The original post: /r/cryptocurrency by /u/randompika226 on 2024-12-04 20:13:59.

TLDR: Wanted to make a sexy alien themed memecoin on AlienBase. Wife found my sketches, mistook them for a demon, ended up looking through my texts with my friend/ex-business partner. Now she thinks I’m a closeted satanic homosexual.

My wife and I have been married since 2015 and let me just preface this by saying she is extremely conservative. We were both born in the States but spent plenty of time back in our home country growing up (same country but we’re from two different ethnic groups that speak different languages- this is important for later).

I got into cryptocurrency sometime in 2020 while the last bullrun was happening. I briefly brought it up to my wife then and she immediately shut down the conversation and told me if I brought it up again she’d be taking our son (7) back to our home country and cutting ties, the reason being that her side of the family considers cryptocurrency to be gambling/illegal. Now, the last thing I want is to play with my son’s future especially because he’s in a nice private school here (far better than what’s available back home), but at the same time, I’m well-versed enough in cryptocurrency to know there’s more to it than gambling or crimes. We have our own bank accounts plus a joint account so I resorted to purchasing cryptocurrency with my own money behind my wife’s back. What she doesn’t know can’t hurt her, right? I’ve made a good amount since then ironically enough which I had to explain to her as a work bonus.

Anyways, my downfall began sometime in November when I saw a bunch of meme coins shooting up all of a sudden (especially aerobud which was apparently made on alienbase). Now I’m not one to invest in a memecoin per se, but all of a sudden something clicked in me, why not try to MAKE a memecoin and see where things go? I thought briefly about making one on the Solana blockchain but 1) I had no clue how to theme it and 2) I figured it was already too saturated with memecoins. Then I found out about this DEX so I was like awesome, I can make a memecoin on that and give it like a sexy alien theme or whatever. It all made perfect sense in my head so I immediately got started on it. And well…. let’s just say I didn’t make it far past the “starting” phase. This is mostly because I decided it was a great idea to first focus on making an icon. My thought process was that there isn’t much to a memecoin at all other than its name and icon so that was where I decided to put my first efforts towards. Now I’m no graphic designer but I’m decent enough at sketching to get my ideas out on my iPad and I’ve got a friend back home (who actually is a graphic designer) that I sent my sketches to so he could do the designing job for me.

I should emphasize two points that I raised previously, 1. that my (EXTREMELY conservative) wife and I come from two different ethnicities that speak different languages and 2. that I unfortunately decided on a sexy alien theme of all things. My friend back home doesn’t speak English very well so we conversed over WhatsApp in my mother-tongue, a transliterated version at that which is common where we’re from… (i mention this because google translate doesnt very well in these cases… fuck). We practically finished the job and let’s just say although it was pretty PG the alien icon was hot AF.

I was keeping it on the low pretty well until Sunday night when my son wanted to play some games on my iPad while I was taking a nap. He puts in the password and boom, first thing he sees is the super sexy alien sketch that I accidentally left open. I should probably mention it wasn’t even coloured in yet and there was a pole involved… FUCK. All of a sudden I hear him laughing maniacally and he immediately shows my wife and before I know it all hell has broken loose. The catch here is that not only was my wife absolutely LIVID about the erotic nature of my sketch but, because it wasn’t coloured in yet, she assumed I was drawing a demon and is now absolutely convinced that I am sexually attracted to demons/have a demon fetish (???) After some arguing back and forth she demands that I open my phone to “see what else I’m hiding”… Let’s just say it wasn’t long before she found my WhatsApp messages with my friend.

The thing is during our brainstorming phase we were sending each other JPGs of items that we thought might be a good addition to the icon (ie, the stripper pole, unfortunately a thong was involved, etc) and I’m going to be honest, without context it would absolutely appear as though the conversation were erotic in nature. So now on top of my wife believing I’m having an affair with a demonic spirit, I’ve got the added accusation of being a closeted homosexual. I would’ve never ever imagined in my wildest dreams that this situation would get this out of control but here I am. Literally how the fuck do I get out of this.