And we are supposed to believe that someone deep in tech, in 2026, did not know this was going to be the end goal? Was $GAS supposed to be a crypto to help fund poor farmers in Burundi or something ? How else is the meme coin #16352813 supposed to end? That’s the entire point of meme coins.
Would love to also « get sucked » into making 300k$.
Exactly.
It seems harmless - "look, we have this token, it is being traded anyway, do you want to get some of the emissions?"
Who wouldn't say "yes" to that free money.
But it's not clear at all how corrupting the crypto scam is, and how subtly the corruption seeps into what you do. It starts by "oh can you just tweet out about this" and you are "sure - it's just a tweet" and slowly grows.
Steve Yegg deserves credit for walking away from it.
like the Hawk Tuah girl, or the Enron relaunch long form comedy routine that wound up with a short lived crypto token, and pretty much anyone with 15 minutes of fame or celebrities that drop a contract address
for the most part, they themselves actually are the victims of a roving band of deployers running the crypto launch convincing them they're part of something, and of course, the consumers have the choice of never getting involved
but the deployers are the ones that should face some form of accountability, or at least the public eye