The Bored Ape Conspiracy (theory) - A Cultural Disease

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  • @UpperEchelon
    @UpperEchelon  2 роки тому +220

    Thank you to Keeps for sponsoring this video. Go to www.keeps.com/ueg to get 50% off your first order of Keeps hair loss treatment.

    • @saibisureddo5657
      @saibisureddo5657 2 роки тому +4

      Okay man this is actually spooky. I was listening to your details intently and I started thinking heavily of Kali Yuga for whatever reason then you mentioned Kali Yuga. What actually is going on here lol.

    • @BallinLikeMike23
      @BallinLikeMike23 2 роки тому +1

      It’s only a matter of time before BAYC collapses

    • @StoutProper
      @StoutProper 2 роки тому

      Wow this video is incredible. You’re a genius. Let me know if you’ve got any openings.

    • @Davivd2
      @Davivd2 2 роки тому

      Hey man. I just wanted to throw in a little bit of info to see if it helps your research. I'm kind of a history nerd. If Sass is eluding to the SA and SS, the SA were called the brown shirts and were the original armed para military pseudo-police force of the Nazi party. Their leader (Ernst Rohm) fell out of favor with Hitler. You may have heard of the night of long knives. The night of long knives was when Hitler and the SS moved against Rohm, had him and the high ranking members of the SA executed, and disbanded the group altogether. There may be some references to Rohm, brown shirts or long knives that might not have caught your attention in your research. If so, maybe this will help you make a few more connections. Great work though.

    • @Don-ds3dy
      @Don-ds3dy 2 роки тому +1

      Jesus, I thought you had gone crazy but this rabbit hole actually went somewhere.

  • @MrDwightsimon
    @MrDwightsimon 2 роки тому +3154

    The most shocking part of this video is Buzzfeed doing some actual investigative journalism

    • @AspiringDevil
      @AspiringDevil 2 роки тому +257

      Don't worry they doxed someone & shamed they're readers while doing it, so it's still safe to hate them.

    • @astrusofficial
      @astrusofficial 2 роки тому +146

      @@AspiringDevil I'm not gonna lose any sleep over the BAYC founders getting doxxed. There are more important things to think about lol

    • @mrosskne
      @mrosskne 2 роки тому

      @@astrusofficial Anyone offering an investment opportunity should dox themselves. Would you trust your money to someone whose name you don't even know?

    • @dustojnikhummer
      @dustojnikhummer 2 роки тому +150

      Doxxing is still doxxing, it should never be allowed

    • @dustojnikhummer
      @dustojnikhummer 2 роки тому +106

      @@astrusofficial So suddenly now doxxing is okay when it happens to people we don't like?

  • @PhillKaggitz
    @PhillKaggitz 2 роки тому +2514

    I found hilarious that a bunch of 4chan edge lords were able to create such a shitty scam and are going steal so much money from a bunch of idiots. I love this timeline

    • @playknightboy
      @playknightboy 2 роки тому +187

      I hate this term so much, but, "Social Darwinism" it's evolving in a rapid rate

    • @bancodrut
      @bancodrut 2 роки тому +80

      Is it only me (maybe caused by my video recommendation feed) or is it that these scams begin and/or find victims mostly in US ?

    • @ipodtouch470
      @ipodtouch470 2 роки тому +109

      Man 4chan holds a special place in my heart. Turned 2k into 100k with their tips

    • @ObossRocks
      @ObossRocks 2 роки тому

      honestly based as fuck of them

    • @Glitter_H_Hoof
      @Glitter_H_Hoof 2 роки тому +78

      the infamous hacker strikes again

  • @-Ryu
    @-Ryu 2 роки тому +1504

    Man, it's incredible how much research you can do on these topics that most people would just find to be Trivial or even Irrelevant.

    • @rabarbar2321
      @rabarbar2321 2 роки тому +15

      or call you paranoidal

    • @UberCletus
      @UberCletus 2 роки тому +33

      @@rabarbar2321 that's "paranoid" but your point still stands.

    • @nik1maxim
      @nik1maxim 2 роки тому +11

      I ve head this theory about week ago. He I not the one who did research. It is still nice video

    • @SaltpeterTaffy
      @SaltpeterTaffy 2 роки тому +16

      Without an assertion or conclusion to take a stand on, the research IS trivial. UE made a point not to draw a conclusion about all of these coincidences. This is more an intellectual curiosity than an investigation.

    • @jackcullen69
      @jackcullen69 2 роки тому +5

      Crypto bros like to think they're hot shit and flex on social media about how they think they're big brained and playing 69,420-dimension chess

  • @gilladams1521
    @gilladams1521 2 роки тому +622

    On a much lighter note. We have birds in Australia called Drongos. A race horse was named drongo after the spangled drongo bird (very handsome bird). Despite gaining places in many races, the race horse never won a race - hence it was an idiot, stupid or slow. Thus the use of the word as a insult - usually taken as a friendly insult in Australia.

    • @Bazilisk_AU
      @Bazilisk_AU 2 роки тому +8

      I’ve used that all my life and never once knew it’s context.
      Thanks mate for the lesson.

    • @crtt
      @crtt 2 роки тому +1

      is the drongo bird black, right ?

    • @gilladams1521
      @gilladams1521 2 роки тому +9

      @@crtt yep. The spangled drongo is iridescent black with a very characteristic forked tail.

    • @thatrandomchick4004
      @thatrandomchick4004 2 роки тому

      As an indigenous Australian person, hello lol

    • @knado8135
      @knado8135 2 роки тому +5

      That one was a deeeeeppppp stretch.

  • @Reddotzebra
    @Reddotzebra 2 роки тому +374

    You have to remember that when you get all the way around to people who are legit clever enough to be able to sell people nothing for millions with a stupid picture as a receipt, they do tend to be just a TINY bit full of themselves.
    This is less a pile of coincidences or a deliberate conspiracy and more their attempt at being edgelords through the medium of ARG.

    • @handlealreadytaken
      @handlealreadytaken 2 роки тому +38

      It’s a big inside joke to them is my take away.

    • @RyderRipps
      @RyderRipps 2 роки тому +3

      great read

    • @ZacDoesStuff
      @ZacDoesStuff 2 роки тому +4

      Pretty sure you literally get a yatch or something when you buy one

    • @Mayhzon
      @Mayhzon 2 роки тому

      I greatly respect these dickweeds, especially for shitting on that graffitti sprayers "legacy".
      Graffitti is disgusting and even among sprayers there is the unspoken rule that no tag is eternal.

    • @domestinger8805
      @domestinger8805 2 роки тому +1

      You don't even know what it is, that's what it is

  • @thegrayone5666
    @thegrayone5666 2 роки тому +1004

    Considering the.."maturity" of most crypto bros and the overlap with the nft bros, my bet is someone thought they were being "teehee im so edgy and cool"

    • @ahmedo7875
      @ahmedo7875 2 роки тому

      But the company probably aren’t crypto bros, just the people buying the apes.

    • @thunderspark1536
      @thunderspark1536 2 роки тому +61

      Honestly I wouldn't be surprised.

    • @tethergobrrr
      @tethergobrrr 2 роки тому +18

      The decentralised self identification and cultural conditioning of crypto marks is fkn genius.

    • @ChibiViolin
      @ChibiViolin 2 роки тому +42

      Or sophisticated Nazis still exist.

    • @UrsineArms
      @UrsineArms 2 роки тому +23

      @@ChibiViolin they do

  • @lahuk1194
    @lahuk1194 2 роки тому +444

    6:20 I almost choked on my tea, I wasn't expecting that. I guess you can call them "cryptofascists"

    • @mihos11
      @mihos11 2 роки тому +8

      Same, I had to rewind back to see if I heard correctly

    • @AspiringDevil
      @AspiringDevil 2 роки тому +18

      I applaud this pun 👏

    • @0uttaS1TE
      @0uttaS1TE 2 роки тому +8

      Ba-dum-tsssh

    • @trax72
      @trax72 2 роки тому +6

      Now there's a double entendre!

    • @UrsineArms
      @UrsineArms 2 роки тому +18

      @@adamgroszkiewicz814 I'm a fascist

  • @MillywiggZ
    @MillywiggZ 2 роки тому +316

    This third party ad company really didn’t understand graffiti. Not that into the culture myself but I understand these rules at least:
    -Spraying over someone elses work is a sign of disrespect and picking a fight
    -If a graff writer has died their work mustn’t be covered even if you have a beef with the writer
    -The only time you can write over (best to do it around) a dead artists work is to write RIP not notify others or pay respect. It’s rare because being involved you’d know if they were dead anyway
    -Do not paint on private property like homes, gardens, etc but businesses are fine
    -Do not paint on historical buildings keep it to public structures like lamp posts, not cobbled roads but roads maintained by local authorities, shipping containers etc
    -Biting is what plagerism is called in graffiti, that bored ape skull is a stolen design apparently so another no-no
    It’s like they just Googled everything not to do and then did it for clout or whatever. Guess it worked since we’re talking about it…

    • @TheOrangeRoad
      @TheOrangeRoad 2 роки тому +35

      Yeah those are more like guidelines, being dead doesn't protect you, as unless you were big, we dont know you are dead, and sometimes there just isn't enough room for everyone.

