戈登·戈纳 (Gordon Goner) 讲述他戏剧性的健康斗争和《无聊猿》三岁生日

Bored Ape 联合创始人 Wylie Aronow 患有心脏病，他回顾了 BAYC 三年的动荡历程，其中包括健康问题、互联网骚扰和无与伦比的成功时刻。 Aronow 的创造力和决心引导着 BAYC 的叙事和社区，从而产生了持久的文化影响。尽管面临挑战，阿罗诺仍然对该项目的未来持乐观态度，并将其长寿归功于卓越的团队及其捕捉到的元叙事。在努力恢复健康的过程中，Aronow 设想在他对创新的热情和协作的力量的推动下重返 NFT 领域。

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 联合创始人 Wylie Aronow（在网上也被称为 Gordon Goner）饱受自身免疫性疾病的困扰，在三年前的本周康复后推出了世界上最热门的 NFT 项目。

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 获得了帕丽斯·希尔顿 (Paris Hilton) 和史努比狗狗 (Snoop Dogg) 等大牌名人的盛情款待、财富和成功达到了极高的高度后，阿罗诺 (Aronow) 在 2023 年 1 月被诊断出患有心力衰竭后，又回到了现实。

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.

当你 30 多岁的时候，被告知你患有一种 50% 的人会在五年内去世的疾病，这很难理解。阿罗诺利用他的灵性来帮助应对他所面临的严峻形势。

“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.

“说实话，这是一件非常个人的事情，但我多年来一直信奉印度教。我在益世康寺庙旁边长大，这就像克里希纳意识，”他说。

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

“我有这种深刻的精神层面，但我不经常谈论，后来，我成为了一名佛教徒。”

“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.”

“当你被告知你可能很快就会死去时，你只是经常想到死亡。困难的部分是面对那一刻，它只会发生一次。就像你会死一样，大多数人在被告知你会死之前，都不必考虑它。”

“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.”

“面对死亡是我经常想到的事情。我不能说我现在处境很好，但我比第一次得知这个消息时好多了。这是一次非常深刻、个人化、奇怪的精神旅程，我认为对每个人来说都会有所不同。”

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.”

但在积极的进展中，他透露，这种情况对一种实验性的新干细胞治疗反应良好，即使治愈“并不是一条直线”。

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.

阿罗诺表示，不得不面对自己的死亡可能是他在 2023 年 11 月疯狂购买 NFT 并在社交媒体上引起轰动的原因。他花费 600 ETH 和 NFT 从 Cool Cats、Mocaverse、World of Women、Doodles、Meebits、Chromie Squiggles 等收藏品中购买了 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 开端 Bored Ape 游艇俱乐部本周迎来了 2021 年 4 月 23 日成立三周年纪念日。

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 图片以前所未有的速度进入全球时代精神。即使在今天，如果你在街上问一个普通人什么是 NFT，他们很可能会回答“无聊的猿”。

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. 

从斯蒂芬·库里到埃米纳姆，从吉米·法伦到埃隆·马斯克，Bored Apes 受到了一些世界上最有影响力的人物的庆祝。但它始终被开发为一个反文化和不敬的品牌，针对加密货币原住民的小利基社区。

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（约 220 美元）的价格铸造了一个 Ape，并收集了所有的空投和福利，那么当你在底价接近最高价时卖出，你会看到投资飙升至 100 万美元左右。 2022 年 4 月达到峰值 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 的健康问题迫使他从 BAYC 背后的公司 Yuga Labs 辞职。在加入 Bored Apes 之前，他花了十年时间与自身免疫性疾病作斗争。

“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，而且大部分时间都卧床不起。我在大四那年不得不退学，只是为了当一个病人。我在全国各地旅行，去看不同的医生，试图治愈我的自身免疫性疾病，这在当时非常严重。我有很多肠道阻塞，非常痛苦，而且我还患有非常严重的结肠炎，再加上其他一些疾病，所以我的生命结束了大约 10 年，”Aronow 说。

“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.” 

