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Viral influencer Haliey Welch's Hawk Tuah memecoin sparks outrage across social media after pumping to a $490M market cap and then dumping 90%+ in three hours

A smart mark is still a mark.  [embedded post] @kosso.co.uk : Memecoins on Solana are very much designed for young teenagers to spaff all their wallets.  —  I thought the Binance chain and Ethereum memetokens were terrible.  But the quantity of rug-pulling shite being thrown around on Solana is astronomical, due to it being cheaper and faster to lose everything. @clevernickname23 : When people equate 15 minutes of viral fame with being an investment opportunity. Kathy / @districtofkatya : There's gonna be so much of this shit under Trump and it would be extremely funny if in the end it didn't just mean billionaires will keep siphoning money from dumb people.  [embedded post] Cameron Clark / @cameronclark : I believe market analysts call this “girlbossing too close to the sun” [embedded post] @bisonfish : so now the worst thing isn't how she spells her name @highlightt : *guy who tries to eat soup with a fork and knife*:I can't believe it [embedded post] @patbits : Sell off that thang! [embedded post] Zai Sarel / @zaisarel : Gonna talk tuah SEC agent Derek / @ricketyshack.ca : If you lost money on this, I have to assume you're not allowed to use a fork or spoon without safety goggles and at least one adult minder.  [embedded post] Kyle Woodley / @kylewoodley : This is such a common-enough occurrence, that happens only to people who opt in (no one buys shitcoins against their will), that I don't understand why there's any outrage over it whatsoever.  This is a well-known risk.  It's like getting outraged over some dude crapping out at the casino. … @gedalia : Clearly everyone decided to spit it out. Doctor Acula / @doctoracularf : Hawk Tuah girl, the memecoin pumped  —  Hawk Tuah girl, the memecoin dumped  —  Shaka when the walls fell Eli Sarver / @lowmag.net : so it got pumped, and then dumped.  this is my shocked face @loathsome.computer : am i having a stroke [embedded post] Molly White / @molly.wiki : i should be entitled to pain and suffering pay [embedded post] Paris Martineau / @paris.nyc : she should have gone with “hawk tuah, block on that chain”  —  qz.com/hawk-tuah-me... Kristi Yamaguccimane / @wapplehouse : I been hacked.  —  all my hawks tuah'd. this just sold please help me [image] @cubefag : you know that guy didn't really lose his kids college fund on the hawk tuah memecoin, right  —  it's the bluecheck crypto guy version of saying you're ripping up mail-in ballots for trump Ben Goggin / @bengoggin : Hawk Tuah girl's memecoin blew up and then plummeted... how many times have we seen this with influencer crypto projects now?  I would really love to know who is still getting fooled by projects like this, especially people who are online enough to catch the debut of something like $Hawk [image] @swagmoyed : personally i would rather put myself in a pit of angry wasps than confess to anyone that i lost my life savings because i fell for a pump and dump crypto memecoin investment scheme made by the hawk tuah girl [embedded post] Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : “hawk tuah and rug pull that thang” cointelegraph.com/news/hawk- tu... @yburyug : Hawk Tuah girl didn't do it for the lulz why is anyone surprised the memecoin did not work out?  She didn't even scam anyone this is just how casinos work Kyle Ian / @kyleian : Hawk Tuah PRESSED by Investigator Coffeezilla for allegedly scamming millions regarding the $HAWK memecoin launch. @vxundergroundre : Word on the street is Haliey Welch a/k/a Hawk Tuah girl, has rugged pulled her fans with a memecoin.  She has stated publicly she and her team have not sold anything.  —  Today Haliey is going to learn about the blockchain, CoffeeZilla, and ZachXBT (she's going to have a bad day) Catherine Rampell / @crampell : The 2024 U.S. economy in a nutshell [image] @meme-guy : The same people calling for criminal chargers for Hawk Tuah Girl Haliey Welch and here memecoin $HAWK rugpull are the same ones cheering deregulation of crypto and a severely handicapped SEC. Can't have it both ways Crypto Alex / @alexnabu : Losing your life savings on Hawk Tuah memecoin is an iq test if anything.  If u did bad news...  [embedded post] @thetofuwanter : Ah- the Hawk Tuah Girl memecoin.  Just as Marx predicted [embedded post] Leo Schwartz / @leoschwartz : I spoke with “Hawk tuah” girl Haliey Welch about her Solana memecoin launching today, and her manager cut in to insist they “don't want to break securities laws.”  —  Submitting for my Pulitzer:  —  fortune.com/crypto/2024/... Madeline Peltz / @peltzmadeline : I am a huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings.  [image] Dave / @pugganoche : Something about a question being answered by a shirt.  [image] Mastodon: @bazkie@beige.party : @Techmeme hahaha they must be new to memecoins X: @overhere_gg : There has been a wild amount of fud circulating, let us explain: The main piece going around @X is the 96% cluster seen on @bubblemaps which shows $HAWK tokens being sent by the deployer address (xxxx), to the related addresses, according to the tokenomics that was published. Haliey Welch / @halieywelchx : Copy and pasting: Hawkanomics: Team hasn't sold one token and not 1 KOL was given 1 free token We tried to stop snipers as best we could through high fee's in the start of launch on @MeteoraAG Fee's have now been dropped [image] Zeus / @zeuslfg : @HalieyWelchX @MeteoraAG The team hasn't sold one token: [image] Haliey Welch / @halieywelchx : Hawk is live!!! HAWKThXRcNL9ZGZKqgUXLm4W8tnRZ7U6MVdEepS utj34 [video] Jack Forge / @thejackforge : The first seal has been broken. [image] Jack Forge / @thejackforge : My wife has left me. I can no longer afford to send my kids to college. In hindsight. Buying a large amount of the meme coin based on the girl who spits on dongs was probably a bad investment. Nick O'Neill / @chooserich : Hawk Tuah's reaction when I asked how much the team is getting paid 😂 [video] Sid Verma / @_sidverma : Even just a tiny allocation of the $40 trillion in US retirement funds could significantly boost the HAWK Tuak coin @yarumasi : So the ‘hawk tuah’ girl effectively was just a part of a rug pull/insider trading scam on a memecoin. I really like when people like this get propped up by the internet 🙂 @smoak843 : So let me get this straight, the hawk tuah chick just rug pulled a bunch of her followers through a “meme coin” scam to get her and her team filthy rich and might be going to prison? Yea just go ahead and Launch the nukes we're done here, this is a failed society. Ben Wright / @benwrightvt : If you are new to crypto and you just found out about the Hawk Tuah Memecoin, heres your warning She has released the contract address so it is going to be botted more than you can imagine. When millions of other newbies are going to do the same thing as you (buy this like [video] @aktiehedonist : Just launched, the $HAWK coin (Hawk Tuah) soared to a $500M market cap then crashed to $60M in minutes. A stark reminder of meme coin volatility and the risks of celebrity-backed crypto. #CryptoNews #HawkTuah #MemeCoin Viktor / @minister_penis : The girl who became popular after a video with the phrase “hawk tuah” announced the release of her meme coin. Immediately after the launch, the coin hit the $500Mmcap$ mark and within minutes, it was drained down to $20Mmcap$. 90% supply was with the team. #CryptoNews #hawktuah [image] BentoBoi / @bentoboinft : The $HAWK TUA Memecoin Dev Made Over $2 Million in 10 minutes?! 96% of the supply is held in one cluster Main Takeaway: Stay Away From Celebrity Coins Here's the situation👇 [video] Sonnie / @sonniemoondat : The solution for Hawk Tuah once it went viral was that @HalieyWelchX should have just opened up an OnlyFans but instead she created a Memecoin $HAWK that left all of her supporters in big financial losses while her and her foundation took off with over 5m+ Lessons @sophieraiin Sid Verma / @_sidverma : Wall Street voice: The combination of rich valuations, less favorable momentum technicals and mid- to late-cycle crypto risk suggest the easy money in the Hawk Tuah meme coin has already been made Lennox / @nag4te : I don't like crypto but for the ones that do please don't buy this. It's a scam bro. First of all hawk tuah is a shit joke that will die soon. And also look at the community notes that's another reason. Trung Phan / @trungtphan : Hawk Tuah launched a meme coin today. Market cap spiked to $500m before collapsing to $60m. Users mad insiders were selling and when Hawk Tuah denied it, was Community Noted with a comment she might have to “Talk Tuah judge about this”. Good lord. [image] Jack Mehoff Sr / @jackmehoffsr : Honestly if you are stupid enough to buy into this meme coin then you deserve to lose all your money. Fucking idiots decided that a girl who made her entire career off of saying “Hawk Tuah” on TikTok was going to have enough staying power to make a profitable currency. Stupid. @vxunderground : Word on the street is Haliey Welch a/k/a Hawk Tuah girl, has rugged pulled her fans with a memecoin. She has stated publicly she and her team have not sold anything. Today Haliey is going to learn about the blockchain, CoffeeZilla, and ZachXBT (she's going to have a bad day) Turner Novak / @turnernovak : Excited to announce the Hawk Tuah Rug Coin. A crypto coin for people who got rugged by the Hawk Tuah meme coin. This is special coin, an ecosystem built by the rugged, built for us to band together and fight back against rug pullers.

