戈登·戈納 (Gordon Goner) 講述他戲劇性的健康鬥爭和《無聊猿》三歲生日

Bored Ape 聯合創始人 Wylie Aronow 患有心臟病，他回顧了 BAYC 三年的動盪歷程，其中包括健康問題、網路騷擾和無與倫比的成功時刻。 Aronow 的創造力和決心引導著 BAYC 的敘事和社區，從而產生了持久的文化影響。儘管面臨挑戰，阿羅諾仍然對該計畫的未來持樂觀態度，並將其長壽歸功於卓越的團隊及其捕捉到的後設敘事。在努力恢復健康的過程中，Aronow 設想在他對創新的熱情和協作的力量的推動下重返 NFT 領域。

Bored Ape co-founder Wylie Aronow — also known as Gordon Goner online — struggled through a decade afflicted by an autoimmune disease before recovering to launch the world’s hottest NFT project three years ago this week.

Bored Ape 聯合創始人 Wylie Aronow（在網路上也被稱為 Gordon Goner）飽受自身免疫性疾病的困擾，在三年前的本週康復後推出了世界上最熱門的 NFT 計畫。

After hitting stratospheric heights of money and success, with BAYC being feted by major celebrities like Paris Hilton and Snoop Dogg, Aronow came crashing back to earth after being diagnosed with a heart failure condition in January 2023.

在BAYC 獲得了帕麗斯·希爾頓(Paris Hilton) 和史努比狗狗(Snoop Dogg) 等大牌名人的盛情款待、財富和成功達到了極高的高度後，阿羅諾(Aronow) 在2023 年1 月被診斷出心臟衰竭後，又回到了現實。

Being in your mid-30s and being told you have a condition that 50% of people pass away from within five years is hard to comprehend. Aronow has drawn upon his spirituality to help with the gravity of the situation he faces.

當你 30 多歲的時候，被告知你患有一種 50% 的人會在五年內去世的疾病，這很難理解。阿羅諾利用他的靈性來幫助應對他所面臨的嚴峻情況。

“It’s a very personal thing, if I’m being honest, but I was a practicing Hindu for many years. I grew up next to an ISKCON temple, which is like Krishna consciousness,” he says.

「說實話，這是一件非常個人的事情，但我多年來一直信奉印度教。我在益世康寺廟旁邊長大，這就像克里希納意識，」他說。

“I’d had this deep spiritual side to me that I don’t talk about very often, and then later, I became a Buddhist.”

“我有這種深刻的精神層面，但我不經常談論，後來，我成為了佛教徒。”

“When you’re told you might die soon, you’re just thinking about death a lot. The hard part is confronting that moment, it’s only going to happen once. Like you are going to die, and most people, until you’re told you’re going to die, don’t have to think about it.”

「當你被告知你可能很快就會死去時，你只是經常想到死亡。困難的部分是面對那一刻，它只會發生一次。就像你會死一樣，大多數人在被告知你會死之前，都不必考慮它。

“Confronting death is on my mind a lot. I can’t say I’m in a great place with it, but I’m better than I was when I first got told the news. It’s a very deep, personal, weird spiritual journey that I think is just going to be different for everybody.”

「面對死亡是我常常想到的事情。我不能說我現在處境很好，但我比第一次得知這個消息時好多了。這是一次非常深刻、個人化、奇怪的精神旅程，我認為對每個人來說都會有所不同。

But in a positive development, he reveals that the condition has responded well to an experimental new stem cell treatment, even if healing “hasn’t been a straight line.”

但在積極的進展中，他透露，這種情況對一種實驗性的新幹細胞治療反應良好，即使治癒「並不是一條直線」。

Aronow says that having to face his mortality was probably behind his November 2023 NFT shopping spree that lit up social media. He purchased a Zombie CryptoPunk for 600 ETH and NFTs from collections such as Cool Cats, Mocaverse, World of Women, Doodles, Meebits, Chromie Squiggles and more.

阿羅諾表示，不得不面對自己的死亡可能是他在 2023 年 11 月瘋狂購買 NFT 並在社交媒體上引起轟動的原因。他花費 600 ETH 和 NFT 從 Cool Cats、Mocaverse、World of Women、Doodles、Meebits、Chromie Squiggles 等收藏品中購買了 Zombie CryptoPunk。

Bored Ape Beginnings

Bored Ape Yacht Club this week notches up the third anniversary of starting its mint on April 23, 2021.

