Who’d have thought BoredApe NFTs would be such an actual eyesore?
“All 5 attendees were treated on scene. Paramedics were originally very concerned about brain damage but were relieved when they saw the name of the event. ‘Can’t fry an egg that’s not there,’ stated one.”
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Shit, this isn’t really that funny when you find out what happened. Welder’s Eye can make you permanently blind.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’ve experienced this, though I aquired it the old school way; from welding.
Mine was luckily a minor case and went away in a day. Quite literally feels like you have sand in your eyes. Moved from safety squints into welding mask then.
CountVon@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
When I took welding shop class in high school, our shop teacher literally called it “sand eye” when he explained why wearing a welding mask was not optional in his shop or in general while welding. Sure enough, there was that one kid who thought he could get by with his squints while teach wasn’t looking… He was out for days with sand eye and had quite the cautionary tale to share when he returned. Everyone got downright religious about the welding masks after that.
Yawnder@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I’m glad it went away sir!
Also, I would never laugh at you getting that, especially since welding is something quite useful for society, inline NFTs 😛
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Thank you for saying this, it’s what I was coming here to do.
I was laughing, until I read the article. It’s fucking horrifying. Schadenfreude should be proportional.
NFT morons losing their money? Hilarious.
Losing their eyesight? Not funny. Not proportional. Just horrific.
Now, if the Nazi fetishizing scam artist asshats that run BoredApe were blinded by the light at their own convention? That, in my view, would be proportional Schadenfreude.
merc@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photokeratitis
So… it’s unlikely to be permanent blindness, just temporary eye pain. I feel pretty OK at laughing at them for that.
cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 7 months ago
nazi fetishizing?
not doubting you, but… go on…
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Something can be both sad and funny.
Like it really sucks for the victims but it’s also darkly hilarious that every single time these libertariany scammy I’m smarter than everyone types do a thing they get an abject lesson in why communities have like safety rules and “red tape”.
dasgoat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is such a good way of putting it. Yes it’s fucked up, but man it’s also funny as shit.
cricket98@lemmy.world 7 months ago
what are you going on about libertarianism? this group is almost certainly not libertarian, they are more hypebeast/streetwear adjacent.
aidan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If they were libertarians they would sue the event so much that this never happens again. Unfortunately, this happens at nightclubs too.
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Shit hurts. It feels like you have sand in your eye. For days.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Thin slices of raw potato on your eyes helps.
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’d think they were already blind with all a crappy art they are shilling for
jungle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“art”
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
what the actual fuck
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
As a former welder, I’ve had arc-eye and it’s really unpleasant - like someone put sand in my eyes and I couldn’t get it out.
However, it heals pretty quickly, so I’m gonna carry on thinking this is pretty funny.
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
On job sites they told me that it was permanent, were they fucking with me?