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It’s Not Just Crypto Twitter That’s Dead — Experts Say Broader Retail Interest Is Waning
The crypto community is in an uproar, but let’s cut through the noise. The latest freakout on X, where so-called Key Opinion Leaders are screaming about a new algorithm crushing their precious reach, is a sideshow.It’s a symptom, not the disease. The real story here is the quiet, steady exodus of the retail crowd—the normies, the tourists, the weak hands.They’re not just leaving Crypto Twitter; they’re leaving the market, and they might not be coming back. This isn’t about Elon Musk’s engineers tweaking a few lines of code to favor political rants over alpha threads.That’s just the spark. The tinder has been piling up for months: a grinding market that refuses to break new highs, regulatory claws sinking deeper, and a profound failure of the altcoin circus to deliver anything but vaporware and rug pulls.While the influencers on X wage their petty war for impressions, the foundational belief that drew millions into this space—the get-rich-quick dream—is evaporating. True believers in Bitcoin understand this cycle.We’ve seen it before. The froth always recedes.The memecoins go silent, the NFT profile pictures fade, and the endless podcasts about the ‘next big layer-1’ start to sound like desperate echoes. What’s left is the core infrastructure and the immutable ledger of Bitcoin, quietly doing its work while the speculators flee.The data doesn’t lie. Look beyond social metrics to on-chain activity, exchange volumes for retail-favorite altcoins, and Google search trends for ‘buy crypto.’ They’re all painting the same bleak picture of disinterest. This isn’t a temporary dip; it’s a wholesale recalibration.The casino is closing its flashiest tables. The people who were only here for the Lamborghini promises are getting bored and moving on to the next distraction, perhaps AI stocks or sports betting.This cleansing, while painful for bagholders and content creators whose entire brand is hype, is healthy. It strips away the parasitic growth that has choked the ecosystem, the endless shilling, the fraudulent projects that leveraged social media frenzy instead of building real technology.A bear market separates the signal from the noise, and right now, the signal is deafeningly clear: the era of easy social media-driven pumps is over. The infrastructure built during the mania remains, but its users are now the hardened veterans, the institutions, and the builders—not the moon-boy army retweeting charts.
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