Bored Ape 開端 Bored Ape 遊艇俱樂部本周迎來了 2021 年 4 月 23 日成立三週年紀念日。

The NFT Ape pics entered the global zeitgeist at a pace never seen before. Even today, if you ask a regular person on the street what an NFT is, chances are high they’ll respond with a “Bored Ape.”

NFT Ape 圖片以前所未有的速度進入全球時代精神。即使在今天，如果你在街上問一個普通人甚麼是 NFT，他們很可能會回答「無聊的猿」。

From Steph Curry to Eminem, Jimmy Fallon to Elon Musk, Bored Apes were celebrated by some of the world’s biggest influential personalities. But it was always developed as a counter cultural and irreverent brand targeted at a small niche community of crypto natives. 

從史蒂芬·庫裡到埃米納姆，從吉米·法倫到埃隆·馬斯克，Bored Apes 受到了一些世界上最有影響力的人物的慶祝。但它始終被開發為一個反文化和不敬的品牌，針對加密貨幣原住民的小利基社群。

Had you minted a floor Ape at 0.08 ETH (around $220) and collected all the airdrops and benefits that came your way, you would have seen the investment skyrocket to around $1 million if you had sold even remotely close to the top when the floor price peaked at 150 ETH in April 2022. 

如果你以 0.08 ETH（約 220 美元）的價格鑄造了一個 Ape，並收集了所有的空投和福利，那麼當你在底價接近最高價時賣出，你會看到投資飆升至 100 萬美元左右。 2022 年4 月達到高峰150 ETH。

Bored Ape Yacht Club Origin Story

Aronow’s health battle forced him to step back from Yuga Labs, the company behind BAYC. Prior to Bored Apes, he’d spent a decade fighting an autoimmune disease. 

Bored Ape Yacht Club 起源故事Aronow 的健康問題迫使他從 BAYC 背後的公司 Yuga Labs 辭職。在加入 Bored Apes 之前，他花了十年時間與自體免疫疾病作鬥爭。

“I was really ill for 10 years and had been bed-bound for a lot of it. I had to drop out of college my senior year just to be a sick guy. I was traveling around the country, going to different doctors, trying to fix my autoimmune disease, which at the time was really extreme. I was having a lot of intestinal blockages, which were extraordinarily painful, and I had really severe colitis, on top of a couple other conditions, so my life was over for like 10 years,” says Aronow. 

「我真的病了十年，而且大部分時間都臥床不起。我在大四那年不得不退學，只是為了當病人。我在全國各地旅行，去看不同的醫生，試圖治癒我的自體免疫疾病，這在當時非常嚴重。我有很多腸道阻塞，非常痛苦，而且我還患有非常嚴重的結腸炎，再加上其他一些疾病，所以我的生命結束了大約 10 年，」Aronow 說。

“I didn’t do anything but read books, watch movies, play video games, and meditate. It was just nothing, just pure nothingness. But then I kind of miraculously had gotten better, which put me in a position for Bored Apes to be born.” 

「除了看書、看電影、玩電子遊戲和冥想之外，我什麼也沒做。一切都沒有，只是純粹的虛無。但後來我奇蹟般地好起來了，這讓我有機會誕生《無聊的猿》。

Despite Aronow’s health situation not being widely known for much of BAYC’s existence, it was central to its origin story as childhood friend Greg Solano — aka Garga — reached out about an idea. 

儘管 Aronow 的健康狀況在 BAYC 存在的大部分時間裡並不廣為人知，但它是其起源故事的核心，因為兒時的朋友 Greg Solano（又名 Garga）提出了一個想法。

“I found the right combination of medicines and lifestyle modifications that got me better. Then, literally, a month later, I’m trying to figure out how to pay off my extraordinary medical debt and my incredible student loan. I’m $80,000 in the hole, and I haven’t had a job since I was 16 years old, working at a retail store. Greg texts me, and he goes, ‘Let’s make an NFT,’” says Aronow. 

「我找到了藥物和生活方式改變的正確組合，這讓我的病情有所好轉。然後，從字面上看，一個月後，我試圖弄清楚如何償還我的巨額醫療債務和令人難以置信的學生貸款。我身無分文，身無分文，身家 8 萬美元，從 16 歲起就一直在零售店工作，一直沒有找到工作。格雷格給我發短信，他說，『我們來做一個 NFT 吧，』」Aronow 說。

“I don’t know if I’ve ever shared what I said in response to that, but my response to his text was, ‘What the fuck is an NFT?’ That was the real response. Then I remembered pretty much instantly what an NFT was because I remembered CryptoPunks.”

