After The NFT Community Rejected Him, ENS Fires Brantly

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) fires its Director of Operations, Brantly Millegan after a community vote session held this past weekend. The decision is based on several extreme comments tweeted by the official back in 2016, which have resurfaced.

Back then, Brantly wrote about homosexuality, abortion, as well as religion, claiming they’re “evil / murder / perversion.” Even when these early tweets resurfaced, the former ENS Director still backed up his views via Twitter Spaces.

ENS fires Brantly – but why?

Brantly Millegan has been working as the ENS Director of Operations since 2019. Although his career had been thriving successfully, ENS now fires Brantly over a community vote session.

Surprisingly, the scandalous event began when several tweets written by Brantly in 2016 resurfaced. The most shocking one became viral instantly, causing a stir in the Twitter NFT community:

The tweet, posted in May 2016, revealed Brantly’s extreme beliefs on homosexuality, abortion, and contraception. During the same period, the former Director also made several comments on religion:

Soon enough, the NFT community confronted him. For example, crypto professional analyst Adam Cochran tweeted Bible verses that speak on unconditional love and respect towards each other.

Brantly’s response? “Not really interested in debating theology right now, but what I believe is the mainstream traditional Christian positions.”

The ENS community made the final call

In a Twitter Spaces session last week, Brantly continued to support his beliefs. Obviously, ENS had to act before the scandal escalated.

As a result, the company held a community voting session this weekend, and people made the call. Now, ENS fires Brantly for his extreme remarks and beliefs that attack many NFT community members.

In addition, Brantly’s Twitter account was also suspended. The former Director took to Discord instead, posting the following message:

“I want to make it clear that I’ve never excluded anyone from ENS or my work (or even my personal life) because of who they are or what they believed. I believe in working with, and also being friends with, a wide range of people. (…) Yes, I believe in Catholic doctrine, and I don’t think it’s practical or moral for the web3 industry to exclude many traditional-minded Christians, Muslims, Jews, and others who agree with me. I believe in tolerance with a wide net, I live that out, and I ask others to give me and others the same.”

In summary, everybody admits that Brantly contributed to ENS’ success as a company. Nevertheless, people such as Founder Nick Johnson decided that he should be removed from the corresponding level entity of the DAO too:

“Brantly has been a valued team member of TNL for the past three years. However, as a team we felt that his position with TNL is no longer tenable,” he said in a tweet. “Many of you were hurt by Brantly’s comments over the past 24 hours, and we strongly believe that ENS should be an inclusive community. Going forward we’ll continue to do everything we can to ensure that remains the case.”