Where did #MEME come from?🍍🍍
A story that is hard to believe... but impossible to ignore!
How it all started👁️👁️
On August 14, 2020, Jordan Lyall, then the face of the DeFi product at ConsenSys, published a sarcastic interface design for a project called The Degenerator, with the caption: "Launch your DeFi project in 5 minutes." As a joke — but hours later someone launched an ERC‑20 token with the name and ticker #MEME .$MEME
Explosion of attention
The jargon of the cryptocurrency enthusiast community created a Telegram group and distributed an airdrop — 355.55 #MEME to the first participants. In an instant, the price skyrocketed, and some holders began to think about selling, while many — refused.🤔🤔🤔
Recognizable symbol — pineapple.🍍🍍🍍
The pineapple as a symbol of #MEME — is not just a coincidence. It is a tribute to the early YAM project and a visual element of the original Degenerator design, which took hold and became the emblem of the movement.📉📈
🎩 Irony?
The meme-coin, created as a joke😅😅, became a true 🪙🪙DeFi project with NFTs, a liquidity pool, and a real cult.
It is not just a token.🪙💴
It is a virus, embedded in the consciousness of the blockchain era.
It is a satire that became legend.
It is a meme that made a play on the system.