Livestreaming with an attached meme coin was popularized this year after a mom promised sexual acts if her apparent son’s meme coin, called LiveMom, hit specific market caps.
Despite promising to pour milk over her “36DDs,” the same ones her son allegedly “actually suckled on,” the pair ghosted with nothing really crazy going down.
But clearly, some degens saw the viral sensation this became and tried to capitalize on it.
Quickly, a flurry of copycat tokens launched, including LiveSis, countless thirst traps, and one developer that claimed to have no hands, so he couldn’t rug pull before revealing his hands and selling his entire bag in one clip.
Unfortunately, things didn’t stay so wholesome and quickly got out of hand.
Some devs put their lives at risk to pump their Solana meme coins, while others shamelessly degraded themselves on camera for all to see.
Dev sets himself on fire
Mikol was six days into running the TruthOrDare (DARE) token, where he had been livestreaming goofy stunts for the meme coin, including drinking bong water and racing homeless people. But he went too far after taking a dare from a community member.
In a car park, the Florida man doused himself in isopropyl alcohol and had fireworks shot at him. He went up in flames and was rushed to hospital with third-degree burns across 30% of his body, entering months of rehabilitation.
Months later, he quit the project, claiming to have been taken advantage of and saying that his biggest regret was not selling when he had the opportunity.
Crack Head Dev
A 19-year-old, simply known as Trevv, decided to take his drug addiction to the trenches.
The California kid went on a crazy binge smoking a dangerous combination of drugs before overdosing on fentanyl. He fell to the floor after taking a hit from a pipe while livestreaming on the Pump.fun site for his token Crack Head Dev (CHD). It was alarming.
Fortunately, he woke up and turned the livestream off, albeit slightly embarrassed. Noticing the opportunity, pseudonymous crypto trader Beaver paid Trevv to fake his death—producing fake screenshots and a video from his supposed mother mourning his death.
After a while, Trevv felt like he’d no longer got a good deal and went on to create two more tokens, I’m Alive (ALIVE) and then Stripper Trev Dev (STD), where he was joined by his girlfriend (who is a real-life stripper) going on another drug binge, with a side of ass eating and a botched front flip.
Shitcoin
Then degens turned Pump.fun livestreaming into an Olympic sport. A YouTuber known as Normie set out to break the world record for the longest time spent sitting on the toilet, all dedicated to a Pump.fun meme coin called Shitcoin.
And, surprisingly, he did it! He sat on a toilet for over 116 hours, losing his mind in the process. He shit, slept, and even shaved his eyebrow off, all on camera.
Normie is pretty known for crazy stunts like this, although not usually tied to crypto tokens, such as attempting to stay in solitary confinement for a month.
The YouTuber has since claimed that an MRI scan revealed there are “holes” in his brain due to the challenges he’s tackled, namely when he didn’t sleep for 12 days straight.
Pretending to be a dog for money
For some reason, a dude locked himself in a cage pretending to be a dog—continuously barking, holding a tennis ball in his mouth, and wearing a collar.
Racking in over 1,000 viewers, the caged guy promised acts if his token DOGECAGE hit certain milestones, including eating dog food as well as pissing and shitting in the cage.
Despite not hitting those latter milestones, he decided to pee himself anyway for some reason. One tweet event suggests that he pooped and ate it.
Gun violence
At the height of the November livestreaming meta, one degenerate launched a number of Pump.fun tokens promising to shoot his Glock Gen5 pistol for his viewers while on a Percocet—an opioid.
For a while, he danced with the pistol, allegedly dropping a freestyle to the 115 people watching.
Then, he left the house at nighttime and started shooting into the dark, but viewers couldn’t see what was happening. It wasn’t until he shot the Glock inside his bedroom, possibly breaking his window in the process, that he went viral.
“It don’t migrate? Bet,” the dev said before firing the pistol. “It blew that bitch up, chat!”
Animal abuse
Countless livestreams eventually popped up featuring the abuse (or at least the threat of abuse) against animals.
This included one dev threatening to shoot a goldfish, another demanding a certain market cap or he’d shoot his dog, and one person taping their dog to a wall.
At its most extreme, Chicken Fish Club livestreamed the beheading of a chicken on Pump.fun.
“I can’t believe this,” one pseudonymous trader said. “We’re not here to make money off of animal deaths.”
Faked suicide
And then it all came tumbling down.
Beni, a degen wearing a fake beard and wig, was threatening to hang himself unless his token pumped in value. When it didn’t pump as much as he’d hoped, he allegedly hung himself. This is widely believed to be the reason that Pump.fun disabled its native livestreaming feature.
However, days later, it was revealed that it was all fake—eagle-eyed viewers saw that Beni was still moving when his friends “saved” him. “We took down Pump.fun livestreams with a fake stunt,” the person behind the token told Decrypt.
The livestreaming meta got out of hand this year, and this list could be indefinitely longer—we didn’t even mention the kid that flipped the bird while rugging $30,000 on stream, the guy threatening to shoot up a school, or literal bestiality.
We love some degeneracy, but let’s, at least, not harm any animals or humans in the process. Please.
