- ApeFest 2023 was held in Hong Kong from November 3 to November 5.
- At the least 15 allegations of impairment of imaginative and prescient have surfaced on-line.
The dad or mum enterprise of Bored Ape Yacht Membership (BAYC), Yuga Labs, hosted the a lot awaited return of its massive in-person occasion, ApeFest 2023, which was held in Hong Kong from November 3 to November 5.
This 12 months’s Hong Kong occasion didn’t deal with music in the identical means that final 12 months’s New York Metropolis occasions did throughout NFT.NYC. As an alternative, the competition was targeted on a “new journey” that encourages attendees to find the town’s hidden gems and make the competition accessible to those that can not bodily attend.
Excessive Discomfort
Nevertheless, burns, impaired eyesight, and “excessive ache” within the eyes had been reported by a number of attendees of the Yuga Labs ApeFest in Hong Kong, who blamed the occasion’s lights. On November 5, one attendee named CryptoJune tweeted that he needed to go to the hospital after waking up in the midst of the evening publish ApeFest with excessive eye discomfort.
A variety of folks with eye complaints had been mentioned to be “up shut” to the lighting present on the principle stage, in accordance with one observer. One other ApeFest attendee, identified solely as Feld on Twitter, reported experiencing the identical issues.
At the least 15 allegations of impairment of imaginative and prescient have surfaced on-line, nevertheless this will likely solely apply to these among the many a whole lot of ApeFest members who had been sitting or standing very near the stage. Occasion Goers in Hong Kong have had well being issues prior to now due to dangerous UV illumination.
The allegations of visible impairment in each cases tie up with a dysfunction known as photokeratitis, popularly generally known as “Welder’s eye.”
