{"id":20063,"date":"2024-12-31T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/the-most-absurd-meme-tokens-of-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:50:56","slug":"the-most-absurd-meme-tokens-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/the-most-absurd-meme-tokens-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Absurd Meme Tokens of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meme coins have emerged as a trend in 2024 within the crypto industry, with the segment&#8217;s capitalization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/categories\/meme-token\">exceeding $107 billion<\/a>, and numerous celebrities have launched their own assets. Against this backdrop, <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/fartcoin-pnut-wyac-silliest-memecoins-2024\">Cointelegraph<\/a> identified the year&#8217;s &#8220;most absurd&#8221; tokens.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fartcoin: Not About Blockchain Gas<\/h2>\n<p>The &#8220;absolutely useless&#8221; joke token Fartcoin (<span data-descr=\"loud release of gases from the body\" class=\"old_tooltip\">FART<\/span>) appeared in October and became a vivid example of how easily absurdity sells in the crypto space.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Inflation? Deflation? Fartcoin specializes in flatulation! ?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fartcoin? (@FartCoinOfSOL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FartCoinOfSOL\/status\/1871562980145733878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Inflation? Deflation? We specialize in flatulation,&#8221; stated the coin&#8217;s developers on X.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By the end of December, Fartcoin&#8217;s capitalization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/fartcoin\">approached $1.25 billion<\/a>. The figure adjusted to around $850 million, yet the asset remains the largest on the Pump.fun platform.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fartcoin-Price-FARTCOIN-Live-Price-Chart-Market-Cap-News-Today-CoinGecko-Google-Chrome.webp\" alt=\"Fartcoin-Price-FARTCOIN-Live-Price-Chart-Market-Cap-News-Today-CoinGecko-Google-Chrome\" class=\"wp-image-249006\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/fartcoin\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An additional boost to the coin&#8217;s value came from a mention by TV host Stephen Colbert on his CBS evening show.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Woman Yelling at Cat<\/h2>\n<p>The token Woman Yelling At Cat (WYAC) was launched by reality TV star Taylor Armstrong from &#8220;The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The coin&#8217;s name &#8220;Woman Yelling at Cat&#8221; derives from a well-known internet meme based on a frame featuring the actress.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wyac-on-sol-woman-yelling-at-cat-v0-svmrc2ijb4kd1.webp\" alt=\"wyac-on-sol-woman-yelling-at-cat-v0-svmrc2ijb4kd1\" class=\"wp-image-249007\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SolCoins\/comments\/1ey6xdk\/wyac_on_sol_woman_yelling_at_cat\/\">Reddit<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/woman-yelling-at-cat\">CoinGecko<\/a>, WYAC&#8217;s total market value peaked at ~$51 million on October 21. At the time of writing, the value had plummeted to $3.9 million, with the token losing 18% in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In Memory of Peanut the Squirrel<\/h2>\n<p>The token Peanut the Squirrel (PNUT) is dedicated to the eponymous squirrel, Peanut, euthanized by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation workers. During a rabies check, the animal bit one of the department&#8217;s employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The story gained widespread attention on the internet. Supporters of Donald Trump used it to criticize the Democratic administration ahead of the U.S. presidential elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is Peanut\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>This is the Squirrel that they murdered\u2026 He looks so terrifying, doesn&#8217;t he.. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats ARE Monsters.. and they hate America and YOU! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1dQWRZUOOF\">pic.twitter.com\/1dQWRZUOOF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealMattCouch\/status\/1853411623379300846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>PNUT&#8217;s capitalization reached $2.27 billion within just two weeks by November 14. Following a subsequent crash, the figure fell to $650 million (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/peanut-the-squirrel\">CoinGecko<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The squirrel&#8217;s owner, Mark Longo, accused the crypto community of profiting from his trauma. Authorities also seized and euthanized another of his pets\u2014a raccoon named Fred.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He even launched his own meme coin <span data-descr=\"Justice for Peanut and Fred\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Justice for Pnut and Fred<\/span> (JUSTICE). The asset&#8217;s total market value collapsed from nearly $145 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/justice-for-pnut-and-fred\">to ~$150,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by NBC News, the surge in meme token popularity following Trump&#8217;s election was dubbed a return to the &#8220;carnival-casino&#8221; era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meme coins have emerged as a trend in 2024 within the crypto industry, with the segment&#8217;s capitalization exceeding $107 billion, and numerous celebrities have launched their own assets. Against this backdrop, Cointelegraph identified the year&#8217;s &#8220;most absurd&#8221; tokens. Fartcoin: Not About Blockchain Gas The &#8220;absolutely useless&#8221; joke token Fartcoin (FART) appeared in October and became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1161],"class_list":["post-20063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-memes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"92","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}