In 2024, you are over 30. After being laid off, you don't want to deliver takeout or drive for Didi. You invest all your savings into airdrops.

You are very cautious, only choosing airdrops with high financing, big VC backing, and popular sectors. After three months of scrolling through Twitter, you carefully wrote down in Notion: Linea, Scroll, Babylon, Story, Monad.

As you age, you can only spend a maximum of 8 hours a day on airdrops. You don't want to pick projects that are too competitive. You see KOLs on Twitter recommending projects with good backgrounds and high barriers to entry. You think, even if I don’t make a lot, at least I should make a little, right? It can't be that I can't even outperform web2 investments.

The diligent first half of the year has passed. In the second half, you welcomed your first reward from Scroll. Apart from many low-tier accounts earning nothing, you at least got some gas fees back. You tasted a bit of sweetness, but not much.

Your girlfriend of seven years is urging you to get married. You count the numbers in your account and grit your teeth, promising that there will be no problem in the bull market of 2025. Every night before sleeping, you lie in bed imagining the joy of being eligible for airdrops, tossing and turning for an hour before drifting off.

Fast forward to 2025, Bitcoin has reached 100,000 at the start of the year. In the first quarter, you are very excited; many crops planted last year are just waiting to be harvested this year.

Story launched, but it feels like it didn't. To be honest, you are very discouraged because you invested a lot of manpower into it. But you think it’s okay; setbacks in airdrops are inevitable, and you have other projects that promised to launch this quarter.

Then Linea keeps pushing back. You mutter to yourself that you had already withdrawn your funds, but the price of ETH has dropped significantly compared to when you invested. You feel quite upset, sell your ETH, and buy Sol at 180, hoping to turn things around.

In April, Babylon finally arrived. You excitedly opened the airdrop website, then calculated your earnings and found you couldn’t even recover the gas fees.

Suddenly, you can't hold it in anymore. You break down. You are angry but can't find any outlet to vent this anger.

You think about the weight you gained from sitting for long periods without exercise,

Think about the tedious hours clicking the mouse in front of the computer, remember your promise to your girlfriend last year,

Think about your parents back home,

Think about the countless nights lying in bed imagining being eligible for airdrops.

You are very angry, but you can't find any outlet to vent this anger.