I *lot* of time heard from a lot of non monero people:

"Nothing happens in monero, it's annoying"

Then you might need to remind them how 2024 was rocky:

- OKX + Binance delisting

- Finnish feds tracing FUD (the deanonymized threat-actor in reality leaked his personal infos in a ransom archive so completely unrelated to monero).

- Spam attack

- LocalMonero.com closure

- Haveno-reto.com launches 2 weeks after like a community response

- botnets shutdown from feds dropping monero's hashrate, giving more opportunity for fair solo or p2pool.io mining.

- Announces about future FCMP++ integration to grow the anonset.

- chainalysis inefficient tools leaked (powered by malicious RPCs and insufficient decoy revealing because most of monero are bought without KYC)

- Kraken delistings in EU