Cointelegraph Tom Mitchelhill

Context & Ripple Effects

This update adds a sharper time frame to the earlier report of HAWK's rapid rise and collapse, while the reported concentration of tokens and competing claims from Welch and critics make allocation transparency central to the dispute.

It also fits a longer-running promoter-driven token market documented in earlier coverage of paid hype around speculative coins, where attention can substitute for durable investor protections.

First-order effects

  • HAWK buyers faced an immediate loss of more than 90% from the reported peak, while Welch and the launch team faced public allegations of insider selling and a direct credibility test after their denial.
  • Reported concentration in deployer-related wallets makes on-chain allocation and transaction records the immediate evidence base for evaluating the rug-pull claims.

Second-order effects

  • Influencer-led token launches will face greater scrutiny over wallet concentration, token distribution, and team-sale disclosures before audiences treat viral promotion as investment validation.
  • The episode gives independent investigators such as CoffeeZilla a larger role in shaping public confidence when official project disclosures and social-media claims conflict.

Third-order effects

  • If similar launches continue, celebrity and influencer tokens may deepen the crypto legitimacy gap: distribution mechanics, rather than branding or reach, become the market's primary trust signal.
  • Repeated rapid collapses could push platforms and token promoters toward clearer disclosure norms, though this report alone does not establish whether formal rules will follow.

The trend: Viral memecoins are turning social-media attention into a high-speed, disclosure-sensitive speculative market in which token concentration can matter more than celebrity reach.

