Ben Sixsmith

Are Bored Apes racist?

There's growing controversy around the online art

(Bored Ape Yacht Club)

A plague of apes has spread across social media. Wherever you look, blank simian faces stare back at you. Their features? Sickening. Their prices? Equally so.

The apes have brought in more than $1 billion (£750 million) in sales. Eminem, Mark Cuban and Shaquille O’Neal are just some of the famous names who own an ape.

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