Solana Anti-woke ad-sparks

After almost nine hours of assembly of criticism, Solana pulled an ad that presented the therapy session ridiculing conversations on excuses, sparkling the discussion of her messages.

Intentionally or not, that Solana Foundation He found himself in the center of controversy after publication – and then quickly delete – an ad that critics said they have ridiculed issues of gender identity. The ad, which was apparently intended for the promotion of the Solana acceleration conference, presented a session where “America” ​​attended a session of therapy, only to say that the pronouns “and” new poles “occur instead of finding technological innovations.

Ad immediately caused resentment over the crypt’s crypt. Some saw it as an attempt to settle with right-wing cultural rhetoric, while others watched it as unnecessary political money.

“This is such a fucking tone deaf,” Head of Work, Head of Web3 Management Firm Blockanative, wrote On X. “At the time, trans people are refused passports and deletes the government … This is an ad that you kicked out?”

Erased after nine hours

The ad was published 17. Marta, was removed about nine hours later after receiving more than a million views. Many key data in Solana Ecosystem, which were initially engaged with post – reckons or retveri – later distanced.

Adam Cochran, partner in Cinnedeamhain Ventures, Featured in K post That ad support is missing almost as quickly as set. “They returned him because their job was injured, not because they thought it was wrong,” he wrote.

Some early ads of the advertisement later reversed their attitude. Tushar Jain, co-founder Multicoin capital, deleted His initial post it is calling “bold and risky” and later suggested that it was supposed to address “problems of war” more deeply “, and not the” surface “of the NFT NT NFT collection penguins NTS. appeared To initially approve your ad, answering with the GIF missile, but later deleted the post peacefully.

Transition

The request was not just about the ad itself, but what he marked. As notes of Conideske, just a few months ago, Solana Foundation has set up alone as a supporter of diversity and inclusion. At its Singapore conference, its Code of Conduct is explicitly prohibited discrimination on the basis of “gender identity and expression”. Some felt Solana transfer their messages to match the new political climate after the return of Donald Trump in the White House.

“The problem with AD Solana is not an advertisement in isolation,” Cetoris wrote, the head of Delphi Digital, “but the fact that they are still from the election from the non-political platform to the current political climate. And when you change your values ​​based on the current person.

Feeling echoed by the Coinbase Base Product Lead Patel Patel, which criticized Solan approach. “This new Solana ad so miss Mark,” Patel wrote in X post. “Offensively, Cripe and Padring. The base is for everything. Solana is co-joined” is everyone “phrase last week. This ad shows that there is still a long way to fully embrace that etos.”

“Not as is an ecosystem”

In the midst, Matt Sorg, Vice President of the Technology Technology Solana, has tried to clarify that the ad was not represented by the entire ecosystem, writing u x post It “Despite being placed on the main channel, it is not as if it is an ecosystem excited about the message.”

Sorg also suggested that only “very few people” had direct participation in AD production and that a large part of the job was forward. However, this explanation made a small criticism of those who examined how this ad could be approved at all.

Some in the community quickly pointed out that Crisis of Solana identity became something in the form. “Solana is trying so hard to be a white man chain,” X’s heart’s heart joked“While the size of AVG TX makes you think it’s based on Bangalore.”

While many were upset by advertisements, others still defended him, claiming that the background was flooded and the ad its own “actually great marketing. “