Are meme coins still worth holding in 2025?

[Accardo]

Memecoins are not recommended for fresh investors who have not understood the risks attached to coins with no usecase. Don't go for it, not that it's not worth it, no, some of the memecoins pump and dump, and few traders get really lucky and make a lot from such shifts. But, be sure that it's on a very rare occasion, many of them are trash and won't yield anything in return. It's a gamble.

[Marykeller]

That depends on the memecoins you are hodling, whether it's worth hodling or they will end up like others. Bear in mind that you really have to sell them all this year, not to sell them next year when the market will begin to experience a bearish market.

Memecoins have a short timeframe in the market, don't invest because of fomo or hype given, because that doesn't end well. You may lose your money because of that, and it may appear hard to recover it

[LeyMonte]

I'm still new to crypto and Bitcointalk, but I’ve been observing how meme coins like Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and others have evolved over time. With many new altcoins launching every day, I’m wondering — are meme coins still worth holding in 2025, or is their hype finally fading?

There has not been much change in the alt season in 2025. I have not seen much change in altcoins compared to how Bitcoin has progressed. Therefore, one must be careful about holding altcoins. If Dogecoin and Shiba Inu were to develop, I would not see anything like that. For this, there are better quality coins in altcoins that would be really good to hold.

[justdimin]

I'm still new to crypto and Bitcointalk, but I’ve been observing how meme coins like Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and others have evolved over time. With many new altcoins launching every day, I’m wondering — are meme coins still worth holding in 2025, or is their hype finally fading?

Some people say they’re just jokes, others believe they now have real communities and value. What do you think?

The crazy increase in attention to memecoins dates all the way back to Elon Musk and I still hate him for it. We did had doge before him of course, but it wasn't that big of a deal and it was alone and we had fun wit hit many times, hell I still remember that nascar thing too. However, we are dealing with something a lot worse now, which is dealing with bunch of them, and makes no sense to me at all.

We should be guessing that it's because of the social media craze and "some" people making money. Nobody realizes, 90% of people lose almost all their money, only 10% make profit because they are early. And everyone just wants to be those early ones who profit. It's a terrible thing to invest into memes and I hope people can get better at investing.

[Ndabagi01]

I'm still new to crypto and Bitcointalk, but I’ve been observing how meme coins like Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and others have evolved over time. With many new altcoins launching every day, I’m wondering — are meme coins still worth holding in 2025, or is their hype finally fading?

Some people say they’re just jokes, others believe they now have real communities and value. What do you think?

Would love to hear from both OG holders and new traders.

I am not a meme coin holder and I can’t say that they are also not worthy of holding in 2025 when the bull season is still on and we are yet but anticipating that the altcoin season will also soon kick off. Memecoins work mostly base on hypes and as long as the crypto market is still existing, hypes will never fade now. There are memecoins that have evolved in the past, all I can say about them is that they can’t be trusted in this 2025 to make good gains. The ones that will make good gains during altcoin season will be where the hype will be. Memecoins are not worthy holding for long term gains, so if you have one, follow the hype and when you’re in profit, you sell them off. They can’t be trusted to hold on to such high prices in the long run.

[GeorgeJohn]

Before holding a meme coin for long-term, ensure that you have make a research towards that coin, to know the people who is sponsoring the coin, because not all meme coins that survive on the process of holding,

Based on your question op, people is still holding meme coins in this 2025, the case is that, anyone who is holding a coin will not let you know the kind of memes coins they're holding unless the coin is doing well in the market, people always make pronouncement of coin they're holding in public when the coins is doing well or when they have lost it all.

[Stable090]

Memecoins are not recommended for fresh investors who have not understood the risks attached to coins with no usecase.

Memecoins are just too risky, and I don’t advise anyone to inveolve themselves in memecoins. Both newbies, and people that have been in crypto space for some time do lose money also. Memecoin investment is so risky, so I don’t just know the reason why newbies will even think the best coin they will be investing in is meme coins. When you invest in memecoin, then there is high chances that you going to be losing, instead of investing in memecoins, it’s just better to get a strong altcoin and invest your money in them, it’s better than investing in memecoins.

Don't go for it, not that it's not worth it, no, some of the memecoins pump and dump,

Most memecoins are pump and dump, because most of them don’t have a use case, they are just created by group of people, and they do decide to pay people to hype the coin for them, after the coin pumps, they will dump it on people, and they going to make there money, that’s why memecoins are just so risky.

[Odohu]

Meme coins are not supposed to be for holding since most easily die when the hype sustaining then fades. Meme coins are just best bought at the beginning of the hype and sold off when the hype peaks. This is my understanding and safe approach to Memecoins. Holding them is not something I will recommend unless the money used to buy them is something the investor is willing to lose.

