Ask LEO: What Do You Think About Buzzfeed Outing The Founders Of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC).
Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs is one of the most popular and most expensive NFTs out there, sold for billions and millions of dollars, and the owners of the 10,000 Ape avatars collection get 10% of any Bored Ape sold, so let's say one of the Bored Ape NFT was sold for $10 billion, 10% of that is a $100 million that a whole lot of money, that could be part of the reasons why they would love to remain anonymous or they could just be private people who don't like putting their personal details of themselves out there or online.
Although Buzzfeed report We Found The Real Names Of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Pseudonymous Founders didn't have anything scandalous or discreditable, but for me, I would say what Buzzfeed did was wrong because outing out the real identity could put a target on their backs, and am not alone on this so many people from the crypto community have called them out on Twitter expressing their feelings on the publication or report by Buzzfeed to be "doxxing", doxxing Is is a type of online harassment that involves uncovering someone’s personal information such as their real name, address, job, or other identifying data and exposing it publicly, usually on the internet. Doxing happens without a victim’s consent, with an intent to expose information meant to stay private.
Here are some tweets from people who didn't like what Buzzfeed did to the co-founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs Wylie Aronow and Greg Solano, I would have loved to Embed the tweets in my post but I don't know how to make it appear properly on Leofinance.oi but if you know how to, you can teach me how to in the comment section below please, Thank you, Now I will have to copy their tweets and source it back to their Twitter pages.
A popular podcaster Cobie called the publication from Buzzfeed "Trash"':
Doxxing people for clicks and ad revenue. Typical Buzzfeed trash. Wonder if I can short Buzzfeed somehow.
A VP at VC firm Founders Fund Mike Solana, said it was "disgusting" to reveal the men's identities under the pretext of it being "some kind of massive scoop."
they’re literally cartoon apes. there was absolutely no reason to dox these guys. the heroic language being used by journalists to describe this story as if it were some kind of massive scoop in the public’s interest is disgusting.
While some others think that what Buzzfeed did was standard business journalism, I love to know what you think is it Doxxing or Standard Business Journalism???
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Doxxing is bad, as you have pointed out it was also pointless.
Yet no one should expect that it will not happen.
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Yes, it was, but this would make their lives more complicated now, mostly if they were just living their regular life where nobody knew who they are and if they were rich or not.
That isn't cool at all. If someone wants to be anonymous, they should be able to be. Of course they should still pay taxes if appropriate but it shouldn't be public knowledge who they are.
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That's what I think too, because I personally am a low key person I don't want everyone in my business, maybe that's the kind of person they are too.
Doxing is definately bad, and puts peoples lives in danger, as well as their loved ones. I think using the guide of journalism is a ruse.
I agree with you, because if they were moving freely before they can't do that now.
It was ridiculous but these guys did not took it to heart so it's totally cool.
Also, I don't know how BuzzFeed got their real identity unless they give it away themselves intentionally or unintentionally.
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You have a point here thinking about it or it could still be leaked by someone on their team🤔.