Are you serious, they did not use proper filters to block the really harmful UV? One can only hope that they get sued to shit.
Nfters and not thinking ahead: name a more iconic duo
I saw a case of this in a documentary, a club installed ‘pretty’ powder blue UVC lights everywhere and it crisped up the attendees. The UVC part of the light doesn’t register to your eyes, so your pupils stay wide open and the designers added tons of it because it wasn’t that bright.
Well that’s horrific
I had no idea this event was in Hong Kong, the last time it happened was in Hong Kong too.
Yeah was going to say why does this sound familiar… 100% lawsuit incoming.
Big Clive on YouTube just posted a reaction video to this story. He mentioned that it happened recently in Hong Kong at an event by the fashion label Hype Beast. He then goes on to look through pictures of the event and actually located what appear to be germicidal tubes used instead of black light tubes.
They used the wrong type of bulb. Ordinarily the bulb will be made of a UV blocking glass, and not be quartz based. I think? So it’s not usually the shroud that stops UV except in cases of Halogen bulbs. These would be CFL without any shield except perhaps a cage to protect against things thrown.
The bulbs in this picture sure do look like UC-V sterilizing lights.
what exactly am i looking at here? is this an open floor plan bathroom?
I’m assuming it’s not a bathroom and just a display thing. I don’t know why, but they have an obsession with toilets and the stuff in them. They made a sewer based mobile game with the monkeys before. It makes the fact people are that into them even more confusing.
Sorry but who the fuck attends the “Bored Ape Conference”?
Thankfully a bunch of deuche bros
Boring apes?
Damn, screwed twice by the same Ape…
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Right to the eyeballs
Laughing at these people for getting their retinas burned like I see many people do (not just here) is in really bad taste imo. Even cryptobros don’t deserve that.
“Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.” ― Charles Bukowski
Which is saying something, coming from him.
ChinaskiBukowski did not have a high opinion of humans, in general.
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Sounds like somebody accidentally bought some germicidal bulbs instead of regular black light. Not the first time this has happened. See BigClive’s videos on the topic.
Come to think of it, Radioactive Man looks kinda like he could be a differently coloured “bored ape”
Who’d have thought that a group of conmen would skimp on safety to make some money… I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!
It’s more likely to be down to incompetence. I can’t imagine the party UV lights are more expensive than the fuck-you-up UV lights.
EDIT: Someone else mentioned these might’ve been used during COVID for sanitation, and are extremely cheap leftover wares now that the pandemic is “over”, which would actually make them a lot cheaper.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by plain incompetence is a saying. But I think a new modern corollary can be made. Never attribute to incompetence what can be easily explained by greed, which just circles back to malice and is stupidity at the same time.
Please, don’t post paywalled content.
It was paywalled after I posted it! Here’s a link that’s unrestricted https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948464/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sunburn-uv-exposure
lol
Does anyone have the full article?
No, but there are.many other articles covering the topic if you search for it, e.g.
I think so, because two comments clearly had more info than was available in my click.
it was already posted here on lemmy, idk where, but i remember it on my feed and the comments
New fear unlocked!
Not a particularly surprising sort of capstone to finish off this whole stupid NFT thing.
Sorry this link has been paywalled for some people after I posted. Here’s an article that is unrestricted https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948464/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sunburn-uv-exposure
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Not sure why you were voted down, because I feel the exact same way. No one should have to suffer vision loss from a public event, horrifying.
Whoa, I think my comment (and yours) was removed. Or am I missing something? Wierd
reminds me of the Blade movie https://youtu.be/KZnb8InfpHI?t=42
Wait… What?
You have to read the article to understand the headline. Intense, I know.
My man the article is behind a brick of cookie permissions and then a paywall. The “What” is more than warranted
Perhaps you’re on desktop and it’s different? I get the first three paragraphs or so.
So you haven’t read it yet either then XD
I’d love to, but the text fades out after the first paragraph and is replaced with “This post is for members only.”
I think you get the picture. I did.
That’s one sign of a bad headline.
What is going on in the world?
It’s like I blinked and then… This headline existed.
