the fading of ct
I posted something on CT today that got a little bit of attention from the people who still somehow manage to come across my posts, and it obviously resonated because there were plenty of likes and replies, even from accounts i’ve not seen in a while.
“we don’t talk about this enough, but the slow fade of ct on this site is really sad, like i get depressed about how much things have changed and that those days will never come back. it reminds me of leaving school and growing up, not knowing how good you had it until it’s over”
The tipping point of change has been down to a number of things, but i think most of us can agree that the Elon takeover of twitter and the change to X has clearly played a big part. Monetization of posts for a share in ad-revenue has impacted the dynamic of our town hall, and it was slow at first coupled with excitement from bigger accounts at the chance to now make money from shitposting, but the change ramped up as time went by, to the point my feed was unrecognisable compared to early 2020s, and the vibe that was once a cozy little deranged corner of the internet for us to share memes, talk coins, and take the piss out of each other (in a mostly fun way) had been eroded down to what can only be described as complete and utter slop.
I miss my friends. I wish i’d made more effort to get to know them outside of twitter, even if it was to talk over telegram or whatsapp. Don’t get me wrong, i do have a few of those connections, and poor old bags gets sent voice notes on tg quite frequently (which he kindly listens to and replies from time to time :), but for most, even if it felt like we were good friends some years back, they have faded into X obscurity and a memory of more fun times online.
Occasionally i’ll see a post from someone i haven’t seen in a very long time, and i do my best to reply or at least like the post so i can come back to it later, or even send a DM, but these encounters are so infrequent, or by pure chance/luck, that by the time someone might surface on my feed who i might have been good mates with some years back, i’ve forgotten all about them (it doesn’t help when people change pfp’s or handles either).
I’m not sure if anyone will even read this, but that’s not the point of llamaword. I’ve done this more for myself than anything, i need to start creating again, to use some braincells for something other than scrolling a ded wasteland of social media sites, and already i’m enjoying the evening typing of thoughts straight onto the markdown file and then uploading to my site.
CT was a massive part of all of our lives, and it might sound like i’m talking about something that is completely over, non-existent, ded and buried, i’m not, clearly it is still there, just in a very different shape, an unrecognisable shape which i don’t think any amount of moulding can bring it back, no matter how many memes or charts we post. I don’t even think UpOnly could bring back the vibes, that’s how down bad things are! I’d loved to be proven wrong, but i think even cobie knows that its too far gone at this point, it would feel forced, like an uncle or your dad trying to dance cool at a wedding, it just ain’t happening.
Even in past bear markets, when things looked horrendous and everything was going to zero, there was still a buzz on the timeline, a sense of togetherness, the comradery, there were still crypto things to talk about. Now… nothing, it honestly feels like we’ve exhausted absolutely anything and everything that could be turned into something crypto related. We sucked every last morsel of interest retail might have had in crypto, to the point even the coinbase ads (which are pretty good tbf) are getting booed by the normies.
You would have thought at my age i’d be used to change by now, knowing that all good things must come to an end, but for some reason i thought our corner of the internet was different, an unbreakable fortress of like-minded intelligent degenerate autistic social outcast loners, who would stick together until the end of time, talking coins and charts, laughing at cobie ratio’ing gainzy (that still happens to be fair lol), buying the latest jpeg collection that dropped, laughing at getting rugged on yet another scam project, but all the while always being there for each other, pretty much 24/7. It was a truly special time.
Like with most of my posts that get emotional, be it a meme or a calling it over in the past, these times tend to indicate the tipping point of a shift or reversal, so i hope me writing all this out like an obituary of ct, marks the pico bottom of not only the markets but our vibe, and both of these things go on the mother of all bull runs