Say something that may cause controversy:

Nowadays, many so-called #MEME can hardly be called real memes.

Early memes had real "jokes".

They were not created just to issue tokens; rather, there was first interesting and funny content,

which people spontaneously spread, repeated, and re-created,

allowing the community to grow naturally in the process,

with tokens being a product that naturally attached to the culture.

You may not remember the price,

yet you will definitely remember the joke.

Back then, memes,

consensus could last for months,

even over half a year or a year.

It wasn't because the project itself was amazing,

but because everyone was genuinely playing a joke together.

The community had real beliefs and continuous construction.

Nowadays, many on-chain memes,

the process is almost identical:

Someone says something,

forcibly finds an angle,

comes up with a name,

whales enter the market,

pump the price,

wait for others to follow,

then dump and exit.

From start to finish,

not a single step is truly interesting or funny.

When whales enter the market,

retail investors think this is consensus;

when whales dump,

retail investors realize this is just leading the rhythm.

In the past,

the community formed first, and prices grew slowly;

today,

prices are pulled up first, and the community is then forcibly pieced together.

You may not even have time to remember its name,

it has already disappeared.

Therefore, the problem is not that the meme lifecycle is short,

but that

these things lack the "meme" gene from the very beginning.

They do not possess the possibility of being remembered,

only to become trading targets.

Without jokes, there is no repetition;

without repetition, there is no community;

without a community, there can be no truly lasting consensus.

What remains is merely a zero-sum game of

"who runs faster, who can survive."

What should a real meme be?

It is something that even if you don't look at the K-line,

you are still willing to stay in the community to watch everyone play jokes;

it is content that can still be referenced and re-created even after several months.

Rather than

fixating on who said what, posted what,

creating memes just for the sake of it, piecing together narratives awkwardly,

only to start asking, "Is it time to sell?"

So, it's not that this meme track is no longer viable,

but that too many people mistake "forced narratives" for "culture."

It is something that can be remembered by time,

and those that cannot be remembered,

even if they rise high, are merely one-time consumables.