The makers behind the Bored Apes Yacht Membership (BAYC) are not a thriller — a BuzzFeed Information report reveals them as Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow, two males from Florida. Solano is a 32-year-old author and editor behind the pseudonym Gargamel, whereas the 35-year-old Aronow goes by Gordon Goner.
After BuzzFeed’s article was posted, the 2 later responded to the state of affairs with the “Web2 me vs. Web3 me” meme on Twitter, wherein you basically examine a photograph of your self in the true world with an NFT or avatar that’s purported to symbolize you within the metaverse. Each Aronow and Solano examine footage of themselves with Bored Ape NFTs and say they’ve been doxxed.
BuzzFeed says it discovered Solano and Aronow’s info by looking public enterprise data for Yuga Labs, the corporate behind the BAYC. It found that Yuga Labs had an handle affiliated with Solano after which uncovered different public data that linked Solano with Aronow. Nicole Muniz, the CEO of Yuga Labs confirmed to BuzzFeed that Solano and Aronow are, certainly, the cofounders’ true identities.
BuzzFeed even dug up some previous info on the net concerning the two, together with Aronow’s “Readers of the Week” interview with the Chicago Tribune and Solano’s critique of assorted items of literature. Interviews with shops, like Rolling Stone, New Yorker, and CoinDesk, assist join the dots between the duo’s on-line personas and real-life tales, corroborating what we now learn about them. The 2 met whereas rising up in Florida and dreamed up the thought of the BYAC in hopes of breaking into the world of cryptocurrency.
In case you’re questioning, Aronow and Solano aren’t those who truly drew the, nicely, very interesting-looking and generally trendy anthropomorphic apes. A 27-year-old who goes by the title Seneca was the lead artist for the unique Bored Apes assortment and is credited with creating the apes’ base design. There are additionally two BYAC cofounders who stay unidentified — a few programmers who go by the names No Sass and Emperor Tomato Ketchup.
I don’t know what I used to be anticipating, however I assume the BYAC identification reveal was all a bit much less climactic than I hoped. However contemplating that the BYAC has offered off hundreds of thousands of {dollars} value of ape art work, is partnering with corporations like Adidas, and has had quite a few celebrities — together with Paris Hilton and Jimmy Fallon — purchase their NFTs, anticlimatic might be an excellent factor.