Some might assume I’d say techbros, and while I do despise them for sure, at a personal level I’m especially put off by the cryptobro subvariety of techbro. Talking to them, offline and in person, feels like talking to them online. They’re that online. They’re that cognitively insulated. Everything to them is transactional. The person they’re talking to only exists as a mark or an obstacle to their ongoing acquisition and trade of planet burning internet tokens. I see it in their eyes. I see the artificial and crude predatory switch-flipping when it’s clear that someone they’re talking to isn’t having it, in much the same way that high level Scientologist registers someone as “fair game” and goes hunter-killer on them. It’s creepy for me at a deeply personal level.