Why have I been calling trade signals so rarely on Web3 lately?

Liquidity is currently average (ETH and TON are showing signs of improvement), and without the narrative of some unstoppable “bombardment + tornado” taking everything to the moon, I generally don’t dare to call.
The market cap is smaller, and people say it’s because I started the round.
The market cap is bigger, and people say that I’m shouting for everyone to become the exit liquidity/bag-holders.
Even the “ice cream” says, “KOLs don’t have freedom when it comes to trade signals—that’s the reality in the Chinese community.”
In the current environment, this is the dilemma for Chinese KOLs.
Why was I able to call last year at the beginning?
$tst $perry $Mubarak
I dared to keep calling all the way through mid-year $giggle
, because I knew that for these tokens, my fans would definitely be the earliest round to spread them.
Now, in a situation where nobody takes the other side, my calls are basically the last round.
(Except for some really strong narratives—I’ve recently been looking at TON and AI.)
Calling trade signals is also a tiring and thankless thing—unless you’re tagged as a PVP player—because everyone has already become immune to that behavior.
For other non-PVP KOLs, calling trade signals means facing massive public-opinion pressure. If they aren’t professionals doing this full-time, they end up doing all kinds of acts to “prove their innocence,” which only makes the public pressure grow and traps them in a self-justification loop.
In today’s environment, the most cost-effective thing for KOLs is actually to spend on ads from CEXs and “trash VC” projects.
As a result, the whole Web3 KOL scene is churning out some of the most nutritionally empty content 🤷