[Ruttoshi]

Meme coins are not supposed to be for holding since most easily die when the hype sustaining then fades. Meme coins are just best bought at the beginning of the hype and sold off when the hype peaks. This is my understanding and safe approach to Memecoins. Holding them is not something I will recommend unless the money used to buy them is something the investor is willing to lose.

Of course, memecoin is a short time investment because the price is been controlled by the dev. When the dev have seen that the coin have increased in price due to more investors coming on board, the dev will sell all the coins in his possession since he has the largest portion in his custody and those still holding that coin becomes the loser.

There is no need to buy a coin when it's benn hyped, I will prefer to buy memecoin when it's newly launched because that's when you can buy it cheaper and sell when the coin is been pumped by the dev. If you buy in the beginning of the hype, you might not sell before the dump, since yiu wouldn't know when the hype peak. Memecoin is more of luck to be profitable in it.

[Josefjix]

If you are holding memecoin then it should be the ones listed on major centralized exchange where they have more visibility, those you mentioned are already old coins so the best way to handle them is getting it at lower price and wait for profits during during bull season.
They will never rise on their own anymore except other big players uplift them, it's risky holding memecoin but never go in with what you can loss.

[Stable090]

Meme coins are not supposed to be for holding since most easily die when the hype sustaining then fades. Meme coins are just best bought at the beginning of the hype and sold off when the hype peaks.

Most meme coins are just hype, the coins are created and promoted, so when it’s being promoted the price is always increasing which is always attractive, but when the team notice that lots of people has invested already, they going to dump it on people that invested in the coin, and when the coin dumps, it’s not going to rise again, most of them will move on to create another coin and do similar thing, so how are people holding coins like that.

Investing in meme coins is just luck, if you are lucky, you will be able to make money, and if you are not lucky, you going to lose, but I will say most people are not always lucky, just few people will say they do make money from memecoins, higher percentage are always losing.

[BTCOIN_COMADO]

Hello everyone,

I'm still new to crypto and Bitcointalk, but I’ve been observing how meme coins like Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and others have evolved over time. With many new altcoins launching every day, I’m wondering — are meme coins still worth holding in 2025, or is their hype finally fading?

Some people say they’re just jokes, others believe they now have real communities and value. What do you think?

Would love to hear from both OG holders and new traders.

Thanks in advance!

Although having little experience in crypto, I think meme coins have grown past being just “jokes.” They’ve shown that strong communities can create real value, even without a solid use case at the start — Dogecoin and Shiba Inu are good examples.

That said, not every new meme coin will last. Many are purely hype-driven, and once the excitement fades, liquidity tends to vanish quickly. In 2025, it feels less about the “meme” label itself and more about which projects can keep engagement high, build ecosystems, and stay relevant over time.

So, I’d say meme coins can still be worth holding but mainly the ones backed by strong communities and consistent activity. The rest seem better suited for short-term trades.

[Bd officer]

Actually, Memecoin is very risky, Memecoin cannot survive in the market for a long time, so you should not plan to hold it for a long time. Actually, Memecoin is like gambling, if you cannot take profit at the right time, you will face huge losses. So if you want to invest in Memecoin, then do not forget to take profit at the right time, because if you face loss by investing in Memecoin, it is not possible to recover easily. And use money that you can lose. But in my opinion, you should stay away from Memecoin and always focus on Bitcoin. I personally stay away from Memecoin, because I have lost a lot of money by investing in Memecoin.

[Hispo]

Hello everyone,

I'm still new to crypto and Bitcointalk, but I’ve been observing how meme coins like Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and others have evolved over time. With many new altcoins launching every day, I’m wondering — are meme coins still worth holding in 2025, or is their hype finally fading?

Some people say they’re just jokes, others believe they now have real communities and value. What do you think?

Would love to hear from both OG holders and new traders.

Thanks in advance!

Memecoins are not supposed to be held in the long term, at least not the new ones which are created fast and also die pretty fast. You could only hold Dogecoin or Shiba Inu.
The rest of memecoins are going to provoke important financial loss on your portfolio if you decide to hold them. Memecoins nowadays are more reminiscent to gambling than investing, so treat it like gambling, end early and when it pumps hard release your bags and move on.

Also, of you are new, I would recommend you to try more established and trustworthy coins, instead of messing with memecoins.

[EarnOnVictor]

With many new altcoins launching every day, I’m wondering — are meme coins still worth holding in 2025, or is their hype finally fading?

Often, introducing more meme coins will not stop meme coins to be appreciated, it will always be like that if you know how people think. The only issue is that almost all of them will be useless, as we know, but the top-rated ones, and some of the old and new ones that are not top-rated will surely be earning investors money.

For instance, $Brett is not even listed by Binance, yet it has helped many to earn a decent income this year alone. It all about the right choice of meme coins, the good ones will not fade away, especially those with a huge community.

