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Outside of the NFT diehard, who’ve gained a reputation for uncritically praising anything in this realm, people have bashed the performance for coming off as low-quality, even phoned in. “Not gonna lie; I didn’t think an NFT performance could be good,” one person said. “And I was absolutely right; this is fucking terrible.” Others likened the effect that transformed the stars into the apes they own to bad Instagram filters or other shoddy augmented reality tech. (Writer commentary: For sure, the performance is certainly nothing on the level of Fortnite’s epic Ariana Grande or Dillon Francis concerts.) “I wish we got to see more of Eminem and Snoop without the cartoon effects,” one person lamented in the YouTube comments.

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It’s not just Snoop Dogg and Eminem who are fully on board with Bored Ape Yacht Club. The collective in particular seems to have an irresistible allure for A-listers whose heydays wrapped up more than a decade ago.

Hotelier heiress Paris Hilton—arguably the person most single-handedly responsible for our modern-day concept of fame—debuted her Bored Ape NFT on The Tonight Show this winter. (Host Jimmy Fallon is also into NFTs.) Rapper and producer Timbaland is a full-on partner with Bored Ape Yacht Club. And actor Seth Green famously had his Bored Ape stolen earlier this year. He reportedly paid the equivalent of $260,000 to get it back. The NFT is now set to “star” in Green’s forthcoming animated show White Horse Tavern.

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