“除了看书、看电影、玩电子游戏和冥想之外，我什么也没做。一切都没有，只是纯粹的虚无。但后来我奇迹般地好起来了，这让我有机会诞生《无聊的猿》。”

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. 

尽管 Aronow 的健康状况在 BAYC 存在的大部分时间里并不广为人知，但它是其起源故事的核心，因为儿时的朋友 Greg Solano（又名 Garga）提出了一个想法。

“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. 

“我找到了药物和生活方式改变的正确组合，这让我的病情有所好转。然后，从字面上看，一个月后，我试图弄清楚如何偿还我的巨额医疗债务和令人难以置信的学生贷款。我身无分文，身无分文，身家 8 万美元，从 16 岁起就一直在一家零售店工作，一直没有找到工作。格雷格给我发短信，他说，‘我们来做一个 NFT 吧，’”Aronow 说。

“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.”

“我不知道我是否曾经分享过我对此的回应，但我对他的短信的回应是，‘NFT 到底是什么？’这才是真正的回应。然后我几乎立刻就想起了 NFT 是什么，因为我想起了 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 观察了 Hashmask 的铸造和早期形成，但不喜欢社区方面，因为 Discord 小组里到处都是持有者，他们互相扣篮，试图超越彼此。

“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 — 由戈登·戈纳 (Gordon Gonor) 所有，他将其展示为他的 PFP。“它几乎没有什么共同的感觉，我们只是开始想出最终成为 Bored Ape Yacht Club 的想法。”

“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.” 

“当我们四个人集思广益时，第一个想法实际上是加密货币女朋友，我们提出了一个问题，‘所有这些加密货币兄弟需要什么，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，是不是粉丝[笑]，而且我们确实感觉很不舒服——感觉它没有很强的持久力。”

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.” 

阿罗诺回忆起他在田纳西州诺克斯维尔接受臭氧 IV 治疗结肠炎的情况，并产生了巨大的创造力和意识浪潮，最终催生了“无聊猿游艇俱乐部”的名称和概念。

“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.” 

“我晚上感觉非常糟糕，因为治疗而无法入睡。我 24 小时没睡，我给格雷格发了这篇该死的文章，内容是我认为很酷的所有事情。它围绕着两件事，其中之一是我们长大的地方，叫做迈阿密的 Church Hill's Pub，这是一个非常臭名昭著的朋克俱乐部，可以追溯到 30 年前的迈阿密，然后是 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.” 

来自 LowFi Hip-Hop Mix 的 Curtis 的《沼泽》“实用性的第一个想法围绕着浴室的想法。就像，‘如果你可以丢掉一个像素怎么办？如果购买这个 NFT 可以让你进入这个俱乐部，在那里你可以放下一个像素并为集体艺术体验做出贡献，会怎么样？’然后我们就开始参加比赛了。”

“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.” 

“我给格雷格起了很多不同的名字，包括‘无聊猿游艇俱乐部’，他早上醒来时就感受到了巨大的意识流，任何曾经和我一起工作过的人都知道，我就是这么做的。”工作。但当格雷格读到《无聊的猿游艇俱乐部》时，他说就是这样。我立刻就知道了，感觉就像命中注定一样。”

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 的早期魔法和实验 要说 Bored Ape Yacht Club 瓶装魔法是轻描淡写的，尤其是在该品牌几乎不会犯错的第一年。即使是那些没有接触过 BAYC 生态系统的人也怀着敬畏之心目睹了一种文化现象的出现。

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: 

很难捕捉到 BAYC 第一年左右的狂热时刻，但这里有一个回忆，提醒我们这个项目是多么重要，因为无数的模仿项目试图推出自己的版本：

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 铸造了 / Roadmap 2.0 / Treasure Hunt / J1mmy.eth 和 Pranksy 在将他的 PFP 暂时更改为 Bored Apes 拼贴画后铸造了大量 Apes / Elon 的“似乎有点可替代”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.

