WHYSOSERIOUS? Influencers don't have calm nervous systems cos their yelling to much.

Look at them over enough time and you can literally see it: time wears on them. You’d think someone who truly mastered markets wouldn’t degrade like that.

Real-time volatility would degrade them even faster — like trading into live VIX conditions — but they sidestep that.

They hedge the experience itself because their incentives aren’t aligned with performance; they’re aligned with keeping you bought into the idea.

So let me get this straight: they sit in abstraction, influencing and slowly degrading, doing something objectively easier — and they can barely produce a track record that I can match (or beat) with higher-volatility timing and tighter precision.

Why?

Because the business model rewards certainty and storytelling, not falsifiable execution:

• Narrative is low-accountability. You can always explain later. Execution gets graded instantly.

• Influence scales better than trading (for peddling). Content scales to thousands; precision doesn’t.

• They avoid the arena where reputations die. Real-time chop and volatility exposes who can actually manage risk.

• Audience incentives distort behavior. Many followers want “the thesis,” not “the entry.” So creators keep feeding the thesis.