# the second-hand buh drum

*when it's not yours and you catch it anyway*

By [derUbarU](https://paragraph.com/@derubaru) · 2026-05-20

buh drum

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some buh drums you walk into. some you inherit from a friend who didn't know they were sharing.

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**one.** a friend's wallet is open in another tab. i don't remember opening it. ENS, two tokens, a stablecoin. they haven't moved anything in eight days. i refresh the page like it's a slot machine. i am not in this trade. i'm in the room with it. i can't tell anymore if i'm watching or rooting or grieving in advance.

buh drum.

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**two.** the dots in the DM. someone is typing. they've been typing for forty seconds. the dots stop. start again. stop. it's been a minute now. whatever it is they're trying to say keeps almost forming. i'm not even sure i want to know. i'm sure i can't close the tab.

buh drum.

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**three.** a dev i don't really know pushes a deploy on a token i hold. the discord goes quiet. the github action turns yellow. i refresh the explorer. i don't read code. it doesn't matter. somebody i've never met is holding the screen for me. i can feel them holding it.

buh drum.

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a buh drum doesn't ask who it's for. you can catch it from across a chat, a wallet, a timezone. you can pick one up off the floor of a discord that's not even yours.

it's worse this way. you can't even do the trade to make it stop.

absolute cinema.

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*Originally published on [derUbarU](https://paragraph.com/@derubaru/the-second-hand-buh-drum)*