「我不知道我是否曾經分享過我對此的回應，但我對他的簡訊的回應是，『NFT 到底是什麼？』這才是真正的回應。然後我幾乎立刻就想起了 NFT 是什麼，因為我想起了 CryptoPunks。

Aronow and Solano observed the minting and early formation of Hashmasks but didn’t love the community aspect, as the Discord group was full of holders dunking on and trying to outtrade one another. 

Aronow 和 Solano 觀察了 Hashmask 的鑄造和早期形成，但不喜歡社區方面，因為 Discord 小組裡到處都是持有者，他們互相扣籃，試圖超越彼此。

“There was very little communal feeling to it, and we just set out to come up with the idea that would eventually be Bored Ape Yacht Club.” 

BAYC #1 — 由 Gordon Gonor 擁有，他將其展示為他的 PFP。”

“The first idea was actually Crypto Girlfriends when the four of us were brainstorming, and we posed the question, ‘What do all these crypto bros need and my answer was girlfriends.’ My own girlfriend, who I’m still with today, wasn’t a fan [laughs], and it did feel off to us — it didn’t feel like it had a lot of staying power.” 

「當我們四個人集思廣益時，第一個想法實際上是加密貨幣女朋友，我們提出了一個問題，『所有這些加密貨幣兄弟需要什麼，我的答案是女朋友。』我自己的女朋友，我今天仍然和她在一起，是不是粉絲 [笑]，而且我們確實感覺很不舒服——感覺它沒有很強的持久力。

Aronow recalls getting Ozone IV treatments for his health condition, colitis, in Knoxville, Tennessee and having a huge wave of creativity and consciousness that would eventually give birth to the name and concept of the “Bored Ape Yacht Club.” 

阿羅諾回憶起他在田納西州諾克斯維爾接受臭氧 IV 治療結腸炎的情況，並產生了巨大的創造力和意識浪潮，最終催生了“無聊猿遊艇俱樂部”的名稱和概念。

“I was feeling really terrible at night, and I couldn’t sleep because of the treatments. I was up for 24 hours, and I sent Greg this fucking essay about all the things that I thought were cool. It centered around two things, one of which is this place that we’ve gone to growing up called Church Hill’s Pub in Miami, which is a very infamous punk club going back 30 years in Miami and then the CBGB’s bathroom.” 

「我晚上感覺非常糟糕，因為治療而無法入睡。我 24 小時沒睡，我給格雷格發了這篇該死的文章，內容是我認為很酷的所有事情。它圍繞著兩件事，其中之一是我們長大的地方，叫做邁阿密的 Church Hill's Pub，這是一個非常臭名昭著的朋克俱樂部，可以追溯到 30 年前的邁阿密，然後是 CBGB 的浴室。

“The first idea for utility centered around the idea of that bathroom. It was like, ‘What if you could drop a pixel? What if buying this NFT gave you access to this club where you could drop a pixel and contribute to a collective art experience?’ and we’re kind of off to the races after that.” 

來自 LowFi Hip-Hop Mix 的 Curtis 的《沼澤》「實用性的第一個想法圍繞著浴室的想法。就像，『如果你可以丟掉一個像素怎麼辦？如果購買這個 NFT 可以讓你進入這個俱樂部，在那裡你可以放下一個像素並為集體藝術體驗做出貢獻，會怎麼樣？

“I’d given Greg a ton of different names for what we could call it, including Bored Ape Yacht Club, and he woke up in the morning to this giant stream of consciousness, and anyone who’s ever worked with me knows that that’s how I work. But when Greg read ‘Bored Ape Yacht Club,’ he said that’s the thing. I knew it right away, and it just felt kismet.” 

「我給格雷格起了很多不同的名字，包括『無聊猿遊艇俱樂部'，他早上醒來時就感受到了巨大的意識流，任何曾經和我一起工作過的人都知道，我就是這麼做的。但當格雷格讀到《無聊的猿猴遊艇俱樂部》時，他說就是這樣。我立刻就知道了，感覺就像命中註定。

The early magic and experimentation of Bored Apes

To say Bored Ape Yacht Club bottled magic would be an understatement, particularly in its first year when the brand could do almost no wrong. Even those sidelined with no exposure to the BAYC ecosystem watched the emergence of a cultural phenomenon in awe. 

