Ryan Broderick

This is a sampling of what people were saying to her.

This is cute and all, but did you think of all the people who wake up to work grueling hours, wake up on the streets alone with chronic pain before posting this?

You should be mindful next time before bragging about your picture-perfect life.

You might upset someone.

Someone else said, I wake up every day with chronic pain and wash my OCD medication down with an iced oat milk latte, but whatever, potato, potato, am I right?

And it's just a lot of people being like, how dare you?

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.