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 to welding mask after that.

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 Bored Ape were blinded by the light at their own convention? That, in my view, would be proportional Schadenfreude.

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".

Shit hurts. It feels like you have sand in your eye. For days.

You'd think they were already blind with all a crappy art they are shilling for

what the actual fuck

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.

This was referring to a different event at a different venue. While it seems likely that they made the same mistake, it's best we wait for more info before jumping to conclusions.

Similar symptoms, which include sunburn and waking up to severe, burning eye pain, were reported in 2017 by partygoers who attended a Hypebeast event at The Landmark commercial complex also in Hong Kong, with the event’s DJ later discovering lighting used mainly for disinfection purposes had been installed at the venue. The Landmark venue did not feature on the ApeFest event plan, and the two incidents appear unrelated.

Good news everyone! You have been permanently disinfected!

Read the full paragraph:

Similar symptoms, which include sunburn and waking up to severe, burning eye pain, were reported in 2017 by partygoers who attended a Hypebeast event at The Landmark commercial complex also in Hong Kong, with the event’s DJ later discovering lighting used mainly for disinfection purposes had been installed at the venue. The Landmark venue did not feature on the ApeFest event plan, and the two incidents appear unrelated.

I also kinda figured the people who are into the Monkey PNGs aren’t exactly the ones who go to meetups

I kind of assumed every NFT was a scam

This one hasn't yet proven that it isn't, just that the people who bought in had a lot of disposable income to begin with.

Right? I don't know anything about Welder's Eye, but I know ultraviolet light is invisible to humans, so I'd imagine that most people present wouldn't notice anything wrong until hours later. Once you know this can happen, you just have to trust that all the places you go aren't putting your health at risk. Insane.

But they didn't buy pictures... They bought receipts with URLs that direct to copies of pictures that they have no actionable rights on.

UV-c lights are actually much cheaper than UV black lights as they don't require the phosphor coating required to block the harmful frequencies. On top of that there was a flood of UV-c bulbs onto the market from the pandemic.

What really should have tipped them off that they are using bulbs is that UV-c bulbs emit a more blue color whereas black lights emit a purple color. Or the wierd smell emitting from the ozone coming off the bulbs.

Presumably people who bought NFTs. If you're going to trick yourself into thinking your dumb, AI-generated piece of shitty "art" was a worthwhile investment, you might as well enjoy the perks of being in such an exclusive, stupid club.

I like that you came to set the record straight, then just guessed. Confidence is sexy.

It is perfect. I feel bad for these idiots, but not quite bad enough to manage not to laugh at them.

"'I woke up at 04:00 and couldn’t see anymore,' said @CryptoJune777."

The guy with the red cap ape profile picture casually asking if anyone else ended up in the ER.

crypto_birb thanking for "great apefest logistics", while encouraging his peers to seek medical attention ASAP.

Comedy gold.