Have you ever come across those bizarre meme images that are inexplicable yet irresistible to share? Seemingly nonsensical funny content may actually hide a sophisticated harvesting game behind it.

Recently, a large number of grotesque character images have emerged on social platforms—such as "George Droyd" based on George Floyd, and "Kirkinator" appearing shortly after Charlie Kirk's death. These seemingly absurd things are actually carefully designed by crypto speculators to promote scams in the crypto world. They deliberately touch on sensitive topics like race and religion to generate viral spread, accumulating millions of views.

The underlying logic is quite simple: create topics → attract interaction → promote meme coins → harvest retail investors. Early on, DOGE indeed became popular naturally, but now such content is entirely artificially created. Operators use AI to generate provocative videos, spreading wildly on platforms like Telegram, X, and others,诱导 retail investors to follow the trend. When the coin price skyrockets, they sell off in bulk, making a fortune overnight.

The most terrifying part is that once these meme images become popular, they are continuously imitated and evolved. A single tweet about Kirkinator easily garners 8 million views, causing the coin price to surge fivefold, only to fall back within days. Investors think they’ve bought the dip and made some money, but in reality, they are just the prey being slaughtered.

In today's internet ecosystem, crypto speculators, AI tools, and algorithm recommendations form an inseparable trinity, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish genuine cultural phenomena from premeditated traps. Almost every trending new meme image may be linked to a complete利益链条.

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