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So true 2021 especially nfts you could join a community from the outside and make it Having fun working your bags The community had each others backs too Now everyone calls everyone a scammer or farmer the minute prices dip We need a change [Spoken audio]: In 2017 we were we were delirious we we literally thought that um all these coins are the future you buy and hold You don't even sell right? It's how to you buy hold you hold forever goes up forever. Whatever you retired We figured we were early and we weren't everyone was stupid, but we were right and it worked Then 2018 2019, you know bubble everybody loses all their money and we understand this is all vapor We're not all vapor right like Bitcoin was fine. Ethereum was fine. It's really all right some not vapor a lot is vapor so the 2021 cycle it's like crypto can still change your life you buy you hold for the cycle like months to years and then you sell on a 100x or a 1000x right like you're making life-changing money you know just sitting down trading coins or whatever and it's immediate and you can't get these kinds of results anywhere else trad if I can't do it nothing else can do it crypto can do it and that was p-crypto that was the d5 cycle 2025 it gets amended even further after that cycle because it's like yes you still want the um the hundred X or the thousand X now you're holding it for like one or two weeks max because a meme cycle is not the same as a regular cycle and it's literally vapor but it will still give you the lotto ticket that nothing else can and so we come into this cycle and it's like what's gonna attract retail crypto is no longer like this lotto ticket to immediate retirement and if you wanted to tell me that I would have to buy and hold something for like you know five to ten years to make seven to eight figures bro I can do that in trad I don't need crypto for that I don't need this industry for that I can literally and more easily go to trad five buy you know any stock that's going up or whatever not lose my fucking mind so what brings people back to the cycle I don't necessarily know although they are coming back to right everything is running it's nowhere near as sexy it is nowhere near as like you know it's nowhere near as magical I guess it's you don't get the same feeling of like anything can happen even if you're in memes and even even if you see these memes running and people printing and people making a lot of money it just doesn't happen enough to enough people often enough and it's I'm not saying it's not skill-based because it is but it's also network based a lot of the people that are making a lot of the money, they just have really good networks. Whereas prior cycles, you didn't need a deep network, you could literally just sit there, buy shit, hold shit, retire.