Bored Apes 的早期魔法和實驗 要說 Bored Ape Yacht Club 瓶裝魔法是輕描淡寫的，尤其是在品牌幾乎不會犯錯的第一年。即使是那些沒有接觸過 BAYC 生態系統的人也懷著敬畏之心目睹了一種文化現象的出現。

It’s hard to capture all the moments in the mania that was BAYC’s first year or so, but here’s a walk down memory lane and a reminder of how instrumental the project was as infinite copycat projects tried to roll out their own version: 

很難捕捉到 BAYC 第一年左右的狂熱時刻，但這裡有一個回憶，提醒我們這個項目是多麼重要，因為無數的模仿項目試圖推出自己的版本：

BAYC minting out / Roadmap 2.0 / Treasure Hunt / J1mmy.eth and Pranksy mint a huge amount of Apes / Elon’s “seems kinda fungible” tweet after momentarily changing his PFP to a collage of Bored Apes.

BAYC 鑄造了 / Roadmap 2.0 / Treasure Hunt / J1mmy.eth 和 Pranksy 在將他的 PFP 暫時更改為 Bored Apes 拼貼畫後鑄造了大量 Apes / Elon 的“似乎有點可替代”的推文。

Bored Ape Kennel Club surprise drop / Meebits v Apes with Beeple’s art /Apes flipping Punks / the “Fuck It. Mutants Saturday” iconic tweet / Yacht Club / IP rights gifted to holders in the wild, including Bored & Hungry, Tyrese Haliburton shoes in NBA and Snoop Dogg with Dr. Bombay Ice Cream.

無聊的猿犬舍俱樂部驚喜掉落 / Meebits v Apes 與 Beeple 的藝術 / Apes 翻轉 Punks / “Fuck It.” 《突變體星期六》的標誌性推文/遊艇俱樂部/向野外持有者贈送知識產權，包括 Bored & Hungry、NBA 中的 Tyrese Haliburton 鞋和帶有孟買博士冰淇淋的 Snoop Dogg。

Ape Fest / Celebs jumping on board, including Paris Hilton, Jimmy Fallon, Steph Curry, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Timbaland, Justin Bieber, Madonna, Josh Hart, LaMelo Ball / the BAYC mural during the Australian Open tennis / Otherside trailer / and plenty more, too.

Ape Fest / 名人紛紛加入，包括帕麗斯·希爾頓(Paris Hilton)、吉米·法倫(Jimmy Fallon)、斯蒂芬·庫裡(Steph Curry)、史努比狗狗(Snoop Dogg)、埃米納姆(Eminem)、提姆巴蘭(Timbaland)、賈斯汀·比伯(Justin Bieber)、麥當娜(Madonna)、喬什·哈特(Josh Hart)、拉梅洛·鮑爾(LaMelo Ball) / 澳大利亞網球公開賽期間的BAYC 壁畫/ Otherside 預告片/ 等等還有更多。

How Bored Apes avoided Von Dutching themselves

BAYC was hardly short of “oh shit” moments in its first 12 months of existence, but Aronow recalls Paris Hilton on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon showing off her Ape as one of the biggest moments in terms of how much BAYC had captured mainstream culture. 

Bored Apes 如何避免Von Dutching 自己BAYC 在成立的前12 個月裡幾乎不乏“哦操”時刻，但阿羅諾回憶起帕麗斯·希爾頓(Paris Hilton) 在《今夜秀》中與吉米·法倫(Jimmy Fallon) 炫耀她的Ape，這是許多最重要的時刻之一 BAYC 已經抓住了主流文化。

“Pretty much every celebrity interaction with BAYC I did not know was going to happen beforehand. Someone DM’d me and said Paris Hilton is on the Tonight Show talking about her Bored Ape, and they’re showing it,” says Aronow. 

「幾乎每一次名人與 BAYC 的互動都是我事先不知道的。有人私訊我，說帕麗斯希爾頓 (Paris Hilton) 在《今夜秀》中談論她的《無聊猿》，而且他們正在展示它，」阿羅諾說。

“She had the one with an S&M hat, and I’m sitting back, thinking, ‘I know where I took inspiration for that variable. That’s from underground sex clubs in New York City,’” he explains. “That’s where I was inspired by that variable. Is she aware of that?”

“I know she’s a smart person, so I’m sure she is, but I remember thinking, ‘That’s a little risque.’”

「她戴著一頂 S&M 帽子，我坐在後面想，『我知道我從哪裡得到這個變數的靈感。那是來自紐約市的地下性俱樂部，」他解釋道。 「這就是我受到這個變數啟發的地方。她意識到這一點了嗎？

But while, on one hand, he couldn’t believe how successful it was becoming, he was worried about Bored Apes getting co-opted by the mainstream.

但一方面，他不敢相信它會如此成功，但他擔心無聊的猿猴會被主流吸收。

“I called up Greg right after that happened, in my exact words, and I’ll never forget; we’re like, ‘How do we not Von Dutch ourselves?’ I began to become concerned that this was jumping the shark.” 

