Some rando turned me into a meme coin

6 months ago

A stranger reached out on LinkedIn, leading to the discovery of a meme coin named $grigs based on the author's tweet.
The meme coin was created on pump.fun with a market cap of around $12,000, and the community involved AI-generated images of the author and Elon Musk.
The connection to Elon Musk stemmed from the author's 2007 tweet using the word 'grok', which Musk later named his AI chatbot.
The community hoped Musk would engage with the coin, unaware the author had blocked Musk in 2023.
The author decided to publicly disown the meme coin, citing crypto as a scam and Musk negatively, which may have contributed to the coin's lack of success.
The situation was compared to the 'Parable of the Peanut Memecoin', where promoting the coin led to community backlash.
The author recommended reading 'Stranger in a Strange Land' by Robert A. Heinlein, where the term 'grok' originated.

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