Ryan Broderick

Okay, so this person has actually changed their account since they wrote the one about iced oat milk.

This is Ryan Radia, who is an economics, charts, tech policy, urbanism, regulation, housing, transit person, yet is verified and basically a right-wing troll, basically.

It is a mixture of trolls and real people.

So I can explain this one, actually.

I'm just searching this other one just to be curious.

Oh yeah, so the other person that we read from there is an engineer at Vercel, which is an AI company.

So yeah, the majority of these people are like,

understanding how to game this system at this moment.

The meme coin thing is really interesting because I was covering crypto basically right after lockdown was lifted.

That was like my first sort of like post-COVID beat for a while.

Going to these conventions and I was sitting in all these rooms with all these different crypto people.

And this big thing that they were obsessed with was scanning the internet every day for anything that could be a meme, and in their words, sort of like a trend, a meme, a main character, and immediately making shitcoins out of it to make it look like that person had created a shitcoin because they wanted to basically financialize internet trends.

And that was like a concerted effort from the Web3 community to do that.

And they're still doing it to this day.

But now when someone like Haktua goes viral,

there will be a large chunk of those kinds of people who will be comfortable just making their own to get in on it.

That's the pitch that I think the Jake Pauls of the world are making to them.

Right, right.

This like early 2020s main character style is like very different from the one we're in now because it is a lot more about like infighting.

And so the next example we had is in 2022.