    • @cooldude6269
      @cooldude6269 2 роки тому +5

      Also you tend to see less or more graffiti depending on the part of town you’re in, wonder how much they followed that or they just went everywhere

    • @Exterminator7
      @Exterminator7 2 роки тому +34

      Anarchist vandals complaining about their vandalistic work getting vandalized.
      That sweet sweet irony
      "Do not paint on private property like homes, gardens, etc but businesses are fine"
      What about the business owner?
      He's forbidden to paint over the graffiti defacing his own business now?
      Cry me a river

    • @Cowboycomando54
      @Cowboycomando54 2 роки тому +18

      @@Exterminator7 The business owner is completely in the right to do so, but doing so may actually hurt their business by them removing something that makes them stand out from their competition. There is also difference between a punk tagging a wall with some crappy stencil or their name with one line and color, and an actual graffiti artist creating a complex work.

    • @Exterminator7
      @Exterminator7 2 роки тому +21

      @@Cowboycomando54
      At the end of the day, unless the artist own the place, there is no rules, nobody gets to tell what is allowed or not except the owner.
      I just find funny that graffiti artists, who picture themselves as vandals and anarchists going against the "system", would turn around in protest that there is a system and rules for graffitis to prevent them from getting removed by owners or defaced by other artists.
      If they want rules protecting their art then they can buy the place where they want it displayed, period. Until then it's free for all.
      "but doing so may actually hurt their business by them removing something that makes them stand out from their competition."
      I can get that but it awfully sounds like those shitty influencers/orgs on YT trying to sell their "free exposure/publicity" deals instead of any tangible benefits.

  • @qowkerf
    @qowkerf 2 роки тому +22

    Hi, as a german I would like to clarify that "Jedem das Seine", although it was posted over the Buchenwald entrance, is NOT associated with Neonazis or even original Nazi ideology here. People use the phrase every day in reference to its original, quite liberal latin meaning in antiquity, aka "to each their own". The only people over here associating it with Nazism are the far-left fringe loonies that see Nazis everywhere. Personally, I didn't even know of that connotation until around 2 years ago. I never visited Buchenwald, I have been to other KZs, and what I took away from them certainly wasn't some parole over a gate.
    Then there is also a whole argument to be made about not allowing the Nazis to corrupt and control our speech that way and reclaiming the saying for that reason.
    I can see how american white supremacists would see it as an ideal phrase to copy though.

    • @markmitchell590
      @markmitchell590 2 роки тому

      We are unfortunately watching the left holding the levers of power while having a purity spiral. Nazis are essential to this process as an Other. UEG himself fails to explain what is of interest about the BAYC founders he believes he has uncovered, other than he doesn't believe in a free society where people can say and think what they want. BTW you now have 18 likes.

  • @paillettecnc
    @paillettecnc 2 роки тому +102

    Just to clarify something you say about the puzzle at 16:56 and the "final solution", "guenon" without the accent ("Guénon" has one and his pronounced "Gaynon") is a french word, it's the feminine forme of monkey. In french monkey is the male, guenon the female. But yeah, that's a lot of coincidences.

    • @MichaelJM
      @MichaelJM 2 роки тому

      LOL. Thanks for this note. Just a small clarification. Not important really to the overall thesis. 🤦‍♂️

    • @paillettecnc
      @paillettecnc 2 роки тому +3

      @@MichaelJM lol thanks for this note, just a small clarification, not important for this post.

    • @MichaelJM
      @MichaelJM 2 роки тому +2

      @@paillettecnc My thanks was genuine. My sarcasm was probably lost.

  • @SALSN
    @SALSN 2 роки тому +216

    Very circumstantial, but very disturbing as well!
    On an other note, pretty funny when the NFT people critize other communities for their dumb "art".

    • @avroarchitect1793
      @avroarchitect1793 2 роки тому +13

      Its certainly storage room cork board level. Could be coincidence, could be 4chan black humor level trolling, or could actually be a fascist conspiracy. Either way its a hell of a ride. The Kali Yuga thing is probably the weakest as its a part of the hindu cycle of human civilization, if I understand it correctly.

    • @JunohProductions
      @JunohProductions 2 роки тому +5

      Yeah, it's all very coincidental and doesn't really add up but I've seen crazier things end up being confirmed as genuine.

    • @maxkuozc
      @maxkuozc 2 роки тому

      people who bought the bored apes also find themselves more often than not, superior than others... hm.m... It's as though the BAYC is intended for the superior few who is rich enough to join them... hmmm....

    • @ezraho8449
      @ezraho8449 2 роки тому +4

      @@avroarchitect1793 yeah kind of interesting to think about but without evens theory of a motive or goal it really just smacks of edge lords or coincidence. Because if you actually wanted to do some evil Nazi stuff it seems like you wouldn’t want to leave a puzzle that shows your whole plot.

    • @derederekat9051
      @derederekat9051 2 роки тому

      @@ezraho8449 nah, those dudes make that just to mock jews who always do the fuckin same, 9/11 is full of that cabalistic numeric shit, and all kinds of events, just need to began to notice.

  • @DeuxisWasTaken
    @DeuxisWasTaken 2 роки тому +646

    Knowing people from those circles, they just found it funny. Nevertheless, it would be hilarious if the BAYC finally fell due to being associated with neo-nazis XD

    • @sheilaburrowes9081
      @sheilaburrowes9081 2 роки тому +86

      It _is_ funny. I'm p sure everyone on 4chan, from whence these dudes probably originated, finds it funny.

    • @uniqueprogressive9908
      @uniqueprogressive9908 2 роки тому

      BAYC was a gift from god. Elite idiots deserved to be scammed

    • @danialyousaf6456
      @danialyousaf6456 2 роки тому

      @@sheilaburrowes9081 it would be funnier if the FBI took it seriously and arrested them all and had their money refunded or given to the government.

    • @dorugoramon0518
      @dorugoramon0518 2 роки тому

      Probably intentional too.
      4Chan will associate things with Nazism to make them unpalatable to normies, either to make it theirs, or to just kill it outright.

    • @tooitchy
      @tooitchy 2 роки тому

      It's funny, and very clever, but they are playing with fire in todays world, the people they aim to trigger do not have a sense of humour, they do not understand irony, and they are just overall bad people.
      I respect what they're doing, as long as they're anons just having a laugh, and not some secret die hard neo nazis irl, which would just be lame.

  • @diersteinjulien6773
    @diersteinjulien6773 2 роки тому +206

    Just to add a little something:
    In french, a guenon (not Guénon with an accent, but quite close) is... a female ape.

    • @lahuk1194
      @lahuk1194 2 роки тому +20

      No way. That has to be on purpose.

    • @MrDwightsimon
      @MrDwightsimon 2 роки тому

      So is your mom

    • @Sarkanybaby
      @Sarkanybaby 2 роки тому +13

      And since there are an "australopithecus" and a "macaque" among the answers, then this must be the solution.

    • @Diree
      @Diree 2 роки тому +14

      @@Sarkanybaby Yeah, he definitely should have mentioned that. That being said, could of course be a clever ruse. Just an "innocent" word hidden amongst other innocent words, but with a not so innocent other meaning ... hiding in plain sight is the term I think.

    • @joenelson4193
      @joenelson4193 2 роки тому +3

      @Kat S or because he didn't know

  • @NeonGrillz
    @NeonGrillz 2 роки тому +108

    Philion has a great 1h doc on this topic, diving in even deeper. He shows some more examples in a BAYC game and actual ape NFTs that were made with intent.

    • @frankylopez3510
      @frankylopez3510 2 роки тому +26

      Let's be honest. It's because of that Phillion video, that everyone is now talking about this...

    • @jae3276
      @jae3276 2 роки тому +4

      @@frankylopez3510 this

    • @SussexMatt
      @SussexMatt 2 роки тому +6

      Phil's video is great.

    • @vortex_1336
      @vortex_1336 2 роки тому

      That video was insane levels of conspiracy theories. Like I hate NFT's but saying a bunch of nonwhite people are secret Nazis is pretty crazy.

    • @SN-qd9qw
      @SN-qd9qw Рік тому

      Watched that before this one.

  • @JacindatheGreat
    @JacindatheGreat 2 роки тому +249

    Philion just did an hour break down- basically going into way more depth. Definitely glad folks are talking about this nasty ass issue.

