For anyone confused by the low-hanging-fruit NFT comments that don’t actually talk about what actually happened: The event was in Hong Kong and

here’s my speculative opinion about what the likely cause of the burns was:

UV disinfectant lights, accidentally used by ignorant, budget-conscious event lighting staff.

Regardless of what you think of NFTs, somebody needs to held accountable for this. It could happen at any show or production. Someone clearly chose the Aliexpress special over safety. This is one of those things where fundamental trust in public infrastructure engineering is destroyed.

Yuga Labs says it’s currently investigating reports of impeded vision and skin/eye injuries believed to be caused by unprotected exposure to UV lights during ApeFest 2023.

Jesus Christ.

Anyway, I’m… Actually somewhat impressed they’re still having Monkey PNG meetups. I kind of assumed every NFT was a scam but this one is just a very expensive buy-in to a cryptonerd club, I guess.

However you feel about NFTs… this is horrifying for the people who were there. They’ve been in some cases blinded by this absurd level of incompetence.

I dislike NFTs as much as the next person but this is messed up. Even worse that it isn’t the first time. And how the heck did they get their hands on germicidal UV lamps without being aware of the difference, and the safety concerns?

How on earth do you accidentally buy medical grade lighting? Like it must have been really expensive and no one at any point that “why are these light bulbs so expensive”. Also, why didn’t the shipping company think it was weird that a hospitality venue they wanted hundreds and hundreds of medical decontamination lights?

And presumably electricians fitted them and their non-standard design didn’t raise any eyebrows?

Literally everyone involved in this story is a massive idiot.

the event’s DJ later discovering lighting used mainly for disinfection purposes had been installed at the venue

idiots