FaZe Banks responds to backlash after criticizing popular Hapebeast NFTs HAPEBEAST\/Instagram: BanksFaZe Clan owner Ricky \u2018Banks\u2019 Bergstrom has responded to backlash after he criticized the insanely popular \u2018Hapebest\u2019 NFTs that are soaring in hype. The growth of NFTs in 2021 especially has been remarkable, continuing into the new year, and Banks has been a huge driving force when it comes to influencers pushing the popularity of these pieces of digital art. From CryptoPunks to Bored Apes, to just about any piece created by Beeple, the most expensive NFTs can sell for millions of dollars. While Hapebeast pieces aren\u2019t quite at that level \u2014 they haven\u2019t even been revealed yet, with reveal currently scheduled for February 1 \u2014 they\u2019ve quickly become insanely popular. The collection of 8,000 apes, styled with the \u2018Hypebeast\u2019 look seemingly finetuned to perfection, hasn\u2019t managed to convince Banks, however. In a series of posts to his Instagram story, Banks explained why he looked into Hapebeast \u2014 which has been renamed to HAPE Prime \u2014 and decided not to buy in, despite the hype behind it. Banks said: \u201cI\u2019ve kept my eye on it and based on the Twitter Spaces I just heard I am hard passing on this one. Just not for me. Won\u2019t get into it, \u2018cause there\u2019s no point, but I felt the need to share cause I\u2019ve been asked so much.\u201d He then said that after speaking about it, he had people with the Hapebeast profile picture \u201ctalking sh*t\u201d to him. So he explained: \u201cFirst of all the very first thing I hear in the Spaces is about how roadmaps are bulls**t and all these other projects are over-promising and that they don\u2019t need a roadmap and those are based in \u201cfiction.\u201d Then immediately go on to promise this being the \u201cfashion winner\u201d in NFT\u2019s.\u201d Banks added: \u201cThis project\u2019s only driver is its hype. That\u2019s clearly what the thing is rooted in, hype. The IP is a literal play on Hypebeast. Artificially\/ marketed Discord with way too many people in it \u2026 My honest answer is I believe anyone buying this @ 9 ETH (+$20,000) is going to get super f**king rekt and it pains me to see that \u2026 Made some people mad with this one, but I guess that\u2019s the cost of being honest.\u201d Banks\u2019 opinion on the Hapebeast project is clearly one he feels very strongly about, and it\u2019s also one that those in the NFT space take seriously. Since his posts, the floor price has dropped from 9.25 ETH to around 7.69 at the time of writing, despite the continuous drop in value of ETH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FaZe Banks responds to backlash after criticizing popular Hapebeast NFTs HAPEBEAST\/Instagram: BanksFaZe Clan owner Ricky \u2018Banks\u2019 Bergstrom has responded to backlash after he criticized the insanely popular \u2018Hapebest\u2019 NFTs that are soaring in hype. The growth of NFTs in 2021 especially has been remarkable, continuing into the new year, and Banks has been a huge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}