ApeFest Attendees Report Experiencing Eye Pain, Yuga Labs Says ‘Less Than 1%’ Affected

Attendees of Bored Ape Yacht Membership’s ApeFest live performance have reported experiencing excessive eye ache that is prompted a few of them to go to the hospital.

“To all my buddies that suffer now: go get your eyes checked. You’ve seemingly most actually acquired your eyes burnt with UV like I did, which requires drugs, eye drops, eye safety, antibiotics, and specialist care,” wrote one attendee. “Don’t ignore this well being hazard. With out correct therapy, it could trigger long-lasting imaginative and prescient impairment and different critical harm.”

Related tweets abound, with not less than one suggesting that signs have been the results of photokeratitis. Photokeratitis is akin to sunburn of the corneas of your eyes because of overexposure to UV rays.

Bored Ape Yacht Membership NFT Creator Yuga Labs Confirms Layoffs

Twitter customers have hypothesized that the illumination used throughout ApeFest have been high-powered UV-C bulbs supposed for the disinfection of surfaces, as a substitute of blacklights. In 2017, attendees of a Hypebeast occasion in Hong Kong skilled comparable signs that they attributed to the usage of UV-C bulbs. The reason for the signs skilled by ApeFest attendes has not been confirmed, and Bored Ape creator Yuga Labs instructed Decrypt that it was nonetheless investigating.

“We’re conscious of the scenario and are taking it severely,” a Yuga Labs spokesperson instructed Decrypt. “We’re actively reaching out to and are in contact with these affected. We’re additionally pursuing a number of investigative traces of inquiry to be taught the foundation trigger. Primarily based on our estimates, the 15 individuals we now have been in direct communication with to this point characterize lower than one p.c of the roughly 2,250 occasion attendees and employees at our Saturday evening occasion.”

Bored Ape Creator Yuga Labs and Magic Eden Launching Ethereum NFT Market That Enforces Royalties

ApeFest is a three-day occasion for members of the Bored Ape Yacht Membership neighborhood, one of many better-known non-fungible token (NFT) tasks within the crypto area. Not solely do homeowners of the gathering get to admire, for instance, a picture of a gorilla sporting a crown, the NFT additionally grants its holder entry to unique occasions.

The ground worth–or the most affordable you should purchase an NFT for–for a Bored Ape at this time is 28 ETH, or $53,000.

Edited by Stephen Graves