A lot of small people who previously shilled UNC and Solangeles are also shilling Tode and Outlier. These accounts are the silent leeches of CT. Unfortunately, both of those projects are down pretty bad.
What's even more interesting is that a large portion of this shilling cluster seems to come from the same country, with many accounts focused almost entirely on farming airdrops and begging for some tokens.
I can't prove it yet, but I genuinely believe a good number of these accounts are just one or two people larping behind multiple profiles.
The unfortunate truth about the airdrop meta is that not everyone deserves an airdrop.
If you're not adding value to a community (through content, development etc) then you don't deserve it.
What's interesting is that the two projects I mentioned earlier still haven't died, and there are specific reasons for that.
UNC is a culture coin. It benefited from being an early mover in the airdrop space, but more importantly, I still believe the people behind it are solid. I believe in the integrity of the backers and the community that formed around it.
Solangeles is a different case. In my opinion, it is the only true content coin on Solana. It is not (and it should not) be dependent on a single creator but there are multiple people making good content for it. The USP is simple: great content, produced consistently, by people who understand how important that is.
With that being said, I still believe the Outlier dev is a good guy, and I have a lot of respect for him.
My thesis remains the same!
The @Pumpfun banner is still a work in progress. I haven't had much time to properly sit down and figure out the direction I want to take with it.
I've been buried in work lately, creating art for some amazing communities, and I'm still undecided about which communities should be featured in the banner and which shouldn't.
You'll see it here very soon though.
Been a long time since weβve seen a decent @Pumpfun banner featuring all the deserving communities. Planning to make a new one, and after that Iβm pretty sure Pump is going to rock it. Still trying to figure out who to include.
I already know Troll, Wojak, TripleT, LMAO, UNC, Chillhouse, Neet, Kilroy and some ai tech coins are going to be in it. Need to add a lot more.
Drop some suggestions maybe
I think this is a healthy reset for the space. Times like these tend to expose projects that never had much substance to begin with, along with devs who were only doing the bare minimum.
The coming week will separate the builders who keep working regardless of market conditions from those who lose interest the moment things get tough and start selling into their own communities.
A pretty useful trend, in my opinion. Remember the names.