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With the advent of social media and games that allow players to interact with other users in a virtual environment, many communities have been forming within these online worlds. One such community is The Jungle Freaks which boasts over 7 million members. However, there has been some controversy as this group was used by people who were looking for a scapegoat to blame their problems on instead of taking responsibility themselves.
The “race definition sociology” is a social group that has been offended by the “Jungle Freaks NFT” due to its racist connotations. The game was designed as an online multiplayer strategy game, where players can collect and trade animals.
After it was found that George Trosley, the project designer, had done racist cartoons in the 1970s, over 3,200 Jungle Freaks NFTs were sold in the final few days. As a result, the token’s floor price has dropped from 1.3 ETH to 0.4 ETH.
The NFT Jungle Freaks has racist connections.
Negative publicity for the project started, according to available information, when a well-known Hollywood actor, Elijah Wood, alias Frodo Baggins from the iconic Lord of the Rings films, officially announced the acquisition of his own Jungle Freaks NFT.
He had no idea the outrage his comment would get when Twitter users pointed out that Trosley, the NFT project artist, had portrayed people of color in troubling ways in several of his prior works.
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November 1, 2021 — Elijah Wood (@elijahwood)
Wood, who had owned six of the Jungle Freak’s NFTs, was forced to distance himself from the project while simultaneously announcing that he had sold all of them and donated the proceeds to anti-racism organizations.
In 2077, shortly after the apocalypse, the Jungle Freaks NFTs are a group of 10,000 zombies battling genetically engineered gorillas. George Trosley, a former Hustler magazine cartoonist, is the creator of these NFTs. According to accounts, part of Trosley’s work for the pornographic magazine insulted people of color, resulting in the racism connections.
NFTs from Jungle Freaks elicited a variety of reactions.
In a message posted to the project’s discord group and uploaded on its official Twitter account, George III, the son of George Trosley, blamed the photos on the “culture” promoted at the time by the late founder of Hustler magazine.
“This was the culture Larry Flint and Hustler advocated,” he says, “and it was bad then and it is terrible today.” My father should not have been a part of it.”
Despite the remark, community members have expressed their dissatisfaction with the project, with some insisting on giving up their NFT and others pointing out that some of his more recent works also include troubling elements.
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