A really interesting response and frankly one we kind of predicted.
With a recent effort to offer more insightful content beyond posting plays thought would share our thoughts a little bit, more so from our own experience/perspective.
Running a channel is tough, especially one with a following for being known as someone with a historically good track record/being selective. It is the same reason why, despite being the one to create the idea of a gambles channel back in mid/late 2021, we have taken half a dozen long hiatuses from posting on our gambles channel alongside several attempts to reinvent our approach to posting too in an attempt to find a balance.
The overwhelming majority get what this channel is, but every time a call doesn't go 'well', there are still a one or two that will fud or, even worse, send abuse. Thankfully over the years this has become less. The honest truth is we literally
only ever post something we really believe can go well, and this has been the story since the beginning. There is never an ulterior motive aside from the rush & satisfaction of being able to provide the community with an early entry & profitable call.
There are few things that we imagine many don't realise/think about though as they often just see the 'front of house' content which is a succinct post.
> The amount of time-rugging that goes on with a stealth, where we sit, glued to TG, sometimes for 5-6 hours past the planned launch time, so we don't risk missing the chance to post at launch to give the best entry possible.
> Liaising with a team for weeks for a launch, letting them bounce ideas off of us, helping them with marketing suggestions, all for it to come to launch and it just got leaked their end/over-sniped/ruined by another KOL frontrunning the whole thing. We then have to make split decisions and walk away from posting launches with our community's interest at heart with the entry we deemed solid, gone. And this happens more than you'd think and is very frustrating.
> We come across a lot of good plays just from being in the space, and ones where we don't know the team and may either just like the meme/heard some second/third hand info. The issue with posting them is they aren't expecting it, we don't know who is holding, what their plans are - so what can happen is there is just a wick after we post and they can't build on/surpass it again, or worse the team turn out to be a dud/nefarious.
> Performance ebbs and flows, as does confidence, even when calling stuff. It is easy to be on a streak and more confident in your conviction when you think you have spotted a good entry on a project. Conversely, with us it often leads to us pivoting to 'playing it safe' with the growing fomo/pressure for the next call. On the other hand, if a few don't go as well as you hope, you can either end up trying to force the issue or become more hesitant to share and resort to either going less active, which has happened to us over the years.
> The back channels in the space are always humming with intel, which team is which, with at times contrasting information. If we are in personally in contact with a team we are as diligent as we can be, but truth of the matter is past performances never guarantee future results, and a team, either through their own doing, or just from their previous being more luck, can end up performing poorly.
We guess the over-arching idea of this post was to give a bit of insight into the mindset we have with the channel and also what it is like behind the scenes - we could go into far more detail but perhaps for another time.
We want to continue to be able to post more projects we see around, and on a whim if needed (as per the fast paced natured of the space) that we feel could offer some profits (often likely quick)
As long as anyone choosing to actively follow understands fully the approach we have, and understands the risks of having scrapers set up (as that doesn't enable you to read the context of the post)
If you want to offer any thoughts on this, feel free to DM
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