A shoe company slapped "AI" on its name, pumped 850%. Now it's down 75% in 2 weeks. The script never changes.
Meet Allbirds.
They make wool sneakers.
Comfortable ones, apparently.
But not $850% worth of comfortable.
So they did what every struggling company does in a bull market with a narrative vacuum.
They pivoted to AI.
Not the product.
Not the business model.
Just the story.
850% pump.
Headlines. Momentum. FOMO.
Retail flooded in chasing the move.
Algos fed them the exit.
Then reality remembered it was a shoe company.
75% gone in 14 days.
Not a slow bleed.
Not a "healthy correction."
A collapse.
The kind that happens when a pump has no foundation beneath it.
Just vibes, a press release, and greater fool theory.
This is the oldest trade in markets.
Rename. Rebrand. Reframe.
1999 — add ".com" to your company name. Stock triples.
2017 — add "blockchain" to your company name. Stock triples.
2021 — announce an NFT partnership. Stock triples.
2024/2025 — pivot to AI. Stock triples.
The asset changes.
The grift is identical.
The people who bought the pump aren't stupid.
They knew the game.
They just thought they'd be faster than the next person.
Some were.
Most weren't.
$BIRD didn't sell AI.
It sold the idea of AI to people selling the idea to other people.
That's not a business.
That's a relay race where the last person holding the baton loses everything.
The pump is the product.
Until it isn't.
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