Yuga Labs top manager leaves the project due to previously published racist tweets – Bits Media

Shpend Salihu, Top manager at Yuga Labs, The development of the NFT Bored Ape Yacht Club collection (BAYC), He left the project due to racist and anti-Semitic tweets, published several years ago.

Shpend Salihu (Poultry), known under the pseudonym NGBXSHPEND, held a position in Yuga Labs head of the public relations department. He told his subscribers on social networks x (Twitter), that he left the company due to numerous publications, made earlier, who offend representatives of various races and ethnoroly. Later, these tweets became "viral".

“Some tweets from my past surfaced to the surface, And this began to distract people from Bored Ape Yacht Club and from that, What are we all doing. These tweets do not reflect that, Who I am, And what I believe in. I am proud of everyone, What I did for Bayc and Yuga. I want to apologize to everyone, Who am I, perhaps, He failed with his badly written tweets ", - wrote NGBXSHPEND.

Some owners of the "Bored Monkeys" continued to complain about the tweet Salikha even after his departure from the company. One of the collectors wrote, that these were the years of open public racism. The user is concerned, that when hiring employees, Companies do not check their biographical data and publications on social networks. Especially, Employees with similar racist views are allowed to officially use the company logo, The owner of Bayc is dissatisfied.

Earlier, Yuga Labs and its co -founders were already accused of using anti -Semitic and racist images when creating the Bored Ape collection, However, the company refuted these allegations.

Recently, the County Court of Central California ordered the artist Ryder Ripps (Ryder Ripps) Pay Yuga Labs $1,5 Milln for falsification of the Bored Yacht Club collection. The company claims, that the artist depreciated the original tokens with his fakes.