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Prominent YouTuber Nuseir (Nas) Yassin spoke with crypto.news about how social media is shaping real life, with a bias toward the controversial. <\/p>\n
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As social platforms increasingly reward outrage and extremes, creators are increasingly being forced to lean into it to get attention. This same dynamic is increasingly impacting real life, from investing, including altcoins, memecoins, and memestocks, to politics. <\/p>\n
To unpack how social media shapes current narratives, including some of the most controversial topics today, crypto.news spoke to Nuseir (Nas) Yassin at the 2025 Crypto Content Creator Campus in Lisbon. Nas is the founder of Nas Daily, a YouTube channel with over 14 million subscribers that frequently explores crypto topics. He is also a crypto investor and a believer in the space, <\/p>\n
crypto.news: During your speech at the CCCC event in Lisbon, you said something that caught my attention. In social media, people are drawn to extremes. Can you elaborate on that?<\/strong><\/p>\n Nuseir Yassin: Yeah, sure. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a controversial point at all. People don\u2019t want to hear about someone with a 9-to-5 job. They want the story of someone who doesn\u2019t work at all \u2014 or someone who works non-stop. We\u2019re always attracted to the extremes.<\/p>\n Same goes for physical traits. No one cares about someone who\u2019s six feet tall \u2014 they care about the shortest man or the tallest man ever. It\u2019s human nature to focus on what\u2019s different, and if that\u2019s what humans want, then that\u2019s what social media will reflect.<\/p>\n CN: But that kind of thinking can be pushed too far. Do you draw a line somewhere?<\/strong><\/p>\n NY: Of course. The content has to be factual. That\u2019s the hard part. Anyone can make a flashy video, but if you want to say \u201cthis is the tallest man in the world,\u201d it better be true. You can\u2019t just take an average person and claim something extreme.<\/p>\n So for me, the real challenge isn\u2019t creating the video \u2014 it\u2019s verifying that the claim is accurate. If I say Dubai has the biggest park in the world, I need to make sure that\u2019s true. That\u2019s the hard part.<\/p>\n CN: What about political content? We\u2019re seeing a lot of creators in that space now too. Have you noticed them using the same attention principles?<\/strong><\/p>\n NY: Definitely. It\u2019s part of human nature. We\u2019re drawn to controversy and extremes, and social media rewards that. I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s a good thing \u2014 social media isn\u2019t perfect. But social media is a reflection of humanity, and humans aren\u2019t perfect either. If you want to fix social media, you\u2019d have to fix humans first.<\/p>\n CN: You have a unique perspective \u2014 Palestinian by origin, grew up in Israel, now based in the U.S., and you understand social media deeply. How do you see the current discourse around Israel and Palestine?<\/strong><\/p>\n NY: It follows the same pattern: people gravitate to extremes. The Israel-Palestine conflict is often framed as one side being extremely weak and the other extremely strong. Someone\u2019s in extreme pain, someone\u2019s extremely powerful \u2014 and that\u2019s what grabs attention.<\/p>\n But that framing isn\u2019t accurate. Palestine isn\u2019t entirely weak. Israel isn\u2019t entirely strong. The reality is more nuanced. And that\u2019s why I think social media hasn\u2019t gotten it right. But to be fair, humans didn\u2019t get it right before social media either. For 70 years, the global perception of this conflict has been flawed. And in all that time, I haven\u2019t seen real pressure on my people \u2014 the Palestinians \u2014 to extend a hand for peace.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CN: You grew up in Israel, right? How did you experience life in Israel, especially as someone of Palestinian origin?<\/strong><\/p>\n NY: It wasn\u2019t perfect \u2014 but compared to the rest of the Middle East, it was the most perfect. There\u2019s a lot of room for improvement in how Israel treats Palestinians, religious Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Christians \u2014 everyone, really. But the beauty of Israel is that everyone has an equal vote. That\u2019s not true anywhere else in the region.<\/p>\n The Israeli passport is strong. The social safety net is solid. There\u2019s a lot to appreciate \u2014 and a lot to fix. That was my experience.<\/p>\n CN: Do you still follow Israeli social media? Do you see the same kind of extreme-driven discourse there?<\/strong><\/p>\n NY: Definitely. We\u2019re seeing it globally \u2014 far-right sentiment is rising everywhere. Israel\u2019s just one of the early examples. You see it in Hungary, Germany, Asia, and even in the U.S. The rise of extremism isn\u2019t local \u2014 it\u2019s global, and social media is amplifying it everywhere.<\/p>\n CN: Now that you\u2019re based in New York, what\u2019s your read on the recent elections there?<\/strong><\/p>\n NY: The elections in New York are very good news for ZCash. In my opinion, what we\u2019re seeing is class warfare. It\u2019s always been about that \u2014 poor people voting rich people out. For the longest time, rich people had the power in New York. But now we\u2019re seeing that power shift.<\/p>\n Call it socialism, call it communism \u2014 whatever label you use, it\u2019s the same expression of frustration: \u201cI\u2019m not satisfied with how unaffordable New York is, and I\u2019m not happy with billionaires.\u201d And when billionaires become the social enemy, what do you think they\u2019ll do? They\u2019ll want to hide \u2014 hide their wealth, hide where they are, hide how much they have.<\/p>\n But how do you hide on the blockchain? There\u2019s only one coin that lets you do that: ZCash. So in a way, Zoran Mamdani\u2019s election is the best thing that\u2019s happened to ZCash.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CN: There was another speaker who mentioned that a group of influencers met and discussed ZCash. Do you know anything about that?<\/strong><\/p>\n