I'm a developer and crypto believer. I have been spending time on the Bitcointalk forum lately, and I want to make some good friends here.
All of my close circle friends consider crypto as scams, and I cannot convince them at all. They all bought some meme coins and lost, or have heard stories of people getting wrecked on NFT coins, so they blame Bitcoin for all the scams. When I argue, "Why don't you buy Bitcoin?" they say it's not profitable. When I counter back with, "If you had bought $6k BTC last year, it would now be around $10k instead you chose some meme coin that online gurus talk about, and now you blame Bitcoin," they still don’t listen. Nowadays, I’ve started to lose friends over these arguments, and I'm not good online Instagram or Discord either.
Please don't care about that too much. You don't have to start arguments with them. If someone is dumb and you notice that your valid arguments are getting ignored, just tell them you are right and back off. You don't have to convince people to understand that Bitcoin is better than altcoins or that Bitcoin is not a scam. Most altcoins are indeed scams; the developers of most altcoins have their portion, which they dump periodically on the market.
Bitcoin has a creator, but it is decentralized. The community is now too large. If Satoshi ever comes back and starts dumping all his Bitcoin on the market, it will come back again due to massive adoption all around the world. Just be active on the forum, and you will make friends.