Pumponomics@ThePumponomics
i top blasted $2.4m of fartcoin (down ~12% rn).
screenshot attached.
some context, i spent all of 2025 convinced meme mindshare had topped.
recent events made me reassess that. i kept coming back to the same question.
why does retail buy crypto?
every cycle the answer is the same: as a lottery ticket. a shot at turning $1k into $100k in a month. and in a bull run, memes pay out on that bet more often than the actual lottery does
but i have zero experience hunting new memes at $500k market cap and zero edge doing it. i'm too old and lazy for the trenches and i like being concentrated in a few charts i can actually watch.
so if i wanted meme exposure the criteria became: timeless, universally funny, tied to nothing that can go stale.
fartcoin fit that well. everyone farts. a 10 year old laughs at it and so does my mother. it spent stretches of 2025 leading risk sentiment through fomc meetings while triggering every tradfi account on this app.
it topped at $2.5b, a fraction of what the big dogs hit in 2021, and it's only one cycle old, so the lower highs death spiral that kills most alts hasn't had a chance to form.
this is a long term play. no, i don't know where it bottoms, i could be underwater for a long time waiting for risk on season. that's okay, im good with my entry.
i started buying down 92% from the high with a bullish divergence printing on the weekly rsi. the divergence alone is a coin flip, but it did make me feel better about hitting the buy button.
the underrated part: buying a meme lets me turn my brain off. no roadmap to track, no team to lose faith in, no tech thesis that can quietly break. the whole idea fits in one line: if times get good, people buy funny things and hold them while they go up.
people will ask for a target...
hot air rises.
