2025-12-22 19:30:22

Everyone's talking about that one lucky shot—someone threw $600 into a memecoin and walked away with six figures. Wild story, right?

But here's what nobody's posting about: the hundreds who went all-in with similar amounts and got completely wiped out.

That's the memecoin game in a nutshell. One success story gets amplified across Twitter while the losses stay silent. It's textbook survival bias mixed with FOMO, and it distorts how people see the odds.

The math is brutal: for every $600→$100k win, there are dozens of accounts that went to zero. Those aren't memes. Those are real portfolios.

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MaticHoleFiller

· 2025-12-24 17:53

I've heard too many stories like this. The guy who turned $600 into 100k has long been screenshot to death, and no one talks about how dozens of others got liquidated afterward.

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GasFeeBarbecue

· 2025-12-22 20:00

You're right, it's a zero-sum game. The stories of winners are shared by everyone, but what about the losers? They've been deleted long ago. --- I've seen this kind of thing a lot; one case of sudden wealth goes viral, while a thousand people who lost their shirts are eaten away behind the scenes. --- Math is indeed cruel; those who drop to zero are real money, unlike those screenshots on Twitter. --- FOMO really makes people short-circuit; they always feel that missing out means losing. --- Every time I see such posts, I remember my own experience of being trapped... never touching it again. --- Memecoins are pure gambling, yet they have to pretend to be investments; it's laughable. --- So we should all understand that the silent losers far outnumber the vocal winners. --- It feels like everyone is looking for that overnight wealth story, not wanting to hear "I lost everything." --- The number of people who drop to zero vs the number of those who get rich; mathematically, they can't be compared, but who will post about losing everything? --- This is the truth: no one records the failures; history is always written by the winners.

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SerumDegen

· 2025-12-22 19:58

ngl the survivorship bias here is absolutely nuclear... seen this cascade play out a thousand times on-chain. one winner gets 50k retweets, hundred liquidated wallets get zero mention. that's not luck, that's just market structure doing its thing tbh.

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MidnightTrader

· 2025-12-22 19:56

To be honest, those success stories are just lottery tickets picked up from the 🎰 pit; the ones you hear about are always the guys who made a profit... The hundreds of people who actually got liquidated have long been silent, and no one is willing to show their 💔 complete loss.

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ZKProofster

· 2025-12-22 19:50

ngl the survival bias thing is actually the real protocol running in crypto spaces rn... one $600→$100k screenshot vs hundreds of rekt wallets in the graveyard. math doesn't lie tho

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