Two weeks ago we released a film about the suit filed against the artist Ryder Ripps and others by Yuga Labs. The alleged neo-nazi themes underpinning the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection have fired a sub-section of the NFT community to band together in the name of ethics, morality and free speech. All of which came together behind the RR BAYC collection to make it briefly the number one project on OpenSea. There was of course a voice missing from that film. Ryder Ripps. Well, we finally got to talk earlier this week and hash it out. This is a slightly cut down edit of that interview but I thought it was important to place what he was attempting to say with RR BAYC in the context of his other work, going all the way back to the beginning, Internet archaeology, Art Whore, DumpFM but of course into the recent. There are many who told me I shouldn’t have this conversation, that he’s a scammer and a troll, guilty of trashing a few innocent humans’ reputations in the service of profiting from his own copycat collection. All of which might be true, or it might not. Just as BAYC might be a neo-nazi troll. Or it might not. Which is the incredibly frustrating part of all of this. Ryder’s homebase is meta-irony - that very 4Chan mode of being where everything is claimed to be a joke but it’s impossible to tell if it’s ironic or sincere. Or maybe, as you’ll see, it isn’t so hard after all. Humans being humans and all that. Nonetheless, while others preferred to throw shade from a distance I thought it better to actually just have the conversation. I tried to remain impartial and just let the piece speak for itself. But as you’ll see. I failed. And even more frustratingly I came out of this with even more questions, particularly around a certain Mr Guy O’Seary. Ryder Ripps: https://twitter.com/ryder_ripps 00:00 Introduction and a problem with 404's 01:13 Internet Archaeology 02:07 The problem of redundant internet technology 03:24 Geocities and the power of early web design freedom 07:52 Dump FM 14:05 The New York Times calls him an Internet Icon 16:03 The infamous Converse Ad and embracing serendipity 17:38 Ho and the cult of Instagram 21:41 The story around the work is the Art, not the work itself 26:21 Ownership, authorship and provenance 28:02 The gold rare pepe 29:33 Matt Furie created work for Dump FM 31:53 Mechanicalisation and AI driving art 32:58 Lil Miquela 34:52 On NFT influencers 36:05 LilB, Based and the expropriation of memes 39:34 Narcissism and fear 40:30 Punk 3100 and the DMCA takedown 44:09 The token, the provenance NOT the art 50:50 Why take on BAYC? 54:13 A troubling conversation with Guy Oseary 57:26 Those texts to Azealia Banks and Zara Larsson firing him 01:02:37 Attacking BAYC actually helps it more than harms 01:08:37 Ryder is not a cancelooor 01:10:56 Was RRBAYC a cash grab 01:11:51 J1mmy and the misrepresented ape 01:13:44 Judging RR BAYC as art 01:20:11 The danger of filter bubbles 01:20:04 Conclusion Follow The Defiant team on Twitter: Camila Russo: https://twitter.com/CamiRusso Robin Schmidt: https://twitter.com/iamsupermassive Alp Gasimov: https://twitter.com/alpgasimov ✊ Follow The Defiant Website https://thedefiant.io/ Newsletter https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/ Twitter https://twitter.com/defiantnews Discord https://discord.com/invite/svJ7dZ75J3 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thedefiant.io/ Telegram Announcements https://t.me/DefiantNews Telegram Chat https://t.me/DefiantChat #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFVw1MMVPe4

Sam Altman’s world coin is live and has divided the crypto community once again over issues like centralization and privacy. That hasn’t stopped the project from trading at a fully diluted valuation north of $20B, however. The Worldcoin project was announced over three years ago with the promise of increasing economic opportunity, enabling global democratic processes, and paving the way to AI funded Universal Basic Income. With the rapid advance of AI, it’s arguably becoming more difficult to distinguish human activity from algorithms. Open AI CEO Sam Altman thinks worldcoin is the solution. So, let’s see what the eyeball-scanning crypto project known as Worldcoin has managed to achieve with the hundreds of millions of dollars invested in launching the project. ✨ Check out our new website ✨ https://thedefiant.io/ ? Sign up to our newsletter ? https://thedefiant.io/go-premium#pricing?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=signup ? Find DeFi investment opportunities & educational primers here https://thedefiant.io/promo?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alpha ✊ Follow The Defiant Twitter: https://twitter.com/defiantnews Discord: https://discord.gg/thedefiant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedefiant.io/ Telegram: https://t.me/DefiantNews ? Contact our Newsroom editorial@thedefiant.io ? Sponsorships & Partnerships sponsors@thedefiant.io ? Follow The Defiant team on Twitter Camila Russo: https://twitter.com/CamiRusso Alp Gasimov: https://twitter.com/alpgasimov yyctrader: https://twitter.com/yyctrader1 Owen Fernau: https://twitter.com/ofernau Devin Sawyer: https://twitter.com/devinsawyer Samuel Haig: https://twitter.com/samuel_haig Diego Cabral: https://twitter.com/DiegoCabral__ Nick Duddy: https://twitter.com/nickduddy Pab: https://twitter.com/pprhsk Tegan Kline: https://twitter.com/theklineventure Jeremy: https://twitter.com/ETH_Nation #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain #Web3 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QtZicOSmjU

Floor prices of so-called ‘Blue Chips’ have been battered like Anthony Joshua on a night out in Jeddah. And if the valley of the Twapes is to be believed there’s a formidable sword of Damocles hanging over the NFT space it’s blade polished, sharpened and ready to shred our puny guts with a series of cascading liquidations and a subsequent death spiral event could see floor prices go to ZERO. Or worse. As Cirrus describes it, this could be “the single biggest risk to the NFT market that nobody is talking about” Our sponsors https://nexo.io/ ✨Check out our new website✨ https://thedefiant.io/ ?Sign up to our newsletter? https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/ Follow The Defiant team on Twitter Camila Russo: https://twitter.com/CamiRusso Robin Schmidt: https://twitter.com/iamsupermassive Alp Gasimov: https://twitter.com/alpgasimov ✊ Follow The Defiant Twitter https://twitter.com/defiantnews Discord https://discord.com/invite/svJ7dZ75J3 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thedefiant.io/ Telegram News https://t.me/DefiantNews Telegram Chat https://t.me/DefiantChat #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK5u65t2DZc

With Memecoins on the rise, we have to consider the impact of social networks and hype on web3 adoption. Delphi Digital says decentralized social protocols are in the "innovation phase" of their hype cycle and that emerging protocols could one day dethrone traditional social media giants. So without further ado, here are the 9 protocols which can potentially reshape the Web3 social landscape. ✨ Check out our new website ✨ https://thedefiant.io/ ? Sign up to our newsletter ? https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/ ? Find DeFi investment opportunities & educational primers here https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/s/defi-alpha ✊ Follow The Defiant Twitter: https://twitter.com/defiantnews Discord: https://discord.gg/thedefiant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedefiant.io/ Telegram: https://t.me/DefiantNews ? Contact our Newsroom editorial@thedefiant.io ? Sponsorships & Partnerships sponsors@thedefiant.io ? Follow The Defiant team on Twitter Camila Russo: https://twitter.com/CamiRusso Alp Gasimov: https://twitter.com/alpgasimov yyctrader: https://twitter.com/yyctrader1 Owen Fernau: https://twitter.com/ofernau Devin Sawyer: https://twitter.com/devinsawyer Samuel Haig: https://twitter.com/samuel_haig Diego Cabral: https://twitter.com/DiegoCabral__ Nick Duddy: https://twitter.com/nickduddy Pab: https://twitter.com/pprhsk #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain #Web3 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC2gdrA-1Hw