Let’s forged our minds again to January, once I wrote a narrative referred to as ‘Crypto Losers Purchase Copy Of Jodorowsky’s Dune, Have Performed Themselves’, a bit which I assumed on the time completely captured the extent to which brainworms had infested the blockchain group.
To recap, a bunch of individuals often called 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 have the ability to do every kind of stuff with the fabric inside, by no means as soon as stopping to contemplate that purchasing a guide doesn’t provide the rights to what’s inside it, or that it’s solely considered one of quite a lot of surviving copies, not the final/just one.
We hadn’t heard a lot on the challenge since, till the weekend when one of many DAO’s co-founders, Charlie/Charlotte Fang—who can also be serving to run an NFT challenge referred to as Milady—was accused of posting some actually reprehensible shit on-line.
A lot of the allegations are contained in this comprehensive Twitter thread by 0xngmi, the place the poster often called ‘Miya’ compares black individuals to apes, calls homosexuality a ‘illness’ and says a nation could be ‘saved’ by killing its Jews. It’s additionally alleged that ‘Miya’ was concerned with the Systemspace group, a bunch that has been labelled a ‘suicide cult’ promising a ‘cyberpunk afterlife’, which was linked to the loss of life of a 17 year-old in 2017. ‘Miya’ can also be accused of being concerned within the grooming of anorexic ladies on social media.
Fang has since confessed to being ‘Miya’ in a sequence of Twitter posts (although it’s vital to notice they don’t deal with particular allegations, so it’s unclear which have been truly them or not), by 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 however introduced they’re stepping down from their function with the Milady NFT challenge, 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 as a way to get suckers to purchase crypto, and so now we’re revisting the Dune crew’s efforts let’s verify in and see how issues have been going for their very own forex within the months since they purchased the guide and…ah.
Thanks Ben!
