Adlinda began noticing how he would watch countless YouTube videos on cryptocurrency on top of the UFC reviews, surfing reports and Joe Rogan and Jake Paul ones he usually did. He often did this on her account so her algorithm swerved from knitting videos to investing tips.
One particularly bad day, “[my partner] kept complaining about how Elon Musk’s speech on SNL affected the crypto price and made him lose 20k on one night,” she says.
He also tried to convince her to invest her own savings into cryptocurrency, which she did, but then sold it and used the profits to buy herself drinks. “He was not happy with it and we had a few arguments,” she says.
“To be honest, I felt secretly pleased when the prices crashed and everyone I know [who has] been hoarding cryptos for the past weeks freaked the fuck out – maybe I’m just petty.”