Crypto bros are infamous for describing any criticism as FUD, no matter the criticism. It’s like a verbal tic. Here are some examples from the past couple days on the premiere Bitcoin social network:
While I am aware that it’s a common crypto shill term, I think by this point crypto has fallen out of the mainstream, so their usage of terms doesn’t really matter.
And as others have pointed out, the term FUD has been used at least since the birth of WWW/modern internet.
I have no argument there, the phrase was definitely not created by them, it’s just been beaten to death by them.
They’ve also overused a bunch of ancient and unfunny memes well past their expiration dates, and universally adopted a collection of depressingly dull and incorrect slogans. “FUD” is just the one that has interesting meaning outside their sad sphere.
Crypto bros are infamous for describing any criticism as FUD, no matter the criticism. It’s like a verbal tic. Here are some examples from the past couple days on the premiere Bitcoin social network:
While I am aware that it’s a common crypto shill term, I think by this point crypto has fallen out of the mainstream, so their usage of terms doesn’t really matter.
And as others have pointed out, the term FUD has been used at least since the birth of WWW/modern internet.
The term FUD has been around longer & broader than that. But thanks for the explanation.
I have no argument there, the phrase was definitely not created by them, it’s just been beaten to death by them.
They’ve also overused a bunch of ancient and unfunny memes well past their expiration dates, and universally adopted a collection of depressingly dull and incorrect slogans. “FUD” is just the one that has interesting meaning outside their sad sphere.
Expecting someone who doesn’t follow cryptobro spaces to associate the term FUD with cryptobros and therefore stop using it is… kinda ignorant.
I agree with you, and hopefully my posts don’t come across like that’s what I believe. If anything, I’d prefer all phrases to be taken back from them.
I’m just trying to describe the other half of where different people see the word, and why they might come to different, incomplete conclusions.
You’re fine, it’s mostly fartmaster who’s making problematic overgeneralizations…