    • @taint9690
      @taint9690 2 роки тому

      I love Philion, but his vid very much felt more him wanting to be a hero destroying evil 4chan racist. Lots of confirmation bias and lack of understanding the fucked up humor of 4chan. he also links a lot of non nazi shit to nazi shit. like 2666, guenon, he made hemingway sound bad, ludwig wittgenstein. i dont know. i just cant get behind the idea that these 4 jewish, latino, and arab dudes are unironically white supremacist nazis. they just seem like intelligent shitbags

    • @s.a4034
      @s.a4034 2 роки тому +18

      Oh boy that was 1h of crazy\boring BS

    • @Aaronborrmann
      @Aaronborrmann 2 роки тому +35

      @@s.a4034 then clearly you weren’t paying much attention 😂

    • @Matthew-.-
      @Matthew-.- 2 роки тому +30

      Philion did a poor job because without evidence he basically assigned the motive that the creators must believe the things they are hiding within the project. To me, a person that spends way too much time on the internet, it seems much more likely that they just wanted to pull a legendary troll job on rich people and celebrities and make some money doing it which is commendable. UEG covered this much better than Philion because he didn't assign a motive. UEG coverage on point.

    • @WatThaDeuce
      @WatThaDeuce 2 роки тому +9

      @@Matthew-.- Agreed, Philion's bias' shows through way too much when it comes to his recent content. If you're going to do documentary style content, then it should stick to the facts.

  • @ponderingwizard
    @ponderingwizard 2 роки тому +220

    Now, I have not been following the Bored Ape project at all, but I have known about their affiliations
    I do as well find it quite intriguing how the project has gotten so big with such a loyal following,. Now the question that rose up in my mind during this video is that *what is the end goal of it?* I dont recall hearing them talk about openly about their beliefs, nor have I heard anyone being recruited into these circles.
    It is also quite interesting hearing about the esoteric Guenon and Evola being talked about.

    • @iannordin5250
      @iannordin5250 2 роки тому +1

      Judging by the member's history, at least 1 or all of them are esoteric fascists. They believe in things like shared consciousness between people of the same race, and one of the more popular ideas in the space is that all races have certain symbols and ideas that are reoccurring and innately identified with on a spiritual level, and that hiding and spreading these symbols throughout society can be a means of unlocking mass racial consciousness in oppressed people overtime.

    • @sleepyproduction7166
      @sleepyproduction7166 2 роки тому +84

      It’s probably a scam, and the scammers were like, ‘Let’s be edgy af, and just see how far we can go’ because real nazis wouldnt put this much effort into something that could get them caught this easily. It screams, ‘let’s do this because no one will get it, and if they do it’ll be funny we got this far’

    • @sheilaburrowes9081
      @sheilaburrowes9081 2 роки тому +57

      @@sleepyproduction7166 Yeah, this reeks of some knowledgeable 4chan /x/-type guys saying "we know enough to make this look like some fun modern-day esoteric conspiracy" and trolling people for the lulz. Which is pretty funny and a great antidote to the serious business the internet has become with its extreme centralisation, "cancel culture", etc. At least this is orders of magnitude more exciting than another company posting a rainbow-ised version of its logo.
      (As for the OP, I wouldn't exactly call Evola "esoteric". Maybe Guenon. Though neither have amazingly high specificity or sensitivity as a test for ethnats or adjacent ideologies. Not that it would matter regardless: those guys are fine.)

    • @NanashiCAST
      @NanashiCAST 2 роки тому +5

      it was probably one big apes together stronk meme shitpost in nft form

    • @Julius064
      @Julius064 2 роки тому +3

      @@ramonandrajo6348 lmao natzees lost get over it

  • @Victor.-.E
    @Victor.-.E 2 роки тому +126

    "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" is also a fantastic album by Stereolab. I think that would be a better known reference

    • @trevyn1016
      @trevyn1016 2 роки тому

      That's the problem with making such weak connections. To prove a theory like this you need to have actual quotes or actions taken by these people. Instead he has zero. I think the way NFTs are traded and inflated is very scammy but this whole video was low grade research. Like alluding to Julius Evola's work being Nazi facism because NYT and Wikipedia says so. A quick search of his beliefs showed he was in opposition with German Nazi ideas. Not saying he had good ideas but it is strange to claim a neo nazi is secretly praising him.

    • @Diree
      @Diree 2 роки тому +13

      @@cn.st.182 Isn't that the case with EVERY conspiracy? You just have to look "deep" enough. I'm sure someone can come up with a conspiracy video for just about anything ... but these coincidences ARE interesting nevertheless. And not too far-fetched, considering their own statements and their own past.

    • @RyderRipps
      @RyderRipps 2 роки тому +8

      its named after the movie

    • @Victor.-.E
      @Victor.-.E 2 роки тому +10

      @@RyderRipps Sure, probably is. All I'm saying is that the vast majority of people who recognize the phrase "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" have no idea that that movie exists

    • @TheALEXiSounds
      @TheALEXiSounds 2 роки тому +12

      Actually it's not.
      If you know anything about BAYC, their character traits and their history, you would know that they place a huge emphasis on history & historical events.
      The chance that Emperor Tomato Ketchup is referencing a Stereolab album, vs. a historical movie set in an important & famous historical time, is pretty slim.

  • @indochinaconnex4308
    @indochinaconnex4308 2 роки тому +16

    The fact that the founders originally didn’t want to be known says all you need to know.

  • @craig.a.glesner
    @craig.a.glesner 2 роки тому +22

    I am both happy and sad that I am not the only person to notice the similarity between the BAYC logo and the Waffen SS logo. It is super creepy.

    • @natedaniel4489
      @natedaniel4489 2 роки тому

      I see no similarity lol not even same kind

    • @coffee115
      @coffee115 Рік тому

      ​@@natedaniel4489cope

  • @MisterSofty
    @MisterSofty 2 роки тому +66

    Guenon without the é is one of the many words for "monkey" in french. It's often synonymous with "female monkey" to be precise. It's also the common name of a specific species of monkey. Thanks to a slight semantic shift, it also used to mean "extremely ugly female", but it's a bit antiquated.

    • @TikTakGamingTr
      @TikTakGamingTr 2 роки тому +3

      Yeah that might be explicable on its own but the other answers were also related to racist stuff everything put together is inexplicable

  • @highroller6244
    @highroller6244 2 роки тому +19

    "jedem das seine" in the German understanding of that phrase means: "you get what you deserve (good and bad)" or "everybody makes his own desicions / choices for them selfs." The second Interpretation is way more common than the first by the way. Germans don't use that phrase to mock anyone (at least not anymore). You say "jedem das seine" when somebody makes a decision that you would not have made. It's like shrugging your shoulders.

    • @Smonsequenses
      @Smonsequenses 2 роки тому

      Germans don't use that phrase anymore at all as the connection to Buchenwald still lives in everyones minds. To say otherwise is nazi apologism.

  • @S4BRETOOTH
    @S4BRETOOTH 2 роки тому +165

    Watching the video and all the coincidences, the only thing that I can imagine with all this info is; that these 4 guys sound like nihilistic 4chan users., playing a huge prank that went out of control, and now they are enjoying the ride.

    • @swiftyasaninja
      @swiftyasaninja 2 роки тому +32

      Agreed. I'm no nazi, but when I was younger I loved to put nazi references in stuff like a dog whistle to other edgelords.

    • @dread1512
      @dread1512 2 роки тому +4

      I think exactly the same

    • @sheilaburrowes9081
      @sheilaburrowes9081 2 роки тому +15

      @@swiftyasaninja It was fun to do it ironically, but it's even more fun unironically.

    • @randomphoenix4027
      @randomphoenix4027 2 роки тому +12

      Wouldn't be the first time a bunch of 4channers tried something like this to ruin the reputations of NFTs, a while back they did try to get NFTs rebranded as (N slur) for trade and made up evidence to spread on twitter and other sites to make NFTs look like a secret white supremacist hobby.
      This being an out of control prank in the same vein is certainly possible.

    • @pitterpatter4201
      @pitterpatter4201 2 роки тому +1

      eh, for it all to be so subtle it seems as if they are serious and not joking.

  • @toomanyaccounts
    @toomanyaccounts 2 роки тому +156

    Binance had to change their logo when it was pointed out it resembled the Magic Pinwheel. To Amerinds, Hindus, Buddhists, etc the Magic Pinwheel means a whole different thing then it does when associated with the Austrian Mustache man.

    • @JamesStakerWin
      @JamesStakerWin 2 роки тому +7

      People wont even be honest about what it meant to Austrian Mustache man's slave populace.

    • @sama847
      @sama847 2 роки тому +13

      @@ramonandrajo6348 you’re trolling all of the comments go touch grass

    • @sama847
      @sama847 2 роки тому +13

      @@ramonandrajo6348 How does it feel to be losing the culture war. Seethe

    • @sheilaburrowes9081
      @sheilaburrowes9081 2 роки тому +1

      It's so retarded. You have to wonder who's seeing an image of the based pinwheel and having a panic attack. And then you have to wonder whether that person should've passed the test of Darwinian evolution. (Or whether cultural ""sensitivity"" is making them bonkers, which I find a highly compelling argument.)

