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I Think Everyone Completely Missed the Point

I think everyone completely missed what Ansem is trying to do.

The way I see it, this isn't about launching another meme coin. It's about pushing back against a model that's been extracting from the trenches for months.

For the last year we've all complained about the exact same thing. https://t.co/asjKGnNnhw launches thousands of coins every day, millions of dollars flow through it, almost every chart ends the same way, and almost all of the value leaves the community just as quickly as it comes in. Everyone agrees it's become an extraction machine, yet every morning we wake up and do it all over again. We keep feeding the same system we're complaining about.

Then when someone tries to build around an actual community instead of another random launch, the first question is, "What's the point?"

Isn't that the point?

If nobody is willing to support an alternative, why would anything ever change?

Competition is what forces companies to improve. Every successful market works that way. If users never have another option, why would the incumbent ever change? Why lower fees? Why build better tools? Why give more back to creators and traders? They don't have to because everyone keeps coming back regardless of how much they complain.

That's why I think the bigger picture here is competition. Not because competition guarantees success, but because it's the only thing that forces markets to evolve.

We've spent months saying crypto has no conviction anymore. Nobody holds. Nobody believes. Everything is just PvP. Every coin exists for a few hours before everyone moves on to the next one. If we already know that's broken, why are we so against trying something different?

Ansem has talked about how BONK helped save sentiment during one of the lowest points of the Solana bear market. It wasn't because BONK had some revolutionary utility. It gave people something to rally behind when almost nobody believed anymore. Attention came back, people came back, builders came back, and eventually the ecosystem recovered.

I'm not saying history repeats exactly, but I do think there's something to learn from it.

Look at what BONK is doing today. They're constantly communicating with the community. They're shipping products. They're building tools for traders. They're trying to create an ecosystem that injects value back into the trenches instead of simply extracting it. Whether you agree with every decision or not, they're actively trying to compete by offering something different.

That's how markets are supposed to work.

For months we've all said we wanted launchpads that cared more about builders than fees. We wanted platforms that actually helped the trenches instead of farming them. We wanted innovation instead of complacency.

Now there's finally real competition, and somehow people are defending the status quo.

I don't get it.

If everyone continues trading exactly where they've always traded, then nothing changes. https://t.co/asjKGnNnhw keeps dominating, the same cycle continues, and six months from now we'll all be writing the exact same posts complaining about extraction.

At some point, actions have to match words.

Everyone says they want crypto to be different, but nobody wants to change their behavior.

People keep looking at this like it's just another meme coin when I think the bigger idea is whether crypto can build another community that people actually want to be part of. Not because they're hoping to dump on someone tomorrow, but because they genuinely believe they're helping build something bigger than themselves.

Every day we watch millions of dollars disappear into launches that nobody will remember next week. Imagine if even a fraction of that attention was focused on building one culture, one community, one movement that actually had people sticking around instead of constantly rotating into the next chart.

Maybe it doesn't work. That's always possible. But I don't understand why people are so comfortable continuing to feed a system they constantly complain is extracting from them while immediately dismissing any attempt to build something different.

The biggest things in crypto have never just been products. Bitcoin became an idea. Dogecoin became a culture. BONK became a symbol that Solana wasn't dead. None of those succeeded because of a whitepaper. They succeeded because enough people believed at the same time.

Maybe that's the opportunity people are missing. Not another trade, but the chance to build a real cult community again. The kind of community that people actually want to represent, talk about, create content for, and bring their friends into. Crypto has always been driven by attention and belief long before it was driven by fundamentals.

People ask what the point is.

Maybe the point isn't the coin itself.

Maybe the point is proving that communities can still move together instead of being divided across ten thousand meaningless launches every day.

Maybe the point is showing that attention doesn't have to be farmed—it can be focused.

Maybe the point is building something that people actually care about instead of something they forget 24 hours later.

We've all spent months saying the trenches are broken.

This might not be the perfect answer.

But continuing to do the exact same thing definitely isn't one.

So instead of just talking about it, I'm going to try it myself.

I'm going to launch a random cat.

Not because another cat coin is what the space needs, but because the mascot has never been what matters. DOGE wasn't successful because it was a dog. BONK wasn't successful because it was a dog. People rallied around the community, not the animal.

I want to see what happens if we stop splitting ourselves across thousands of meaningless launches and instead gather around one coin with full conviction. One community. One culture. One place where everyone is working toward the same goal instead of fighting each other over the next 30-minute chart.

I want to build an actual cult community. The kind where people make content because they want to. Where artists create art. Developers build tools. People bring in their friends. Streamers talk about it. Communities from all over crypto come together because they're part of something bigger than just another trade.

The distribution is going to reflect that vision.

A meaningful portion of the supply is going to be airdropped to some of the biggest names in the space that actually see the vision and genuinely want to help push it forward. If this is going to become a movement, it needs people with reach who understand what we're trying to build.

Everything that's left is going to the people who actually earn it—the longest holders, the best community members, and the bagworkers who show up every single day and put in the work. Not the people chasing the next chart, but the people helping build something that can still be here months from now.

Maybe it works.

Maybe it doesn't.

But I'd rather spend my time trying to build one community that everyone remembers than spend another year watching the trenches complain about the exact same problems while continuing to feed the exact system they're complaining about.

If we really want change, someone has to stop talking about it and actually build it.

Why not us?