🚀 Are memecoins the new ICO? Comparing the hype of 2017 vs 2025 💣
🔙 2017:
– Whitepaper written in Word
– Token with the suffix coin
– Promise of a revolution in logistics/medicine/AI
– Website with a countdown and a roadmap that ended in Q3 2018
➡️ People were rushing like on Black Friday to buy… dreams.
🔜 2025:
– No whitepaper
– Name: Frog, dog, something with "inu"
– Community like a cult, and utility? LOL
– Token makes 50x before it hits CEX
➡️ People are buying because "WAGMI" and "it's the new SHIB, bro"
💥 What connects ICOs and memecoins?
✅ Promise of quick profit
✅ Hype bigger than fundamentals
✅ Fear of "missing out"
✅ Projects that grow only due to emotions and community
👀 But there are also differences…
🔹 2017: You had to pretend it was a serious project
🔹 2025: No one is pretending anymore. It's MEM and that's it.
🔹 2017: Market driven by FOMO
🔹 2025: Market driven by… Elon and a frog 🐸
Is this a bubble 2.0? Or maybe a new model of attention economy?
📌 Hype hasn't died. It just traded the whitepaper for a meme.
💬 Do you also feel déjà vu?
