This is a great one, Tom. I think in the highly individualistic modern world we're finally turning back from individual values to communal values. The crypto culture I'm observing (not from the outside but still not from the very inside of it as it seems to me) is a lot about we/us and not about a single person or a single company. This is true about web3 culture in general - decentralization, open-source, DAOs, etc. Everything is about community, belonging to a group or several groups. Our social cult also has local memes, emojis, phrases, etc. these things occur (often from jokes) and spread naturally if they reflect the beliefs of a community, often ironically, as you mentioned. This is exciting to see it and participate in it (we need an official abbreviation for the soaring twenties (or at least for the soaring twenties social cult), which we can, for example, use as a hashtag or smth).
And thanks a lot for shilling the story! It was a pleasant surprise.
Being quite heavily into the crypto space myself it’s quite interesting to see all this slang develop. WGMI is often uttered ironically, often with little thought. More of a rallying call. But really what the majority of this slang is about is to show whether you’re in or you’re out. Just like any cult, club, religion or any other group phrase you’d like to use.
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This is a great one, Tom. I think in the highly individualistic modern world we're finally turning back from individual values to communal values. The crypto culture I'm observing (not from the outside but still not from the very inside of it as it seems to me) is a lot about we/us and not about a single person or a single company. This is true about web3 culture in general - decentralization, open-source, DAOs, etc. Everything is about community, belonging to a group or several groups. Our social cult also has local memes, emojis, phrases, etc. these things occur (often from jokes) and spread naturally if they reflect the beliefs of a community, often ironically, as you mentioned. This is exciting to see it and participate in it (we need an official abbreviation for the soaring twenties (or at least for the soaring twenties social cult), which we can, for example, use as a hashtag or smth).
And thanks a lot for shilling the story! It was a pleasant surprise.
WGMI
Being quite heavily into the crypto space myself it’s quite interesting to see all this slang develop. WGMI is often uttered ironically, often with little thought. More of a rallying call. But really what the majority of this slang is about is to show whether you’re in or you’re out. Just like any cult, club, religion or any other group phrase you’d like to use.
You need to know the slang.
WGMI