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Activision Blizzard president leaves company to lead the Bored Ape Yacht Club
Would you trade Call of Duty and World of Warcraft for a barrel full of monkey pictures?
Daniel Alegre, the now-former president and chief operating officer of Activision Blizzard, just did. Alegre shared on Friday that he was leaving Activison Blizzard after 3 years with the company at the end of Q1 next year in order to “pursue a new opportunity.”
We now know that this new opportunity is heading up Yuga Labs, the parent company of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs.
On Monday, Yuga Labs announced that Alegre was joining the company as its new CEO, stepping in for Nicole Muniz. Muniz, who has been involved with the BAYC founders during the initial launch phase in April 2021, will continue to work with the company as a partner and strategic advisor.
BAYC is by far the biggest and most successful of the non-fungible token projects that blew up during last year’s cryptocurrency boom.
NFTs are basically unique tokens connected to a piece of digital media, in this case an image of a cartoon ape, in order to show ownership over the piece. BAYC owners are able to trade their NFTs on the aftermarket, where some have sold for millions of dollars. Other BAYC owners, such as actor Seth Green, have created their own intellectual property around their Bored Ape NFT, something Yuga Labs allows BAYC NFT holders to do.
So, what would the former president of a video game conglomerate be doing at a company like Yuga Labs? Well, video games, of course.
Yuga Labs has been building their NFT portfolio, acquiring other major NFT projects like CryptoPunks, in hopes of building a blockchain-based metaverse. The company launched a “virtual land” NFT project in May called “Otherside,” which was Yuga Labs’ first official foray into the metaverse. The company aims to turn Otherside into a MMORPG that integrates with BAYC and its other NFT projects.
“Nicole, Greg, and I have been on the hunt for someone with Daniel’s skill set for some time,” Yuga Labs co-founder Wylie Aronow said in a statement. “We are thrilled to have him join the team to help with our vision of a truly interoperable metaverse. Daniel has held one of the highest level roles at one of the largest gaming companies in the world. He brings valuable experience across entertainment, e-commerce, and global strategic partnerships — all of which are critical aspects of an immersive web3 world built by creators and for creators.”
And Alegre isn’t their first big gaming hire either. In September, the company hired mobile gaming executive Spencer Tucker as its Chief Gaming Officer
However, Yuga Labs will have its work cut out for it if it wants to enter the gaming industry.
Blockchain-based Web3 games have struggled to take off. Online game Axie Infinity, for example, was once a breakout in the field…until it was hacked and half a billion dollars were stolen from the ecosystem. Outside the blockchain space, the broader video gaming community has outright rejected NFTs to the point where other video game companies have had to assure fans that it would not integrate NFTs into its games.
Bored Ape company Yuga Labs appoints Activision Blizzard’s Daniel Alegre as CEO
Celebs Are Being Sued for Shilling Expensive Bored Ape NFTs
A class action lawsuit was filed against Yuga Labs, the parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), on Friday, in which investors claimed the company didn’t disclose celebrities’ alleged involvement in promoting and selling NFTs (non-fungible tokens).
Jimmy Fallon, Paris Hilton, and a slew of celebrities sued over promoting Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs
Who can forget the cringeworthy interview on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon earlier this year where host Fallon and Paris Hilton gushed over their Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs?
Well, that Tonight Show segment is now part of a class-action lawsuit against dozens of celebrities who promoted Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs along with its parent company Yuga Labs.
According to the two plaintiffs who filed the complaint, Yuga Labs “schemed” with celebrities like Fallon, Hilton, Madonna, Kevin Hart, Justin Bieber, and Snoop Dogg, in order to artificially pump up the price of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, and defraud their fans who invested.
The suit was filed in federal district court in Los Angeles on Dec. 8. The plaintiffs are looking for at least $5 million for themselves and others who were affected.
Additional celebrities named in the lawsuit include Gwyneth Paltrow, Post Malone, Stephen Curry, and Serena Williams among others.
There are other notable names included in the suit too, such as Williams’ husband, Reddit founder Alex Ohanian and Amy Wu, an investor who recently left FTX, the failed cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried.
