![]() Perhaps sensing the garlicky iron was hot in the last months of 2017, DigitalizedOrange posted on Reddit that they would develop and release a “garlic bread dating simulator” if the post got 30,000 upvotes. According to Google Trends, web searches for “garlic” have gone through several rounds of boom and bust since then, and are currently on an upward trend. Garlic has been an internet meme since 2013. If Garlicoin can’t be fun, can any new cryptocurrency? It all makes me wonder if we can ever go home again to a simpler, and funnier, time. There’s also a worrying controversy, involving "missing" coins and possibly malicious developers, that has already rocked the community. With so much money on the line, the “jokes” get less funny-last week a Garlicoin user said they were artificially inflating the currency’s value, a practice known as “pumping,” although DigitalizedOrange claims this person was a mere troll. One could write these off as ironic jokes, except that Garlicoin has a modest market cap that briefly reached just under $1 million USD on Monday. ![]() Posts and comments on the Garlicoin subreddit mention using expensive graphics cards to generate “ those sweet GRLC boiz,” for. ![]() It’s all presented as a joke, but the “We’re just having fun” posturing could also make convenient cover for elements of the community that are in it to make money, not memes. Garlicoin was born as a meme, and has become one itself. Read More: Redditors Made ‘Meme Insider,’ a Completely Insane Magazine About Memes ![]()
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