Crypto Twitter Is Rotten (But Memes Were Never the Problem)
- Mike Adamemes
- Oct 28, 2025
- 3 min read
(Inspired by the viral thread “The Rot of Crypto Twitter” by @MastrXYZ and the posts of @crypticwombat86 — one of the few still keeping CT worth scrolling.)
It started like every other day on CT someone flexing a Lambo they don’t own, ten copy-pasted alpha calls, and a thread claiming this token will change everything.Then came “The Rot of Crypto Twitter”, a manifesto so savage it made even the most hardened degens drop their Cheetos.
Fake Lambos, paid shills, copy traders, rug devs, dopamine junkies chasing charts like slot machines, it called them all out.And yeah… it hurt, because it was true.
Crypto Twitter isn’t what it used to be. It used to feel like the brain of a revolution. Now it looks like a casino lobby with better memes and worse morals.
Then came @crypticwombat86, veteran degen, meme philosopher, and part-time chaos theorist the guy who’s survived both the golden days and the rug ages. And he dropped a truth bomb that echoed across the feed:
“Change is definitely needed… memes are about attention.”
Simple. Brutal. Real.The man basically tweeted a TED Talk.
The Real Disease
Wombat didn’t say CT was fine, he said it’s sick in a deeper way.The disease isn’t memes. It’s monetized meaning.
It’s not that memes or shilling killed Crypto Twitter, it’s what people turned them into.Memes used to be culture.They built communities, started movements, even sparked revolutions (and a few Discord wars).Now they’re just $3,000 engagement bait for influencers, a number borrowed from the Rot Manifesto itself.
Attention was supposed to connect us. Now it’s sold to the highest bidder — sometimes literally, in USDT.
The Death of Organic Hype
Every time a new project launches, real raids get flagged as spam while bot farms flood the feed with fake likes and comments like “Wen moon ser ???”
The algorithm punishes authenticity and rewards automation, it doesn’t care who’s real, only who’s louder. It’s not even shilling anymore. It’s shadowboxing with bots in a dopamine dungeon.
Once upon a time, 50 degens could move mountains (or at least a chart). Now, you can’t even move a post without being filtered into oblivion.
So yeah, maybe “shilling” is dead. But that chaotic, caffeine-fueled conviction behind it? Still very much alive.
Cardano vs. Solana: The Meme Divide
Wombat’s no maxi.He’s been bullish on Cardano ($ADA) for years, calling it one of the “battle-tested OGs.”
He calls ADA the coin that outlasted the shiny new ones. At the same time, he vibes with Solana’s trenches — where meme culture is raw, loud, and gloriously unhinged.
He gets both sides.Cardano has the discipline.Solana has the chaos.
And somewhere between spreadsheets and shitposts lies the real heart of crypto —the culture that refuses to die.
Because if memes die, attention dies. And if attention dies… CT becomes LinkedIn. 😬
What’s Left After the Rot
Maybe The Rot of Crypto Twitter was right.Maybe the casino really did take over.
But if that’s true, the only ones still playing with any purpose are people like Wombat, the ones who post, raid, and meme because they still believe it means something.
So is shilling dead? Maybe.
But meaning isn’t. And that’s where the next chapter of crypto culture begins:with one meme, a few believers,and someone crazy enough to care.
Because crypto doesn’t need more noise. It needs purpose.
And memes were always how we found it.
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