Ripps has documented his findings on gordongoner.com, claiming that several of the Bored Ape Yacht Club’s anthropomorphized monkeys carry racist connotations against Black and Asian people. Ripps also alleges that the Bored Ape Yacht Club logo resembles a Nazi emblem and that the parent company’s name references an alt-right movement called Kali Yuga. Ripps claims that Yuga Labs has been trying to keep his findings quiet for months.
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“The self-proclaimed authors behind Bored Ape Yacht Club are intentionally embedding edgy/subversive elements with nazi and racist themes,” he said in a statement. Yuga did not immediately respond to request for comment.
The suit is just the most recent in a long line of hiccups surrounding the Bored Ape Yacht Club recently, which include millions of dollars being stolen from BAYC’s Instagram followers following a hack this past April.
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