After a trigger word, then a safe word is needed.   No?

Maybe the safe word is:  "I am sorry. I did not mean it."  That seems to work pretty well as long as the person does not have other reasons to try to argue about the use of such language in these here parts.


There needs to be some kind of an interesting hook.

At least a hook that I consider to be interesting.

Many of us, not only yours truly, have beaten the bitcoin versus crypto distinction to death, but yeah, there continue to be folks who continue to use that word crypto in ways that are ambiguous, misleading and/or disingenuine.

Surely when any of us is citing a meme that had been made from someone else, we still have responsibility over the contents.

For example, a guy could say I love this meme, except I don't really like that it uses the word "crypto."  There are ways that we can still attempt to pay attention to our posts without just blindly citing something.

I don't even necessarily disagree with the use of the term crypto.. I do it myself from time to time, yet I usually attempt to say what I mean by using it rather than just rotedly allowing the term to slip in as if it were to mean anything in and of itself.


And, you discovered it is not very light if you end up glossing over the use of the term "crypto" as if crypto is "on-topic" in this thread.

How do you perceive your own involvement in "bitcoin?"

Do you perceive that you are in "crypto?"

Let's say that you went to a family gathering that involved some food and perhaps several hours of hanging around with various relatives (maybe it is a wedding or something), and there were several relatives and friends that you had not seen for a while, and various relatives were getting to know you since maybe you met them for the first time.

One of your relatives (let's say a cousin who is a similar age as you) had not seen him for more than 6 years (since before your forum registration date in January 2020), and you are talking with that particular cousin about what he is up to in recent times and maybe he has some similar experiences as you so you are talking about work and family and maybe some differences in different cities, and maybe some different experiences, and you mention something about prices going up so much recently, and you said that you bought a couple of the food items for the gathering (let's say that it was a special chicken dish that came from a special nearby restaurant that specialized in this particular kind of chicken, rather than the home-made version that you would have had done if the gathering had been smaller), and you told him that the prepared chicken food item had gone up in price like 50% from the last time that you bought it (maybe a year or two previously?).   

Without any further context, your cousin then asks you if you are into crypto?   

How would you respond to your cousin about that question?     Give me some details about what you might say to your cousin, with an expectation that you generally like and/or trust the cousin, and you had been accustomed to sharing all kinds of personal information with him in past years, so you had no reason not to talk with him about what you have been up to in the past 6-ish years, again presuming that you had not seen him or talked with him in the past 6-ish years.


Can we say that the word "crypto" really meant bitcoin?  Then that might have a certain interpretation as compared with the use of the term crypto?

Of course, the context is trying to show that Warren Buffet had experienced exponential upward growth in his wealth over 70 years and "crypto bros" were accustomed to experiencing exponential downward price movements in a matter of hours.

I consider the oldness does not have much to do with it, except the crypto meme guy is used in a lot of jokes, including some age-related "crypto" jokes.