Some heavy news: a few days ago I was told by my doctor I have congestive heart failure. Symptoms started last year out of the blue and I put off seeking help (like an idiot) so I could keep working. But after testing, my doctor called and asked me to radically change my life.๐งต
As you may have heard, weโve become the target of a crazy disinformation campaign accusing us - a group of Jewish, Turkish, Pakistani, and Cuban friends - of being super-secret Nazis. ๐งต
Yuga is hiring Creative Directors and Project Managers / Producers.
Previous experience working in web3 not required, but looking for people who are passionate about the space and have been living and breathing in crypto and NFTs for a while and want to work on weird shit.
Extremely honored to have spent time today with someone who has been a massive inspiration to me, Jane Goodall. Iโve met a lot of incredible people on this wild journey, but none Iโve been more excited about than Jane. ๐งต
As a Jewish person, Kanyeโs anti-semitic vitriol has been horrifying. I donโt want Yuga involved in anything related to him. Weโre reaching out to Adidas to see what their plan is. I donโt blame Adidas for Kanyeโs actions, and trust they are going to make the right call.
Thank you for this past year, apes. Working on behalf of the BAYC continues to be the greatest privilege of my life. I donโt take it for granted for even a moment.
Happy Birthday. โ ๏ธ๐ฆโต๏ธ
Weโve received credible information that there may soon be an attack on our social media accounts, using an inside source at
@Twitter
to bypass our security.
There are no surprise mints. Ever.
Was overwhelmed by the love and support over the last 24 hours. Thank you for all your faith in me these past two years.
Going to focus everything I have on healing.
Much love. โค๏ธ๐๐ฆโต๏ธ
Hey guys, so my CIA handler (Steve) said I need to buy more NFTs this week. He said, "Papi, do it from the bathroom again, the numbers on the bathroom stuff was off the charts."
Anything to serve my country. ๐ซก
Anyway, what we copping?
Felt the need to set the record straight on all this bullshit once and for all. Iโll be off Twitter for a while to focus on my heart condition. Love you all. โค๏ธ
EXCLUSIVE:
@yugalabs
co-founder
@GordonGoner
penned a letter touching on his recent diagnosis of heart failure and responding to conspiracy theories about
@BoredApeYC
.
"Iโm never going to be able to let this go and heal until I set the record straight."
Hey apes, really wish it werenโt the case but Iโm not feeling well enough to make it to Hong Kong for ApeFest. Big fucking bummer, I know. Still working hard on my health situation. Sorry to anyone hoping to catch up with me.
That said, something is helping overall. When Iโฆ
Almost a year ago, I called Garga to ask him what he thought about the metaverse. Thought heโd tell me to get lost, but we ended up talking all night. The vision for Otherside and the Kodas, primal little beings who would usher us into this new landscape, came from that call.
Took my first week off in forever a little while back. Found myself writing out ideas for
@MeebitsNFTs
utility the entire time. Big things take time, but the whole team is really excited to start working on Meebits when the Otherside launch is through.
Proud of
@pudgypenguins
. I remember the feeling the team must feel today, and it was beyond surreal. I miss working with that singleness of purpose. Miss the hustle.
@LucaNetz
you earned today. Keep going.
Finally, a worthy opponent.
In all seriousness, I had always wanted to join more communities across the web3 space but felt I had a responsibility to restrict myself from doing so while still working at Yuga. I know my haters will say thereโs some ulterior motive behind this or whatever, but I just missedโฆ
$1.5m + legal fees and another $100k+ for our anti-SLAPP of all their bullshit. Bad day to be a scammer. Good day to be an ape.
Appreciate the note from the judge on how absurd this has all been:
โIn addition, Defendants unnecessarily and inappropriately made disgraceful andโฆ
BREAKING: Ryder Ripps and Pauly ordered to pay Yuga Labs over 1.5 Million Dollars in damages. They also must transfer control of the RR/BAYC smart contract to Yuga.
Hey so Iโve seen a bunch of tweets this week asking / hoping Iโll come back to a leadership role at Yuga. I get where that sentiment is coming from. Couple of things on that:
Thereโs days where I want to throw myself into the deep end, and thereโs days, like yesterday, where Iโฆ
Going to go touch grass for a while. New Gordo made commitments to stay healthy and balanced this time. But it feels good to finally be a part of the broader NFT ecosystem.
Apologies if you were hoping Iโd get a certain NFT or support your project this week. I got a LOT of DMs,โฆ
So grateful to have the opportunity to meet so many club members. What an absolutely incredible week. Thank you for making this journey so special. Next year we go big. โค๏ธ
Inspired by old-school arcade competitions, we had an idea for a weird, massive, skilled-based mint last year. The work to pull off something like this was seemingly simple but actually ridiculously complex. Proud of Yuga and the incredible work thatโs gone into this. โค๏ธ
When Yuga first started, RTKFT was the first team in the space to take us seriously. They met with us and gave us tons of selfless advice. AAA team and stand up guys through and through.
