are from the nato alphabet echo mike bravo romeo yankee oscar and when you extract the first letter of each nato word it will spell embryo morse code between each of the bookshelves is a repeating pattern of a lighter color each shelf is a separate letter spelled using morse code if you decode the morse for each shelf it will spell analog now that we have all the words extracted we need to extract the final answer looking at the words for a moment it can be seen that the first letter of each word can spell answer when ordered correctly i got this the first letter spelled answer we extracted the last letters to see if it provides an answer to the puzzle the extract is guanan which is a breed of old world monkey and it's the name of renee guanon the game room contained two objects you can interact with the first one is a game called jimmy the [ __ ] which after some playing didn't appear to contain a puzzle the second one is no [ __ ] shot flavor text for the puzzle is no shot games to play here if you can figure out the rules it also has some pictures of hangman and tic-tac-toe these are big hints for what you are looking for and what the solution is going to be the solution for this puzzle involved taking each puzzle string and figuring out the puzzle rules that encoded the text here is one example there are a lot of p's so we want to analyze that first you start by separating each line by p we are looking for game related words so we can guess the two words here are card and canasta with these two we can deduce that the rule for this puzzle is to replace the first letter with p which can then be reversed from the cipher which gives the following clue card worth 50 in canasta the answer to this is joker however we aren't done here just yet now we need to apply the same rule we discovered replace first letter with p to this answer to get a new answer out related to games applying the rule to joker results in poker the actual solution to this puzzle line here is the rest taking the first letter from each solution you get the following phrase drooper's apartment pal drooper is a character from the banana splits what's wrong with pal is bingo bingo is an ape so we can confidently determine the answer is bingo the attic is one of the more difficult puzzles and before we dive into it we first have to talk about this wait one of the more difficult puzzles wait what the hell are you talking about more difficult what skeleton in the crawl space the skeleton in the crawl space has a bunch of three-letter phrases and some numbers with the flavor text of nth plus e-a-t we know that we're trying to combine the phrases to spell words with the numbers most likely being the length of each word there's really no approach other than maybe looking up words that start with or words that end with but the best place to start was realizing that n-t-h and e-a-t were clued as being connected and could spell n the at after that it is mixing and matching until you get something good out the output you get is anastasia steel really loves the hexes used in the attic this is a reference to anastasia steel from 50 shades of grey which is referencing that the hex color codes in the attic are gray codes this is basically a second hint for bought it which you can see in the attic section below the attic starts with an image with some pixels and flavor text about having to feel your way around in the dark this is a reference for being blind and holding 14 pencils the phrase you get out of using colored pixels as braille dots beginners always unlock dim old tones if you take the first letter of each word as hinted at beginners you get bought it which is a type of cipher this is the one puzzle you can right click and export the image and it just so happens to be svg so we can extract the hex color codes accurately for the next step as hinted by the skeleton puzzle extracting all of the binary codes out and removing the lead zero you get the following using bought it encoding on the binary you get the following the only interesting thing we get is columnar which is another type of cipher this suggests that our extract is valid but the rest of it is cipher text we can then use the string with a columnar transposition solver yeah but without a key it was just a bunch of guessing words as a key solvers of this puzzle got stuck here for a while until it was noticed that attempting some auto solves on the grid assuming six columns instead of eight resulted in the final eight letters looking like a scrambled version of vigenere given the first set of data gave us column r and having it almost end with vigenere now another type of cipher was too likely to be a coincidence putting some effort in manually with a six column assumption you're able to get the following using columnar key of four one two five six three or two one four five six three gives an output that spells vigenere at the end giving us the following possible strings cutting vigenere off the end and taking the remaining letters we try to decrypt the cipher using vigenere and testing keywords relating to bored apes and the puzzle eventually they landed on the following australopithecus at this point it's time to solve the final solution taking the answer from each puzzles and sorting them in abc we get the following words aperol australopithecus bingo guanon makake if we examine the answers we can extract even more information about what they mean aperol is an orange liqueur that only got popular after world war ii this answer is different than all the others considering it is a drink that is meant to be ingested going off of that theme perhaps this is a metaphor for taking the red pill as it sometimes appears red in color aperol also just has the word ape in it australopithecus of all the different possible answers they could have chosen they landed on australopithecus here's a little anthropology for you in 1931 ludwig cole larson joined the nazi party and later undertook expedition to germany in search for a primitive man in 1948 to 1939 he discovered australopithecus afarensis okay here we go ludwig attempted to prove that all people have a common origin but that african people remained in the state of primitive men while the aryan race had developed such scholarship was at odds with most anthropological concerns of the day in africa he then later lost his position as professor in the course of the denotification after the war cole larson is not highly regarded amongst contemporary east africanists bingo bingo the gorilla is a major yet final antagonist in the 2019 direct-to-video horror comedy film the banana splits movie bingo and his friends are animatronics created by carl to entertain children as the banana splits however after the show is cancelled bingo and his friends start a killing spree you want to know something even creepier bingo only has three lines in the movie i bingo's last and most famous words the only words bingo ever says sounds just like accelerationism that's a bingo i don't know about that one i don't the way you say that's a bingo i don't know about that one bingo how fun that's a reach i think that's a reach guanon has double entendre he's the father of traditionalism bringing the kali yuga to the west and guanon is also a species of monkey makake also has double entendre makake is a racial slur and a type