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LAPTOP’s launch and the role of sniper bots

How do you spend 6 months preparing a memecoin launch and still get the most basic part of the launch this badly wrong?

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How do you spend 6 months preparing a memecoin launch and still get the most basic part of the launch this badly wrong?

Sniper bots are not some exotic black swan. Neither is thin liquidity.

If you announce a celebrity token in advance, you should assume bots will be waiting at block 1.

And dumping a huge number of free tokens into thousands of wallets while trying to establish an actual market is a bizarre way to create healthy price discovery.

People with a $0 cost basis do not magically become a community.

That is what makes this more difficult to dismiss as simple “memecoin volatility.” If the explanation is that bots overwhelmed insufficient liquidity, then the problem was launch design.

After 6 months of preparation, that is a brutal failure.

The one part I will give him credit for is that this does not look like the usual KOL presale circus.

If he genuinely stays involved now that the chart looks like a crime scene instead of quietly walking away, that would already put him ahead of an embarrassing number of celebrity token launches.

But standing behind base:0xb095274743941e953c746f9c228da9c18bb6ec29 after launch is where that claim actually gets tested.

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