I've experienced this, though I aquired it the old school way; from welding.
Mine was luckily a minor case and went away in a day. Quite literally feels like you have sand in your eyes. Moved from safety squints to welding mask after that.
When I took welding shop class in high school, our shop teacher literally called it "sand eye" when he explained why wearing a welding mask was not optional in his shop or in general while welding. Sure enough, there was that one kid who thought he could get by with his squints while teach wasn't looking... He was out for days with sand eye and had quite the cautionary tale to share when he returned. Everyone got downright religious about the welding masks after that.
Thank you for saying this, it's what I was coming here to do.
I was laughing, until I read the article. It's fucking horrifying. Schadenfreude should be proportional.
NFT morons losing their money? Hilarious.
Losing their eyesight? Not funny. Not proportional. Just horrific.
Now, if the Nazi fetishizing scam artist asshats that run Bored Ape were blinded by the light at their own convention? That, in my view, would be proportional Schadenfreude.
That's true, but more of a risk with UV, if only because you can't see the full intensity while looking at it, and your pupils might expand because of low visible light
Like it really sucks for the victims but it's also darkly hilarious that every single time these libertariany scammy I'm smarter than everyone types do a thing they get an abject lesson in why communities have like safety rules and "red tape".
Yeah, they were. However, getting grinding sparks in your eye and letting them sit there for 24 hours because you thought it was just a bit of arc eye is a little more permanent, and you get told off by the nurse at the eye hospital while she's picking rust off your eyeball.
I suppose it's recoverable on low intensity, but they had to scale up the warning because of "manly job dudes" who ignore safety precautions all the time.