「那件事發生後，我立刻給格雷格打電話，用我的原話，我永遠不會忘記； “我們會想，’我們自己怎麼能不馮·達奇呢？’我開始擔心這是在冒險。”

“I said this project was meant for a niche crypto community. Now it’s as mainstream as you can get. Paris Hilton on the fucking Tonight Show — Don’t get me wrong, I love Paris Hilton… I have a lot of respect for her.” 

「我說這個計畫是針對小眾加密貨幣社群的。現在它已經成為你所能得到的主流。帕麗斯·希爾頓 (Paris Hilton) 在他媽的今夜秀上——別誤會我的意思，我愛帕麗斯·希爾頓 (Paris Hilton)……我非常尊重她。

They talked it out and ultimately agreed the only solution was to stay authentic no matter what. “If we can just try and be a little subversive or a little bit irreverent and stay crypto native,” he says.

他們進行了討論，最後一致認為唯一的解決辦法就是無論如何都要保持真實。 「如果我們能嘗試一點顛覆性或一點不敬，並保持加密原生，」他說。

“But that ultimately became very hard as the company grew and as our ambition scaled to match. It became very hard to stay crypto-native. I think we’re back on track now, but it took a while to get us there.”

「但隨著公司的發展以及我們的雄心壯志的擴大，這最終變得非常困難。保持加密原生變得非常困難。我認為我們現在回到了正軌，但我們花了一段時間才到達那裡。

Aronow’s creativity like a Hot Wheels track 

The magic of BAYC was in giving the impression they were just making things up on the fly, but behind the scenes, much of it was very deliberate. The catch cry “Fuck Doing Expected Things” was one of Aronow’s memorable tweets that doubled as a mission statement.

帕麗斯希爾頓(Paris Hilton) 在《今夜秀》中Aronow 的創造力就像風火輪(Hot Wheels) 曲目一樣BAYC 的魔力在於給人留下他們只是臨時編造的印象，但在幕後，很多事情都是經過深思熟慮的。 「去他媽的做預期的事」是阿羅諾令人難忘的推文之一，同時也是一種使命宣言。

Aronow’s creativity in drumming up anticipation in an industry where anticipation is often referred to as the oxygen of the space can’t be understated. Behind the social media shitposting and regular banter with Solano is a very deep curiosity about the creative process and writing. 

阿羅諾在這個行業中激發人們的預期的創造力不容小覷。在社群媒體上的垃圾貼文和與索拉諾經常開玩笑的背後，是對創作過程和寫作的非常深刻的好奇心。

Having studied creative writing, Aronow was inspired by short story writers, which filtered through to the lore of BAYC, Bored Ape Kennel Club, Mutant Ape Yacht Club and Otherdeeds for Otherside. 

在學習創意寫作後，阿羅諾受到短篇小說作家的啟發，這些靈感滲透到 BAYC、Bored Ape Kennel Club、Mutant Ape Yacht Club 和 Otherdeeds for Otherside 的傳說中。

“I love creative process stuff; it was really interesting to me. I like talking to other creatives, writers and artists about their process. That’s the shit that I’m really into,” Aronow says, singling out George Saunders as “probably the greatest living short story writer” and a source of personal inspiration.

「我喜歡創意過程的東西；這對我來說真的很有趣。我喜歡與其他創意人員、作家和藝術家談論他們的過程。這就是我真正喜歡的東西，”阿羅諾說，並指出喬治·桑德斯“可能是當今最偉大的短篇小說作家”，也是個人靈感的源泉。

“George had written this essay about a Donald Barthelme story called The School, and his essay was called The Perfect Gerbil. It blew my mind when I read it over a decade ago because it explained how narrative works in a way that I couldn’t quite digest yet from Aristotle’s poetics or the like. My stupid brain finally understood it when he explained it as a Hot Wheels track.” 

「喬治寫了這篇關於唐納德·巴塞爾姆故事的文章，名為《學校》，他的文章名為《完美沙鼠》。當我十多年前讀到這本書時，它讓我大吃一驚，因為它解釋了敘事是如何運作的，而我還無法從亞里斯多德的詩學等中完全理解。當他把它解釋為風火輪賽道時，我愚蠢的大腦終於明白了。

“George basically said it had these little gas stations that sped up the car around the track, and it was your goal as a writer to place these Hot Wheels tracks at just the right moments to get the reader through the story. For example, let’s use a novel; you could have the greatest moment ever on page 276, but if your reader stops reading at 275, what was the point of it, right? That’s what matters, and timing was everything.” 

