How the fuck did we go from red laser-eyed chads eating rare steaks for dinner, shilling tickers down your throat with so much conviction that entire brotherhoods were formed around a single coin? Back then you had guys writing insane theses, putting their money where their mouth was, and riding their bags through hell because they actually believed in something. The stronger the shill, the stronger the flex. Now look at the fucking state of crypto. Pump.fun and FomoApp KOLs flexing PNL screenshots, rented lifestyles, referral links, and pretending they're some kind of celebrities. Half these guys act like they got bullied their entire lives and finally discovered a place where they can buy the attention they never got in high school. It's not even about crypto anymore. It's a bunch of grown men competing in a popularity contest, desperate for strangers on the internet to tell them how successful and important they are. Nobody has conviction. Nobody stands for shit. Everyone wants to be a KOL, everyone wants to be paid to shill, and everyone wants to dump on the same people who made them relevant. We went from a bunch of degenerate chads trying to change the financial system to a bunch of insecure attention whores fighting over who gets the most engagement on a fucking app. Satoshi Nakamoto is rolling in his grave right now.