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At this point, I am tired of warning people.

I genuinely cannot understand how so many people still support Pump fun, Bonk fun, Binance, scammer KOLs and the entire extraction machine built around them.

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I genuinely cannot understand how so many people still support Pump fun, Bonk fun, Binance, scammer KOLs and the entire extraction machine built around them.

At this point, I am tired of warning people.

It is not even satisfying anymore. It does not feel like a fight worth having when the evidence has been sitting in plain sight for so long and people still choose to look away.

We do not need more onchain proof. We have already seen enough. Enough wallets, enough behavior, enough patterns, enough damage.

It has already been exposed, explained, and documented more than enough times.

What frustrates me most is that this is not harmless degeneracy.

This behavior does not just fund the worst actors. It poisons the environment for everything else as well.

Every dollar, every click, every bit of attention thrown at these extraction platforms helps destroy credibility, liquidity, and space for projects that might actually have been legitimate, durable, and worth building for the long term.

And still, the crowd keeps running in the same direction.

I do not understand the majority here, and I honestly do not think I ever will.

It feels like watching a herd that has gone completely insane.

The more braindead the idea, the more shameless the grift, and the louder the clown behind it, the bigger the following becomes.

And somehow the people draining the space are treated like builders while the people calling it out are treated like the problem.

There is no elegant solution to this beyond education, and even that feels increasingly thankless.

In the end, everyone decides for themselves how much money they want to donate to manipulators, insiders, and parasites.

But people should stop pretending they are only hurting themselves. They are helping kill everything else with it.

They are feeding a culture that rewards extraction over creation, noise over intelligence, and short term hype over anything with actual long term value.

I am beyond exhausted. Because the signs... they are obvious.

And despite that, people keep cheering for the same machinery that is strip mining this space in broad daylight.

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