of monkey by definition there is a clear distinction of what type of monkey both guanan and makakes are they are part of the old world classification of monkeys in 2006 a virginia senator was called out for using this slur with close ties to virginia the founders of board ape yacht club would definitely be aware of this political disaster you two have gotten in trouble with words that you've uttered let me bring you back to august 11th you were at a campaign stop and a young man who was videotaping it for the web campaign was there also let's watch this villa here over here with the yellow shirt makaka or whatever his name is he's with my opponent let's give a welcome to lakaka here welcome to america and the real world of virginia and here's the young man s.r siddarth he's a resident of virginia an american citizen straight a student at fairfax high school now goes to the university of virginia critics say that macaque is a racist slur and that you used it because he was dark-skinned what did you specifically mean when you said welcome to america and the real virginia why did you use those words the real virgin tim i made a mistake i said things thoughtlessly i've apologized for it as well i should but there was no racial or ethnic intent to slur anyone if i had any idea that that that word and to some people in some parts of the world world was an insult i would never do it because it's contrary to what i believe well where do i come from it must have been an issue made up made up for it my theory is that the pi it's just bro it just came out of nowhere guys like i don't know like i mean you know we gotta have a go somewhere all right it's like maybe i mean you just had no idea how many things come together answers of this puzzle are a direct reference to the founders of the project and april could be seen as the red pill the boogaloo boys were born on the weapon board of 4chan known as k think of them as paramilitary incels or chan larpers they can be classified by their hawaiian shirts and absurdist meme styles to make anyone who calls them out look insane it can be a very effective tactic when trolling this board yacht club shirt is an exact boogaloo boy hawaiian shirt used to larp by 4chan you oh man it's like i mean the thing is man i that's a that's interesting i'll say that it certainly is interesting that wood could possibly if it maybe was be true this is ape 1488. the number 14 is a neo-nazi dog whistle it is a direct reference to the white supremacist slogan known as the 14 words we must secure the existence of our people and future for white children the slogan was coined by david lane a member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as the order the number 88 is white supremacist alpha numerical code for h which stands for hail hitler 1488 which is also included in the adl database or the anti-defamation league is a combination of these two hate symbols but uh the fact is guys i've been on the internet 20 years i know pretty much about every single different language and a few in other languages as well so not only do i understand all the slurs i also understand the euphemisms like 1488. here is where it goes that that there it is oh my god no way yeah i got it it's exposed holy [ __ ] expert witness yes i'm an expert witness in [ __ ] internet racism what what a proud title to have really dark what do you see on this i really made it no not the bloodshot eyes this ape is wearing a prison outfit with the numbers zero one nine eight zero seven if we take out the zeros a practice in cryptography called null padding we are left with 1987 which we can deduce is a year you see 1987 is a reference to the year that rudolph hess a nazi hero died in the spandau prison in west berlin as a result of its conviction during the nuremberg trials it was destroyed the same year to prevent it from becoming a neo-nazi shrine not everyone who has a board ape is aware of the inherent racism let me point your attention to the sales activity tab if someone is selling an ape they set the price interestingly enough there is a pattern of selling apes for variations of 88 ethereum ending prices in 0.88 or 0.14 this is a cut and dry example of esoteric racism ape-6969 features the same prison jumpsuit and a prussian helmet with a shit-eating grin this is a troll hidden in plain sight designed to mock everyone who looks at it the odds of ape-6969 which is a troll in itself having both the prison jumpsuit and a prussian helmet is statistically near impossible apes in the board apiaclup project are adorned with various characteristics this can include clothing accessories eyes faces anything you see on these apes can be randomly generated to produce the final product that we see as an ape by design some of these characteristics are more rare than others which means more desirable which results in a higher price some of these characteristics are harmless but there is a definite through line with one characteristic in particular headwear the prussian helmet is known as a piccolo which is a reference to the german empire from 1871 to 1919. the vietnam era helmet features an ace of spades card attached to the helmet which was a custom american soldier started during world war ii but continued in vietnam yeah i've seen it in vietnam however american soldiers would leave an ace of spades on dead vietnamese soldiers the card in the board ape helmet has a letter j on it which would indicate a jack of spades not an ace the founders of this project are not sloppy writers and wouldn't get history wrong if it meant they could include yet another racist reference maybe this explains it based on a 1938 decree in nazi germany every jew in germany had to carry an identification card marked with j for jewish at all times the sushi chef headband is a japanese headband known as a hacha oh man oh my god bro like this is this is insane man it's just it's one hell of a reach there's a lot of reaches though and they all seem to be reaching in the same direction i don't know i don't know but it certainly is odd that every single reach leads to the same conclusion maki hachimaki can have different japanese characters on them to mean different things there are six variations that are the most popular and commonly used board ape yacht club went with kamikaze to indicate imperial japan suicide pilots sushi chef would never wear this headband the safari helmet is a british or european pith hat used by the british empire in colonizing africa and belgium in the congo led by king leopold ii who as you know cut off congolese hands the kami hat is known as a ushanka and with the sickle and hammer it represents wait bro bro that's the one they sent me oh my god that's so oh my god that's the one they sent me bro look at it oh my god you're part of it now i'm part of it now holy [ __ ] i'm implicated i'm a cog in the system it's the soviet union or the ussr worn during world war ii while russians were commanded by tyrannical leader joseph stalin the fez is a potential reference to the ottoman empire but there's also such thing as a nazi fez with all of these helmets and headwear one can see i never have heard of that before yeah i just it's the the monkey with the fez hat on that's all there was like that's the only thing i thought of a nazi fez with all of these helmets and headwear one can see