    • @ChronoSquare
      @ChronoSquare 2 роки тому +11

      Magic pinwheel that's a new one for me.

  • @Queldonus
    @Queldonus 2 роки тому +37

    Honestly this being true would fit the level of crazy we see out of crypto.

    • @peachy_lili
      @peachy_lili 2 роки тому +4

      also the same level of vigorous self-pleasuring amounting to jack and shit that these nerds are so fond of honestly

  • @Zachpi
    @Zachpi 2 роки тому +11

    I've seen another video about this, my opinion is that the main purpose of the project, besides money, was to dupe celebrities into being tied up with nazi imagery. That video contained information suggesting that the creators likely were 4chan users, and that is the type of trolling behavior that I would expect from them.

    • @birdsteak9267
      @birdsteak9267 Рік тому +1

      That is what it actually is, all you have to do is to look at the ethnicity of the creators behind this Ape thing, Wylie Aronow is Je-wish and it should be obvious to everyone who sees his face and he is of Middle-Eastern descent.
      Same with Greg Solano, also Je-wish who both are scamming gullible White Europeans for money, and channels like this want to frame it on "Whyte suprimism) and I must say I am impressed, at least some people here didn't fall for it, this channel deal in dishonest journalism. Surf the wave, that is a new expression to me as well, though I can see the meaning of it and this channel, my guess is refused to go into depth of that, maybe because there is too much truth to it, can't give the natsees the benefit of predicting the future based on current events and a trend in degeneracy and stupidity, where greed, stupidity and low cultures rules, many States in for example America is turning into a third world country under Marxism, which was implemented into the schools back in yhe 1960s, people today are already contaminated with it and they will sink with it, we are preparing, training, promoting health and basically get out of the cities into the rurals, to grow food and become independent, make ourself stronger and withstand the 3 phase of the marxist agenda in hope we will rise out of it and eventually win. This is a War against Communism, all happening behind the scenes. You can listen to people like in this video or be your own journalist, be unbiased and figure things out for yourself, whatever conclusion you arkivet at is what you think is best for you, regardless, all in all i hope that you will do okay for yourself, that you aren't so fully dependent on a system, which is built on a philosophical contract that can fracture at any given time, it takes 6 weeks to bring Civilization on it's knees and that is what the Communists wants, which is why I advice to looknup Yuri Bezmenov, a Ex KGB defector abiut ideological subversion. We are all contaminated, brought up with marxism and are marxists without knowing it. Stage 3 is Crisis. First stage was already finished in the 80s.

    • @durshurrikun150
      @durshurrikun150 Рік тому

      So they are nazis

  • @FinlayDaG33k
    @FinlayDaG33k 2 роки тому +33

    >Tries to not mention Uncle Adolf.
    >"It was just the name"
    >proceeds to swear
    gave me a solid chuckle :^)

    • @UrsineArms
      @UrsineArms 2 роки тому +7

      My favorite uncle

    • @dorugoramon0518
      @dorugoramon0518 2 роки тому +2

      @@UrsineArms His art is pretty good too.

    • @edwardtan1354
      @edwardtan1354 2 роки тому +1

      who decided to put toggle locks into everything... from space rockets to scissors

  • @ratonbox
    @ratonbox 2 роки тому +44

    Honestly, this is tinfoil hat level, but at the same time, I wouldn't put it past them.

    • @tweakertv8932
      @tweakertv8932 2 роки тому +1

      You say that like you know them………

  • @siriopezzella7013
    @siriopezzella7013 2 роки тому +175

    The thing that sold it for me as not conspiracy was "the final solution" literally the same words as the Nazis

    • @siriopezzella7013
      @siriopezzella7013 2 роки тому +34

      @@ramonandrajo6348 wtf?

    • @_Jordo
      @_Jordo 2 роки тому +2

      @@siriopezzella7013 I think they got confused and thought you were saying this isn't true. "as not conspiracy" makes sense when you think about it, but at first I thought you were trying to say this isn't true too but the context helped me realize

    • @siriopezzella7013
      @siriopezzella7013 2 роки тому

      @@_Jordo u r right it wasn't the best english

    • @siriopezzella7013
      @siriopezzella7013 2 роки тому +18

      @@ramonandrajo6348 it's me, your father

    • @gabrielscoccola5960
      @gabrielscoccola5960 2 роки тому +9

      Yeah using that phrase is just in poor taste regardless

  • @OniZai
    @OniZai 2 роки тому +68

    If there is a motive, then they have done it with plausible deniability in mind.
    "What do you mean there is a hidden meaning, its just pure coincidence! A pure string of coincidences!"

    • @gnomeimporta6912
      @gnomeimporta6912 2 роки тому +6

      Apply this same mindset to a certain tribe, silly.

    • @electroflame6188
      @electroflame6188 2 роки тому +2

      that's the point of dogwhistles yes

    • @amongsttheruins4490
      @amongsttheruins4490 2 роки тому +6

      Oy vey!
      Someone notify the ADL!

    • @hueghh3775
      @hueghh3775 2 роки тому +3

      @@gnomeimporta6912 damn those perfidious Navajo…

    • @halogod0298
      @halogod0298 2 роки тому +2

      @@electroflame6188 there is nothing you can do about dog whistles, If you attack everyone that you think you perceive, you’ll end up hurting innocent people. It’s not worth it

  • @rppiii6737
    @rppiii6737 2 роки тому +1

    Everyone is commenting on your research and video (which is amazing) but I think your Keeps advertisement is very well done. A deliberate, logical progression to a logical conclusion and quick, not wasting any time to get to the point and also to justify its existence. I didn't feel like you dragged it on at all and transitioned in and out of it perfectly. In a world where advertisements are a necessity, yours was informative and painless. Well done!

  • @mentokmindtruck2443
    @mentokmindtruck2443 2 роки тому +41

    6:47 FWIW regarding the 18th teeth not doing anything to the design is not true, I may be a bit nitpicky but that one last teeth is the difference from the skull having a underbite or not. So overall that is something that is quite essential I would say.

    • @syndrathedarksovereign1609
      @syndrathedarksovereign1609 2 роки тому +8

      Yup, as an artist it's one of those things you see that maybe some others would not.

    • @NightCrawler69
      @NightCrawler69 2 роки тому +5

      More so, Nazi Germany used many versions of the death's head which didn't have 18 teeth, the Luftwaffe version only had 12 and Panzer had 15, it's the weakest point of this theory but over all it's interesting.

    • @eaasports4479
      @eaasports4479 2 роки тому +3

      @@NightCrawler69 It isn't about the actual skull design its about the "calling card" of the neo-nazis, which they have quite a few numbers that would fit the teeth. Yea its weak but combined with it actually being pretty close to the SS patch its bad.

    • @MichaelJM
      @MichaelJM 2 роки тому +1

      ​@@eaasports4479 I don't know. The logo design is pretty standard. A circle, with something inside, and text on the outside. Replace BA YC with EST 1980 and you can find a ton of logos with that design.

    • @NightCrawler69
      @NightCrawler69 2 роки тому

      @@eaasports4479 the history of the deaths head has been used through out history by pretty much all Para military groups. As well as by the allies during ww2, many of them being identical the SS version. The jolly Roger used by pirates is a variation as well. Historically it's not a neo nazi symbol.

  • @longrua1231
    @longrua1231 2 роки тому +39

    My film teacher aunt has actually watched emperor tomato ketchup so she told me about it, the plot though has nazi imagery was meant to spoofed the nazi and especially emperor hirohito rule by depicting them as literal children performing unimageable amount of debauchery, the name of the film is because the country name got changed to tomato ketchup on whim by the emperor. Quick story on why and how she watched it, she was writing a thesis on Shuji Terayama for her film major during the early 90s, which coincided with 1986 doi moi policy thus opening vietnam to trade alot more freely and allowing a limited "free thinking" to take places in university, inturn letting alot of this banned film slipped under the crack.

    • @Aereto
      @Aereto 2 роки тому +5

      Rather unfortunate that such films are banned in general, when most are not intelligent enough to understand what is propaganda.

    • @_EggsBenedict
      @_EggsBenedict 2 роки тому +8

      @@Aereto it
      it had child-[REDACTED] in it

    • @hotdognl70
      @hotdognl70 2 роки тому +11

      @@_EggsBenedict The characters were depicted as children, not for the sake of your [REDACTED] but for the sake of spoofing bad guys. So if we have to ban any movie missused by some people to drop their pants to pleasure themselves we can ban half of the manga genre. Or any coming of age drama.
      As Aereto pointed out: Stupid people causing stupid bans.