无聊的猿犬舍俱乐部惊喜掉落 / Meebits v Apes 与 Beeple 的艺术 / Apes 翻转 Punks / “Fuck It.” 《突变体星期六》的标志性推文/游艇俱乐部/向野外持有者赠送知识产权，包括 Bored & Hungry、NBA 中的 Tyrese Haliburton 鞋和带有孟买博士冰淇淋的 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 / 名人纷纷加入，包括帕丽斯·希尔顿 (Paris Hilton)、吉米·法伦 (Jimmy Fallon)、斯蒂芬·库里 (Steph Curry)、史努比狗狗 (Snoop Dogg)、埃米纳姆 (Eminem)、提姆巴兰 (Timbaland)、贾斯汀·比伯 (Justin Bieber)、麦当娜 (Madonna)、乔什·哈特 (Josh Hart)、拉梅洛·鲍尔 (LaMelo Ball) / 澳大利亚网球公开赛期间的 BAYC 壁画 / Otherside 预告片 / 等等还有更多。

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 个月里几乎不乏“哦操”时刻，但阿罗诺回忆起帕丽斯·希尔顿 (Paris Hilton) 在《今夜秀》中与吉米·法伦 (Jimmy Fallon) 炫耀她的 Ape，这是最重要的时刻之一许多 BAYC 已经抓住了主流文化。

“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. 

“几乎每一次名人与 BAYC 的互动都是我事先不知道的。有人私信我，说帕丽斯·希尔顿 (Paris Hilton) 正在《今夜秀》中谈论她的《无聊猿》，而且他们正在展示它，”阿罗诺说道。

“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.’”

“她戴着一顶 S&M 帽子，我坐在后面想，‘我知道我从哪里得到这个变量的灵感。那是来自纽约市的地下性俱乐部，”他解释道。 “这就是我受到这个变量启发的地方。她意识到这一点了吗？”“我知道她是个聪明人，所以我确信她是，但我记得我当时想，‘这有点危险。’”

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，他不敢相信它会如此成功，但他担心无聊的猿会被主流所吸收。

“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.” 

“那件事发生后，我立即给格雷格打电话，用我的原话，我永远不会忘记； “我们会想，‘我们自己怎么能不冯·达奇呢？’我开始担心这是在冒险。”

“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.” 

“我说这个项目是针对小众加密货币社区的。现在它已经成为你所能得到的主流。帕丽斯·希尔顿 (Paris Hilton) 在他妈的今夜秀上——别误会我的意思，我爱帕丽斯·希尔顿 (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.

他们进行了讨论，最终一致认为唯一的解决办法就是无论如何都要保持真实。 “如果我们能尝试一点颠覆性或一点不敬，并保持加密原生，”他说。

“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.”

“但随着公司的发展以及我们的雄心壮志的扩大，这最终变得非常困难。保持加密原生变得非常困难。我认为我们现在回到了正轨，但我们花了一段时间才到达那里。”

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.

帕丽斯·希尔顿 (Paris Hilton) 在《今夜秀》中 Aronow 的创造力就像风火轮 (Hot Wheels) 曲目一样 BAYC 的魔力在于给人留下他们只是临时编造的印象，但在幕后，很多事情都是经过深思熟虑的。 “去他妈的做预期的事情”是阿罗诺令人难忘的推文之一，同时也是一种使命宣言。

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. 

阿罗诺在这个行业中激发人们的预期的创造力不容低估。在这个行业中，预期通常被称为空间的氧气。在社交媒体上的垃圾贴和与索拉诺经常开玩笑的背后，是对创作过程和写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. 

在学习创意写作后，阿罗诺受到短篇小说作家的启发，这些灵感渗透到 BAYC、Bored Ape Kennel Club、Mutant Ape Yacht Club 和 Otherdeeds for Otherside 的传说中。

“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.

“我喜欢创意过程的东西；这对我来说真的很有趣。我喜欢与其他创意人员、作家和艺术家谈论他们的过程。这就是我真正喜欢的东西，”阿罗诺说，并指出乔治·桑德斯“可能是当今最伟大的短篇小说作家”，也是个人灵感的源泉。

“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.” 

