Has interest in "meme" coins waned?

[blockman]

I believe so that it has waned already because of the market shift from the bull run to becoming the bear market. Memecoins are a part of it and the interest of the investors has decreased from it. With Elon shilling dogecoin before, he's probably out of the league but we'll see if we're in the midst of this bear market and he starts to advertise it again and post into his X account. If the people are still on it and if his influence can do something about the bear's volatility but right now, it seems he's got involved into the controversy of the Eipstein files and he's alleged seeking to get into the island.

If we look at the past discussions happening, we could see on meme coin threads that lots of people here already throw their negative concerns against those shitcoins. This indicate that many people are now avoiding or not looking at this as best option to invest.

That is their problem to deal with because I am sure that when they've asked which coin to buy, many of us told them to buy Bitcoin. But, they ended up choosing those meme coins that are typical pump and dump coins.

I think that those past scams happened change the way how people look at those coins, maybe at this point lots of investors already know that meme coin is scam and not good do deal with especially if they are looking for serious investment. Its volatility is crazy and so unpredictable, we can also add up that the dev create that shitcoin can rug pull their investors anytime they want.

Only some memecoins are loved by the community and everyone knows that. But when the meme coin community have embraced a lot of its variety, that's when they're taken advantage by those scammers.

[Stable090]

It's been a long time since we haven't heard about "meme" coins going all the way to the moon. Coins such as Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and Pepe are now "dormant". Does this mean interest in "meme" coins waned? Or not yet? Because Solana is still "giving birth" to new memes. It's the #1 platform for such "shitcoins".

Most of the meme coins which you going to see now are just shitcoins, they no longer have any use case, they are just created just to scam people and I will say much people are not really falling for that again that’s why meme coins hype has dropped, and you going to find 1 thats going to pump hard like the coins which you mentioned above.

When some coins  are pumping, within a short period of time you will see that they have dumped already, so people are not so interested like before, there is no no much hype like before, but I don’t know if the hype is going to be back.

[jostorres]

The last meme coin I could remember seeing people jump onto  was the $Trump memecoin  which left many people in massive loss after a brief hype which ended in a market manipulation. Today no one is talking about the Trump memecoin and this is how its being with all memecoins, they have their time and as soon as the hype is over and it dumps that's the end of it. Perhaps now that the cryptocurrency market has being bleeding in red with the uncertainty of the market actual direction currently, it has really impacted negatively to the hypes that has being sustaining the altcoins/shitcoins market for now.

I think the markets are being mature enough now. Now the markets understand that these meme coins can't stand a chance in the future. There will be a couple of months when these meme coins will be in a bigger picture but as soon as the hype ends, they will start vanishing money from the markets. Maybe a couple of individuals who are the face of these meme coins will still gain massive profits, but it is us, a common man, who will lose everything he has in meme coins.

Moreover, it seems like an easy way to make money if we are able to enter the markets before the hype begins but most people have their entry points mid hype which only makes their investments way riskier. I did see some hype going around Trump meme coin at that time, but I didn't dare to jump in. In fact, I would never even think about investing in meme coins again because of my past experiences. I was a victim losing thousands of dollars to the over hyped meme coins and I would never make the same mistake again.

[Abiky]

Even Bitcoin, as well as topcoin like ETH, BNB, and SOL are experiencing declines, and the entire market is going through a rather gloomy period. Why are you surprised that the interest and hype surrounding memes have faded?

Memes have never been noticed in the bear market. But trust me, memecoins will never disappear and once the market enters a new bull run. They will continue to become popular again, and a new king will emerge, just like how Doge, Shiba, or Pepe did in the 2024 bull market.

While the bear market affects all cryptos, that doesn't mean "meme" coins can't suddenly experience a short "pump" in market prices. For what I know, they're much more volatile and unpredictable than ordinary altcoins. "Memes" such as DOGE, SHIBA, and PEPE are old, so it's hard to believe they will take the spotlight again in the future. But hey, Dogecoin used to be "dormant" for years only to go all the way to the moon in an instant. It went from being worth less than $0.01 to nearly $1.

