2 years ago
Anonymous, the planetary renown hacker group, appears to person aimed its sights astatine Yuga Labs pursuing a Facebook station from a verified Anonymous account.
The station references Nxg4n, Jeremy Cahen, and Ryder Ripps, who person each been highly vocal precocious advancing claims that Bored Ape Yacht Club has Nazi origins.
The relationship that is called retired straight is nxg4n, which exclusively tweets astir Yuga Labs and BAYC, continuing the thread that has led to Ryder Ripps being sued by Yuga Labs. The claims revolved astir the mentation that the imagery and connection of Yuga Labs tin beryllium linked to Nazi content. The biggest indicator of the Nazi ties is the similarity of the BAYC logo to Nazi symbology, arsenic shown below.
so you're telling maine a afloat tattooed hindu hebrew who lone eats cheeseburgers named his institution "yuga labs" aft the "kali yuga", a word neo nazi richard spenser has discussed for 7 years, and the logo for the institution looks similar a nazi emblem… conscionable by coincidence? lol.. pic.twitter.com/ySBlaqAg0c
— RYDER-RIPPS.ETH 
(@ryder_ripps) August 5, 2022
Yuga Labs is suing Ryder Ripps for,
“FALSE DESIGNATION OF ORIGIN, FALSE ADVERTISING, CYBERSQUATTING, TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT, UNFAIR COMPETITION, UNJUST ENRICHMENT, CONVERSION, AND TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE”
Since the suit was filed, Ryder Ripps has continued his run against Yuga Labs, tweeting Monday that “they are suing maine implicit thing they garbage to adjacent show.”
did you cognize that Kali Yuga Labs is suing maine implicit this logo one made, but they didn't adjacent see an representation of it successful the lawsuit? they are suing maine implicit thing they garbage to adjacent show. pic.twitter.com/7K67P5iIkI
— RYDER-RIPPS.ETH (@ryder_ripps) August 8, 2022
In a station connected Sunday, nxg4n stated that they volition beryllium taking “a somewhat antithetic approach” to that of Ryder Ripps successful allegedly exposing Yuga Labs for its evident ties to Nazism.
While romantic, it's rather ambitious.
We're taking a somewhat antithetic approach.
But you've gotten our attention.
Expect us.#burnbayc#bayc#nftcommunity#nft#nfts https://t.co/aHHFkNlV58
— nxg4n.eth (@nxg4n) August 7, 2022
Nxg4n is an ENS collector according to the OpenSea relationship linked to the wallet that resolves their code nxg4n.eth. No important accusation appears to nexus the relationship to Anonymous, which is to beryllium expected but makes confirmation of their engagement with Anonymous difficult. However, 1 Anonymous relationship connected Twitter has aligned itself with nxg4n, reporting that it has “tapped the legendary @nxg4n to mastermind a peculiar task of ours.”
Greeting Citizens of The World
If you haven’t heard arsenic of yet, Anonymous has tapped the legendary @nxg4n to mastermind a peculiar task of ours.
With that said, we inquire you to travel @nxg4n arsenic they volition beryllium posting exclusive content, comparative to upcoming work.
Expect us.
— Anonymous (@anonewsco) August 4, 2022
Nxg4n continues to tweet astir conspiracy theories related to Yuga Labs, arsenic shown below. However, astatine present, nary caller accusation has been released to suggest impervious of the alleged racist ties to Nazi symbolism.
And possibly a transcript of the non-disclosure statement that MUST person travel attached to immoderate cardinal dollar bonus offered, to say, Seneca?#BURNBAYC #BAYC #nftcommunity https://t.co/YYyS39mg1q
— nxg4n.eth (@nxg4n) August 7, 2022
The “real” Anonymous?
Anonymous is simply a decentralized corporate of hackers crossed the satellite with nary publically known cardinal leadership. It is, therefore, ever hard to ascertain the legitimacy of claims from groups claiming to beryllium “The” Anonymous. However, the leafage successful question has been verified connected Facebook and has implicit 1 cardinal followers. The leafage has a pinned station promoting AnonToken, which is presently down 87% from its March 2022 all-time high, trading astatine $0.03. According to BSCscan, determination are astir 3,000 holders of the token with a marketplace headdress of $3.4 million.
There person been reports the task is not associated with the “real” Anonymous and is simply a scam token. Searches for the token connected Twitter bring up lone tiny crypto accounts attempting the pump the token.
This is not a existent Anonymous account. This looks similar an relationship takeover that is trying to piggy backmost disconnected existent events to beforehand their ain shitty currency drawback token. Wtf is Anontoken? https://t.co/GHuiSbz0Lf pic.twitter.com/tN7aUkacEh
— Mr.3⃣0⃣5⃣.eth (@B_Fr4nk) August 7, 2022
Authors note: No entity has ever been capable to corroborate the individuality of an Anonymous relationship legitimately. It feels liable to constituent retired the anticipation that the relationship successful question could beryllium a fake. This could beryllium said to beryllium existent of each Anonymous accounts, but fixed the size of the pursuing and its past of posting Anonymous content, I consciousness it is worthy reporting. Time volition archer if Anonymous is genuinely targeting BAYC.
The station Anonymous seems to person acceptable sights connected BAYC for alleged connections to Nazi imagery appeared archetypal connected CryptoSlate.
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