a clear picture of chan culture's fetishization of power and dominion of those that deem weaker october 2021 let me see these again i don't know i've seen this one i haven't seen any of the other ones though to be fair i have not seen any of these other ones besides the bottom one here i have have you guys seen it have you guys seen these i have okay all right power and dominion of those they deem weaker october 2021 music manager guy oseri founder of management firm maverick who represents madonna and u2 acquired representation of board api club this would include securing book deals music television video games and even movie integrations this was a power play for board ape yacht club because it legitimized funding and star power behind the project with the connections of guy oseri board api club now had a way to control the media messaging around their project the project obviously has so much hype and so much support there's also been criticism some people connected some of the images to racist tropes i'd love to give you the opportunity to respond to that criticism it's apes because aping in is very much a nod to this community to crypto enthusiasts to people who aped in early so the the story is bro like she should have a better answer than that it's like you knew they were gonna ask you about this [ __ ] that's the best that you could come up with like you knew that they was gonna ask you this about them one of the founders is jewish one is turkish one is pakistani one is cuban uh-huh guyoseri who's one of the partners that came in later last year is israeli i myself am cuban and i'm actually first generation american cool the idea that we're neo-nazis or nobody said that nobody said that that's a i don't know bro like that nobody yeah nobody said that [ __ ] give me a sec my dad's calling me go ahead okay that little set that box you showed with all the helmet yeah yeah what about before her yeah i i know that yeah yeah there you go you're in there there it is now maybe that's it what's the point what are you trying to say well you you said you only recognize the one from nam you know no no no no no no that's not what i said i i meant that i only recognized the that specific picture not the helmet of course i knew what the helmets were oh okay have you have you been watching this bob i just got back from shopping and oh god i'm tuned in okay all right i was gonna ask you whether you you thought that it was a real thing or not what was the real thing so basically remember like how i told you about like those nfts and everything yeah yeah yeah and so anyway basically this guy made an hour-long documentary explaining how all of these people that were making this nft project were actually uh crypto uh like racists and nazis they're using hidden subliminal messaging in order to uh perpetrate their ideals in plain sight right by the same old [ __ ] like trying to slip through the race and stuff it's the same [ __ ] yeah that's exact that's exactly what it is and it's a whole video of that i was going to ask you if you if you if you believed it or not but if you hadn't seen the whole thing like is is this is crazy to we'll have to check out the video okay all right i'll show you all right well anyway i'll talk to you later right now no not right now yeah yeah i know that i'm in the middle of it yeah i mean you wait you already showed it right yeah yeah we'll watch it yeah we're watching her right now oh well i didn't see the beginning part though oh no no yeah we're we're 40 minutes into this [ __ ] yeah i mean this scale's a jew but i mean so yeah uh you know uh she says she is i mean you know i don't know she said she's cuban it was the other guy that was a jew oh yeah no she said she's cuban okay all right um well listen i'll give you a call in a little bit right whenever i'm done yeah i'll talk to you after all sounds good all right yo i just wanted to say i had that first helmet you had to recognize that remember that uh yeah i do i remember it yeah it is i do i love that yeah my dad got me a helmet just like that when i was younger okay all right i'll talk to your paw all right yo bye bye bye okay all right so dazzana yeah yeah he's been in on it the whole time man implicated yeah yeah my dad got me a helmet like that had like a spike on for like a bicycle helmet that's what it was and that's it and uh you know that helmet yeah i put nails on the top of it and then i realized like man maybe i shouldn't use this and ride around with a helmet on uh exactly and so yeah let's get back to it and uh oh my god it's just oh my [ __ ] god this is a video this is a real video makes you bald it doesn't offensive it's hurtful it's totally untrue that's really personal to you that criticism the idea that i just i find it to be interesting that like she said that it's like oh it's you know we're not neo-nazis like nobody said that they just said it was some racist imagery like nobody ever that's a that what who is saying that man ain't nobody's saying that be racist or even ironically racist because you're ethnic is the saddest excuse i've ever heard and this interview is bought by guy oseri here he is pictured with the founder of d3 and this woman looks oddly familiar guy oseri is even referred to as the fifth ape a reference to the fifth beatle when ryder launched gordongonner.com guyoseri went off the deep end ryder rips wait what describe to me a two-hour phone call consisting of guy oseri screaming at him to stop digging into the project after writer explained the symbolism to oseri he replied with who am i to judge what art is and remember that rolling stone interview i mentioned gordon goner stated are we the beastie boys of nfts because right after our initial success it felt like the beastie boy's going on tour with madonna everyone was like who the [ __ ] are these kids the rolling stone article then states funnily enough madonna's longtime manager guy oseri signed on to rep the foursome about a month after goner made this comment to rolling stone it's just so ironic that board api club would go on to partner with madonna's manager guy oseri here is the family tree of board apr club greg solano and wiley arena are from miami they met later in life at a bar arguing about literature karem adelaide and sean ali went to university of maryland together greg solano also attended university of maryland but would go on to get his mfa at university of virginia oh the po box of yuga labs is in alexandria virginia the ceo of yugo labs nicole munez went to high school with wiley mark andreessen is the funding guy oseri is the management and pr and it's not a far stretch to say that neil strauss is their rolling stone media connection he is also writing a book based on board a bia club guy oseri and neil strauss go back to 1998 when guy oseri was featured in the credits of neil strauss's biography on marilyn manson one of the most mind-boggling parts to this ongoing story is celebrity endorsement everywhere you look a new celebrity flaunts their hideous nazi propaganda it's dude i'm so sick of this [ __ ] and if it's not just the board apes okay if i've gotta [ __ ] see one more celebrity especially the celebrities that aren't popular anymore especially that and [ __ ] promote an nft i'm gonna lose my [ __ ] mind didn't expect them to know any better but there's