「喬治基本上說，這些小加油站可以加速賽道上的汽車速度，作為作家，你的目標是將這些風火輪賽道放置在正確的時刻，讓讀者了解故事。例如，我們用一本小說；你可以在第 276 頁看到有史以來最偉大的時刻，但如果你的讀者在第 275 頁停止閱讀，那還有什麼意義，對吧？這才是最重要的，而時機就是一切。

Aronow believes that narrative drives community, and apart from Bitcoin and Ethereum, “most crypto kind of exists because of X and Twitter. I know that’s going to be a very unpopular thing to say, but they have a very codependent relationship.” 

MAYC #7069Bored Ape Kennel Club #8908BAYC Digital HoodieAronow 認為敘事驅動社區，除了比特幣和以太坊之外，「大多數加密貨幣的存在都是因為 X 和 Twitter。我知道這樣說會很不受歡迎，但他們之間的關係非常相互依賴。

“What works on social media is narrative. When people talk about community being the most important thing, I think that’s a bit of a meme. I’m not saying that community is not important. Community is extraordinarily important, but what comes before community? Community follows narrative. Narrative comes first. It’s almost like one begets the other. If you have a strong narrative about something, community will form around it.” 

「在社群媒體上起作用的是敘事。當人們談論社區是最重要的事情時，我認為這有點像迷因。我並不是說社區不重要。社區非常重要，但是社區之前是什麼？社區遵循敘事。敘事是第一位的。這幾乎就像一個人孕育另一個人一樣。如果你對某件事有強烈的敘述，社區就會圍繞著它形成。

Bored Apes controversy and its toll on his health

They often say fame comes at a heavy cost, and for Aronow, the cost has been higher than most, revealing his nervous system feels shot to bits dealing with the autoimmune disease and heart failure while battling internet trolls amid the infamous Buzzfeed doxing.

無聊的猿類爭議及其對他健康的影響他們經常說成名需要付出沉重的代價，而對於阿羅諾來說，這個代價比大多數人都要高，這表明他的神經系統在與網絡巨魔作鬥爭時，因處理自體免疫疾病和心臟衰竭而感覺被擊中了。

When Aronow was diagnosed with heart failure, he posted “Setting the Record Straight” on Substack to address the bizarre “Nazi conspiracy” smear campaign that shook him and his co-founders. 

當阿羅諾被診斷出患有心臟衰竭時，他在 Substack 上發布了“澄清事實”的文章，以回應震驚他和他的聯合創始人的離奇“納粹陰謀”抹黑運動。

“I started to get sick, and I hid it for a while. I just really started to burn out. All the trolls and all the nastiness. The doxing, and the way all that shit went down; it was brutal, and there was so much happening on that front behind the scenes,” Aronow says. 

「我開始生病了，我把它隱藏了一段時間。我真的開始精疲力盡了。所有的巨魔和所有的骯髒行為。人肉搜索，以及所有這些狗屎事件的發生方式；這是殘酷的，幕後發生了很多事情，」阿羅諾說。

“So many people are not aware. Two trolls, which I won’t name just because they would love it if I did, really tried to make our lives a personal living hell in the most egregious of ways. There’ll probably be multiple documentaries coming out in the future about just how nasty those guys were.” 

“很多人都不知道。兩個巨魔，我不會說出他們的名字，因為如果我說出他們的名字，他們會喜歡的，他們確實試圖以最令人震驚的方式讓我們的生活變成個人的人間地獄。未來可能會有多部紀錄片問世，講述這些傢伙有多卑鄙。

“By the time I was diagnosed with heart failure when I was told I had a 50% chance of dying within five years, I just closed my fucking laptop.”

「當我被診斷出患有心臟衰竭時，當我被告知我有 50% 的機會在五年內死亡時，我就關上了我那該死的筆記型電腦。”

“I fulfilled every promise that I’ve ever made — I just deserve my own peace now. I worked nonstop up until that point, and I mean, nonstop. I didn’t take a day off, neither did Greg by the way. Greg took six hours off during that second year to get married. I’m not fucking kidding.”

「我兌現了我曾經許下的每一個承諾——我現在應該得到自己的平靜。直到那時我一直不停地工作，我的意思是，不停地工作。我沒有休息一天，順便說一句，格雷格也沒有休息。格雷格在第二年請了六個小時的假來結婚。我他媽不是在開玩笑。

Forever the optimist, Aronow shares that a recent treatment has had a positive effect on countering his heart failure condition.

