Let’s forged our minds again to January, after I wrote a narrative referred to as ‘Crypto Losers Purchase Copy Of Jodorowsky’s Dune, Have Performed Themselves’, a bit which I believed on the time completely captured the extent to which brainworms had infested the blockchain neighborhood.
To recap, a gaggle of individuals referred to as a DAO (extra on these right here) purchased one of many surviving copies of Jodorowsky’s Dune, a manufacturing bible for a failed Seventies Hollywood adaptation of Dune that was made well-known by the 2013 documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune. Understanding far more about crypto scams than copyright legislation, they thought they’d be capable to do all types of stuff with the fabric inside, by no means as soon as stopping to think about that purchasing a e-book doesn’t provide the rights to what’s inside it, or that it’s solely certainly one of various surviving copies, not the final/just one.
We hadn’t heard a lot on the venture since, till the weekend when one of many DAO’s co-founders, Charlie/Charlotte Fang—who can also be serving to run an NFT venture referred to as Milady—was accused of posting some actually reprehensible shit on-line.
Many of the allegations are contained in this comprehensive Twitter thread by 0xngmi, the place the poster referred to as ‘Miya’ compares black folks to apes, calls homosexuality a ‘illness’ and says a nation might be ‘saved’ by killing its Jews. It’s additionally alleged that ‘Miya’ was concerned with the Systemspace neighborhood, a gaggle that has been labelled a ‘suicide cult’ promising a ‘cyberpunk afterlife’, which was linked to the dying of a 17 year-old in 2017. ‘Miya’ can also be accused of being concerned within the grooming of anorexic women on social media.
Fang has since confessed to being ‘Miya’ in a collection of Twitter posts (although it’s essential to notice they don’t deal with particular allegations, so it’s unclear which had been really them or not), during which they are saying their disgusting posts and behavior was them merely ‘trolling’ and being ‘juvenile’, and that their ‘actual views maintain no room for hate’. They’ve nonetheless introduced they’re stepping down from their function with the Milady NFT venture, although their standing with the Dune group stays unclear (Kotaku has reached out for clarification on this).
As we’ve seen, a DAO is just a entrance with a purpose to get suckers to purchase crypto, and so now we’re revisting the Dune staff’s efforts let’s examine in and see how issues have been going for their very own forex within the months since they purchased the e-book and…ah.
Thanks Ben!
