Background about the rugpull: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-02-11-3
edit: I can't find their specific Christmas Lana, but this is the one she linked in her minting announcement: (sfw-ish, bad cartoon in lingerie) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHepskOWUAEf6Fi?format=jpg&name=large
This kind of person is your typical crypto / NFT mark. They know it's a get-rich-quick scheme, a form of gambling, but there's just enough technical bullshitting and jargon that convinces them they aren't the mark, they'll be able to sell to another one before it tanks.
Not-so-hot take is that this is the same motivation for people that join MLMs. People who have just enough money that they feel they could maybe invest some of it but who are still in a precarious financial position and have no idea what else to do. People who want a bit of agency and fall into a paper-thin "grindset" trap.
My immediate reaction to anyone losing money on crypto is to laugh, but I think it's good to remind ourselves that (most of) these people are created by a degradation in conditions under capitalism, by desperation and a psychology with which they are relentlessly bombarded, and that they are fairly average people and not your typical chud. In a better system, NFTs and crypto would be outlawed as a con artist's game / money laundering outfit and these people would be considered victims of a scam. Greedy victims.
my roommate is a professional poker player. Its his actual job and he doesnt even play with his own money.
He also does NFT shit for the gamble and it seems to be going very well for him in this regard, but he also spends an ungodly amount of time on various discords figure out which ones he thinks are busts or not. I assume this is not the case with most people as gambling mfers are more times than not, dumb as rocks.
You can absolutely get good at gambling. The idea for casinos and such is to make make sure that enough people are not good at it to keep the house making money.
Also you can just ban them lol