something going on underneath the surface yeah i know most celebrities are denser than a cement block but you can't convince me they would all spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on these jpegs just because of hype culture so what's actually going on in a twitter spaces video ben baller a celebrity jeweler describes the process of receiving a bored ape we'll talk not once not twice three times i've been aborted through a little bit i but the fact that some of these super top-tier all-star nba players have them and i was like yo this is all cap i mean true nba they kind of send my agent you know there's definitely nbas and everything there but i'm i'm you know positive there's you know well this is some back of the dollar illuminati pyramid with an eye on it [ __ ] like oh my god oh bro for real like this is nuts oh my gosh conspiracy yeah [Music] oh so they wanted to give it to him to create the illusion of celebrities buying into it but it was actually given to them for free to make it seem like people are buying them that's cute i like that that's smart yeah it's a good idea a lot of celebrities who are going into this they're probably just stoked to get the eight and they don't even realize a lot of them probably don't consult their legal and [ __ ] like but they're actually asking you to commit fraud on their behalf oops that's right moonpay has celebrities sign ndas or non-disclosure agreement contracts revealing how they receive the ape i just got my first nft you did what was it i threw moon pay moon okay which is i'm i'm figuring i did my homework okay moon pay was like paypal but for crypto in fact how the [ __ ] can so many celebrities get hoodwinked by this [ __ ] how is it possible how are all they even got dj is that cow no they didn't get him too oh my god aren't even buying them and they're lying through their teeth about why they bought them all while committing fraud on moonpay's behalf receiving a board ape as an endorsement and not explicitly stating that you were compensated violates the federal trade commission's laws so next time you see a celebrity show off their board ape you can see who's a puppet taking advantage of their audience oh what that is insane oh my god oh my [ __ ] god why i don't like trusting these people is a mistake i mean the thing is like a future snoop dogg serena williams what the [ __ ] do they know about about nfts or crypto probably [ __ ] nothing so it's like they never thought probably never thought anything of this and this is what happens right is you don't get people that understand this stuff you get people that don't [ __ ] understand that future doesn't [ __ ] know what probably the ftc guidelines are like what the [ __ ] why the [ __ ] would he know that it's like so he just gets this picture they're like oh cool they sent me this thing that's cool i guess now i got it they never think about it again for real like that it makes sense mark cuban though that's a [ __ ] you got no excuse there while unknowingly contributing to an apocalyptic political ideology backed by the technocratic elite you may be asking yourself who designed these apes in the first place surely they would be the ones responsible for drawing the racist imagery right currently it is believed that there are six artists on the yuca labs team however there was an artist in particular that provided the base layers for the apes her name was seneca when confronted and shown the finished designs she claimed she did not even recognize the final product and was shocked at the characteristics she saw seneca described payment from yugo labs as not ideal after all they were rolling in millions of dollars and she wasn't even getting a slice of the pie however it is speculated that seneca received a one million dollar bonus from the company after media outlets front ran her story at the end of the day seneca a very talented artist was not responsible for this imagery the bordeaux yacht club project represents a sinister commentary on people's eagerness to hop on trends and projects just because it's in the spotlight dude i will be so happy if it act if all this actually turns out to be true and it's literally just a bunch of [ __ ] bunch of [ __ ] guys that are trying to just make fun of people for hopping on to [ __ ] like this i this is incredible if this is actually true making fun of people also while making bank this is unreal say this is an ongoing story because on april 30th 2022 one year after launching board api club yuga labs launched a metaverse called other side if the date sounds familiar it's because it's also hitler's death day the sprites available video game that sounds familiar it's because it's also hitler's death day the sprites available in the video game that doesn't exist yet are called codas spelled with a k in music coda with a c means the end and obviously the theme of transitioning from life to death or crossing to the other side their new metaverse also features stonehold jackson a reference to the confederate leader stonewall jackson and plot one is owned by emperor tomato ketchup along the way ryder rips was able to open the eyes of thousands of people by organizing the information and explaining the full context to the best of his ability knowing all too well that the barrier to entry of this information is diving down the deep rabbit holes of white supremacy the alt-right and 4chan but now see that's the thing is like there's a lot of people that they don't even know any of this stuff like they've got no [ __ ] idea this is amazing one thing's for certain he was correct in telling me that board ape yacht club is the biggest troll in internet history now that you know everything there is to know about board api club's cute little social experiment what can we do if this is actually all an elaborate troll i feel like this will never be beaten if if this is actually all an elaborate troll and it started from the beginning this will never be beaten like this is like uh it's like the lord of the rings of trolling there's never been anything that even comes close coney 2012 that guy believed it though of this well as it stands right now the founders of board api club operate relatively unchecked that's because there's no real pressure their tactic of using plausible deniability and dumb excuses to deflect from the truth is about to change nicole munez i really hope you had no idea this was going on and if you didn't that means your business partners strung you along because they think of you as a normie it's unfortunate if you got roped into this that's the thing is it also not only will people pretend like they didn't know but even whenever they see the connections come together they'll pretend like they don't see them because they don't want to look stupid i mean that's what i would do i owe siri we will not be silenced that's all i'm gonna say gordon garga tomato and sass i also think these guys are [ __ ] like i think they're feckless for doing this it's like they are bro it's like go [ __ ] like why are you making this girl you went to high school where to speak for you on tape i want every celebrity actor athlete and influencer to burn their [ __ ] ape i want to make such a [ __ ] [ __ ] storm that everyone from steph curry to post malone to jimmy fallon is forced to act you see this little price tag