“乔治写了这篇关于唐纳德·巴塞尔姆故事的文章，名为《学校》，他的文章名为《完美沙鼠》。当我十多年前读到这本书时，它让我大吃一惊，因为它解释了叙事是如何运作的，而我还无法从亚里士多德的诗学等中完全理解。当他把它解释为风火轮赛道时，我愚蠢的大脑终于明白了。”

“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.” 

“乔治基本上说，这些小加油站可以加速赛道上的汽车速度，作为作家，你的目标是将这些风火轮赛道放置在正确的时刻，让读者了解故事。例如，我们用一本小说；你可以在第 276 页看到有史以来最伟大的时刻，但如果你的读者在第 275 页停止阅读，那还有什么意义，对吧？这才是最重要的，而时机就是一切。”

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 认为叙事驱动社区，除了比特币和以太坊之外，“大多数加密货币的存在都是因为 X 和 Twitter。我知道这样说会很不受欢迎，但他们之间的关系非常相互依赖。”

“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.” 

“在社交媒体上起作用的是叙事。当人们谈论社区是最重要的事情时，我认为这有点像模因。我并不是说社区不重要。社区非常重要，但是社区之前是什么？社区遵循叙事。叙事是第一位的。这几乎就像一个人孕育另一个人一样。如果你对某件事有强烈的叙述，社区就会围绕它形成。”

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.

无聊的猿类争议及其对他健康的影响他们经常说成名需要付出沉重的代价，而对于阿罗诺来说，这个代价比大多数人都要高，这表明他的神经系统在与网络巨魔作斗争时，因处理自身免疫性疾病和心力衰竭而感觉被击中了。在臭名昭著的 Buzzfeed 人肉搜索中。

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. 

当阿罗诺被诊断出患有心力衰竭时，他在 Substack 上发布了“澄清事实”的文章，以回应震惊他和他的联合创始人的离奇“纳粹阴谋”抹黑运动。

“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. 

“我开始生病了，我把它隐藏了一段时间。我真的开始精疲力尽了。所有的巨魔和所有的肮脏行为。人肉搜索，以及所有这些狗屎事件的发生方式；这是残酷的，幕后发生了很多事情，”阿罗诺说。

“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。两个巨魔，我不会说出他们的名字，因为如果我说出他们的名字，他们会喜欢的，他们确实试图以最令人震惊的方式让我们的生活变成个人的人间地狱。未来可能会有多部纪录片问世，讲述这些家伙有多么卑鄙。”

“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.”

“当我被诊断出患有心力衰竭时，当我被告知我有 50% 的机会在五年内死亡时，我就关上了我那该死的笔记本电脑。”

“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.”

“我兑现了我曾经许下的每一个承诺——我现在应该得到自己的平静。直到那时我一直在不停地工作，我的意思是，不停地工作。我没有休息一天，顺便说一句，格雷格也没有休息。格雷格在第二年请了六个小时的假来结婚。我他妈不是在开玩笑。”

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

阿罗诺永远是个乐观主义者，他表示最近的治疗对他的心力衰竭状况产生了积极的影响。

“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.” 

“我为我的心脏做了一项实验性干细胞实验，这确实有帮助。它极大地减缓了疾病的进展，但它使得最初允许我创造 Yuga 来治疗结肠炎的药物完全失效了。”

“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.”

“我现在又回到了原来的地方。除了现在的心力衰竭之外，我又开始治疗我已经患病了 10 年的疾病，而且我的心力衰竭也相当稳定。但由于干细胞的作用，我现在陷入了这样的困境，这是相当困难的。”

“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.” 

“很难欣赏我们能够建立的一切以及它为生态系统所做的一切——当你的神经系统受到如此严重的打击时，它带来的所有新人。直到今天，我仍然感到受到这一切的打击。”

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 的未来 Aronow 并不是一个沉迷于自己的逆境的人，他与他珍贵的 Bored Ape Yacht Club 一起经历了一生中的过山车，他仍然乐观地认为该系列将再次重见天日。

“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.