With the bear market in play, buying a few "memes" here and there wouldn't hurt. So long as you don't spend more than what you can't afford to lose. Who knows which new "meme" coin will gain the attention from traders and investors? It'd be a wild guess. We'll see what happens during the remainder of the year.

[Callido]

What do you think?

New ones are still on the rise, but none have made wave like the others.

Some investors are still holding onto these memecoins, believing they will experience massive pump during the Altcoin season after the Bitcoin bullish trend, as memecoins are still on the low, the market is also in red, there won't be any disturbance yet, what the new memecoins are waiting for is for the market to turn positive so they can begin their massive shilling.

[Abiky]

New ones are still on the rise, but none have made wave like the others.

Some investors are still holding onto these memecoins, believing they will experience massive pump during the Altcoin season after the Bitcoin bullish trend, as memecoins are still on the low, the market is also in red, there won't be any disturbance yet, what the new memecoins are waiting for is for the market to turn positive so they can begin their massive shilling.

At some point, people will just get bored of "meme" coins. I mean, what would new "meme" coins provide that will make them "better" than older ones? The vast majority of them have no real use cases. They're just speculative by design. The only difference is that some "memes" have a much smaller circulating supply than others. My guess is that the next "pump" will happen once the crypto market turns bullish again. All eyes will be on Bitcoin as usual.

Since "meme" coins are a gamble, you can either win big or lose it all in an instant. I'm hoping Dogecoin hits the spotlight again, once it goes all the way to $1. One can dream, right?

[TastyChillySauce00]

New ones are still on the rise, but none have made wave like the others.

Some investors are still holding onto these memecoins, believing they will experience massive pump during the Altcoin season after the Bitcoin bullish trend, as memecoins are still on the low, the market is also in red, there won't be any disturbance yet, what the new memecoins are waiting for is for the market to turn positive so they can begin their massive shilling.

At some point, people will just get bored of "meme" coins. I mean, what would new "meme" coins provide that will make them "better" than older ones? The vast majority of them have no real use cases. They're just speculative by design. The only difference is that some "memes" have a much smaller circulating supply than others. My guess is that the next "pump" will happen once the crypto market turns bullish again. All eyes will be on Bitcoin as usual.

Since "meme" coins are a gamble, you can either win big or lose it all in an instant. I'm hoping Dogecoin hits the spotlight again, once it goes all the way to $1. One can dream, right?

Market is actually already bored of meme coin, from what I see even a meme coin that topped the volume rank only hit $1m FDV maximum and the price went back to zero.
There is no big meme anymore and data from binance's  holding from arkham intelligence shows that there is more stablecoin being held than random meme coin.

Retailers are dumping their meme coin as we speak.

[bitgolden]

Market is actually already bored of meme coin, from what I see even a meme coin that topped the volume rank only hit $1m FDV maximum and the price went back to zero.
There is no big meme anymore and data from binance's  holding from arkham intelligence shows that there is more stablecoin being held than random meme coin.

Retailers are dumping their meme coin as we speak.

This was bound to happen. It was something that got a bit of hype during the 2021 bull because of Elon Musk, but that was just a small period in a big crypto world. After that hype died down, nothing else left and I think it's easy that we are seeing this be the end of it.

Sure maybe Doge will stay alive, it's been with us for so long, but all others will slowly go down more and more. When there is no utility or reason to buy, then there is really no reason for it to stay and there will be more selling than buying.

[Antona]

It's been a long time since we haven't heard about "meme" coins going all the way to the moon. Coins such as Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and Pepe are now "dormant". Does this mean interest in "meme" coins waned? Or not yet? Because Solana is still "giving birth" to new memes. It's the #1 platform for such "shitcoins".

Knowing that investors moved away from Elon Musk's constant "shilling" of Dogecoin, there's nothing left for "meme" coins to "pump" again. Maybe a new celebrity or influential person will liven up the hype?

