NFT Project Bored Ape Yacht Club Spawns ‘Left-Facing’ Copycats

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NFT Project Bored Ape Yacht Club Spawns ‘Left-Facing’ Copycats
It’s a Bored Ape face-off.On Wednesday, two Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) parody projects gained momentum on crypto Twitter, igniting plagiarism accusations, several trading bans and a robust supply of ape-themed memes.The two collections – both named PHAYC, a play on “fake” and “BAYC” – appear to be identical copies of the original BAYC collection, but with each ape’s profile mirrored to the opposite side, or “left-facing”.One PHAYC collection’s Twitter bio read: “PHAYC IT TIL YOU MAKE IT.” The other read: “Apes phace left on the right side of History.”Within hours, profile pictures boasting left-facing cartoon primates saturated crypto Twitter…