I Fired Myself From Crypto Hype Videos
My friends, I've been fired. With ICP hitting $7, I'm officially out of a job. Now you might say, "You didn't have a job to start with, Jerry. How can you be fired?" Well, basically every video I've made has been wrong. I'll show you some of the biggest losers. I made one titled "Last chance for ICP price in 2024" back in May. If I were a boss looking at that, I would fire myself. And you know what I'm going to do instead? I'm going to make videos I'm proud of, screw around, and have fun. A crypto course, and some comedy. I'm going to try making some jokes, because I looked at the ICP price and thought, really? After all these videos you've made, you're going to zero, Jerry.
After all the videos I made about ICP, and then that May video saying "last chance, ICP price can blow up after this," followed by all these "going to zero" videos. I'm fired. I don't get to make any more hype videos for ICP. I can still be right from here, for sure. I can still be right. But take a video like "40 reasons I sold my Bitcoin and Ethereum for Internet Computer." Horrible video. So far it has just gone terribly. I'd have been much better off otherwise. I would have had close to a whole Bitcoin by now if I had just continued stacking Bitcoin, like I said to do a couple of years ago. I literally could have just stacked Bitcoin and talked Bitcoin the whole time. Now, do I think I've done some good? Sure. But I'm going to make a video with some ICP price jokes after this, because this is crazy. And yes, I know the rest of the crypto market is down. But I want to have more fun, and I want to laugh at this stuff. I want to stop taking crypto so seriously.
I've fired myself from all these videos hyping up how great ICP is. And then you have so many people in crypto who just want you to play nice. "Play nice, Jerry. Don't talk dirty about my coin. I just want you to say everything's going up, and then I'm right." Ugh. My ICP price is so bad I can't pay to have your mom come over later. See, I'm going to do a whole comedy routine on ICP price jokes. And sure, when it goes to $100 one day, this will be a great ride.
Going Back Over the Bad Calls
I was going over these videos yesterday. All these videos I've done about how these other cryptos suck. And sure, some of them have done badly. But here it is: "Last call for Internet Computer." I did a video in February 2024, almost a year ago, saying that in May 2024, when the token unlocks hit, guys, that's it. And the price? It sucks. And I suck. I'm fired. Look at the price. It's down what, 30, 31% in a year? No, excuse me, that 30% number was Aptos. ICP is down 41% from a year ago. Blatantly wrong.
To be fair, I'm not the only one. There are a lot of other crypto creators, almost every crypto creator, who made horrible price predictions. But if I performed this poorly at any other job, I'd get fired. Or you'd hope I'd get fired. How many people do you know with nice corporate jobs where all they do is watch Jerry Banfield on Twitch all day? Nobody does that. All right, they watch other people all day at work and do almost nothing and still make six figures. So this is what my videos are going to be like now: I'm just going to not talk. And that'll be better. I literally could have said nothing and made no effort and gotten the same result. It feels like everything I've done has been an absolute waste of time. I know you don't want to judge based on the price. And I know all the other metrics are great. But it sucks. I'm tired of having all the data on my side. I'm tired of taking this stuff so seriously.
All of crypto is serious people trying to scare you, and then trying to get you into euphoria. I looked at Odin.fun today, and what a degenerate environment that is. Just more of the same. I'm even struggling to make jokes and have fun about it. The way I look at it, I'm fired. There's no going back to hyping ICP up every day. I've hyped it enough. I've said enough. I've been bullish enough.
What I Actually Want to Make Now
From here, I'm really proud of this crypto course. I want to make stuff I'm proud of. In this new crypto course I'll teach some real things. We'll go through an outline and cover real material: how I found Bitcoin, all the things you should know in crypto, just basic tutorials. What's wrong with YouTube is that it's all dopamine hits. It's all "make something, say something to make me feel something." Well, what happens when I say something to make you feel something day after day, but it doesn't work and it just wastes your time? What about that?
And this is what's horrible: everybody wants to explain everything away. "Well, it's this, it's that." That stuff doesn't matter. The fact is, my videos have been absolutely useless as far as an investment has gone over the last year. That's it. That said, things could certainly turn around at any time. A few months or a year from now, my videos could look like the best thing ever. But I quit crypto before because I was tired of hyping up ICP every day back then too. I've got to do something better with my life. I love teaching something valuable.
I know a lot of people on YouTube don't want a real education. They're like, "Just give me the effing coin. Tell me the coin to buy so I can make money today. I don't want to learn about the basics of crypto. I don't want to try and do anything. Just give me the coin. Give me my profits. Or scare me, make me afraid, make me sell my coin." As Superman says, people don't want a real education on YouTube; just give me the coin. Well, how many times do I need to give you the coin before my job's done? I gave you the coin.
So here's what I'm thinking today: no more price predictions. No more reviewing other cryptos. Real education, and no more sensational news. I don't want to be a crypto news person. Anyone can come in and do that, and the bigger ICP gets, the more people are going to come in and cover what's going on. Zero to Hero has been cranking out all kinds of news videos. Blockchain Pill covers the news. Bobby O is in there too. We have enough creators doing that. So where's my unique space? I think my unique space can be making light of all this, making fun of all this. There's nobody doing stand-up with crypto. There have been some crypto comedy videos from comedians, but what we need is real education, plus lightheartedness, play, and fun.
So I'm going to try to record a video after this with ICP price jokes. I'm happy to interview people if you want to come on and talk about ICP. I'm just insanely burnt out on hyping ICP up. I said in my crypto course that you just need to get in position and stay there. But what gets you out of a position? If you're me, the way I've gotten myself out of a position in the past is by hyping it up and then watching everything not happen fast enough. So I'm fired. No more ICP hype. I'll do interviews, education, and tutorials, and I'm going to make comedy. If you want more of how I think about money, building, and not taking it all so seriously, I put a lot of it into my Money playlist. As soon as I'm hired, I'm fired.