🚨 Kanye’s YZY Token: Millionaire Snipers vs. Retail Bagholders

[bonk]

Nansen data shows the real winners of Kanye West’s Solana-based YZY launch weren’t fans — they were the snipers.

13 wallets walked away with over $1M each, netting a combined $24.5M as they dumped into the hype.
Price action: +1,400% in the first hour ($3 peak) → –74% in <24h (now ~$0.77).
🧨 Out of the first 99 buyers, only 9 still hold any YZY.

Not everyone struck gold:

Biggest loser = –$1.8M realized loss.

Another wallet down $1.2M.

One poor soul still holding an unrealized –$800K bag.

️ The Sniper Network
Bubblemaps says this wasn’t random. The same sniper who bagged Trump’s TRUMP token millions struck again — and appears tied to LIBRA insiders who drained $21M.

“There’s an elite group of snipers who don’t compete but coordinate, making millions destroying charts.”

️ Pattern or Playbook?
YZY isn’t the first celeb memecoin to follow this script:

Haliey Welch’s HAWK: –90% in hours, insiders pocketed $3M.

Jenner, Lohan, Azalea, Kardashian — all linked to pump & dump scandals.

Arthur Hayes summed it up best:

“Oopsie… fam next time pls don’t let me trade shitters like YZY.”

Takeaway: Celebrity memecoins aren’t “onboarding tools” — they’re liquidity traps. The insiders snipe, retail bleeds, and charts get nuked.

Question for you: Would you ever touch a celeb token — or is it pure exit liquidity with a fancy face on top?

[kelson10]

Honestly? Celebrity tokens = pure exit liquidity.
The playbook is the same every time: insiders snipe, dump into retail hype, and leave fans holding nuked bags.

Look at YZY: +1,400% pump → –74% dump in a single day. That’s not “community” or “onboarding,” that’s engineered extraction.
If people want exposure to Solana or meme plays, there are 100 better bets than being exit liquidity for celebs.

[Nahid10]

I get the “exit liquidity” take, but let’s be real — celeb tokens are short-term hype machines.
If you treat them like lottery tickets and not investments, there’s money to be made.

Snipers walk away with $1M+ because they know the game: get in early, dump fast, never diamond-hand.
Retail loses because they “believe the brand” instead of trading the hype.

So no, I wouldn’t hold YZY long-term… but would I snipe it for a 10x in 10 minutes? 100%.

[Maxwell]

These launches aren’t about fans, they’re about insiders farming exit liquidity. Same sniper wallets, same script, different celebrity face

[rafihasan]

1,400% up in an hour → down 74% in a day. That’s not community building, that’s a coordinated cash grab. Retail always left holding the bag

[Nahiar806]

Celebrity memecoins are just marketing wrappers on sniper playbooks. Unless you’re in the first block with them, you’re not a winner here

[Nahiar806]

Not 2021 vibes — this is ETH 2.0 narrative season. Institutional rotation is here, and charts don’t lie