Failed to Leverage Timing, Positioning, and Community Trust

Poor Timing — Launched Amid Market Downturn
The "celebrity coin" niche, already tainted by Trump's "First Family" memecoins, "Rug President" projects, and scams like the Jupiter Cabal rug-pull, had become a wasteland that even "dogs wouldn’t touch."
With the broader market crashing (everyone bleeding these days), trading enthusiasm evaporated.
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Despite pre-launch hype and attempts to time the release with Trump’s tweets and a brief market bounce, the team couldn’t overcome macro conditions. The narrative (Ronaldinho’s star power) also failed to sustain momentum.

Strategic Misstep — Abandoned Solana for BSC
BSC is a hyper-competitive battleground where projects fight for scraps while Solana’s memecoin ecosystem thrives. BSC users are more jaded, less swayed by hype amid bearish sentiment.
Suspicions arose that the team (linked to $BRETT via a leaked contract address: 0x532f27101965dd16442E59d40670FaF5eBB142E4) prioritized BSC due to existing connections, not market logic.
Even with "support" from Binance’s Yi He, the project flopped. Meanwhile, Solana’s strong rebound and rising social sentiment highlighted the missed opportunity.

Community Betrayal — Toxic Marketing Backfired
The "$20M contract drama" (https://x.com/R10coin_/status/1895372050619081004) — whether a staged feud or a clumsy attempt to fabricate hype — backfired spectacularly. It cemented perceptions of "scammer infighting" and "rug-pull scheming," destroying trust.
Opaque wallet control (vs. transparent large wallets) further alienated holders.
Ronaldinho and Neymar’s failed NFT ventures (https://x.com/jianguotz/status/1895815630823071930) set a precedent: celebrities + crypto ≠ automatic success.

No Emotional Moonshot — Fans Couldn’t "Buy the Dream"
Unlike NFTs (which at least offered nostalgic digital collectibles), $STAR10 offered nothing tangible to Ronaldinho’s fans. Old legends evoke memories —(brotherhood), (comradeship), running under the sun — but memecoins can’t monetize that dopamine.
Football’s magic (the only thing rivaling trading’s adrenaline?) was absent here. Fans had no reason to ape beyond speculative greed.
TL;DR: A perfect storm of bad timing, chain misallocation, self-sabotaging marketing, and zero emotional resonance. Another cautionary tale in the celebrity memecoin graveyard.