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If you’ve ever watched a crypto influencer and thought, “This guy knows what he’s talking about!”, congratulations—you just bought yourself a one-way ticket to Red Zero on your portfolio. Crypto influencers are not your friends, they’re not visionaries, and they’re certainly not benevolent saints trying to push humanity forward. Most of them are manipulators, grooming you like a cash cow, only to send you to the slaughterhouse when the time comes.
Welcome to “Shill Town”: Where Truth Bends to Paid Partnerships
Every crypto influencer with even a half-decent following has one primary goal: to sell you a shitcoin they got for free. The strategy is simple:
✅ Invent a touching story about “the future of finance.”
✅ Find some garbage token that paid them for promotion.
✅ Hype up a “secret investment insiders know about.”
✅ Pump it across social media until FOMO takes over.
✅ Dump their bags the second you buy in.
✅ Act shocked when the price crashes 99%.
The only “genius” part of this plan is how predictable and obvious it is. The influencer first shows you charts of Bitcoin going from $10 to $100,000 and tells you “this is your next chance at life-changing wealth.” You buy in, and when everything collapses, they conveniently jump to the next “opportunity.” And so the cycle continues.
A classic example? BitBoy Crypto (Ben Armstrong)—he aggressively shilled PAMP, Sparkster, and DistX, all of which ended up as complete failures.
Who Are the Biggest Shillers and Scammers?
Of course, we wouldn’t want to accuse anyone directly (wink), but if you’re following these “experts,” maybe it’s time to reconsider your sources:
🛑 BitBoy Crypto (Ben Armstrong) – A professional shiller, notorious for promoting straight-up scams and pocketing millions from “sponsored” videos.
🛑 Alex Becker – Showed off his Lambo collection while shilling MetaHero, an NFT project that turned into digital trash.
🛑 Jake Paul – If you thought taking financial advice from a boxer was a good idea, maybe you deserved to lose your money (no offense!).
And the best part? When their predictions fail, they invent magical excuses like:
“Deep state market manipulation”, “institutions shorted us”, or “this was a massive FUD attack by mainstream media.” They’re always right—as long as you ignore everything they said last week.
Memecoins: How to Burn Your Hand on the Stove and Then Stick Your Whole Head in It
Shilling memecoins is especially profitable (for them, not for you). All it takes is one Elon Musk tweet about “Doge,” and suddenly, influencers are screaming “TO THE MOON! HODL! 1000X!!!”
Reality check? Your Dogecoin will never hit $10. And none of the newly-created dog, frog, or other ridiculous animal shitcoins will ever be worth as much as the tweet that hyped them.
Memecoins are the biggest trap for FOMO investors. You buy in, the price spikes, early investors sell, the price crashes… and suddenly, you’re holding a worthless digital corpse in your wallet, about as valuable as your old MySpace account.
Example? SafeMoon—Jake Paul hyped it as the next financial revolution. Where is it now?
How to Spot a Shiller?
✅ Always claims their latest pick is “the next Bitcoin.”
✅ Uses phrases like “100x potential!”, “Don’t miss out!”, “Life-changing gains!”
✅ Twitter is filled with sponsored tweets and shady partnerships.
✅ Promotes crypto casinos, useless NFT projects, and random DeFi experiments.
✅ Never admits they were wrong. When prices tank, it’s always “market manipulation” or “bearish sentiment.”
Remember Logan Paul and his CryptoZoo NFT disaster? He convinced people to buy NFT eggs that never hatched. Instead of a “revolutionary gaming project,” investors were left with… nothing.
What to Do If You’ve Already Fallen for It?
✅ Delete your Twitter. If you followed these “influencers,” you were already a victim of digital Darwinism.
✅ Learn from your mistakes. If you bought a coin with “Elon” in the name, consider it tuition fees for your financial education.
✅ Stop investing based on YouTube videos. Do you really think someone is giving away free money-making advice on the internet just because they like you?
✅ Do your own research. That doesn’t mean “reading a tweet from Logan Paul,” but actually checking fundamentals, history, and the project’s team.
And if you ever feel tempted by another “secret opportunity no one knows about,” remember this rule:
If it sounds too good to be true, IT IS A SCAM.
Final Thoughts: When Was the Last Time a Psychic Made You Money?
It’s time to realize that crypto influencers are just modern-day TV fortune tellers. Instead of reading crystal balls, they stare at charts they don’t even understand.
They’re not here to help you—they’re here to drain as much money out of you as possible before you realize you’re just their “exit liquidity.”
So next time someone screams “100X!”, take a deep breath and buy something actually useful instead.
Like a book on financial literacy.
In the long run, that’ll be the best “investment” of your life.
