Meme Coin Market Disillusionment — KOL Grift Narrative Gains Traction
Prominent CT accounts are openly calling out the meme coin ecosystem as a coordinated extraction machine, with KOLs pushing narratives into coins that go to zero and bots/bundlers absorbing supply before retail arrives.
What we know
An account on X crystallizes the frustration: 'KOLs say next moodeng, next pnut — i buy, i sell, zero.' He elaborates a structural breakdown in another account on X: KOLs buy first, retail follows, then anonymous bots and bundlers absorb most of the supply. Another account on X quotes Arthur Hayes asking what to buy and calls it emblematic of crypto becoming 'a pure coordinated social grift extracting from an ever financially illiterate retail base.' another account on X adds personal reflection: refusing to touch manipulated-looking memes last cycle was a costly mistake. another account on X via inversebrah notes 'so much crime going on in this space right now I don't have enough compute to go through it all.'
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