"DYOR" is the laziest, most overused piece of advice in crypto and I'm tired of pretending it actually helps anyone

Okay, I need to get this off my chest because I just watched it happen again.

My cousin got into crypto earlier this year. Super excited, asked a ton of questions in a few Discords and Telegram groups. Every single time she asked something, the response was some version of "DYOR bro" or "not financial advice, do your own research." That's it. No direction. No starting point. Nothing.

She ended up losing a significant chunk of money on a project. And she's not dumb. She's a college graduate. She just didn't know what to research or how to research it. Nobody told her.

And that's the thing, DYOR only works if you already know enough to know what questions to ask. If you're brand new, you don't even know what you don't know. Telling a beginner to "do their own research" is like handing someone a scalpel and saying "just do your own surgery, I'm not a doctor."

The worst part? DYOR has become a get-out-of-jail-free card. Shillers use it as a legal disclaimer after pumping garbage projects. Communities use it to dodge accountability. Nobody actually teaches anyone anything, they just point to a two-word phrase and call it wisdom.

DYOR started as genuinely sound advice, meant to encourage independent thinking in a decentralized space with no gatekeepers. But over time it's become a shield for bad actors and a heavy burden dumped on ordinary investors who are just trying to figure things out.

I'm not saying we need to hold everyone's hand forever. But there's a massive gap between spoon-feeding and just... actually helping someone understand where to start.

Rant over. Tell me I'm wrong.