    • @cp1cupcake
      @cp1cupcake 2 роки тому +3

      @@hotdognl70 US law, and I presume laws in other countries, are based on the assumption that creating prurient material depicting children is wrong, and the distribution of it is an incentive to make more.
      Then you have stuff like Cuties, where Netflix decided the best way to let people know about child abuse during film and dance.....was to abuse the children themselves.
      Yes, its a 'for the children' argument, and those are notoriously easy to pass into law, but you probably should draw the line somewhere.
      I only just heard of this film, so I don't know about the content in it (like it if was live action or not), but I think comparing manga or anime to a live action film forgets that only one of those forms of medium might need to have a serious "no children were harmed in the creation of this" descriptor.

    • @hotdognl70
      @hotdognl70 2 роки тому +1

      @@cp1cupcake It is a live action b/w movie. And in all fairness, I can't judge for myself if it was abuse or just kids acting or both, neither to wich degree.
      That said, it's not the first time artists seem to believe they live by different rules. (Mister R. Kelly anyone?)
      Nice you mention "Cuties", have you seen it? Controversial for sure, but is it abuse if these kids are just doing on camera what they already did before on Tiktok? That is close to comparing throwing a duck in the water and waterboarding.
      The controversie should have been more about the normalisation of the behaviour. Certain music video's do more harm in this way by showing kids that it's cool to be a sexy object. And a good part of the Manga is well known for over-sexualized characters talkig with kids voices. By holding these to a different standard the door to normalisation is opened.
      This particular movie however was ment as a spoof, not as child abuse promotion. Same goes for "Cuties". Banning is pointless, a good rating system and actual enforcement combined with education will be more effective.
      Regarding laws in general and US specifc: Laws should never be based on assumptions. If certain intentions can be proven, fair.
      If only gun laws were hold against the same standards as banning movies and other art forms, far more children could be saved!

  • @whyjnot420
    @whyjnot420 2 роки тому +46

    I think it was Michael Shermer (founder of Skeptic magazine) or Steven Novella (Doctor at the Yale University School of Medicine, founder of the New England Skeptical Society, Skeptics Guide to the Universe, Neurologica) who suggested that instead of using 'conspiracy theory', to use 'theory of conspiracy'. Due to the obvious baggage of the term 'conspiracy theory'.

    • @HappyGingerWolf
      @HappyGingerWolf 2 роки тому +6

      If that ever became popular all the crazy ones would start using it too, and it would get the same baggage, because they all think their theories are reasonable

    • @kavky
      @kavky 2 роки тому

      "conspiracy theory" was popularized by the CIA as a way to discredit whistleblowers and anyone who pointed out their conspiracies.

    • @whyjnot420
      @whyjnot420 2 роки тому +1

      @@HappyGingerWolf Perhaps, but in the meantime it functions and it is not a cumbersome term. You can see the exact same thing with the insistence on using UAP, Unexplained Ariel Phenomenon.
      Even though the term UFO has even more baggage than 'conspiracy theory' does, at leas some people looking for aliens still use the term even though it has long been supplanted by UAP. I would suggest that if 'theory of conspiracy' entered the common lexicon, both it and 'conspiracy theory' would continue to exist at the same time, just as UFO & UAP.
      Also to note is that in terms of nomenclature it follows how, in the common vernacular, most scientific theories are named, e.g. theory of gravity. Not that the word "theory" carries the weight it should in the common vernacular. Final note, by putting the word 'theory' first instead of 'conspiracy', I would argue that you are priming the brain of the listener/reader in a different way than you would with "conspiracy" being first, given the baggage that 'conspiracy theory' and even just 'conspiracy' have.

    • @whyjnot420
      @whyjnot420 2 роки тому +1

      @@kavky I have heard that claim before, but I do not know if I believe it, though I would not put it past them. But that said..... I have always thought of it as something like the term 'big bang theory' (literally those three words, not the actual scientific theory) which was actually a _mocking_ term used by proponents of the steady state model of the universe (specifically I think it was Fred Hoyle who coined it). But the term was adopted by those it was intended to mock.
      I always imagined people using the term to mock those coming up with conspiracies. In a manner like humoring a child by pretending to be weak or by saying how great their art is (you might love it, but no 3 year old even has the fine motor skill of an adult). Humoring the person by adding 'theory' to 'conspiracy'.
      Even if not started this way, this is how I think it spread. I think the downfall of the word 'theory' to mean 'guess' is actually tied into this. Again, even if not the actual starting point of its downfall, I think this played a huge roll in it.
      addendum: I like to toss variations of the 'its just a theory' line out in conversation as bait. Theory is a word that carries immense weight and to conflate it with the word 'guess' is the height of ignorance. To my chagrin I have never once been called out on it, people take the bait every single time. I have been doing this for over 20 years now. NOT ONE GODDAMNED PERSON. I am also quick to point out that they took it hook, line & sinker. So they always know it was a test within a moment of it happening. Language changes over time, but technical words, i.e. niche words with strict definitions, as the word theory properly is, stay. Sometimes with little change. Take the Norwegian influence upon English, its mostly technical jargon of a nautical nature that comes from the age of Vikings (more or less).

    • @domestinger8805
      @domestinger8805 2 роки тому +1

      The point is whether it is a conspiracy or not, or whether it is a theory or not, it makes no difference to whether, or not, it actually is a thing.

  • @CEHFitness
    @CEHFitness 2 роки тому +10

    Great video. Philion uploaded one himself this week that blew me away #burnbayc

  • @TheSkepticalPanda
    @TheSkepticalPanda 2 роки тому +3

    “The numbers Upper Echelon! What do they mean!?” I appreciate your deep dive and observations on this stuff.

  • @mattguy1773
    @mattguy1773 2 роки тому +43

    This is not the way return to monke was supposed to go
    We were just supposed to become monke

  • @randomone4832
    @randomone4832 Рік тому +8

    I like that you consistently disclaim that this is highly conspiratorial. A lot of UA-camrs are irresponsible and state theory as fact. You’re one of the few who covers theories responsibly. Wish more channels were as ethical as you.

  • @juliasousa6299
    @juliasousa6299 2 роки тому +4

    people commenting "oh they're not naz they're just trolling
    my brother in christ by that logic you can utter the biggest profanity ever then say its a joke and its all good??? Go outside i beg of you

  • @Takim0n
    @Takim0n 2 роки тому +5

    Impressive you published this story days before mainstream CT started talking about it. Nice work on the early scoop. Appreciate the alpha

  • @redwolf92
    @redwolf92 2 роки тому +5

    >create epic psy-op
    >clown millions of sheeps
    >COWABUNGA

  • @TheGreenKnight500
    @TheGreenKnight500 2 роки тому +9

    I've heard of the Stoned Ape Theory, but the Bored Ape Theory? That's something new.

    • @AspiringDevil
      @AspiringDevil 2 роки тому +2

      What no love for Aquatic ape theory?

    • @Nando-po3db
      @Nando-po3db 2 роки тому +1

      😂😂

    • @TheGreenKnight500
      @TheGreenKnight500 2 роки тому +1

      @@AspiringDevil Obviously we evolved because a bunch of apes got so bored that they got smarter.

    • @AspiringDevil
      @AspiringDevil 2 роки тому +1

      @@TheGreenKnight500 yes... but under water.

  • @joshb2008
    @joshb2008 2 роки тому +13

    Their new motto is gonna be "NFTs will set you free."

  • @adi_trades99
    @adi_trades99 2 роки тому +3

    This is better than Philions's long ass take on the bored apes. Much more condensed and better structured, even though the content is 99% the same.
    Good job!

  • @Sahxocnsba
    @Sahxocnsba 2 роки тому +2

    Nahhhh, the tomato ketchup guy alone makes this not fucking okay. This is fucking crazy. What the actual fuck

  • @CowCommando
    @CowCommando 2 роки тому +35

    This all seems rather a tenuous connection at best. It reminds me of the six steps from Kevin Bacon thing. If we start from anyone or any group, how many steps away from this sort of thing are they? If someone had an agenda, how many steps would it take for them to connect you or I to this sort of thing?

    • @Aurinna
      @Aurinna 2 роки тому +1

      All NFT owners are neo-nazis lol

    • @uros.u.novakovic
      @uros.u.novakovic 2 роки тому +11

      A lot of threads and connections in this video are nothing more than a reach in my opinion. I mean if you try hard enough, you can connect anything and everything.

    • @jansettler4828
      @jansettler4828 2 роки тому +1

      @@APsychicMonkey Just ignore all the other weird coincidences, one of their members being a 4channer, one of their members having weird obsession with Nazi movies, and their logo being more or less copy and paste from the TKW-SS?
      I mean sure, some of this is a stretch, but all together?

