BST retweeted
Crypto bros lost the plot along the way to institutional adoption
When degenerate participants successfully extracted liquidity and value last cycle through NFTs, then graduates to more participants learning how to extract value, eventually fundamentals are lost due to infection
Instead of posting theses about other assets, equities, or commodities moving cryptocurrency higher, we should be building tangible value that will provide improved fundamentals and market sentiment as the market matures
This cycle it feels like every participant burned down tangible value for dopamine and questions why price stopped going higher
If cryptocurrencies don’t ever plan to have a revenue stream and fundamental value, you’re building something useless and worthless - we should at least pretend to be building something valuable at the least
The majority of the market participants have also adapted to this reality, and it’s up to you to decide which direction the industry is going
Personally, I have logged in everyday to crypto twitter for > 2 years, and the primary fundamental value I learned is to never trust anyone with influence, every influencer in crypto is a bundler, larp, or scammer, and the influential crypto accounts do not know or care about macroeconomics, longevity, or tangible value - I’ve also witnessed all moral integrity of a community in crypto get destroyed, which actually felt like the only tangible value there was left while OG crypto influencers started exposing OG dino coins as scams and dead forever
So in my opinion, the individuals that the crypto community gives influence to have slowly killed market sentiment over the last 2 years, and it really won’t improve until influence doesn’t move the market
Food for thought
BST retweeted
Like the penguin, the onion took the hard road.
No shortcuts. No handouts.
It never gave up and it won.
So ask yourself:
Are you really going to get outworked by an onion?
Or are you going to become the onion?
Why would I give up when the $onion never did 🧅
BST retweeted
$onion got shilled by the quant @nofudfam and @beni_franklin came up with the following thesis i really like. Several of my boys are very high on it(!)
“How can you give up when the onion never did?”
We have all seen the intense and insane comeback from the onion in the video, but there is more to it
At face value it’s absurd. Why an onion?
But that’s exactly why it works.
The onion becomes a symbol of relentless endurance:
It gets peeled layer by layer → still exists
It makes you cry → keeps going
It gets chopped, sliced, cooked, burned → still shows up in meals
No glow-up. No applause. No redemption arc.
Just quiet persistence.
So the meme is basically saying:
If an onion can survive constant suffering and still fulfill its purpose… what’s your excuse?
It’s dark humor + motivation + irony rolled into one sentence.
Why it went viral (the real psychology)
1. Anti-hustle motivation
People are tired of:
“Grind harder”
“Wake up at 5am”
Fake inspirational quotes
This meme flips that. It motivates you using something pathetic and mundane — an onion roling. Not a perfectly round object like the others, an onion with its flaws and imperfections, but it still manages to win.
That contrast makes it hit harder.
2. Relatable suffering
Modern life feels like:
Constant pressure
Being “peeled” by work, bills, expectations, algorithms
The onion isn’t winning.
It’s just not quitting.
That resonates deeply right now.
3. Irony as coping
Gen-Z / internet culture doesn’t like sincere motivation. It prefers self-awareness and irony
This meme says:
“Yeah life sucks… but look, even THIS thing keeps going.”
And somehow that’s comforting.