What do you think?

hmmm personally hype in crypto moves in waves when memes go quiet it usually means money rotated somewhere else but as long as people like gambling and narratives new memes will keep popping off solana basically a meme factory right now. they do not really need Elon just a fresh story some hype or crowd momentum. when sentiment flips they can run again fast. crypto memory is to short memes will always come back  just never the way people expect from past experiences

[darewaller]

There are still some shitcoins out there, and some of them are memecoins and yes most of them are on SOL, but there are no more high volume ones, or big marketcap ones.

No new one comes out that will be big and in top twenty or something, all of them are small shitcoins with low marketcap and they just happen for a few days and go away, that's it. These days people do not invest into those, they fund it at the start, and sell at the release but that's it nothing more, because they suck.

[Oshio-man]

It's been a long time since we haven't heard about "meme" coins going all the way to the moon. Coins such as Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and Pepe are now "dormant". Does this mean interest in "meme" coins waned? Or not yet? Because Solana is still "giving birth" to new memes. It's the #1 platform for such "shitcoins"

It has been a long time altcoin investor's experience such bullish from altcoins, and is making altcoin investors to start worrying about altcoin movement in the market these days, concerning the research I carry out few days ago, I don't think we will see bullish season from altcoins soon that will last more than one year because some of the teams behind some altcoins these days, don't make their altcoins to last longer to cause altcoin investors to earn long income, some of the meme coins some investors put hope that they will not disappear like other memecoins later bring disappointment to their investors, Solana and etherium is still am interesting altcoins that will make some investors to always show interest because the coins are different from other altcoins in the market.

[pawanjain]

It's been a long time since we haven't heard about "meme" coins going all the way to the moon. Coins such as Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and Pepe are now "dormant". Does this mean interest in "meme" coins waned? Or not yet? Because Solana is still "giving birth" to new memes. It's the #1 platform for such "shitcoins".

Knowing that investors moved away from Elon Musk's constant "shilling" of Dogecoin, there's nothing left for "meme" coins to "pump" again. Maybe a new celebrity or influential person will liven up the hype?

What do you think?

You have already labelled meme coins as shitcoins and that is pretty much what it is.
Also, it is the same reason why meme coins are not that hyped up these days.
Adding to the dumping market, loss of interest in meme coins have drived the whole meme coin industry in decline.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Maybe Trump will continue the hype  , he already had his memecoin, the wife had one too if am not wrong and then the son, but all those token is silent now, the hype is dead but maybe there's still a plan too that is yet to come up, he is probably handling other important things and when he remembers his token, the hype will start and people will be advised to but more too. My investment in memcoins stopped with those old ones that you mentioned. The market is now flooding with scam projects, and people are not up for it again as before, so it's waning out.

[Emitdama]

While the bear market affects all cryptos, that doesn't mean "meme" coins can't suddenly experience a short "pump" in market prices. For what I know, they're much more volatile and unpredictable than ordinary altcoins. "Memes" such as DOGE, SHIBA, and PEPE are old, so it's hard to believe they will take the spotlight again in the future. But hey, Dogecoin used to be "dormant" for years only to go all the way to the moon in an instant. It went from being worth less than $0.01 to nearly $1.

With the bear market in play, buying a few "memes" here and there wouldn't hurt. So long as you don't spend more than what you can't afford to lose. Who knows which new "meme" coin will gain the attention from traders and investors? It'd be a wild guess. We'll see what happens during the remainder of the year.

Memecoins will DEFINITELY not experience a short pump. First of all, memes do not move collectively anymore, it hasn't happened in over 4 years so far, nearing 5 years this bear season.

Secondly, if it ever happens, it would be a pump on a single one, for some news or whatever not the whole market, but just a single one. Third and lastly we have not seen things change all that much, we have seen memes be down and on the count for a while now, even on 2025 when everything went up, memes didn't get any extra attention.

[Abiky]

Memecoins will DEFINITELY not experience a short pump. First of all, memes do not move collectively anymore, it hasn't happened in over 4 years so far, nearing 5 years this bear season.

Secondly, if it ever happens, it would be a pump on a single one, for some news or whatever not the whole market, but just a single one. Third and lastly we have not seen things change all that much, we have seen memes be down and on the count for a while now, even on 2025 when everything went up, memes didn't get any extra attention.

