This place is about critical thinking, and skepticism, especially around wild and unlikely claims, is part of that.
The point is that this story is almost certainly a fabrication, especially since it has wild claims of teenagers making small fortunes. There's no evidence such a situation has happened, and it's extremely unlikely that it's common enough to be a thing we need to be concerned with.
How common does it need to be to matter? Several thousand teenagers with six or seven figures of liquid crypto assets is still over a billion dollars deciding if a new product or service gets off the ground.
Where is the evidence for these teenagers? I mean, there's no evidence at all from what I can tell, except for the op saying it's "a real thing I totally didn't make up to give you FOMO".
If I gave you a screenshot from an instagram comment, what would your rebuttal be?
Would you like an interview with that teen?
Would a discord server full of them satisfy you?
Do you want them to sign addresses with high balances to show they control it? Because thats not going to happen.
The same issue would apply to any segment of the population. Nobody is going to do any of that so how would you prove it for any segment?
If you can go make money in crypto by simply showing up to a chat room looking for workers, but aren't interested in doing so, think about who is. Think about who is then trading these juvenile things. Think about which colorful sensory assaulting NFTs are a hit and which aren't. Match that up with the admissions of people saying "yeah I'm a teen and accumulated and bunch of crypto and flip NFTs to accumulate more". At a certain point there is a consensus you can just rely upon, for your own participation in the economy. That's whats happening here.
Read that again until you understand it and tell me why you don't understand that.
The whole post distinguished the difference between buying versus earning. If you dont get that yet, you’re in the wrong place.