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.
going off your hate for cryptobros, there’s a type of person who mixes the cryptobro personality with the “bro science” fitness-bro mindset and the whole bougie “travel the world” personality. I hate all these types of people seperately, but there’s a type of person I’ve been seeing a lot of lately that mixes all three and is completely insufferable. Like the type of people investing in crypto while doing sexpat shit in Thailand.
“bro science” fitness-bro mindset and the whole bougie “travel the world” personality
Instagram was made for and possibly by these particular narcissists.