阿羅諾永遠是個樂觀主義者，他表示最近的治療對他的心臟衰竭狀況產生了積極的影響。

“I did an experimental stem cell thing for my heart, which did really help it. It slowed the progression of the disease pretty dramatically, but it made it so that the medications that allowed me to create Yuga in the first place for my colitis stopped working entirely.” 

「我為我的心臟做了一項實驗性幹細胞實驗，這確實有幫助。它極大地減緩了疾病的進展，但它使得最初允許我創造 Yuga 來治療結腸炎的藥物完全失效了。

“I’m now back to this place where I was. I’m back to dealing with the disease that I was sick with for 10 years on top of now having heart failure, which, again, has been fairly stable. But as a result of the stem cells, now I’m struggling in this way, which is pretty difficult.”

「我現在又回到了原來的地方。除了現在的心臟衰竭之外，我又開始治療我已經生病了 10 年的疾病，而且我的心臟衰竭也相當穩定。但由於幹細胞的作用，我現在陷入了這樣的困境，這是相當困難的。

“It’s hard to appreciate everything we were able to build and everything it did for the ecosystem — all the new people it brought in when your nervous system is so thrashed. I still, to this day, feel thrashed from it all.” 

「很難欣賞我們所能建立的一切以及它為生態系統所做的一切——當你的神經系統受到如此嚴重的打擊時，它帶來的所有新人。直到今天，我仍然感到受到這一切的打擊。

The future of Bored Ape Yacht Club

Not one to wallow in his own adversity, Aronow, who’s ridden the rollercoaster of a lifetime with his treasured Bored Ape Yacht Club, remains optimistic that the collection will see its time in the sun again. 

Bored Ape Yacht Club 的未來 Aronow 並不是一個沉迷於自己的逆境的人，他與他珍貴的 Bored Ape Yacht Club 一起經歷了一生中的過山車，他仍然樂觀地認為該系列將再次重見天日。

“I think Apes will always have some kind of cultural relevance due to the splash that they made in its first year. I think those moments are going to come back again and again and again. It’s going to follow the same attention economy that all of crypto has,” says Aronow.

「我認為《猩球崛起》總是會具有某種文化相關性，因為它們在第一年就引起了轟動。我認為那些時刻會一再回來。它將遵循所有加密貨幣所具有的相同的注意力經濟，」Aronow 說。

“I think one of the reasons for that is that we have an extraordinary BAYC team being headed up by Jeff Nicholas, Figgie and Greg now. There’s going to be just a ton of extraordinary moments out in the next year, and I think a lot of them can bring a lot of attention back to the space as a whole, but in particular, Bored Apes. I think Bored Apes are going to be around pretty much forever.”

「我認為原因之一是我們現在擁有一支由 Jeff Nicholas、Figgie 和 Greg 領導的出色的 BAYC 團隊。明年將會有許多非凡的時刻，我認為其中許多可以讓人們重新關注整個領域，但特別是《無聊的猿猴》。我認為《無聊的猿》將會永遠存在。

Aronow also has his sights set on returning to the space once his health improves. 

阿羅諾還計劃在健康狀況好轉後重返太空。

“Eventually, I will get better. I feel that in my heart, that even if I can’t fully correct the colitis or the heart failure, that I will get back to a place where I’m building, and I think it’ll probably be what everyone is expecting on some level. I’ll probably create some kind of corner for myself. I’ve tentatively wanted to call it the basement, and it’s like my little corner where I get to do whatever the fuck I want and everyone leaves me alone.” 

「最終，我會變得更好。我心裡覺得，即使我不能完全糾正結腸炎或心臟衰竭，我也會回到我正在建造的地方，我想這可能是每個人所期待的某種程度。我可能會為自己創造一些角落。我暫時想把它稱為地下室，它就像我的小角落，在那裡我可以做任何我想做的事情，而每個人都不會打擾我。

“I want to capture the meta-narratives; I want to capture that stuff that only a really small, nimble and extraordinarily degenerate team can accomplish. That’s because that’s the kind of shit that gets me going; that’s the kind of shit that I get out of bed, and I’m like, ‘Yeah, let’s fucking do it.’” 

「我想捕捉元敘事；我想要捕捉那些只有非常小、靈活且極度墮落的團隊才能完成的事情。那是因為這就是讓我前進的動力；這就是我從床上起床後的感覺，’是啊，我們他媽的就這麼做吧。

Rapid fire Q&A with Gordon Goner

Favorite NFT in your wallet? 

BAYC 聯合創始人Greg Solano 的— 又名Garga — PFPBAYC 聯合創始人Kerem Atalay 的— 又名EmpireTomatoKetchup — PFPBAYC 聯合創始人Zeshan Ali 的— 又名Sass — PFP 與Gordon Goner 的快速問答你錢包裡最喜歡的NFT是什麼？

“Bored Ape number one. I know it’s a boring answer, but it’s that one, absolutely.”