Some people say they’re just jokes, others believe they now have real communities and value. What do you think?

Well, meme coins were meant for jokes, but in reality today, they perform more than that, as they begin to gain utility globally. Thanks to crypto capabilities.

[Accardo]

Memecoins are just too risky, and I don’t advise anyone to inveolve themselves in memecoins. Both newbies, and people that have been in crypto space for some time do lose money also. Memecoin investment is so risky, so I don’t just know the reason why newbies will even think the best coin they will be investing in is meme coins. When you invest in memecoin, then there is high chances that you going to be losing, instead of investing in memecoins, it’s just better to get a strong altcoin and invest your money in them, it’s better than investing in memecoins.

You know the famous analogy of people who bought Bitcoin in 2010, at a much lesser price, is dragging newbies and potential investors into the conclusion of purchasing memecoins at 0.00101 hoping it'll skyrocket and they'll make a kill. Developers go ahead to add juice to it by pumping on social media to validate the thoughts of naive investors and lure them into losing whooping amount of money.

[Wakate]

Memecoins are not recommended for fresh investors who have not understood the risks attached to coins with no usecase. Don't go for it, not that it's not worth it, no, some of the memecoins pump and dump, and few traders get really lucky and make a lot from such shifts. But, be sure that it's on a very rare occasion, many of them are trash and won't yield anything in return. It's a gamble.

The newbies should be conscious about investing on memecoins when they are not confident enough to know each coin to invest in and the ones to avoid. Investing in memecoins is like gambling on what the outcome of a bet will look like whether a win or a lose.

People investing in memecoins are gamblers that know that if the coin becomes a profitable one, they are at the winning side and when it becomes a lose, they're at the losing part.  Investing with what you can afford is better so if it turn out to be a rug pull then the pain can be swallowed but if it becomes a profitable, that can be celebrated.

[bitgolden]

With many new altcoins launching every day, I’m wondering — are meme coins still worth holding in 2025, or is their hype finally fading?

Often, introducing more meme coins will not stop meme coins to be appreciated, it will always be like that if you know how people think. The only issue is that almost all of them will be useless, as we know, but the top-rated ones, and some of the old and new ones that are not top-rated will surely be earning investors money.

For instance, $Brett is not even listed by Binance, yet it has helped many to earn a decent income this year alone. It all about the right choice of meme coins, the good ones will not fade away, especially those with a huge community.

Almost all? I mean I have never seen a useful memecoin in my life, even doge became useless after a while. Early days it was for like sponsoring Jamaican bobsled team type of thing, and even charity, we did so much, I gave out 5k doge which was nothing, now it's a bit money lol, still not a lot to some of course just to me.

In the end, that was good but today? Even doge is useless and not used that way. We have to realize the big deal here, it's not that easy and we can't make this kind of return that easily. If we can do a better job, then we should be able to get what we want out of this, and not have to worry about anything more than that. Memecoins are terrible, and none of them deserve to get our money at all.

[Barikui1]

Hello everyone,

I'm still new to crypto and Bitcointalk, but I’ve been observing how meme coins like Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and others have evolved over time. With many new altcoins launching every day, I’m wondering — are meme coins still worth holding in 2025, or is their hype finally fading?

Some people say they’re just jokes, others believe they now have real communities and value. What do you think?

Would love to hear from both OG holders and new traders.

First of all, welcome to the forum, it's good that you ask than to just invest and risk your money blindly.
Looking at meme coin in the market as of today, it will be a  very big mistake to invest heavily in them because they lives on hypes alone, and once the hypes is gone, they start dieing off the market, that's why those that wishes to gamble on them are adviced to gamble with an amount they can afford to lose because they falls more than they rise, and the way they are wired, they are not built to survive and stay strong in the market for a very long time, so do not ever risk your money on them because they are not worth it, if you want to invest, then invest in Bitcoin alone, because they are the only reliable and trustworthy digital asset that appreciate in value overtime.

[M47AK16]

If you are holding memecoin then it should be the ones listed on major centralized exchange where they have more visibility, those you mentioned are already old coins so the best way to handle them is getting it at lower price and wait for profits during during bull season.
They will never rise on their own anymore except other big players uplift them, it's risky holding memecoin but never go in with what you can loss.

Even if you are holding some meme token that is listed at binance, you should try to avoid it as much as you possibly could. I know that it feels as if we are talking about something that is not that easy to handle, but it is still what we need and that's the most important part.

If you can handle it, then you can get out of it. Meme tokens are shitcoins and terrible and no matter where they are listed it is not going to be accepted or liked. The best thing to do with them is sell them and get out. Even if you got some free from some airdrop or something, sell it and get out. In crypto world there are so many amazing projects that are out there and not memes, so you can invest into those and you could make a lot more money.