One particular standout name being sued is Guy Oseary, talent manager for Madonna, U2, and other musical superstars. Oseary is a partner in Yuga Labs and also manages a number of celebrities involved in promoting Bored Ape NFTs. In addition, Oseary is an investor in Moonpay, a crypto payment platform that has basically acted as a concierge service for many celebrities’ NFT transactions.
And that multi-level relationship stringing everything together is at the heart of the complaint. The plaintiffs say Oseary recruited celebrities he had a relationship with and Yuga Labs paid them to endorse Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs through Moonpay. Then those celebrities would go and promote Bored Ape NFTs to their fans without disclosing the arrangement. For example, that very Tonight Show segment with Fallon and Hilton showing off their Bored Ape NFTs and talking about why they purchased them, is explicitly described in the lawsuit.
“In our view, these claims are opportunistic and parasitic,” said a Yuga Labs spokesperson in a statement provided to a number of outlets. “We strongly believe that they are without merit, and look forward to proving as much.”
Critics have previously pointed out the close relationship between celebrities, their talent agents, and those agents’ investments in crypto companies that their talent then promotes.
This most recent crypto class action lawsuit follows one that was filed against Larry David, Tom Brady, and Giselle Bündchen last month for their promotion of FTX.
As for Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT owners, their non-fungible token investment is currently down big. The floor price for a Bored Ape NFT peaked in April at around $430,000. Currently, the floor price for a Bored Ape NFT is around $86,000.
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Frightening SASQUATCH & SKUNK APE Vocalizations Recorded on Video
The following video offers 2 sets of vocals from different locations. Are these Sasquatch calls or vocalizations? I can only imagine how frightened the eyewitnesses were.
The 1st set of captured audio is from Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southern Washington. The campers were so alarmed that they immediately high-tailed it out of the area, returning the next day in order to gather their gear.
The 2nd set of vocals is from a boatman who is traveling through an unknown location within the Everglades National Park.
These recordings are similar to other supposed Sasquatch and Skunk Ape vocalizations that we have heard and gathered over several decades. What are your thoughts? Lon
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SKUNK APE TRACKS Photographed in Lake Panasoffkee Wildlife Management Area, Florida (PHOTOS)
A pair of hunters were in the Lake Panasoffkee Wildlife Management Area in Florida looking for new hunting locations. They observed strange activity and find a series of Skunk Ape tracks.
“On October 12, 2021, my friend Larry and I were going into the Lake Panasoffkee Wildlife Management Area in Florida in Florida (southwest of Ocala National Forest). We were looking for a new hunting area in the 10,000-acre section of forest.
At about 4 pm we parked the truck at the area at the end of the road, I guess two miles in front of the entrance. We decided to backtrack down the road and cut into the woods and swamp. At the edge of the swamp, about 10 minutes in, we noticed a 50-foot tree shaking about 75 feet away and the top broke off. I just thought it was the wind until I noticed nothing else was moving. I still didn’t think too much of it. We got closer to the area we saw signs of feral pigs rooting everywhere/ We came back to the road and started heading back to the truck. I noticed an old rib bone on the side of the road and soon found a bunch of other bones spread near the road. I decided to watch for tracks on the side of the road in the ditch.
I then saw barefoot tracks everywhere in the mud. It looked like it was pacing back and forth in the ditch watching the woods. Some looked fresh and some older. They weren’t huge but they were the size of my size 12 boot. I thought who would be out here in bare feet with Water Moccasins all over and enough mosquitoes to carry you away. It freaked me out. I had to take a bunch of photos.
I went home and told my wife. She kind of thought it was stupid until she saw the photos. Now she doesn’t want me out there. I think I’ll be okay until I see one. That will probably change my attitude.”
Transcribed Source: The Round Table of Knowledge by HTH
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Huge SKUNK APE Mutilates & Kills Calf Near Green Swamp, Florida
A Floridian described the encounter that he and his mother had with a large Skunk Ape when he was a boy living near Green Swamp in Polk County. The beast had mutilated and killed a calf.
