once again ansem is demonstrating how completely out of touch he is we don't want to be kols we don't want more kols we don't want to accept what this space has become, with the wrong incentives, where you are rewarded for who you are and how much you can extract in the past, anyone could have legitimately gone from 0 to millions, but people like ansem and pump have shifted the game where by people are rewarded not for their skill in finding narratives, or edge in trading, but by being paid to promote bundled pnds as a means to generate fees and income for the pump ecosystem using your followers daily for exit liq, bundling coins to pnd, and generating callout rewards during these practices is certainly an edge, but it is not skill, or something you can get better at unless you want to compromise your morals or sell out. there are many good people in this space who simply do not want to do that, who would rather hold and shill a few coins, rather than promoting coins with a life span of less than a day what would he have us do? become kols so we can take initials and profits on side wallets using the volume of our copytraders, thereby never actually trading with any risk at all? if the solution is more of us becoming kols, then that simply reinforces the state whereby the odds are stacked in favour of the guys at the 'top', and would only contribute to more extraction. good coins used to be about teams and communities, with staying power, not whatever bundled slop kols decided to hold the whole point of being here was, if you had the skills, then the odds of you winning were better than a casino. anyone could improve themselves and their skills and learn how to win but we've gone from playing poker to playing roulette. there is no edge in roulette, unless you are the house and you can rig the game in your favour i see it in my groups as well, where people increasingly want to multiwallet and shill low cap shitters to take money from other people in the groups. instead of being selective and focussing on quality, people are told to 'scan more' we all need exit liquidity, because for you to win, someone else has to lose. but if the ceilings for exit liquidity are ever lowered, it simply becomes a race to the bottom like i said in a previous post ansem read but never responded to, him and others are extracting the plebs dry, but it's the plebs that make the space, without them there will be nothing left to extract. so if on chain gets even worse from here, and shitcoining never recovers, they would do well to remember the kols paid to promote pump's extractive practices facilitated that to all those on the payroll: don't be crying later when everyone leaves, there's no money to be made on chain and all your paid deals dry up. you have the power and platform to promote better practices, which helps everyone win, but you decided to sell out for a quick payday instead, contributing to the state of things as they are, and that's not only sad, but also a real let down