The Bored Ape Yacht Club is being accused by the hacktivist group of being a hub for the worst kind of ideology.
In a nearly nine-minute video released this week, the hacker collective accused Yuga Labs of hiding Nazi, white supremacist, and pedophilic symbolism in its art.
According to the video, there is proof that Yuga Labs put Nazi iconography in its NFTs.
The video will be the first in a campaign to take down the BAYC, according to the group. Yuga Labs was challenged to a debate with a location and the debate's host.
The allegations, which the Yuga Labs founders have strenuously denied, appear to have been started by a shock jock digital artist who published a website claiming to outline the many ways in which BAYC uses thinly-veiled Nazi symbolism.
In the video, there is a reference to Yuga Labs' lawsuit against the artist over his apparently-satirical NFT collection.
The allegations are shocking, but they are also circumstantial and eyebrow raising.
The BAYC logo is strikingly similar to the Nazi Totenkopf emblem. The ape skull in the BAYC had exactly 18 teeth, the same number as the Totenkopf.
It's unnerving to think that an extremely popular digital art line would contain veiled references to either of these practices. BayC people can be pretty cringe, but any suggestion that the token's value is linked to a perceived link to Nazism is pretty far off.
We're going to have to go on their word until they come forward with proof.
A person is angry that someone saved their precious NFT.
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