I finally understand the reputation of the French crypto community

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I live abroad and spend most of my time in English-speaking crypto communities, and for years I genuinely didn’t understand why some people had such a weird opinion of French people in crypto.

Today I think I finally got a taste of it.

I shared a French YouTube video because I thought the subject was actually worth discussing. That’s it. Within minutes, instead of talking about the idea, people started accusing me of being the guy in the video, secretly promoting my own channel, shilling, etc. Some of them clearly hadn’t even watched it.

And what’s funny is that I post shit on Reddit all the time. Polymarket, XRP, AI, travel, food, Vitalik randomly speaking Chinese, whatever. Nobody gives a fuck. But somehow the second you enter the pure French crypto bubble, sharing something = you must have an agenda, you must be selling something, you must be a shill

You can disagree with a video. You can think the idea is stupid. That’s literally the point of Reddit. But this instinct of immediately attacking whoever shares something instead of discussing what was actually shared is fucking exhausting.

I used to think the reputation was mostly an unfair stereotype.

Ngl, today made me understand it a little better

I think I’ll stick to the English-speaking crypto communities