Does everyone still remember what a meme is?
In the era where pump-and-dump runs rampant.
Everyone shouts 'faith and community first' for every meme
But every time I see is someone proudly showing off after exploiting their own community.
What about faith? What about community first?
I certainly haven't seen it.
Anyway, I only see myself being repeatedly exploited as a retail investor.
At the same time, I also enjoy the thrill of exploiting my group friends.
It can make quick money, it's really damn enjoyable.
But
When did memes become a tool for everyone to harm each other?
In the days when memes weren't called memes, they were called 'shanzhai coins'.
Back then, people didn't talk about 'whether the memes were good' or 'how good the team was at riding the wave'.
Is it about the code being a fork of Bitcoin, whether there is innovation, and if the community is genuinely doing something?
Dogecoin, Litecoin, these are all products of that era.
Everyone was tirelessly preaching, building, promoting, and conducting ground operations for their own shanzhai coin visions. Everyone was a decentralized organization, gathered together due to the interesting narrative of the same project.
What impressed me was that I joined a ZCC community (which was only traded on Bit Era and JuBi back then), also based on Bitcoin's PoW code.
Working with my old friends every day to make graphics, post announcements, contact mining pools, nothing much, just because the name sounds good, waving the flag of PoW coins that every Chinese person should buy.
Although I don't know if it will go to zero now.
But at that time, I really felt what 'faith and community first' was.
Bitcoin is actually the most successful meme of that era.
It also relied on the community to discover its value, preach together, and build together
The community discovered its value and fairness, and it took long-term efforts to achieve today's accomplishments
Back then, there were no big exchanges, no VCs, and no one shouted narrative.
Some had Wu Jihan staying up late translating white papers;
Some were saying everywhere that 'all money will eventually become Bitcoin';
Some had Bao Er Ye shouting 'Bitcoin will reach one million RMB'—sounds like crazy talk;
Some even sold their houses to gamble their way in, and were mocked as fools by netizens.
But if you want to ask what the original meme spirit looked like
It's really those fools, supported by just a mouth and a belief, that sustain the community.
And what about today's memes?
Most have changed their flavor.
You say community first? It's community first in pouring resources;
You talk about fair launch? As a result, 80% is still in conspiracies and KOL wallets shouting orders.
You talk about faith? It's the kind of 'faith' that comes after exploiting retail investors and mocking them with charts.
I've participated in PVP before; I also made graphics, led the narrative, and FOMO'd others.
So enjoyable, making money, short-term multiples, who wouldn't think it's great?
But the later it got, the more I felt something was off.
I don't want to play this kind of 'mutual harm' meme anymore
I started to look for projects that truly have the flavor of 'community and faith'
Until I saw $jager.
JAGER is a project that I rarely see willing to honestly return to the origin of memes.
It didn't talk about 'team background', didn't create 'conspiracies', and didn't dangle big promises in front of people.
It just straightforwardly lays out the mechanism and tells you:
We believe in BNB $100,000, and we also believe that the community is the main body of memes
Jager token gives 100% to the community, with no reserves for the team.
No market control, no lock-up.
Although it got on Binance Alpha four days after launch, it never said 'we have a strong background'.
It's not even welcoming the community to 'imagine positive news'
I imagined a few favorable scenarios in the community and got criticized by the project side.
You say it's foolish, but it's actually doing something very scarce:
Returning the task of 'packaging project value' back to the community itself.
The things that memes should have originally are about the community discovering value.
It's not the project side sitting there 'designing consensus'.
JAGER doesn't pretend, nor do I encourage you to buy.
It simply does what it needs to do every day: educate users to believe in BNB 100K.
Letting the market and mechanism gradually filter people out.
Don't believe it? You can leave.
Want to ride the wave? You're welcome, but don't pretend.
If you're willing to stay, then it will give you tax dividends and space to build together
It's that simple.
This is the meme that I understand.
It's not about sending out favorable memes every day, but about memes that leave people behind over time.
