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Comment by Tenoke | Hacker News Reader

The Bored Apes are selling entry to a community not art.

At any rate, as far as I can see artists I enjoy in real life like Refik Anadol are benefiting from and creating interesting art around them. Most NFTs are of course crap (as per sturgeon's) or simply not about art in the first place but I just don't think that means as much as people with an axe to grind think it means.

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What's the community and what happens when you enter it? What are the perks to buying into it?

> Lil Baby, the night’s headliner, finally took the stage at around 1AM. Most people had left by then. I was drinking my last vodka of the night and zoning out to “Life Goes On,” though, and a small group of attendees bounced near the front of the stage, and there was something inspirational about Lil Baby’s utter lack of concern with how small the audience had grown and how utterly dry the vibe in Brooklyn Steel was. He had none of Julian Casablancas’ cool kid embarrassment or Chris Rock’s self-consciousness. He was simply getting to the bag. “Brooklyn, if you’re making more money this year than last year, make some noise!” his hype man screamed to the crowd’s delight.

https://www.theverge.com/22824387/bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-p...

- You support the movement!

- Movement towards what?

- Freedom, decentralization, all good things!

- ...by "buying" the picture of an ape?

- It's about the mindset, we're not there yet, you are missing out! JOIN US!!

as far as I can tell, they’ve thrown a few parties, and they have a Discord.

the subtext is basically, for fools “you could end up hanging out with Snoop Dogg!” and for smarter people “you could find out what the next craze is early enough to flip it for a profit!”

(by watching the Discord chatter.)

Seems like it's a crypto secret society.

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