Lea Thompson — aka Girl Gone Crypto — declares that she will not put her 225,000 Twitter followers to sleep with the same old boring “breaking” news tweets about crypto.
She explains that using “breaking” to share news that everyone knows is pretty lame.
“It is kind of generic. It is easy engagement, and there is not any personality or anything interesting about it.”
BREAKING: literally everything
— Girl Gone Crypto (@girlgone_crypto) November 9, 2022“By the time I’d have posted the news, five other accounts would have probably posted about it,” Thompson says.
Instead, Thompson likes to put a spin on the latest news, dish out some interesting commentary, or crack jokes to give her followers something different from the rest of the pack.
It’s this quirky mindset that has made her a crypto sensation on Twitter, and it all began with her ukulele playing.
Back in 2017, Thompson hopped on the Steemit bandwagon, a popular blogging platform at the time. She started posting videos of her playing ukulele covers and getting paid in Steemit’s crypto token, STEEM, whenever her stuff got upvoted.
Although Thompson was raking in crypto for strumming out ukulele covers, she admits she wasn’t “even that good.”
Oddly, her ukulele crypto side hustle brought about unexpected invitations to speak at various crypto events.
“‘We think your story about earning crypto playing ukulele is really cool; we want you to come share it at our conference,’ so I ended traveling all over the world and meeting so many cool people working in the industry. It was such a fun experience.”
Thompson admits she was quite surprised considering she wasn’t even making crypto content. However, it was a turning point for her as she realized that the corporate life in marketing and sales wasn’t her true calling.
Just left my corporate job in the tech industry to go full-time crypto!!