Discussion

  • @scionkirk @scionkirk on bluesky
    I'm shock3d the Hawk Tuah girl would try to milk something for all it's worth.
  • @mkbhd.com Marques Brownlee on bluesky
    This just set back reasonable people taking crypto seriously by at least 5 years
  • @subtlebeast @subtlebeast on bluesky
    Exactly as Baba Vanga foretold...  [embedded post]
  • @grumpyrootbeer @grumpyrootbeer on bluesky
    Wild that basically every celebrity is now functionally running a little penny stock boiler room operation and it doesn't even approach being something that the American media and political elite even bother to pretend caring about.  [embedded post]
  • @chrislhayes Chris Hayes on bluesky
    just repeating the phrase “hawk tuah girl meme coin” over and over until my brain is as smooth as a polished stone
  • @mattr644 Matt R on bluesky
    Did literally anyone think anything other than this exact thing would happen?
  • @oosaemitter @oosaemitter on bluesky
    As Dan Olson pointed out, you might be recruited for the pump, or you might think that you are; while in fact being the dump.  —  A smart mark is still a mark.  [embedded post]
  • @kosso.co.uk @kosso.co.uk on bluesky
    Memecoins on Solana are very much designed for young teenagers to spaff all their wallets.  —  I thought the Binance chain and Ethereum memetokens were terrible.  But the quantity of rug-pulling shite being thrown around on Solana is astronomical, due to it being cheaper and fast…
  • @clevernickname23 @clevernickname23 on bluesky
    When people equate 15 minutes of viral fame with being an investment opportunity.
  • @districtofkatya Kathy on bluesky
    There's gonna be so much of this shit under Trump and it would be extremely funny if in the end it didn't just mean billionaires will keep siphoning money from dumb people.  [embedded post]
  • @cameronclark Cameron Clark on bluesky
    I believe market analysts call this “girlbossing too close to the sun” [embedded post]
  • @bisonfish @bisonfish on bluesky
    so now the worst thing isn't how she spells her name
  • @highlightt @highlightt on bluesky
    *guy who tries to eat soup with a fork and knife*:I can't believe it [embedded post]
  • @patbits @patbits on bluesky
    Sell off that thang! [embedded post]
  • @zaisarel Zai Sarel on bluesky
    Gonna talk tuah SEC agent
  • @ricketyshack.ca Derek on bluesky
    If you lost money on this, I have to assume you're not allowed to use a fork or spoon without safety goggles and at least one adult minder.  [embedded post]
  • @kylewoodley Kyle Woodley on bluesky
    This is such a common-enough occurrence, that happens only to people who opt in (no one buys shitcoins against their will), that I don't understand why there's any outrage over it whatsoever.  This is a well-known risk.  It's like getting outraged over some dude crapping out at t…
  • @gedalia @gedalia on bluesky
    Clearly everyone decided to spit it out.
  • @doctoracularf Doctor Acula on bluesky
    Hawk Tuah girl, the memecoin pumped  —  Hawk Tuah girl, the memecoin dumped  —  Shaka when the walls fell
  • @lowmag.net Eli Sarver on bluesky
    so it got pumped, and then dumped.  this is my shocked face
  • @loathsome.computer @loathsome.computer on bluesky
    am i having a stroke [embedded post]
  • @molly.wiki Molly White on bluesky
    i should be entitled to pain and suffering pay [embedded post]
  • @paris.nyc Paris Martineau on bluesky
    she should have gone with “hawk tuah, block on that chain”  —  qz.com/hawk-tuah-me...
  • @wapplehouse Kristi Yamaguccimane on bluesky
    I been hacked.  —  all my hawks tuah'd. this just sold please help me [image]
  • @cubefag @cubefag on bluesky
    you know that guy didn't really lose his kids college fund on the hawk tuah memecoin, right  —  it's the bluecheck crypto guy version of saying you're ripping up mail-in ballots for trump
  • @bengoggin Ben Goggin on bluesky
    Hawk Tuah girl's memecoin blew up and then plummeted... how many times have we seen this with influencer crypto projects now?  I would really love to know who is still getting fooled by projects like this, especially people who are online enough to catch the debut of something li…
  • @swagmoyed @swagmoyed on bluesky
    personally i would rather put myself in a pit of angry wasps than confess to anyone that i lost my life savings because i fell for a pump and dump crypto memecoin investment scheme made by the hawk tuah girl [embedded post]
  • @knibbs Kate Knibbs on bluesky
    “hawk tuah and rug pull that thang” cointelegraph.com/news/hawk- tu...
  • @yburyug @yburyug on bluesky
    Hawk Tuah girl didn't do it for the lulz why is anyone surprised the memecoin did not work out?  She didn't even scam anyone this is just how casinos work
  • @kyleian Kyle Ian on bluesky
    Hawk Tuah PRESSED by Investigator Coffeezilla for allegedly scamming millions regarding the $HAWK memecoin launch.
  • @vxundergroundre @vxundergroundre on bluesky
    Word on the street is Haliey Welch a/k/a Hawk Tuah girl, has rugged pulled her fans with a memecoin.  She has stated publicly she and her team have not sold anything.  —  Today Haliey is going to learn about the blockchain, CoffeeZilla, and ZachXBT (she's going to have a bad day)
  • @crampell Catherine Rampell on bluesky
    The 2024 U.S. economy in a nutshell [image]
  • @meme-guy @meme-guy on bluesky
    The same people calling for criminal chargers for Hawk Tuah Girl Haliey Welch and here memecoin $HAWK rugpull are the same ones cheering deregulation of crypto and a severely handicapped SEC. Can't have it both ways
  • @alexnabu Crypto Alex on bluesky
