Yuga Labs, the company behind the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection took to address the recent “misinformation campaign” accusing the team of being “super-secret Nazis.” BAYC Co-Founder Responds to Nazi Accusations The co-founder of Yuga Labs, Wylie Aronow, known as Gordon Goner, said that the company has become the target of a “crazy disinformation campaign” that was spreading “ridiculous conspiracy theories” over allegations of the collection being racist. “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 Nazis,” Yuga Labs co-founder Gordon Goner wrote in a blog post on Friday. “Trolls are still spreading ridiculous conspiracy theories online and using them to sell knockoff NFTs (surprise!).” “We’ve not responded in further detail to these allegations because frankly, they are insanely far-fetched. That said, we woke up this morning to a podcaster we respect talking about this conspiracy theory and that was pretty surreal,” he adds. 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 Nazis. 🧵 — GordonGoner.eth (@GordonGoner) June 24, 2022 How Did the Rumor Come About? Over the last month, Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) has faced a flurry of criticism from the US-based artist Ryder Ripps, ...
