I tried it once and set up a “hotspot isolation” experiment for myself: whenever I saw the timeline pushing another new narrative again, I wouldn’t rush in. I’d first close my wallet and go on-chain to casually check real data—active addresses, transaction counts, whether contract interactions were just the same batch of accounts cycling back and forth—then decide whether to get involved. To put it plainly, the most ruthless part of the attention economy is making you feel like “if you’re late, it’s gone,” and then once you get swept up, you’re treated as liquidity.

That time I was watching something like chain games—my group chat was full of “start working” and “flipping bricks”—but it was obvious they were being propped up by inflation, with studio batch accounts hoovering everything up. Once the token price softened, it spiraled down, and the discussion among players only got hotter… I kept only a bit for the experience cost and withdrew everything else, and my mindset instantly felt a lot lighter. Anyway, I’ve set rules for myself now: the higher the hype, the slower I move—first confirm it isn’t just being kept alive by subsidies. I’d rather miss out than keep paying tuition over and over again.