Always exciting seeing what they cook up next.
RTFKT is definitely one of my favourite teams in the space.
The way they structure their drops and make everything a game in itself deserves a lot of respect.
Should Yuga turn back on the 2.5% royalty for doggos after a year of collecting none so we can stop rugging ourselves and actually develop more cool shit for them?
Dookey Dash and the Sewer Pass evolutions are effectively proof of concept. Opens the door to so much fun and weird shit. Weโre learning so much from this and it makes me so excited for the year ahead.
If youโre a Bored Ape or a Mutant Ape and Iโm not already following you, comment so I can remedy that (just need proof, easiest way is for your OpenSea to link to your twitter)
#apefollowape
(๐ค:
@0xWave
)
Celebrating
@othersidemeta
First Trip tonight. Seems like a good time to drink a bunch of bottles Iโve been gifted by community members over the past year.
Bottle
#1
Early on you cannot imagine what it was like hopping on a zoom call with a bunch of friendly, more experienced NFT faces who didnโt look at us as opponents. They taught us a lot. Class acts. In it for life, brothers.
When I was looking for what projects to ape into, I started browsing the
@worldofwomennft
collection, not really knowing if Iโd find one that made sense for me. Then I saw THIS WoW. This fucking WoW. Itโs the spitting image of my girlfriend, sparkles and all, someone who has beenโฆ
Ah the NFT I most wanted came through at the final hour. Presenting: The Grey Pilgrim. I have wanted this exact NFT since the day it was revealed, probably more so than any other NFT outside of the Yuga ecosystem. Not sure if this will come as a surprise, but
@forgottenrunes
isโฆ
Excited for tomorrow.
The First Trip Tech Demo is the first of many demo events weโll share with the community as we co-develop the Otherside platform together. ๐งต
Know I havenโt given a Gordo update in a long time. Truth is my health tanked hard again, a little after my last buying spree and itโs just been me trying to figure this shit out. Overall I'm better than when I was first diagnosed, but Iโm still not in a great place. Healing fromโฆ
Still working on my health, but wanted to show proof of life and say how much I miss everyone. Life is a whole lot more boring without you in it. Apes Together Strong. โ ๏ธ๐ฆโต๏ธโค๏ธ See you at ApeFest.
Going to start occasionally sharing things Iโve learned on my health journey, particularly with Heart Failure. This stuff probably wonโt be interesting to my NFT / Crypto friends, but I hope the information will be helpful to someone.
Been hard not scooping one of these the past two years. Love the art. Love the project. This little fucker lives in my bottom desk drawer and gives me the finger whenever Iโm too lazy to write. Matches zombie gordo, too!
This was long overdue. Going to take me forever to follow back every single punk who followed me today, but it will get done. Thank you for the warm welcome of this apeman, punks.
More foolishness tomorrow. โค๏ธ
Not sure why OS team still hasn't said anything, but this pissed me off so I looked into it. In-game is 60fps and looks great. My understanding is the team just ran into an issue rendering the tease for X. They should've waited to get it rendered right imo. Won't happen again.
Will come out to something like 9+ million total.
Grateful to the courts for looking at all the facts. Grateful to our community for always having our backs. Grateful to our legal team for going to bat for us. Grateful to finally be done with those scammers.
Grateful ape.
Yuga Labs v. Ryder Ripps et al - Report & Recommendation (R&R) of Special Master re Yuga Labs for Attorneys' Fees & Costs
Special master recommends defendants pay
๐ธ$6,983,432.62 in fees
๐ธ$317,295.04 in costs
๐ธcertain costs re Yuga Labs' 3 experts
๐ธ100% prep cost for R&R
I never participated in the fine art scene in whatever city I lived in because it was always filled to the brim with pretentious elitists and social climbers. Iโm not saying everyone in NFTs is the coolest person ever. But it is FAR more welcoming and unburdened by pretensionโฆ
regret spending the whole bull run heads down and never talking about other NFT communities. mostly out of not wanting to be seen as influencing anything. decided I'm going to start talking about projects I like cause fuck that. ๐งต
Gotten like 100 texts, calls, and DMs with questions. Literally every single question would have been answered if the Q&A was actually read. Apes really do not fucken read lmao. Fuck my new idea, I'm opening up a literacy school for NFT degens. You brought this on yourselves.
Sike!
A rank 16 rarity for 6 ETH? Literally free. Always been a massive fan of the cats. Feels good to finally be a part of it what
@cloncast
has created. Heโs done an incredible job. Also did this so
@hawkwardart
would finally shut up. โค๏ธ
Really proud of the work the new BAYC team did on the Trial of Jimmy the Monkey trailer and site. Major Ren and Stimpy vibes. Excited for what's to come. โ ๏ธ๐ฆโต๏ธ๐