People that spent actual "Years in crypto" are rarely "rooted in the past". Trendy things are just different flavor of the same metagame with same incentive structure behind it. 

2020 Defi summer yield farming and some food coins, then came BTC dominance run, revival of some blue chip defis like AAVE, first NFT run, some on chain crap run, alt L1 run, second NFT season now with Opensea and BAYC leading it, after L1 game cooled down then came ecosystem plays, like BSC season, AVAX season, metaverse crap etc. etc.

2017 Cycle could also be summarized in similar manner. It's basically a hot ball of money rotating between segments, and all these segments have self destructive incentive structure. 2023-4 too.

Folks with actual experience will always identify shifts between narratives better than others do. And it goes without saying certain market phenomena repeat themselves almost identically.

OGs usually do poorly when they lose motivation and get sloppy

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