“As a native Floridian and avid hunter growing up I’ve seen and have heard lots of things in the woods around our great state. Some things were easy to understand and some things were just not explainable. Anyway, this is my and my mother’s story.
I had her proofread this before sending it to make sure I remember this correctly. It’s the Fall of 1976 and I was five years old. My mom and I lived in Kathleen, Florida on the edge of the Green Swamp. Back then it was a dirt road and there were only a couple of houses on the road and a relatively new trailer park at the end of the road. We had to drive a little less than half a mile back down our trail of a driveway to get to our home. It was an old wood frame home that was over 100 years old. We had an Artesian well pump in the kitchen and for the first few months we lived there we had to heat the water on the gas stove to have hot bath water. This was an old cracker house on blocks and had a front porch that I used to play under all the time. The roof of the porch was on a pitch and the edge was over the wooden stairs. It measured seven foot six from the ground to the roof line.
So, it was nearly desk when my mom and I were coming down the drive in her VW Bus. She had lights on high to spot any deer that might be on the property. As we rounded the curve in the driveway and the lights shined on the house that’s when we both saw it and it was big and broad and looking directly at our car. Now I’m not going to tell you it had big red eyes. The eye shine that I saw for only a split second was golden. It turned and walked down the side of the house between the cow pasture fence and the house. My mom hit the gas and went around the great oak tree that was at the corner of the porch. She got around the side of the house and we saw nothing. She grabbed a .38 revolver and jumped out of the car telling me to lock the doors. Little good that would have done looking back.
So, with the car off headlights shining and my mom at our fence line, she stood and stayed quiet. Our hunting dogs that were in their kennels were whimpering. They normally barked at anything when we came home. Not this night. They were scared. There’s more to the story.
The next day we looked for prints. The porch and the oak tree size is relevant because it’s what we used to size up our guest. The creature was standing next to our porch and his head was just under the edge of the roof seven foot six at the edge of the overhang. So now, being older and having a firm grasp on measurement, I’m guessing this thing was seven feet tall. It was nearly as thick or wide as the great oak tree. Based on what our landlord later told us, it was about 90 years old.
We had cows and hunting dogs. We even had a calf that was about 400 pounds or so that I would hand feed and had bottle-fed because his mother died shortly after birthing. Anyway, my mom was calling the calf to get him to come to the fence. It wouldn’t come. She called again. Nothing. Silence. All of a sudden we heard the most God-awful scream from what we thought was that calf. And then, nothing.
So, this whole time, I’m in the car. The door is locked and the windows cracked so I could hear. My mom ran back to the car. I opened her door and she backed us out of there quick and went to her girlfriend’s house who lived about a half hour away. Mom was rattled. She talked the whole way.
“Did you see it?”
“Yes Mama, I saw it. It was big and hairy.”
“Did you hear the calf?” she asked.
“Mom I did! You think it’s dead Mama? “Do you smell it?”
She slammed on the brakes and nearly put me in the dash. “You could smell it too?”
“Yes. It stunk bad. Worse than the dogs.”
We got to my mom’s friend’s house and she got on the phone with Mr. Goldsby. He was the landlord. She nervously told him what happened. She nearly dropped the phone. He said it was a Skunk Ape. It’s been around for years. Damn thing stinks too.
The next day we went home and met with Mr. Goldsby. He came to the house to see if we could find anything. We found footprints right by the porch where it stood when we saw it. We measured them and they were just over 15 inches long. Several tracks led to the fence. These tracks had nearly a 60-inch stride in between.
Mom and Mr. Goldsby went into the cow pasture. She wouldn’t let me come because there was a lot of Dog Fennel growing all around and some Palmetto patches. They found the calf. It was dead and his neck and head had been pulled up and backward to where his spine was pulled up past his shoulders and broken. Mom said there was very blood around. My mom asked Mr. Goldsby why he didn’t tell us about this before. He simply said he was so used to it coming around and not bothering anything that he didn’t think he needed to.
We moved two weeks later.”
Transcribed source: The Facts by Howtohunt.com
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