Almost 600k impressions on the "Fuck you fr" tweet.
Do you remember it?
Yet....you grind and bleed alone while the charlatans get applause and cash.
This place rewards extractors and punishes most builders.
It lifts the loudest liars and buries the people who carry the real idea of this industry.
The old guard is gone and the spirit that built this space has been replaced by pure commerce and empty theatrics.
That truth stinks and it needs to be shouted until the rot is unmistakable.
Even if you unfollow me I will call out your heroes, your influencers, the ones you think will give you a thousand times return even though they have scammed a thousand people, your shitty perp dex fed by the biggest centralized exchange.
If nobody calls it out this cycle of manipulation and extraction will keep repeating and the real honest work will never matter.
Btw; Real honest work is not free and it should always be a give and take.
The giving part has been forgotten replaced by endless taking and the expectation that real builders should break their backs for nothing.
In 2025 most of the community is made of people who can only hold or stay for five seconds and then jump to the next hit after making five dollars or failing to get rich in twenty four hours.
There are exceptions but they are rare.
People want safety truth guidance and tech yet refuse to support the few who still deliver it unless it's a big name behind it. Thanks to the halo-effect.
They run after noise ignore substance and cry when the whole structure collapses on top of them.
This industry cannot survive on greed alone.
It needs builders who care more about integrity than impressions or a 100x over night.
Those builders are pushed into the shadows while the extractors take center stage.
It is about the mindset that has taken over this entire space.
A mindset that rewards noise instead of substance, speed instead of conviction, extraction instead of contribution.
A mindset that pushes real builders out of sight while celebrating those who give nothing back.
A mindset that treats honesty as weakness and manipulation as a winning strategy.
That is what needs to be called out.
Every time the community lets it happen it sends the message that honesty is worthless and manipulation pays.
- by $MASTR