Crypto culture attracted men insecure about their traditional masculinity

Evidence

Crypto culture appealed particularly to men who “value masculinity highly but feel they aren’t traditionally masculine enough,” as one research report put it. And like fans rallying around a beleaguered local sports team, there was camaraderie in failure. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 736

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes David Graeber-style critique that online subcultures recruit through status anxiety; ties to the reader’s status-dynamics mechanism for omnivore monoculture.