  • @earlcuill351
    @earlcuill351 2 роки тому +5

    Paranoid Delusions: the youtube essay

    • @FukU2222
      @FukU2222 2 роки тому

      Nah bro, that's Phil's hour long time-sink

  • @FallingPicturesProductions
    @FallingPicturesProductions 2 роки тому +9

    That's...alot of stretching. Like how the ok handsign was somehow supposed to mean 'whiy powa' (don't want to be hidden by the tube's systems).
    The logo looking like the W's logo, yeah, I saw that right off the bat. Having spent my time on the boards, yes, the Garga is a reference to what you think it is, it's not a constantly spammed whistle but it comes up often enough in that context, and hardly ever anywhere else in alternate contexts, that unless you have a really strange Smurf's superfan going for it this connection is the only reasonable one to make. Garga probably has spent time (or maybe still spends it) on the boards as well and based off the interview alone he's using tricks that he sees himself as being 'oh so smart' for using because he's mimicking perceived long-nose gang tricks for the benefit of himself and a few buddies, not realizing that such tricks are commonly used by anyone regardless of genetic or cultural affiliation.
    But beyond that, it's pushing. It's pushing really fucking hard. It's the kind of thing that when you see one or two red flags you become hyper-primed for more, and your brain overcompensates and starts conflating oranges, purples, and pinks for red when they're not meant to be read. The bit with Kali Yuga especially, it is associated so heavily with Indian culture that attempts by ns-guys to incorporate it into their own stuff comes off as straight bullshit.
    The biggest bit that makes me doubt it's a grand party of '33 scheme is that it fucking sucks. It's a platform for pure profit, sucking funds out of idiots and occupying annoying headspace in the cultural short-term memory. The h-man dedicate a part of his (ungodly bloated) first book to propaganda and how it should be simple, based in some small amount of truth, and convincing. You can see such propaganda all over the internet now, just take a passing look at the original Dark Synthwave and Little Dark Age edits to see how such propaganda with that mindset is made in the current age. Everything with Board Apes though has been sleazy, lazy, and fucking sucks for spreading values or ideologies.
    My guess? It's four guys scamming the masses, one of them has drank the kook-aid for years and has become the very thing his angsty 16-20 year old self swore to destroy and now wears the shit passively on his sleeve for the edge, while the others are somewhere between idiots and scammers, and one of them *might* be a predator or at least be inclined toward that. Just because there are two or three blatant red flags doesn't mean that every shade of orange, pink, and purple is a hidden red flag.

    • @Reindeer911
      @Reindeer911 2 роки тому

      Heh! The OK hand sign actually started as a prank on 4chan that somehow gained traction in the "Woke" crowd. I wonder if something similar is going on here with "Bored Ape". Regardless, I agree... I think he's either stretching it or reading too much into it.

  • @ShinFahima
    @ShinFahima 2 роки тому +6

    Forget Keeps, we need a new sponsor of head-tattoos.

    • @FoxtrotYouniform
      @FoxtrotYouniform 2 роки тому +1

      Im hoping to get my first head tattoo by the end of 2023

  • @atomic.madness452
    @atomic.madness452 2 роки тому +13

    As a graffiti writer it’s super cool to see people actually talking about graf culture and NEXT’s legacy. Great video man, keep it up

    • @derederekat9051
      @derederekat9051 2 роки тому

      not into Graffiti but sure it's leagues better than modern art.

    • @beartrap7065
      @beartrap7065 Рік тому

      as long as you dont Graf private property, i love graffiti.

  • @MegrelMamba
    @MegrelMamba Рік тому +1

    "Never lose your banana"
    "Now you chant..."
    "Billions must chimp"
    "The chimpazian spirit"

  • @narfd.8837
    @narfd.8837 2 роки тому +17

    9:50 not even close, but you get an A for effort

    • @UltimateTobi
      @UltimateTobi 2 роки тому +8

      None of the German words were remotely correctly pronounced. Which I don't expect BTW. Just mentioning.
      But yes, A for effort.

    • @narfd.8837
      @narfd.8837 2 роки тому +2

      @@UltimateTobi Yeah, I wrote my comment as I was watching along. If someone wants to pronouce a different language correctly, a guide of sorts is more or less mandatory, especially with the more complicated languages. Correct pronounciation doesn't come easy

    • @vissermatt1058
      @vissermatt1058 2 роки тому

      @@narfd.8837 i mean, not that its a problem, but he has gotten english names wrong in recent videos
      he appears to do a shit ton of research but will mess up pronunciations every once and awhile, its probably cause he is more interested in the story instead of the presentation?

    • @mikecampos1193
      @mikecampos1193 2 роки тому

      Seems like a lot to go for the troll lefties.

  • @dehaimyoshan
    @dehaimyoshan 2 роки тому +43

    Quite a few "oopsies tee hee" moments but not enough for that 95% confidence measure, best to keep a few close eyes and microscopes on these fine lads.

    • @RedShocktrooperRST
      @RedShocktrooperRST 2 роки тому +7

      The only way it could start getting mode obvious is is they slid in a reference to the 14 words. Lot winks and nods smong these groups when they aren't operating publicly

  • @mariusvanc
    @mariusvanc 2 роки тому +35

    This is just moral panic on full display. You can read anything into any collection of names.

    • @jamescollier9196
      @jamescollier9196 2 роки тому +13

      Exactly. Even if this was all intentional, it is most likely an inside joke of bad taste.

    • @pitterpatter4201
      @pitterpatter4201 2 роки тому

      you have to be absolutely willfully ignorant to say that to all of these "coincidences". Also no one writes an entire thesis paper and does this much research into all of these topics on their free time without an actual affinity for what they are writing just for some joke. No matter what is shown to some people they will never open their eyes to something so obvious. All of the members and everything they do regarding this ties into N Germany ideology. At that point you must be blind and low IQ to say "oh you're just doing mental gymnastics". Or "its just a prank bro". C'mon people, you have to be low IQ or just a fan of this kind of stuff yourself to do so.

    • @Stevemastersreason
      @Stevemastersreason 2 роки тому +3

      @@jamescollier9196 I love the taste. Trolling triggerhappy people is always a tasteful art of high culture.

  • @kshadyij
    @kshadyij 2 роки тому +1

    ryder ripps is not just any user, but one of the most important internet artists of our time. also, this is a developing story, with ryder launching his own version of the bayc with all proceeds going to charity

  • @creid1909
    @creid1909 2 роки тому +21

    If you want to see a connection you will see a connection.
    Emperor Tomato Ketchup could come from the album of the same name(the album was named after the film) or it just sounded weird. What I turned up with a 5min search said the film itself was just artsy fartsy junk not pro whatever the film actually showed.
    Sass also stands for syntactically awesome style sheets, Single Action Shooting Society, the actual word sass, Screening, Assessment and Support Services and that's what I turned up on the first page of a search.
    Sooo your saying that some dude that is racist calls himself Gargamel which "may" be a slur toward Jewish people... anyone else see the failure in that logic? Gorden goner is an anagram... righhht again this is what he's calling himself, this is his name. If you do not like a certain type of people you do not call yourself a slur toward those people. My name is not a slur towards video game whales because if it was then I would be calling myself one of them.
    The tag is obvious since there has never been another flag/symbol of a black background with a white skull ever before or after WWII... It's never been used as a generic pirate flag or the hells angels or the punisher... right?
    If you want to see a connection you will see a connection. UEG I 100% respect you and what you do, please keep doing it and I wish I had a little bit of free money to put toward your patreon but right now I cant afford it. But come on one group of people calling the other group of people racist or whatever and going to ridiculous lengths to justify the statement is getting out of hand. Do you think someone that went to the length of finding out what papers a guy he's "investigating" wrote in collage(btw, why was there no mention of if the paper put the solders in a good or bad light?) is doing it in good faith or is just finding "facts" that he can twist to say what he wants?

  • @tylerm2676
    @tylerm2676 2 роки тому +3

    Bro the way you tell these investigation pieces is awesome 👍

  • @Nahinalau
    @Nahinalau 2 роки тому +20

    Love the conspiracy content. Do the Skull and Bones secret society next.

  • @cp1cupcake
    @cp1cupcake 2 роки тому +31

    The two issues I have with this are (1) there is a serious demand for white supremacists to exist which far exceeds supply and (2) this started reminding me a lot of the bible code. When you have enough data, you can pretty much show anything to be a reference to whatever you want.

    • @eaasports4479
      @eaasports4479 2 роки тому

      Look at some other crypto companies with this amount of stuff and you will see a lot less nazi shit. I also suggest you look at the type of people that are selling these on their website and how much they sell them for, almost all of them have some sort of "88" in them. Its not the fact that there are coincidences its the sheer amount of them. This video didn't even mention half of them either. I wouldn't have believed it until I saw the sheet amount of neo-nazi calling cards they end up using in literally everything they do.

    • @lesgo7228
      @lesgo7228 2 роки тому

      Demand for white supremacists to exist 😭💀 sure buddy

    • @avroarchitect1793
      @avroarchitect1793 2 роки тому +2

      could just be 4chan humor and the founders trolling. Or it could be true, who really knows. Either way it is inconsequential until it falls appart.

