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base:0xb2000000000000000000007bf6d5cbb0e24cb301 and the culture pivot happening in plain sight

tldr: the CEO of a publicly traded $50B company just made a memecoin of himself his face on the internet, and it wasn't an accident, it was the last step of a sequence that started weeks ago. base:0xb2000000000000000000007bf6d5cbb0e24cb301 at 11m is not a memecoin bet, it's a bet that @coinbase finally understood the game

every chain that won this cycle had a culture coin that became the identity of the ecosystem. the culture coin isn't just a memecoin, it's the front door, it's the reason a normie downloads a wallet, figures out bridging, and makes their first onchain transaction

@base never got one. $TOSHI, $BRETT, they all had moments, all pumped to hundreds of millions, all faded. and here's the detail everyone forgets: they did those numbers with zero interaction from @brian_armstrong. not one reply, not one like, nothing. Brian has never complied with a memecoin in his life. that was the missing ingredient every single time

until 19 hours ago

but the PFP is not the story. the story is the sequence:

@jessepollak admits the social strategy on @baseapp fell short and hands the app to @cobie. cobie, the most respected native voice in crypto, stops playing Factorio to lead @coinbase and @base products. @base pivots the whole app to trading

meanwhile, Ansem writes the memo of the cycle, the mayor and the nightclub, memecoins as the same intangible value that made Bitcoin and Ethereum the top two assets, $BONK as the thing that revitalized @solana at the lows. @brian_armstrong replies "makes sense to me!" then quotes it again: "this part is key." then he follows @blknoiz06

then someone makes fun of Brian's old pfp, @cobie sends Brian the tweet, and hours later brian is 'Coinbase Man', a comic cover that literally says "cryptocurrency for all" and "brian armstrong unleashes the crypto floodgates"

@jessepollak's reply: "lol right after i told people you would never" and @brian_armstrong's replies: "good way to get me to do something lol"

read that last line again. the CEO of @coinbase just told the timeline he responds to community pressure. that's the entire game theory of base:0xb2000000000000000000007bf6d5cbb0e24cb301 in one sentence. the community pushes, he engages, the coin grows, the engagement compounds. reflexivity with a $50B company on the other side of it

and this man does not change his pfp. he kept the last one for 5 years while the whole timeline begged him to drop it. when he commits to a face, he keeps it. right now that face is a meme, and there is exactly one coin attached to it

the numbers as i write this: 10,000+ holders, people bridging back to @base specifically for this, almost $100M in volume in a day, bottomed at 7.5m, sitting at ~10M. the only meme to ever get the coinbase CEO's interaction, the one he made his literal face, is priced at 11 million dollars. coinbase has 100M+ verified users who have never been onchain. the clarity act is coming and brian is about to be the most visible man in american crypto. that's the asymmetry, you don't need a calculator for it

$DOGE worked because @elonmusk kept tweeting. $BONK worked because @solana rallied around it at the bottom. base:0xb2000000000000000000007bf6d5cbb0e24cb301 works if brian keeps showing up. he doesn't need to shill, he doesn't need price targets, he just needs to stay 'Coinbase Man', and let the meme do what memes do when the founder of the chain is visibly paying attention

now the real part, because @base doesn't get infinite chances. the community watched the pump and dumps, the creator coin charts that all died the same death. trust on @base is thin. if the CEO's own coin gets the PFP treatment and then goes to zero off an extraction play, nobody comes back again. this is either the moment @base finally gets its culture coin, or the last chance getting wasted. the opportunity is massive, the margin for error is zero

my first bids were because i thought he'd push. i'm bidding now because i know it's his pfp, and once it gets big enough, they will fully embrace it

slowly, then all at once, base:0xb2000000000000000000007bf6d5cbb0e24cb301 is the ultimate @base culture coin