is contingent on you the market the people but in their minds it's the normies the sheep that made them rich so i ask you are you a [ __ ] sheep i want each i will be honest racism [ __ ] out of pocket not a fan of that however if they actually pulled this off and they tricked everybody into this and it was all a meme from the beginning i do think this will never be beaten ever as a troll it will never be beaten like this is the and it's not even that it will never this is like the elden ring the lord of the rings there's no shot can every one of you to tweet burn b-a-y-c on twitter let's play their game burn means to destroy but it's also something you can do with your nft if you hold one not only will we sink board api club because of their disgusting scheme we will send a message this message will be loud and clear we will not be manipulated to piss off eight profile pictures and amplify his own research ryder created ryder rips board ape yacht club rider won a dmca takedown request against yugo labs solidifying the point that you can't copy an nft ryder also set his royalties to zero percent in this case it's truly not about the money he is also creating a marketplace saving people billions of dollars a year in gas fees oh and if you see my profile picture don't be fooled it doesn't contain any racist imagery it's also from the rider rips board api club collection silly goose you can't copy an nft and i think i'll call him caesar you can even use him as her profile picture because we're about to take over what the [ __ ] what the [ __ ] holy [ __ ] oh my god they're going they're going ain't [ __ ] why don't they just shoot him [Music] holy [ __ ] man never stop i never saw the movie either [Music] i never believed in this king of planet of the ape [ __ ] [Music] it always sounded really dumb to me aim strong together you guys ready to do the poll that's it like you guys ready to do the poll how many of you guys uh like do you believe it more or not yep let's do the poll i want to see the poll i want to get uh what people think about this i want to know exactly what this is beware a guy made the video his interest in burning uh born apes he's backed by rival nft collection asthma guys i don't care about jpeg wars i don't give a [ __ ] about it like it's stupid i don't care people buy this [ __ ] listen if people want to buy this [ __ ] then who cares let them do it yes holy [ __ ] 78 percent so it literally more than flipped this video did i'm gonna be honest this video went deeper than i thought it would it went way way [ __ ] deeper than i thought it was going to go 22 percent there so the thing is every single one of these coincidences i think is just simply a coincidence right if you look at like one thing it's like ah yeah the the monkeys kind of look like a racist stereotype like yeah whatever right like that's a long time ago who knows the people even knew that it it's hard to say you know what i mean but it's like and then it's like another one and then it's another one and then it's one get this one after that it's like man i feel like we're starting to make what i like to call a pattern it's like this just a little bit of pattern man you go abs responded on twitter did they really i mean i don't know i'm curious to see what they're gonna [ __ ] say did they actually respond to this video i think i can go ahead and pull this [ __ ] up if you guys want uh why uga labs let's see if i can pick this up and you go labs what do they say about this let's go ahead and double check here uh so they made a response to this whole video i'm assuming on twitter and this is what they said uh the outpouring of support from our community has been overwhelming we will continue to be transparent with our community as we fight these slanderous claims in order to stop the continuous infringement and other legal attempts to bring harm to us and the board ape yacht community we have filed a lawsuit against the responsible parties we will continue exploring and pursuing all legal options at our disposal and then there's this guy as you may have heard we've become the target of a crazy disinformation campaign accusing us a group of jewish turkish pakistani and cuban friends of being super secret neo-nazis so even though the adl which exists to protect jewish people around the world hasn't confirmed this to be true trolls are still spreading ridiculous conspiracy theories online and using them to sell knock-off nfts holy [ __ ] so this is like this is a whole this is a whole situation yeah this is a new trial for me to watch i'm excited uh you can be racist regardless of your race yes but you have to admit that it's less likely for people to be racist if they're jews right if racist like nazi people it's it's less likely for people to be jews and also nazis than just to be a person and a nazi i i i would probably assume this to be the case does that make sense yeah not palestinian definitely not what are you saying i'm saying that i i it wouldn't make sense are people saying it's not true there are racists and aren't nazis well we're talking about nazis we're not talking about races you know what if a question was it's [ __ ] common sense it yeah it's common [ __ ] sense man uh well let's see here morrow's likely to uh what's this here a lot of people hate themselves of course there are some people like that but i think it's not as as common as people that hate other people let's read some of the comments here and see what people have to say and this is the burn board ape yacht club there's a lot of people getting into this apparently now the problem with these celebrities turn a blind eye because they're told they'll make bank dropping the nft with board ape yeah or they just there are also a lot of celebrities that are just doing it because they feel like oh this is the hip cool new thing to do that all the kids are getting into so i'm just going to get involved with it they're not sitting around reading 4chan all day they haven't been on the internet message boards for the past 20 years they've got no [ __ ] idea about this they just see a monkey and it's like that looks cool and that's it they never think about it because the best thing that you always want to do this is the most clever thing is to have it where you get somebody to do something that they don't know that they're doing that is like the that is the pinnacle of of trolling is to make somebody do something that makes them look stupid without them do knowing that they're being stupid you know that's what it really is doesn't look cool at all well yeah but like i don't think some look okay i guess i don't know uh let's see if you have no idea what 4chan is they fall for their schemes all the time or what if they're using the guy to cover i don't know only the creators truly know or if it defeats their theory a lot of people are in on it all i'm saying is that there is a lot of i'm gonna link the video again there is a lot of information about this and it is odd that everybody all of the information points in one direction that is different i think it's so coincidence he started off with a weird log i think that's his most convincing piece of evidence so if you want to talk about like what is the evidence that i that i consider to be like more authentic i think that let's see here if you want to look at the