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How desperate are you to get attention. Attract eyeballs to your writing because you're an unknown. Your agenda is pretty straightforward and your motives transparent. You want to attempt to sabotage someone's career, project, company, reputation to further your career. You're desperate to stir the pot, feel good about yourself. You present no counterevidence. You connect a couple dots based on a few data points. There's a lot more data out there. Malcolm Gladwell would tear you a new one on this. It's more or less a sloppy opinion piece that sounds smart yet is laughable to anyone with critical thinking skills. You're skills of embellishment and hyperbole are mores suited towards fiction although that's what you already write, so props to sticking to your strengths.

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Aug 1, 2022Liked by Wave

Dude is a lying racist. Thanks for the write-up.

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Aug 1, 2022Liked by Wave

embarrassing some people are saying this is disingenuous. i read the first work from this person on “yuga labs” and thought it was horrifically gracious to them. this article was well researched, and i think it’s pretty well established at this point defending these dudes is a losing proposition. stunning it took so long to come out, but thanks to work like this, we are all aware now.

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Aug 1, 2022Liked by Wave

Great read, the opposite of "desperate". "Desperate" is what some comments under this article sound like. Notice how the critics of this article never even address the merit of it. And there are plenty of very straight forward facts laid out. The timeline of ever-changing answers. The incredulous explanations that make no sense. It's pretty damn difficult to win that conversation on merit, so they don't even try.

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Great reporting. I published a Polly synthesis (Amazon's machine learning voice service which costs money to use) with tweaked pronunciations and different voices for you and Aronow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZKGTTiQRG4

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great article and great work uncovering these truths. As Ryder's father, i can tell you that he has better things to do such as his creative work with making music videos, art direction, branding , etc.than trying to expose BAYC and their hateful roots. Ryder is deeply connected to all peoples and his awareness of the trolling racism and anti-semitism of the apes and their founders aroused in him a personal response commensurate with the scale of their lies. HIs task is daunting but knowing him as i do, he will prevail.

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Aug 5, 2023Liked by Wave

Thank you, for sharing samples of Marrero's writing. Now I have seen for myself that it sucks. His feeble attempts to create art indict his own ideology.

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You are mentally Ill sir

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"So anyway, this other guy that the Yuga founders once knew is a bad guy! Look how they admit they knew him!" What is this excuse for journalism?

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Good read only thing is you mention he said he didn’t read the book at all just was mentioned and thanked but then saw he proof read it and worked on it which one?

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So am I.

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A lot of assumptions here presented as fact. There’s a conversation to be had about yuga’s imagery, but proffering your opinions on the situation as verifiable truth is wrong.

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I can’t take waveninja seriously when he himself is involved with 2 known racist and sexist people. A bunch of racists telling other ppl something is racist. Love that white people use racism as their weapon. Ryder ripps and pauly are racist sexist bigots

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This is probably all true f*****g bullshit. To get that recognition they did some racist ass bs and support that shit throughout the shadow community 💯

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This is some cry baby school narc shit. Who fucking cares man, go make music or art direct your dad says you’re pretty good at it after all....

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