    • @fica1137
      @fica1137 2 роки тому

      It went from making connections like SS logo to shit even nutjob christian conspiracy theorists would question the sanity of whoever wrote that shit

  • @russiansponge9813
    @russiansponge9813 2 роки тому +1

    Philion made a very in-depth video about this for anyone interested to hear even more about this

  • @arsinatdawn5358
    @arsinatdawn5358 2 роки тому +1

    Oh lord these Guys are trying to reinvigorate these horrors of history. Blow this up UE!

  • @thelastduden
    @thelastduden 2 роки тому +17

    Such a good video!
    Would be amazing, if you did a following up video on if the entire project has an even bigger hidden message

  • @LexaTerrestrialx
    @LexaTerrestrialx 2 роки тому +3

    literally every one of the founders names has a cryptically or obviously racist undertone

  • @LouKofiah
    @LouKofiah 2 роки тому +3

    I unsubscribe from more pop culture news channels every time you upload a new one. Keep up the truly amazing vis, UEG!

  • @penzlic
    @penzlic 2 роки тому +1

    This would make great "National Fascist Treasure" short film starring Nicholas Cage copypasting bored ape from Twitter and making profile picture out of it.

  • @metademetra
    @metademetra Рік тому +4

    I think it's a bit silly that you think someone's name being the word "sass" is less of a coincidence than someone's name being the same as an incredibly obscure pro-Axis power propoganda film with child nudity.

  • @Bloodfencer1990
    @Bloodfencer1990 2 роки тому +6

    As a German I have to tell you that your German pronunciation is completely wrong and frankly, kind of terrible. But the research, the connections and the presentation of all the information is solid and incredibly well done.

    • @SteveMacSticky
      @SteveMacSticky 2 роки тому +3

      yeah I know, but give him a break, he's only American!

  • @thenewsscavenger2919
    @thenewsscavenger2919 2 роки тому +6

    That brings a whole new meaning to NFT.
    It might as well stand for Nazi Federated Token.

  • @adamlovell1
    @adamlovell1 2 роки тому +8

    Sir...I am blown away. I love these sorts of rabbit holes and you are delivering consistently. Cheers!

  • @NaudVanDalen
    @NaudVanDalen 2 роки тому +1

    Their "bathroom wall" is like Reddit's r/place, but for rich people who can afford to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a picture of a monkey.

  • @DoctorNemmo
    @DoctorNemmo 2 роки тому +1

    Roberto Bolaño wasn't a nazi nor a nazi sympathizer. His book was basically a criticism of southamerican literature.
    But yes, the design of the BAYC logo is clearly intentional.

  • @Zandeves
    @Zandeves 2 роки тому +4

    i believe if you look hard enough, you can find connections between any two things like this. especially if those two things are as broad as this. that doesnt confirm or deny anything though. its so strange. how many coincidences does it really take for it to become fact?

    • @xXxEisernesKreuzxXx
      @xXxEisernesKreuzxXx 2 роки тому

      unlimited and 0 because if its fact decides every viewer for himself

  • @magetsalive5162
    @magetsalive5162 2 роки тому +38

    Gog danm! I KNEW NFTs were a HYDRA plot all along, but I never foresaw THIS one coming!
    In all seriousness, though, I'm way more inclined to brush this all off as extreme coincidence. It seems like way too much effort.

    • @rubikmonat6589
      @rubikmonat6589 2 роки тому +11

      It makes for. Fun scary story though, it has value as entertainment, like UFOs.

    • @pitterpatter4201
      @pitterpatter4201 2 роки тому +8

      You contradict yourself in your last statement. Where there is smoke there is fire. And here is a whole lotta smoke to be found.

    • @marceloantunes998
      @marceloantunes998 2 роки тому +2

      @@pitterpatter4201 Wait, does that mean that if there's no smoke there's no fire?
      Because I can think of quite a lot of occasions where Someone screamed fire but no one saw any smoke nor any ashes.

    • @michaelbraun9750
      @michaelbraun9750 2 роки тому +1

      This video can be summed up as:
      Hail Hydra.
      Thanks Marvel studios for making that reference possible,
      That's my feeling after watching this and to me another proof how good humans are at pattern recognition and seeing links all and about.
      As an aside, in general using a skull as a logo for strikes me as strange, unless it's specifically meant to provoke that feeling.

  • @TheMrWilson
    @TheMrWilson 2 роки тому +24

    Also, forgot to mention.. the HashMasks weren’t “for the apes”. It’s an entirely separate project launched by an entirely different group.

  • @peterb9038
    @peterb9038 2 роки тому

    Jezz man, what a rabbit hole to go down. It's not a wonder you are so good at RPGs. I would never have thought the number of teeth a skull has would convey any kind of meaning.

  • @AlejandroDeYavorsky159
    @AlejandroDeYavorsky159 2 роки тому +2

    What the fuck lmao. I dont have any connection with bored ape, but holy shit this is the biggest stretch ive seen in my life

  • @Knasbas
    @Knasbas 2 роки тому +20

    A principle within art interpretation is that you see what you want to see, not what was intended. Meaning that the observer isn't always that reliable. The logos for example both have a late 80's-90's punk/grunge/street style which always have been popular. Look at the band Gorilaz. Similar things can be said to everything in the video. I know it is stated multiple times in the video i might just be a coincident, but I still wanted to point it out for a balanced discussion.
    Also even if the references were to be true they might just be edgelords and find it funny.
    BTW I'm no cryptobro in anyway and is generally sceptical towards blockchain techlology so I'm not defending anybody. This was just thoughts I had troughout the video.

    • @prinxe4230
      @prinxe4230 2 роки тому

      you have to be willfully ignorant to believe they're just being artsy or edgy. it's 4chan bullshittery

  • @YourSkyliner
    @YourSkyliner 2 роки тому +5

    You definitely went overboard with this dude. This is neither relevant nor informative enough to make 20 minutes video about it.

  • @axnoro
    @axnoro 2 роки тому +11

    This is an exercise in conjecture and reminds me of the satanic panic era about playing records backwards having ties to satan. I have no love for the bayc thing mind you nor for the other things you discussed here.

  • @CC3GROUNDZERO
    @CC3GROUNDZERO 10 місяців тому

    I heard them briefly mentioned in Dan Olson's NFT video, but never suspected that it goes this low.

  • @cheezemonkeyeater
    @cheezemonkeyeater 2 роки тому +1

    "I know these names might be difficult to remember . . ."
    I will never forget Emperor Tomato Ketchup.

  • @carlosbamboozalo9797
    @carlosbamboozalo9797 2 роки тому +47

    Seems like you/someone has crafted a convincing string of related information that seems to be connected. Almost seems like its hopping onto the 4chan meme about NFT's being racist. I'm not a NFT bro and dont care what it turns out to be, just seems like someone investigating how these theories propagate. Good luck, always love your content and hope you get to the bottom of it.

    • @avroarchitect1793
      @avroarchitect1793 2 роки тому +10

      Its more likely to be 4chan style trolling/ humor than actual "spicy german ideology"

    • @donovanparsons5149
      @donovanparsons5149 2 роки тому

      @@avroarchitect1793 4chan is FULL of Nazis who love to do this type of “humor” because they are chronically online.

  • @ShinFahima
    @ShinFahima 2 роки тому +23

    W-woah. I legitimately facepalmed once I saw that tag over that Nekst tag. :|
    Everything about NFTs is an embarrassment.

    • @l0lLorenzol0l
      @l0lLorenzol0l 2 роки тому

      As someone who knows nothing about graffiti, it would seem to me like you would wanna research qhat you are gonna spray over as to not accidentally create drama woth other graffiti people.
      Incredbly retarded move.

    • @luc5483
      @luc5483 2 роки тому +2

      @@jungle1776 the "powers" don't need to make NFTs look ridiculous, the crypto community already did that

    • @blob22201
      @blob22201 2 роки тому +4

      To be fair it's hardly a Rembrandt masterpiece, I'd clean it off a wall without a second thought.

    • @0uttaS1TE
      @0uttaS1TE 2 роки тому +1

      At least the market's going to hell.

    • @greenfrogbad
      @greenfrogbad 2 роки тому +1

      @@blob22201 Yes. The choice of medium alone says something about the caliber of this "art".

  • @WALLACEraps
    @WALLACEraps 2 роки тому +3

    This video should go viral honestly. Changed my entire perspective on BAYC - thought they were all about inclusivity (besides price), but I really can't rock with the amount of "coincidences" that reference such cruel & hateful topics. This isn't FUD, it's literally thrown in our face. "Gordan Goner" what a prick.

  • @lithunoisan
    @lithunoisan 2 роки тому +1

    Emperor Tomato Ketchup is also a Stereolab album, it was named after the film of course, but I feel like it is more likely that they named themself after the album rather than the film.

    • @ChucksSEADnDEAD
      @ChucksSEADnDEAD 2 роки тому +1

      But look at the pattern - there's an album acting as cover for the movie, and a game character acting as cover for Kali Yuga. It's done on purpose.