That's because things have "cooled down" on the "meme" coins space. But who's to say an influential person or celebrity won't liven up the craze in the long run? Someone like Elon Musk who decides to publicly "shill" about a specific "meme" coin. Only then, market prices for the "memes" will skyrocket.

I'm hoping that if "meme" coins hit the spotlight again, Dogecoin would go all the way towards $1. Seems like a distant dream. But in crypto land, anything's possible. That said, I'd expect most of the old "meme" coins to disappear due to decreased interest/demand from the public. New ones will simply take over existing ones' place. At least, Dogecoin will survive. It's the oldest "meme" coin with strong community support. What can go wrong?

[dansus021]

1. Many memecoin app like pump.fun, four memes or others basically create a new memecoin every minute and lot of people get rekt from this especially a new people that just joined, and social media artist usually create a new memecoin and then dumped so its slow down.

2. Elonk musk is rarely shill any crypto related token nowadays, especially since buying x from twitter

Overall is slow down bitcoin is slowing down too

[Kelward]

When the price of Bitcoin drops, it usually affect every other thing. This is what I think is affecting altcoins including memecoins. The hype around memecoins is not supposed to be strong when Bitcoin is nosediving and many people are losing their mind due to expectations of bull market that is not happening. Another factor that is hindering people's interest in memecoins is because of what happened with all the memecoins linked to Donald Trump and his family. Many people lost money from those hypes, hence developed hatred for memecoins as a result of that.

I agree with the two points that you raised about why memecoins are no longer making headlines like before in the crypto market, the first being that Bitcoin is a pacesetter for anything cryptocurrency. If Bitcoin is bullish it'll create interest for altcoins including memecoins to be sought after because investors will have enough profit to spill over into altcoins. When Bitcoin is bearish investors want to take advantage of the dip to stuff their bags and they wouldn't look at memecoins. Another factor that is against the massive demand of memecoins is that people are begining to see them as scams, it means that the trust rate of memes have drastically reduced.

Although I don't see the exit of memecoins in the crypto market, meme enthusiasts are always looking forward to the next new project to gamble their funds on and newbies are also entering.

[Johnlomape]

1. Many memecoin app like pump.fun, four memes or others basically create a new memecoin every minute and lot of people get rekt from this especially a new people that just joined, and social media artist usually create a new memecoin and then dumped so its slow down.

2. Elonk musk is rarely shill any crypto related token nowadays, especially since buying x from twitter

Overall is slow down bitcoin is slowing down too

People are already tired of the memecoin projects due to how quick you can create your own memecoin and add liquidity to it flooding the market so quick. Maybe those that are still buying memecoins do not know the problem they are putting themselves because most of these projects are not reliable and they could crash at any time without any warning about it. We can all see how the memecoin trend is dying and the only way we can resurrect it is when most of the bad memecoins crashes and good people with obvious intentions start creating memecoins.

[Pandorak]

People are already tired of the memecoin projects due to how quick you can create your own memecoin and add liquidity to it flooding the market so quick. Maybe those that are still buying memecoins do not know the problem they are putting themselves because most of these projects are not reliable and they could crash at any time without any warning about it. We can all see how the memecoin trend is dying and the only way we can resurrect it is when most of the bad memecoins crashes and good people with obvious intentions start creating memecoins.

We all know that meme coins are built on temporary hype, whether from the community or a current boom, which can lead to buying the token. For this reason, each of us should think twice before deciding to trade meme coins. The risks are significant, and it can lead to riches or poverty in a short time. Those who have experienced the pain of being destroyed by meme coins will likely prefer trading altcoins or focusing on investing in Bitcoin.

[Josefjix]

The smartest memecoin investment isn't that popular anymore, the ones that make the baddest moves always come from the insiders. It's rare seeing them early, you can only get to know the information after a surging fast of about 400% plus off a little exchange before coming to larger ones.

Recently, WHITEWHALE did extremely better, a Solana based memecoin, penguin too. These two weren't known at an early stage, broke out massively very late, those who got in early benefited from it.

Memecoins are still active in the market, just that it's rare and scare.