not giving up on good memes with real heart. $CETS zero or hero, nothing in between

shitposts aside, it's just a little sad what has happened here with the whole kimchi situation as a cherry on top of a larger cultural degredation under @Pumpfun i have had my issues with pumpfun for a long time: the rampant, low cost, low complexity, low friction one stop deploying shop, whilst perhaps inevitable, to be an anathema to the underlying precepts of crypto. it took everything that made crypto cool, interesting and alluring and turned it into a hyper expansive slop space. that being said, pumpfun should always get credit for creating a moat which has, for the large majority of the past 2 years, made them somewhat untouchable when it comes to onchain launches. when bonkfun came along last year and started criming utter garbage, with solporntom and bonkguy shilling soulless, vapid nonsense, i was an advocate of the 'culture' that pumpfun had been able to incubate and champion on their platform. we had the glass full foundation, we had large marketcap memecoins, we had both @a1lon9 and the pumpfun team at large highlighting communities building out onchain, putting money into and behind memecoins that actually attempted to build a brand, a concept or a funny idea. did i like all the memes they pushed? no, but who cares, everyone has their own taste and perspective, but pumpfun were genuinely the 'cool' launchpad, with an established, definable cultural rampart which set them apart from the rest. i remember alon was even interacting with these communities on a personal level, hopping into group chats, replying to x accounts regularly - there was a genuine excitement about memecoins in this sector on solana, despite the crest of the memecoin wave very much having been broken by trump earlier in the year. now look, i understand that pumpfun is a business and they both desire and need to expand their reach, continue evolving and serve new prospective customers. but what i want to understand is how is the current climate that they have incubated in pivoting away from communities, and into highly leveraged speculation on attention serving or benefitting customer retention? if every single coin has a single pump and dumps to zero with no chance of a second reincarnation, where is the incentive for people to stay and keep playing? people do not enter crypto because they want to make a lil piece of money on the side, they are trying to change their living conditions significantly. this doesn't NEED to be a reskin of stake, where everyone goes into it knowing implicitly they're going to lose over time, where the sellers of shovels are villainised as rapacious extractors. there's actually no cultural or business-based exceptionalism to this approach, and there is plenty of money to be made in concentrating the winners. otherwise why would somebody feel the need to stare at a black and green chart for hours to get a dopamine hit, when they can go and play a slot with all the bells and whistles that it comes with, or hit up a casino with the boys and spin a roulette wheel? the $kimchi disaster class reflects a loss of perspective for pumpfun in my opinion, an attempt to shift the needle so dramatically towards 'anticipating what a new audience might want', that it just throws the whole recipe off-kilter. my father used to preach a simple axiom to me: keep it simple, stupid. foster an environment wherein normal people can win, and they will become your biggest advocates to bring other people onchain to try and win big too. playing crash games on one day narratives, and glorifying scammers alienates your customer base long term.