X Turned Down Crypto. SNEK Changed the Game.
- Mike Adamemes
- Dec 13, 2025
- 2 min read
It didn’t start with bans. No warnings. No announcements.
It started with empty analytics.
Over the past few weeks, Crypto Twitter has felt… off. Posts that used to pull tens of thousands of views are now barely breaking four digits. Charts vanish. Threads sink without a trace.
And then people started comparing notes.
“Crypto Isn’t Showing Up” — and It’s Not Paranoia
One of the most cited recent examples came from @LisaNEdwards, a crypto trader and influencer, who published a detailed thread in December 2025 about X’s latest algorithm changes.
Her observations were hard to ignore:
posts with charts and price targets saw an ~80% overnight drop in reach
using tickers ($BTC, $ETH, any $ + three letters) triggered 7–21 days of deboosting
phrases like “100x,” “to the moon,” or “altseason” were flagged as spam by AI
even clean, informative threads struggled to reach 300–800 views if the account had “crypto DNA” in the last 90 days
Her conclusion was blunt but logical:X now treats crypto like cigarette advertising, allowed, but quietly buried. And she wasn’t alone.
Community Signals: This Isn’t Random
In recent weeks, similar complaints have come from:
@DelCrxpto
@SteveCote1974
@2fast2lucky
@Crypto_Rango
Different accounts. Same story.
“It’s not bad content. It’s not low engagement.The algorithm just isn’t distributing crypto anymore.”
Politics and cat memes run into the millions.Crypto struggles to stay visible.
X insists that “shadowbanning doesn’t exist.”But what the community is experiencing looks a lot like category-level throttling, especially since Grok AI became a primary filter.
In other words:it’s less about what you post and more about what you’ve posted before.
Then SNEK Made the Only Move That Made Sense
No drama. No angry threads. No public complaints.
SNEK simply expanded beyond X.
TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
Short-form. Visual. Meme-first. Algorithm-friendly.
Not because they’re “leaving X.”But because they no longer trust X as a growth engine.
This wasn’t an escape. It was adaptation.
When the rules change, smart memes don’t ask for permission, they change the playing field.
SNEK didn’t stop being crypto. It stopped depending on a single distribution pipe.
The Bigger Picture: Crypto Lost Algo Privilege in 2025
In 2025, the message from algorithms is clear:
fewer tickers
fewer hype phrases
more storytelling, humor, and visuals
Crypto as culture still works. Crypto as promotion doesn’t.
The meme projects that survive this phase won’t be the loudest.They’ll be the ones that know how to travel beyond CT.
X didn’t kill crypto. It killed crypto spam.
The problem is that in 2025,the algorithm no longer distinguishes spam from culture.
SNEK figured that out early. And instead of shouting louder, it started spreading smarter.
That’s the difference between a meme tokenand a meme culture.
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