The Story of PIDG

How a $5 gig, an algorithm, and a crypto rabbit hole turned into a board game about a rigged economy.

“Money isn’t just a game. It’s a meme backed by nothing but attention.”

The Hustle

A woman with long blonde hair smiling and sitting on the floor in a pink top, in a room with a white side table, a basket of yarn, and a wooden chair in the background.

One time I bought a book about how to make money online.
The book told me to set up a Fiverr gig.
So I did.


I sold a lot of $5 gigs.

I made videos about everything.
Dropshipping.
Land flipping.
Blockchain.
You name it.

Fiverr isn’t a very good hustle.
But it did give me my first glimpse of the game.

The Algorithm

And this was a game I wanted to play.
But how?

A simple illustration of a lit light bulb with glowing lines indicating brightness.

Business Ownership!

I needed to stop getting hired, and start doing the hiring.
Be the boss.

So I went to YouTube for advice.

A book from Amazon about making money.
A YouTube search about business ownership.

The algorithm now had my number.
It tagged me as hungry and fed me videos about everything:
dropshipping. land flipping. blockchain.
You name it.

Sometimes I even saw my own face coming back at me.

And that’s when I realized—
I was already playing.

The Rabbit Hole

But I was doing it wrong.
I needed to learn the rules.

Which is how I ended up day trading crypto.

Now, that might seem like a leap. And while I know day trading is risky, and I didn’t actually think I could win, I was trying to learn the rules to the game.

And by this time, I’d gone so far down the rabbit hole,
I needed to know
how someone could lose half a million dollars on a live stream, shrug it off, and go to dinner.

So I followed a few traders on Twitter.
Joined Discord.
Signed up for Telegram.

I watched people win and lose fortunes in minutes.

These traders had managed to completely detach money from anything real. It was pure abstraction and hype.

So of course I got on that hype train.

And I rode it all the way to the end of the line.

Colorful digital illustration of a happy dog with glowing red eyes, surrounded by coins, clouds, and playful elements, with a banner that says "Welcome to Doge Station."

The Joke

And once you see it,
you can’t unsee it.

Money isn’t just a game. It’s a meme.
Not a meme backed by gold, or land, or labor like I thought.
Just a bare symbol,
backed by nothing but attention.

At first I thought it was funny.
If someone wants to burn their gig money on a meme coin, who am I to stop them?

But then I watched
the President of the United States drop a coin.
And then his wife.

$TRUMP
Now freely tradable on the blockchain. 🙃

And I saw Doge became the Department of Government Efficiency.

And then the Governor of California launched a “Trump Corruption Coin”— a hilarious joke on a joke —
that you can actually buy. With dollars.

It appears that the joke is running the system.

The Game

I don’t think that’s a good idea.

So I built PIDG.

Cartoon bird wearing a crown inside a yellow circle

Because if money is just a meme,
and the system is a game,
then maybe the first step is learning to see it that way.

Or at least learning
that other people see it that way.

PIDG is how I learned to see it.
Now it’s your turn.

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