    Losing your life savings on Hawk Tuah memecoin is an iq test if anything.  If u did bad news...  [embedded post]
  • @thetofuwanter @thetofuwanter on bluesky
    Ah- the Hawk Tuah Girl memecoin.  Just as Marx predicted [embedded post]
  • @leoschwartz Leo Schwartz on bluesky
    I spoke with “Hawk tuah” girl Haliey Welch about her Solana memecoin launching today, and her manager cut in to insist they “don't want to break securities laws.”  —  Submitting for my Pulitzer:  —  fortune.com/crypto/2024/...
  • @peltzmadeline Madeline Peltz on bluesky
    I am a huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings.  [image]
  • @pugganoche Dave on bluesky
    Something about a question being answered by a shirt.  [image]
  • @overhere_gg @overhere_gg on x
    There has been a wild amount of fud circulating, let us explain: The main piece going around @X is the 96% cluster seen on @bubblemaps which shows $HAWK tokens being sent by the deployer address (xxxx), to the related addresses, according to the tokenomics that was published.
  • @halieywelchx Haliey Welch on x
    Copy and pasting: Hawkanomics: Team hasn't sold one token and not 1 KOL was given 1 free token We tried to stop snipers as best we could through high fee's in the start of launch on @MeteoraAG Fee's have now been dropped [image]
  • @zeuslfg Zeus on x
    @HalieyWelchX @MeteoraAG The team hasn't sold one token: [image]
  • @halieywelchx Haliey Welch on x
    Hawk is live!!! HAWKThXRcNL9ZGZKqgUXLm4W8tnRZ7U6MVdEepS utj34 [video]
  • @thejackforge Jack Forge on x
    The first seal has been broken. [image]
  • @thejackforge Jack Forge on x
    My wife has left me. I can no longer afford to send my kids to college. In hindsight. Buying a large amount of the meme coin based on the girl who spits on dongs was probably a bad investment.
  • @chooserich Nick O'Neill on x
    Hawk Tuah's reaction when I asked how much the team is getting paid 😂 [video]
  • @_sidverma Sid Verma on x
    Even just a tiny allocation of the $40 trillion in US retirement funds could significantly boost the HAWK Tuak coin
  • @yarumasi @yarumasi on x
    So the ‘hawk tuah’ girl effectively was just a part of a rug pull/insider trading scam on a memecoin. I really like when people like this get propped up by the internet 🙂
  • @smoak843 @smoak843 on x
    So let me get this straight, the hawk tuah chick just rug pulled a bunch of her followers through a “meme coin” scam to get her and her team filthy rich and might be going to prison? Yea just go ahead and Launch the nukes we're done here, this is a failed society.
  • @benwrightvt Ben Wright on x
    If you are new to crypto and you just found out about the Hawk Tuah Memecoin, heres your warning She has released the contract address so it is going to be botted more than you can imagine. When millions of other newbies are going to do the same thing as you (buy this like [video…
  • @aktiehedonist @aktiehedonist on x
    Just launched, the $HAWK coin (Hawk Tuah) soared to a $500M market cap then crashed to $60M in minutes. A stark reminder of meme coin volatility and the risks of celebrity-backed crypto. #CryptoNews #HawkTuah #MemeCoin
  • @minister_penis Viktor on x
    The girl who became popular after a video with the phrase “hawk tuah” announced the release of her meme coin. Immediately after the launch, the coin hit the $500Mmcap$ mark and within minutes, it was drained down to $20Mmcap$. 90% supply was with the team. #CryptoNews #hawktuah […
  • @bentoboinft BentoBoi on x
    The $HAWK TUA Memecoin Dev Made Over $2 Million in 10 minutes?! 96% of the supply is held in one cluster Main Takeaway: Stay Away From Celebrity Coins Here's the situation👇 [video]
  • @sonniemoondat Sonnie on x
    The solution for Hawk Tuah once it went viral was that @HalieyWelchX should have just opened up an OnlyFans but instead she created a Memecoin $HAWK that left all of her supporters in big financial losses while her and her foundation took off with over 5m+ Lessons @sophieraiin
  • @_sidverma Sid Verma on x
    Wall Street voice: The combination of rich valuations, less favorable momentum technicals and mid- to late-cycle crypto risk suggest the easy money in the Hawk Tuah meme coin has already been made
  • @nag4te Lennox on x
    I don't like crypto but for the ones that do please don't buy this. It's a scam bro. First of all hawk tuah is a shit joke that will die soon. And also look at the community notes that's another reason.
  • @trungtphan Trung Phan on x
    Hawk Tuah launched a meme coin today. Market cap spiked to $500m before collapsing to $60m. Users mad insiders were selling and when Hawk Tuah denied it, was Community Noted with a comment she might have to “Talk Tuah judge about this”. Good lord. [image]
  • @jackmehoffsr Jack Mehoff Sr on x
    Honestly if you are stupid enough to buy into this meme coin then you deserve to lose all your money. Fucking idiots decided that a girl who made her entire career off of saying “Hawk Tuah” on TikTok was going to have enough staying power to make a profitable currency. Stupid.
  • @vxunderground @vxunderground on x
    Word on the street is Haliey Welch a/k/a Hawk Tuah girl, has rugged pulled her fans with a memecoin. She has stated publicly she and her team have not sold anything. Today Haliey is going to learn about the blockchain, CoffeeZilla, and ZachXBT (she's going to have a bad day)
  • @turnernovak Turner Novak on x
    Excited to announce the Hawk Tuah Rug Coin. A crypto coin for people who got rugged by the Hawk Tuah meme coin. This is special coin, an ecosystem built by the rugged, built for us to band together and fight back against rug pullers.