I generally feel sympathy for people who get suckered into scams or cults, but crypto-bros are so fucking smug and obnoxious about it I can't muster a single drop of pity for them. Like you literally bet your life savings on a jpeg of a monkey and told anyone saying this was a bad idea that they were going to die poor in a ditch while you laughed.
Like Amway people or Scientologists are annoying, but they are outwardly polite and nice people. I have never met a group more objectionable and loathsome than crypto-bros.
scams and cults tend to draw a specific kind of person. the smugness and elitism combined with massive fomo was the pull for this one. this made it actively repulsive for anyone not in the target audience. really a lot of trends are like this to a greater or lesser extent. Lots of sonic fans are neurodivergent and aren't cishet. vegans come across as kinda grating because that was the style of argument that convinced them. People who go into academia really really need approval.
I generally feel sympathy for people who get suckered into scams or cults, but crypto-bros are so fucking smug and obnoxious about it I can't muster a single drop of pity for them. Like you literally bet your life savings on a jpeg of a monkey and told anyone saying this was a bad idea that they were going to die poor in a ditch while you laughed.
Like Amway people or Scientologists are annoying, but they are outwardly polite and nice people. I have never met a group more objectionable and loathsome than crypto-bros.
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scams and cults tend to draw a specific kind of person. the smugness and elitism combined with massive fomo was the pull for this one. this made it actively repulsive for anyone not in the target audience. really a lot of trends are like this to a greater or lesser extent. Lots of sonic fans are neurodivergent and aren't cishet. vegans come across as kinda grating because that was the style of argument that convinced them. People who go into academia really really need approval.
As a vegan this is like, the first good vegan (not really) insult I've heard
Thanks. I wanted to be very careful to make my observation but not insult vegans(at least not hard).