biggest evidence here um this is kind of like i i find this one to be like this board ape like this is kind of convincing to me i would say uh let's say besides that uh adl the oh yeah this is just all this other stuff nft monkey again it's like a matter of like oh yeah this picture here i mean this is this is a bit odd right i mean it's it's a bit of a coincidence i would say it's a coincidence the price is yeah like the logo the logo is certainly having the edges roughed yeah the roughed edges are certainly uh certainly interesting and so let's see what the rest of this is uh that i didn't really think about that as much i don't care that much about this uh this guy um a lot of this other stuff i'm surprised that they didn't use the um just like the picture of the skull itself because people often use this uh like a skull that's similar to this to like draw a distinction between like white people and like black people's skeletons i've seen this very regularly with like other racist memes and [ __ ] so i'm actually surprised he didn't add that in but i feel like that's just kind of base stuff yeah true with the 18 teeth yeah i think that's interesting as well there's way too many coincidences and that's one thing that i would really say at no point in any of this is anything certain i think that you can only approach this and gain this opinion on it if you look at everything together you have to look at all of the information and all of the evidence together collectively because each individual thing itself is not very uh very convincing symbols are meant to be found do you think these people made these and didn't think anybody would catch on i think that so this is something that i used to do with uh ninja looting is i would tell people as a joke that i was gonna ninjalude all the gear and then there were some people who were like actually trying to take it serious and one of my favorite things to do was to turn the people who knew that i was lying into the enemy for the rest of the raid because you [ __ ] with people's head that way right and so you get somebody into into thinking that like oh yeah this guy's just being annoying and obnoxious to [ __ ] with them and then at the same time actually those people are helping you lie to themselves right like it's that's it's like the fun little game to play because it's like i mean rating was boring right he did the red hundred times like you got to make it more interesting and so this is the kind of stuff i would do and so i i think that they put it out there knowing that it was so abstract knowing that it was so esoteric knowing that it was so hard to uh hard to understand that even if people saw it right in front of them they wouldn't believe that it was real i think that's what they did no i don't know about this but like if i was them that's what i would have done is that you want to make it to where people can see it it's in plain sight but nobody can say it's there that's the goal right that's covered that's what you always do they know about all the puzzles they literally made all the puzzles yeah why are you entertaining this [ __ ] uh it's slander the guy who made the video is getting sued to help the same guy made the copy is trying to shield out the likeness of border biako gear factor and source bro not stupid video that rambles on for one hour well i don't i mean these are all none of these are are really facts you have to keep this in mind like this is i mean again actually there are some facts this is literally their logo right i mean like this is their logo like we see it it's right there there's the logo so it's either that's the logo or that's not the logo and this logo is over here it's either this is the logo or it's not the logo i'm not i don't necessarily agree with every single conclusion that he draws but i do find that these coincidences lining up this often i feel like this is substantial i do i feel like this is genuinely substantial if we believe this is racist what should we do about it there's nothing to do about it you're not going to put him in jail right like not going to put him in jail for making a racist an ft uh it's just it's a con it's awareness i think people are just looking for awareness with this kind of stuff uh more than anything uh let's see here see then ft holders or uh [ __ ] say it's racist [ __ ] maybe i don't know the puzzle part was the most convincing to me did you see eminem's board ape music video no i did not see that and also i i think that in my opinion i actually don't think this is ideological now i could be wrong about this but i don't think that it's ideological i actually think that this was done purely as a joke it is purely a [ __ ] tyler durden fight club level joke just to make everybody look [ __ ] stupid like i don't i don't think that there is sufficient evidence in order to conclude that these people are genuine racists right because like there's plenty of people that post weird [ __ ] and do stuff like this just simply to get a reaction now i don't know i think that's the most likely thing no i'm not sure obviously i'm not sure but that would be what if i had to bet on one thing or another that's what i would bet on hugo labs uh released a full letter response well i bet they did absolutely when you say the guy made the video lost loads of money on nfts and he's making a revenge there is always the case that this person is actually compromised and all they want to do is they want to burn board ape yacht club because they have a financial incentive to do so it is always important to question your source even more so whenever you agree with it then whenever you disagree i i think that you're very much right yeah a guy that made the videos and chat well great [ __ ] video man i i [ __ ] love it man fillian's in chat i'm not getting sued i made zero dollars i hate nfts so yeah there you go so he's not making any money off of this or at least he says he's not making any money off of this do an interview all right we're going to call uh phillian and uh we're going to uh have a little bit of a conversation about this uh situation here we go hey what's going on man yo can you hear me yep i sure can uh guys i'm doing great man i just got done watching your one hour video how long did it take you to put all this together oh god so i was first made aware of like the research in january when it when it launched yeah i just saw it like circulating on twitter um i started to dig more into it like end of march and it took me about two and a half three months to finally finish it holy [ __ ] [ __ ] that is incredible were there parts of it that you didn't add into the video oh yeah [Laughter] i mean there's always going to be like the decision to keep things in or take them out because um some points can be perceived as a reach more than others others are just redundant so it was really kind of a struggle towards the end to decide what the final draft is going to look like but right yeah what's been the response ever since you released the video how do you feel about how the community has responded to it to be honest i know this may sound like a little weird but i know i'm a youtuber but i've never really had like this level of exposure just off the bat of a video so i was a little anxious at first but the overwhelming majority of people are really