Are you serious, they did not use proper filters to block the really harmful UV? One can only hope that they get sued to shit.
Nfters and not thinking ahead: name a more iconic duo
I saw a case of this in a documentary, a club installed ‘pretty’ powder blue UVC lights everywhere and it crisped up the attendees. The UVC part of the light doesn’t register to your eyes, so your pupils stay wide open and the designers added tons of it because it wasn’t that bright.
Well that’s horrific
I had no idea this event was in Hong Kong, the last time it happened was in Hong Kong too.
Yeah was going to say why does this sound familiar… 100% lawsuit incoming.
Big Clive on YouTube just posted a reaction video to this story. He mentioned that it happened recently in Hong Kong at an event by the fashion label Hype Beast. He then goes on to look through pictures of the event and actually located what appear to be germicidal tubes used instead of black light tubes.
They used the wrong type of bulb. Ordinarily the bulb will be made of a UV blocking glass, and not be quartz based. I think? So it’s not usually the shroud that stops UV except in cases of Halogen bulbs. These would be CFL without any shield except perhaps a cage to protect against things thrown.
The bulbs in this picture sure do look like UC-V sterilizing lights.
Damn, screwed twice by the same Ape…
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Right to the eyeballs
Laughing at these people for getting their retinas burned like I see many people do (not just here) is in really bad taste imo. Even cryptobros don’t deserve that.
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Who’d have thought that a group of conmen would skimp on safety to make some money… I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!
It’s more likely to be down to incompetence. I can’t imagine the party UV lights are more expensive than the fuck-you-up UV lights.
EDIT: Someone else mentioned these might’ve been used during COVID for sanitation, and are extremely cheap leftover wares now that the pandemic is “over”, which would actually make them a lot cheaper.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by plain incompetence is a saying. But I think a new modern corollary can be made. Never attribute to incompetence what can be easily explained by greed, which just circles back to malice and is stupidity at the same time.
New fear unlocked!
Not a particularly surprising sort of capstone to finish off this whole stupid NFT thing.
Sorry this link has been paywalled for some people after I posted. Here’s an article that is unrestricted https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948464/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sunburn-uv-exposure
Wait… What?
You have to read the article to understand the headline. Intense, I know.
I’d love to, but the text fades out after the first paragraph and is replaced with “This post is for members only.”
I think you get the picture. I did.
That’s one sign of a bad headline.
What is going on in the world?
It’s like I blinked and then… This headline existed.
