This type of scenarios do happen. I must say that you are an influencer that is why they are quick to hold your words because they truly believe in your calls. In situations like this, one needs be careful with calls and if one must say anything about calls, one just need to give an instance or any experience one have had in the past that resulted to a successful trading which when they hear it they would have nothing to hold for because one never made mention of anything named.
I'm just a normal investor and I choose the safest strategy: DCA BTC in the long term, I don't have x100 tokens in my portfolio. However, maybe because I've been in the market since the 2017 season, my friends think I have a lot of experience. They joined later so they don't want to miss any more opportunities.
I repeat that I do not give anyone investment advice, I even avoid suggesting or asking them to buy or sell. But in the end, when they lose money, they often blame me and make me tired.
I think I should avoid mentioning crypto to my friends and relatives, because everything can be misunderstood as investment advice.
When someone tells us what we should buy, the first thing we should do is not buy. Read about the project, know who is part of the team, what experience they have in the industry and most importantly, know what they want our funds for and how they are going to use them. After doing all that, it's our decision, and ours alone, to decide what we do next. We will always try to invest our funds in projects that propose new things for the industry and give us benefits, but we will also make mistakes, or anything can go wrong. No matter what happens, whether we win or lose, it would have been our decision, and not someone else's, that would have induced us to buy something.
I alos had trusted many KOLs, but most of them cannot always accurately predict. They are only famous on social networks, they are not experts in market analysis and financial advice. Some KOLs even abuse their popularity and reputation to promote some fraudulent projects.
Investors are also forced to be responsible for their own investments. Investment decisions should only come from careful analysis and having effective capital management plans in place. Don't send money to anyone!