one supportive of just the sheer work that like went into that video because it's not an easy feat to make something like that um then obviously whenever whenever you go against the grain or in any way you're gonna ruffle some feathers so there's people in the crypto and nft community that come up with a bunch of uh reasons as to why i would make a video like this uh that like i have an uh economic incentive for this meanwhile like i have proof that the video is demonetized uh there's a copyright claim on the video because of the hitler meme at the end i'm not connected to like ryder rips's project in any way shape or form other than the fact that like i have one but um that's really it are you connected to any other nft projects no shot okay so yeah no what do you how do you feel about nfts in general uh i kind of hate them why uh just the culture i mean i've made videos on gary vee uh logan paul oh like i'm not sure if you if you're familiar with like my other work but um i will be after this yeah i kind of like doing deep dives and exposing um just celebrity culture and what they're doing and you know pulling the strings behind the scenes and the crypto space in nft it's just there's way too much like negatives uh there's too much negativity and downside like i don't really see the utility in any of this i know that utility is something that people in the crypto space like cling on to and they always go to like oh but you know you can have a concert ticket but like we already have never been able to figure out like i mean we've had this huge problem it's been a national problem we can't figure out concert tickets right yeah yeah um i will say though doing a lot of the research in this i kind of have a more open mind with nfts but i don't plan on ever having like my own project or investing heavily at all into anything and uh speaking of investing heavily into other things is like you saw some of these people these celebrities we're talking about snoop dogg we're talking about some serious popular people that are getting these nfts and your assertion is that they receive these probably for free based off of the uh the call that you had showed on the on the video with the guy and they were almost trying to push the nft on him is that right right so how many of these other celebrities do you have any information do you feel like they probably also received them for free i can't say definitively like who got them for free or you know how much they paid for them or what was done for them to get them but i just thought it was interesting that that video surfaced and it pointed to the fact that ndas could be involved which is really sketchy because ndas are used oftentimes as like a cop-out to protect a lot of celebrities and influencers where they think that like you know if you make somebody sign an nda then they're not responsible for anything that goes on well ndas are void if the illegal activity is going on so it's just like there's it's a whole veil of smoke and mirrors that kind of get it's almost like why are you even talking about this if this is something that you're trying to do above the table okay yeah i think that makes sense yeah i mean i've seen this pop off i've been seeing big celebrities getting involved in this and the next thing is like i think we can pretty much assume that people like post malone and stupnog they're not in on all of this symbolism and ideology where do you think the line is drawn between people who are in on it and effectively uh useful idiots i feel like a lot of celebrities are just useful idiots you know they're probably in circles insulated circles around each other telling each other about um how much money they're making with nfts or how much exposure they're getting but i think the real like in the know people of the esoteric racism would be people on 4chan and deep in the crypto space like you saw in the sales activity tab of openc like with the 88s and the 14 yes yeah like you can't make that up you can go and check right now yeah have you uh have you had any contact at all with any of the people from the bordeap yacht club community that have maybe like talked about their experience in it or anything similar to that there's just like a war on twitter between board a piano club people and people that have watched my documentary that support it but i haven't talked to anyone directly from them though so hugo labs is suing you not me that's a misconception who are they suing ryder rips well yeah and as of right now it's uh i mean the document is public i'm not saying anything that like yeah yeah would reveal anything but as of right now i'm not listed in the document um i mean i don't know what they would come at me for like other people have made videos on this in the past like tabernacle and upper echelon gamers the only difference was i actually got an interview with ryder ribs and that's something that nobody has done before but um yeah i mean i hope not are you worried about any sort of like uh repercussions retaliation from any of these guys in the sense that they are powerful and they have a lot of money and i'm a 24 year old youtuber like yeah it's a dave and goliath situation absolutely but um i kind of have faith in i shouldn't say the internet as a whole but a lot of times when i see instances like this like i wouldn't doubt my supporters or anyone that actually like has this stuff sees the stuff with an open mind that would like see what like just what what is possible with my video i don't really know how to why i did i i looked at it and i did a poll whenever i saw how long it was and how expansive it was going to be i did a poll with my audience at the beginning and i asked them you know going into it how many of you guys are believing this and it was like something like 70 30 somewhere around there and then by the end of it it was like 75 25 the other way and 75 percent of people thought that it was a legitimate thing so i feel like you've convinced a whole lot of people i mean at this point probably collectively between everybody who's seen it like over a million people now yeah i saw xqc react to it uh h3 talked about it on two episodes um i know critical reacted to it uh jimmy fallon changed his profile picture really yeah away from the nft i'm assuming yep isn't that interesting apparently travis barker meek mill did too but i'm just not sure on the exact timeline of when they changed it but people have noticed like the eight pictures just disappearing so do you think that this is going to have a a real like actual effect on the nft project i think it's raising a lot of awareness and that's kind of what that's that's the entire point of this video it's just to raise awareness um have any i think that oh it's sorry about that i just think that is something of value in general it's having a lot of people have like one a lot of discourse and two there's like open discussions about you know because there's a lot of talk about like the legality the copyright law the intellectual property regarding this quote-unquote art or um nft projects and it's just very murky and there's no regulation and you know the very sentiment of nfts are supposed to be decentralized but what we're seeing is that that's kind of not the case because you have billion dollar companies asking for rectification based on you know