「無聊的猿第一。我知道這是一個無聊的答案，但絕對是這個答案。

Favorite 1-of-1 art piece? 

最喜歡的 1-of-1 藝術作品？

“I haven’t collected a lot of 1-of-1s. I absolutely will over the next year, and I have a few in mind that I’m just waiting for the right price moment or negotiation to come through.”

「我還沒有收集到很多 1-of-1 的東西。我絕對會在明年這樣做，我心裡有一些想法，我只是在等待合適的價格時機或談判的結果。

Who are your top 3 favorite follows on Twitter for NFTs?

您在 Twitter 上最喜歡的 3 位 NFT 追蹤者是誰？

1. NFT Nick — “I love Nick. I would put him in my top three.”

1. NFT 尼克——「我愛尼克。我會把他列入我的前三名。

2. CL207 — “Someone who’s not as involved in the NFT space who doesn’t know who I am and probably doesn’t give a shit about me one way or the other. But I have always secretly loved him as a guy. Probably been my all-time favorite Crypto Twitter personality.”

2. CL207－「一個不太涉足 NFT 領域的人，他不知道我是誰，也可能根本不在乎我。但身為一個男人，我一直暗暗地愛著他。可能是我一直以來最喜歡的加密推特人物。

3. Lior — “I have a lot of respect for him, not just as a founder, but also as a community member, and I like his thoughts on things. He’s such a fucking incredible guy.”

3. Lior —「我非常尊重他，不僅作為創始人，而且作為社區成員，我喜歡他對事物的想法。他真是一個令人難以置信的傢伙。

Advice on how to survive NFTs and crypto in the long run?

關於如何長期生存 NFT 和加密貨幣的建議？

“I think it’s important to not follow every meta-narrative, right? I think it’s important to think long-term. To have the discernment on what metas to follow and what not to follow, and that only comes — unfortunately — from just being around long enough. You have to get burned enough times.”

「我認為重要的是不要遵循每一個元敘事，對嗎？我認為長遠思考很重要。不幸的是，要辨別什麼是應該遵循的，什麼是不應該遵循的，這只能來自於有足夠長的時間。你必須被燒傷足夠多次。

“The other thing I will say is that pride comes before the fall in crypto. Don’t let hubris get the best of you because crypto has a way of humbling you every fucking time.” 

「我要說的另一件事是，驕傲是在加密貨幣衰落之前出現的。不要讓狂妄自大打敗你，因為加密貨幣每次都會讓你感到羞愧。

“I can’t think of a single person. I honestly can’t think of a single person since 2017 who has not burned themselves from not showing humility and or letting greed take over.”

“我想不出一個人。老實說，自 2017 年以來，我想不出有哪個人沒有因為不謙虛或讓貪婪佔據上風而自焚。

Would you do anything different in the last three years of this wild ride? 

在這段瘋狂旅程的最後三年裡，你會做些什麼不同的事情嗎？

“I’d do a million things differently, but I wouldn’t even know where to begin. It’s not like I’m filled with regret or anything, but there are a tremendous amount of moments that I would redo if I could almost on a day-to-day level, but I really did the best I could.” 

「我會以不同的方式做一百萬件事，但我甚至不知道從哪裡開始。我並不是充滿遺憾或其他什麼，但如果可以的話，我幾乎每天都會重做很多時刻，但我確實已經盡力了。

“I’m not just thinking about myself but thinking from the perspective of the holders. That became harder as I became sicker and had to sort of step away from the company and entrust others along the way, but everyone we’ve entrusted has only gotten better and better.” 

「我不只是考慮自己，而是站在持有者的角度思考。隨著我病情加重，這變得更加困難，不得不離開公司並一路委託他人，但我們委託的每個人都變得越來越好。

“I feel good about where we’re heading now. I feel so filled with optimism and hope for the entire NFT ecosystem. I’m feeling pretty fucking great about where everything is heading.” 

「我對我們現在的前進方向感覺很好。我對整個 NFT 生態充滿了樂觀和希望。我對一切的發展方向感覺非常好。

“On a personal level, all of this was the first time for us. You learn through doing.” 

「就個人而言，這一切對我們來說都是第一次。你透過實踐來學習。

What message do you want to get out to the Bored Ape community? 

您想向 Bored Ape 社群傳達什麼訊息？

“Apes together strong — I love you.”

“猿猴在一起堅強——我愛你。”