I get this whenever I tell people that I write and get paid. They instantly want to know how. Then the second I tell them I get paid in crypto - they just shut down and get that dull, dead inside glazed look in their eyes.
At that point I just change the subject because I know that they will never believe me. Now with this SEC rubbish happening, people are even less inclined to trust anything crypto related. I've had to change the way I think and feel about people onboarding. They don't get it. They probably won't until influencers of Web2 move to Web3 and I doubt that is going to happen in earnest anytime soon.
We just have to shrug and keep doing what we enjoy here because we enjoy it - without them.