    • @lithunoisan
      @lithunoisan 2 роки тому

      @@ChucksSEADnDEAD a game character?

    • @ChucksSEADnDEAD
      @ChucksSEADnDEAD 2 роки тому

      @@lithunoisan They say Yuga Labs comes from a character named Yuga in a 3ds Zelda game. But it's clear they had references they wanted to make, and looked up excuses that would give them plausible deniability. They worked backwards.

    • @lithunoisan
      @lithunoisan 2 роки тому

      @@ChucksSEADnDEAD alright, thank you, now I understand your joke.

  • @mitchells7634
    @mitchells7634 2 роки тому +1

    2 things lining is probably a coincidence. 6 things lining up is probably not coincidence.

  • @sebrij
    @sebrij 2 роки тому +54

    bored ape fans can watch this video and whole heartedly believe "it´s just a coincidence" 30 times

    • @Wolkenwandererr
      @Wolkenwandererr 2 роки тому +7

      30 reaches is still a reach. Normies have officially gone schizo

    • @sebrij
      @sebrij 2 роки тому +16

      @@Wolkenwandererr yeah bro it's just a coincidence 30 times, nothing to see here. You are so smart and "normies" can defo not see behind all that 4chan nazi bs.

    • @Wolkenwandererr
      @Wolkenwandererr 2 роки тому

      @@sebrij I’m literally what you’d classify as a nazi. How the fuck would these be dog whistles if none of us figured this out? Not one thing in this video was obvious to me or anyone on 4chan, normies figured this out. If there were dog whistles I would have picked up on it years ago

    • @LeatherNinja
      @LeatherNinja 2 роки тому +5

      @@Wolkenwandererr please say that you're just baiting

    • @Wolkenwandererr
      @Wolkenwandererr 2 роки тому

      @@LeatherNinja I’m not baiting, you have boogyman syndrome. Nazis aren’t making nfts to troll the masses, as cool of an idea as that is that’s not what this was. The founders literally consist of a jew, a turk and a Pakistani. I don’t think I need to explain how that makes no sense

  • @mgy2877
    @mgy2877 2 роки тому +11

    As someone within the Graf (Graffiti) scene a little bit, it is ALWAYS disrespectful to tag on someone else's work. It often creates beef between two people or groups. But obviously going over an icon is going to cause SO much headache for the apes. I am hoping someone close to NEKST/ someone finds a way to cover up that stupid ape logo. They could literally have done it any where else. But I can't help but think that they did it on PURPOSE to cause a stir. That would kinda make sense to though, you know?

  • @brucebaker810
    @brucebaker810 2 роки тому +3

    Kinda shitty to sign your name on someone else's entire wall--the size of several sheets of plywood. Then say "no one else, k?" The surfaces get covered. No room for new artists?
    We can't build apartments. The ground is all cemetaries.

  • @raisti6608
    @raisti6608 2 роки тому +2

    Do i even have to point out that Nazis saw other Races as Apes compared to themself ?

    • @toomanyaccounts
      @toomanyaccounts 2 роки тому +1

      you may want to look further. Hitler was a weeb and the Nazis considered Japanese honorary Aryans. The Nazi SS had several units comprised fully of Muslims. There were units of the SS comprised of Indians who were of the Hindu religion, Chinese, Koreans, Black Africans, Arabs.
      Up to 25% of the German Armed Forces in ww2 were of non European ie non white origin. There were black Germans who were in the Nazi Party.

    • @raisti6608
      @raisti6608 2 роки тому +1

      @@toomanyaccounts
      Whats your Point ?
      You can let others fight for you and still look down to them at the same time.

    • @toomanyaccounts
      @toomanyaccounts 2 роки тому +1

      @@raisti6608 the Nazis praised Muslims. bother to do some reading

  • @gpotts212
    @gpotts212 2 роки тому +1

    Why are conspiracies like this so well received yet when someone says we didn’t go to the moon everyone loses their shit lmao

    • @toomanyaccounts
      @toomanyaccounts 2 роки тому

      well there were mirrors put there that reflect back laser beams. plus other countries launched their own probes, telescopes.

  • @timothypeterson4781
    @timothypeterson4781 2 роки тому +12

    The general shape could easily be a coincidence. The rest of it gets a bit harder to dismiss out of hand.

  • @l0lLorenzol0l
    @l0lLorenzol0l 2 роки тому +6

    Holy fuck if this is true it's the troll of a milenium

    • @greenfrogbad
      @greenfrogbad 2 роки тому

      Bigger than HWNDU capture the flag? Nah.

  • @djdex8945
    @djdex8945 2 роки тому +4

    Absolute legend! Always popping them great vids out bro 👍

  • @TheBlackJester
    @TheBlackJester 2 роки тому +2

    Yacht Club, Flote isn't related is it? Open themes to the Dog Whistling seem similar. FloteApp also killed a lot of functionality on an NFT Gamble.

  • @youngarchivest9092
    @youngarchivest9092 2 роки тому +2

    Way too many coincidences for it not to be Nazis. Every co-founder has something to do with Nazis, or fascists.

  • @neldenscarlet9570
    @neldenscarlet9570 2 роки тому +7

    On one hand it's all circunstance and I don't think it's appropriate to make such heavy acusantions without stronger evidence. On the other hand that is too many coincidences to be ignored and an explanation from the creators of the bored apes is very much needed. To me the strongest evidence is most certainly the logo itself, I always found to be eirelly simillar to the SS logo.

    • @noshotnova2432
      @noshotnova2432 2 роки тому

      And they are in hiding lol
      They are guilty

    • @halogod0298
      @halogod0298 2 роки тому

      @@noshotnova2432 but they aren’t guilty of a crime. They just trolled the fuck out of everybody

    • @noshotnova2432
      @noshotnova2432 2 роки тому

      @@halogod0298 false
      It's fraud

    • @xXxEisernesKreuzxXx
      @xXxEisernesKreuzxXx 2 роки тому

      to be fair the waffen ss logo has style so using something close is not complety unplausible

  • @seafouronesea
    @seafouronesea 2 роки тому +4

    Probably not the best idea to poison the well like this when "Upper Echelon" could be loosely interpreted as Ubermench

    • @mcom234
      @mcom234 2 роки тому +1

      can you make several more connections to nazi references with this channel tho? because if you cant... that's a stretch.
      with the bored nazi club. they have references upon references several of which loop back onto themselves....I mean come on.

    • @seafouronesea
      @seafouronesea 2 роки тому +3

      @@mcom234 If I was schizofrenic and had too much time on my hands I probably could

    • @green7845
      @green7845 2 роки тому +2

      @@mcom234 if i had something against innovations and progress, and maybe a little delusional then yes i would

  • @LoveToSpootch
    @LoveToSpootch 2 роки тому +4

    I say this every time someone is sponsored by Keeps: Just save your money and get a hair transplant.... Keeps doesn't do shit other then give you side effects. There are plenty of evidence that proves that Minoxidil 5% doesn't do anything. Why else did they rebrand to Keeps instead of trying to market Minoxidil better? And why did they stop claiming that it will 100% grow your hair back? Watch any old sponsorship with Keeps, and you'll see that the script they read are very different.. I wonder why.. Almost to cover their ass from lawsuits because they were lying.

    • @floridaman6982
      @floridaman6982 2 роки тому

      Or just shave your head, my father is bald and it looks fine. Lucky escaped my twenties and still have mine naturally but the sides are fading, probably have a few more years but I’m looking ahead and I’ll just shave it off if it thins out lol

    • @LoveToSpootch
      @LoveToSpootch 2 роки тому

      @@floridaman6982 Well, shaving ones head aren't really a solution if you want to keep having a head full of it ^^ But I 100% agree that men should just accept it. I myself shaved my head around 2 years ago, and I have never felt so good about my hair, or rather lack there of. You save money, don't have to waste time brushing it or setting it in a certain way, easier to wash etc etc etc.

    • @yathercantillano3874
      @yathercantillano3874 2 роки тому

      I disagree. Finasteride and MIN have helped my head tremendously. Just ask your doctor for a generic finasteride perscription and buy 6 months of topical MIN at Costco.

    • @LoveToSpootch
      @LoveToSpootch 2 роки тому

      @@yathercantillano3874 "Just ask your doctor" It's very likely that wont do anything. In Denmark where I live we have very strict rules and what not about medicin. And last time I asked we didn't sell anything hair related through our doctors, for the simple reason that non of it has been found to work as good as advertised, or there is too many chemicals that are gonna do more harm then good.
      But good for you that you are one of those 0.1% of people who it actually help. Although I'd argue that there could be other reasons that your hair came back, stuff like maybe you're less stressed or some such. But if it works it works I suppose.

  • @basspuppy133
    @basspuppy133 2 роки тому

    You are such a well refined and mature channel, yet the name is Upper Echelon Gamers. I just find that juxtaposition funny.