in their words an internet troll but well that's the same thing that happened with seth green you know he was trying to get his nft back and it got uh kidnapped according to him and uh my understanding is he had to pay a quarter mill to get it back jesus yeah well anyway uh has any of the people like anybody from yugo labs any of the founders of the board apiac club project have any of them tried to reach out to you in any way no not at all okay nope so they haven't tried to ask you to take down the video or anything nothing so what do you think is going to happen next oh i have no idea that's kind of why i'm anxious yeah yeah it's certainly something to uh to worry about for sure and uh i guess one thing is that there are still those 20 people that do remain unconvinced and for the people that watch the video and are still unconvinced what would you want to tell them i would just tell them to educate themselves on esoteric culture like it took a lot out of me mentally it was very draining to go down 4chan rabbit holes and truly understand like okay this stuff actually exists and there's people out here that like to dog whistle and troll on the internet and just get a rise out of people and that's that's really the currency on 4chan now i think i posed two possible explanations like one all these people are neo-nazis but i kind of wrote that off um intentionally too it's a much more difficult thing to define here what's going on because it's it's people that's almost no commentary yeah like anyone who watches this can can see that some of the symbolism is racist but the fact that it's so racist and raunchy and bad makes it funny to the people that are in the know so it's defined as post-ironic or post-ironic humor or post-ironic racism yeah and it's really difficult to pin down that's why stuff like this is designed to make the person who questions it look like a madman so the only way in my mind to do this was really just lay it out in a video format which hasn't been done before prior to my video so well i think that's one of the most insidious things about types of you know like what you said esoteric messaging is that even the acknowledgement that it exists brands you as a madman to many people that are not in among the initiated yeah and so um i i guess one one kind of like final question is i wanted to ask you is that obviously there are two circumstances here and it's kind of what you just brought up is that one circumstance is that these four guys and maybe uh the woman who is involved with them and a handful of other people at some point potentially are in the know and are actually neo-nazis and trying to use this messaging to subliminally uh give people a reason to have this type of uh i guess like proclivity right to believe this stuff so they're actually neo-nazis that's effectively what i'm saying right is it right one cases are actually neo-nazis the other one is they're just trying to provide effectively a social commentary make some money at the same time and just effectively pull off the biggest troll that i think we've ever seen which one do you think it is the second one the biggest troll i've ever seen what makes you think that it's not that them actually being neo-nazis because they're educated and they make it a point to tell everyone that they're smart and like for example they quote ludwig wickenstein hemingway iceberg theory uh he greg solano who is um gargamel wrote his senior thesis on roberto bolano who's i believe a cuban he's one of like the top 50 latin american writers and roberto bollano wrote a book mocking nazis like it it's kind of you almost they're too smart to just like stoop down to blatant uh i don't know white supremacy i think that it's a lot more gratifying when you're able i mean you play world of warcraft i i've played wow my entire life like the fantastical background yeah the fantastical background of um all the lore and uh depending on what you think of it like that's that's a writer's kind of wet dream in a sense um and world building is all part of a writer's arsenal so when you're able to pull something off with really elaborate uh messaging symbolism uh character building uh all that i just think that's more gratifying than just simply being racist do you think that it was intentionally over in cases with let's say the logo etc to put it right in front of people and then to have them assert that it's not there yeah totally why um it's kind it's kind of like a laugh in everyone's face in that case i i mean i believe that one look at those logos and anyone can see that it's just like very similar uh down to like the placement of the text the 18 teeth the jagged edge now some people have said that the jagged edge you know doesn't really have any merit because it's hard to find on the internet yeah at the time when ryder was doing this research from what i understand he found it it's that particular jagged edge waffen totenkov emblem appears in two places one it's graham's nazi covers it's it's a weird website that has like nazi history and that and that's like the logo and then it's also on the steam marketplace as like a skin for a tank game so it's not like that that jagged edge waffen-totenkov emblem doesn't exist it wasn't put there to like deceive people yeah um it does exist but it is harder to find than like the traditional circular emblem totenkov right but there is actual precedent for it being jagged in that way yeah there's two examples of it on google all right though that's at least good to know and honestly like i think that this is something that a lot of my audience including myself thought is that i mean the amount of work that you put into this was absolutely tremendous i like especially i mean i consider myself somewhat of a um of a of a journeyman in this type of uh messaging and a 4chan culture and this just a lot of this completely caught me off guard like the gargamel thing i'd never even heard of that right well i appreciate the your support and your viewers taking the time to watch the video and see the amount of detail that was put into it because it's definitely like yeah it's made me step out of my comfort zone in terms of like filmmaking and stuff like that well we want to see more of it how can we support you uh just uh share my video okay uh i'll see you guys in like the comment section and don't be strangers you know like uh i can take criticism i understand that some parts of the video may not be everyone's cup of tea but each thing i put in the video i try to put purpose behind it so yeah just check out the channel and show your support that's really it thank you so much for making a video and thanks for coming on and talking about it i really appreciate it man of course man nice to meet you absolutely man and i'll see you later good luck see you peace that's a nice guy that's a really nice guy holy [ __ ] that's a nice guy give the video a watch yeah yeah i'll give it i'll give it a link right here yeah just come on and talk about it like that oh my god that is incredible i will um obviously i'll follow up on a lot of this stuff uh tomorrow whenever i get into it as well huge shout out to philly for just straight up coming on the stream and talking about this like i did not think that [ __ ] was gonna happen [Music] you

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