“我认为《猩球崛起》总是会具有某种文化相关性，因为它们在第一年就引起了轰动。我认为那些时刻会一次又一次地回来。它将遵循所有加密货币所具有的同样的注意力经济，”Aronow 说。

“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.”

“我认为原因之一是我们现在拥有一支由 Jeff Nicholas、Figgie 和 Greg 领导的出色的 BAYC 团队。明年将会有很多非凡的时刻，我认为其中很多可以让人们重新关注整个领域，但特别是《无聊的猿》。我认为《无聊的猿》将会永远存在。”

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

阿罗诺还计划在健康状况好转后重返太空。

“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.” 

“最终，我会变得更好。我心里觉得，即使我不能完全纠正结肠炎或心力衰竭，我也会回到我正在建设的地方，我想这可能是每个人所期待的某种程度。我可能会为自己创造一些角落。我暂时想把它称为地下室，它就像我的小角落，在那里我可以做任何我想做的事情，而每个人都不会打扰我。”

“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.’” 

“我想捕捉元叙事；我想要捕捉那些只有非常小、灵活且极其堕落的团队才能完成的事情。那是因为这就是让我前进的动力；这就是我从床上起床后的感觉，‘是啊，我们他妈的就这么做吧。’”

Rapid fire Q&A with Gordon Goner

Favorite NFT in your wallet? 

BAYC 联合创始人 Greg Solano 的 — 又名 Garga — PFPBAYC 联合创始人 Kerem Atalay 的 — 又名 EmpireTomatoKetchup — PFPBAYC 联合创始人 Zeshan Ali 的 — 又名 Sass — PFP 与 Gordon Goner 的快速问答 你钱包里最喜欢的 NFT 是什么？

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

“无聊的猿第一。我知道这是一个无聊的答案，但绝对是这个答案。”

Favorite 1-of-1 art piece? 

最喜欢的 1-of-1 艺术作品？

“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.”

“我还没有收集到很多 1-of-1 的东西。我绝对会在明年这样做，我心里有一些想法，我只是在等待合适的价格时机或谈判的结果。”

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

您在 Twitter 上最喜欢的 3 名 NFT 关注者是谁？

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

1. NFT 尼克——“我爱尼克。我会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——“一个不太涉足 NFT 领域的人，他不知道我是谁，也可能根本不在乎我。但作为一个男人，我一直暗暗地爱着他。可能是我一直以来最喜欢的加密推特人物。”

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，不仅作为创始人，而且作为社区成员，我喜欢他对事物的想法。他真是一个令人难以置信的家伙。”

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

关于如何长期生存 NFT 和加密货币的建议？

“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.”

“我认为重要的是不要遵循每一个元叙事，对吗？我认为长远思考很重要。不幸的是，要辨别什么是应该遵循的，什么是不应该遵循的，这只能来自于存在足够长的时间。你必须被烧伤足够多次。”

“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.” 

“我要说的另一件事是，骄傲是在加密货币衰落之前出现的。不要让狂妄自大打败你，因为加密货币每次都会让你感到羞愧。”

“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.”

“我想不出一个人。老实说，自 2017 年以来，我想不出有哪个人没有因为不谦虚或让贪婪占据上风而自焚。”

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

在这段疯狂旅程的最后三年里，你会做一些不同的事情吗？

“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.” 

“我会以不同的方式做一百万件事，但我什至不知道从哪里开始。我并不是充满遗憾或其他什么，但如果可以的话，我几乎每天都会重做很多时刻，但我确实已经尽力了。”

“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.” 

“我不只是考虑自己，而是站在持有者的角度思考。随着我病情加重，这变得更加困难，不得不离开公司并一路委托他人，但我们委托的每个人都变得越来越好。”

“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.” 

“我对我们现在的前进方向感觉很好。我对整个 NFT 生态充满了乐观和希望。我对一切的发展方向感觉非常好。”

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

“就个人而言，这一切对我们来说都是第一次。你通过实践来学习。”

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

您想向 Bored Ape 社区传达什么信息？

“Apes together strong — I love you.”

“猿猴在一起坚强——我爱你。”