Crypto Cafe · by Rafael Almeida · 2026-08-26

I bought an NFT for the community and the community evaporated

People joke about exit liquidity, but what actually surprised me was the social whiplash. One month there were meetups, voice chats, merch mockups, inside jokes. Six months later the floor was a graveyard and the 'gm' people had moved on to AI avatars or fitness posting.

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Avery Johnson · 7 likes

This is why I never bought the 'family' pitch from projects.

Chinedu Adeyemi · 7 likes

I met one legit friend through an NFT server, so I can't say it was all fake. But yeah, price was the glue for many.

Luca Bianchi · 3 likes

A lot of them were held together by rising prices pretending to be friendship.

Rafael Almeida · 1 likes

That's the weird part. Some of it was real, just not enough of it.

Mariam Said · 0 likes

The communities were real. They just weren't always durable.