Profile of Bored Ape Yacht Club, an NFT collection that sold for $2M+ in April, spawned a collector community, and has since seen ~$100M in trading activity
New Yorker Kyle Chayka
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@martinsfp
Martin Sfp Bryant
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Reading this to finally understand what @beijingdou has been tweeting about for months. https://twitter.com/...
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@newyorker
@newyorker
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“I'm paying my rent by trading JPEG pictures on the Internet,” one N.F.T. buyer said. “That's what I tell my parents.” https://nyer.cm/oyZLGrm
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@aljaparis
Aleksandra Art
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I got featured in the New Yorker today talking abt NFTs 😍 #pinchme 2021 will be remembered for many as the year of one way tickets to NFT land. The answer to below is simple: the future of culture 👊🏻 https://twitter.com/...
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@seth
Seth Goldstein
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wow. the timing! https://twitter.com/...
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@narendra
Narendra Rocherolle
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Fun article on all the ape avatars you're seeing. And appearances by @DrewAustin and @mg. cc @BoredApeYC https://twitter.com/...
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@anthony
Anthony DeRosa
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Bored Ape Yacht Club's initial batch of N.F.T.s brought in more than two million dollars. The collection has since seen almost a hundred million dollars in trading, with the cheapest apes often going for almost fourteen thousand dollars. https://www.newyorker.com/...
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@aljaparis
Aleksandra Art
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Tbf we went a long way, I helped set up a MetaMask and they now know about @robnessofficial, @artnome, @artblocks_io, @MattKaneArtist, @OoakosiM, punks, @verticalcrypto @MeebitsDAO @katecursed, @MyCurioCards & ofc rare pepes among many others ❤️ mom liked @AvaStarsNFT as avatars …
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@borgetsebastien
Sebastien
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The Metaverse is the home for all the NFT avatar clubs 🚀 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@zoescaman
Zoe Scaman
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‘In the 3 months since launch, Bored Ape owners have put the cartoon primates on lines of craft beer, created animated YouTube series, designed skateboards, wrote novels & launched a publication called the Bored Ape Gazette to cover the community’ https://www.newyorker.com/...
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@mitchem
@mitchem
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>50% of all 10k Bored Apes are now held by unique wallets This is unheard of for a pfp project at scale 3 months young, @BoredApeYC distribution is real https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@taylorlorenz
Taylor Lorenz
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Bored Ape Yacht Club is a combo gated online community, stock-shareholding group, art collection, streetwear brand, hedge fund, and a user-generated universe of intellectual property. Ty @chaykak for this explainer on ape avatars cropping up everywhere! https://www.newyorker.com/…
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@adambrotman
Adam Brotman
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And here it is; the (very well written) “main stream media”, long-form piece on @BoredApeYC. Was waiting for this. (Nice contributing quotes from @DrewAustin). https://twitter.com/...
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@taylorgerring
Tgerring.Eth
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This feels like reading about Bitcoin for the first time in traditional media https://twitter.com/...
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@chaykak
Kyle Chayka
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My @NewYorker column from yesterday: Bored Ape Yacht Club is a NFT-driven private social club for social media and a hint at the future of decentralized culture https://www.newyorker.com/...