So this is HaleyAKA Hawk Tua, and as of now a lot of people want Haley to be thrown in jail. Here’s what happened: so Haley’s 21, living in Small Town Tennessee, and she works in a factory that makes springs that they use in vending machines. But one night Haley and a friend—they’re out on the town in Nashville, and they’re pretty tipsy—they see a couple of guys doing street interviews for a YouTube series, and those guys end up approaching Haley and doing a street interview with her.
“What’s one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time? You’ve got to give him that,” yeah, you’ve seen the video. I don’t have to show you, and you probably also already know that after the drunken interview, the guys go home and they upload the clips of Haley to social media, and the clip on TikTok blows the … up almost immediately.
It goes viral, and people are reposting it, and pretty quickly it gets memed like millions of times. And people start calling Haley the HW Tua girl. From here, Haley actually does the smartest thing she could do in this situation: she’s like, I’m about to capitalize on this.
And before you know it, her social media starts getting a bunch of traction, and she gets tons of fans. She signs with a management company, she starts getting invited onto podcasts—oh my gosh, thank you so much; this is your first podcast ever, first anything ever, yes, ma’am. And suddenly she’s invited to be on stage at a Zack Brian concert, she’s throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at a Mets game, all because she got drunk and made a joke about a wiener.
Now, eventually, she teams up with Jake Paul’s media company and she wants to take advantage of her popularity by starting her own podcast, Talk Tua. And it seems like she’s making the most of her viral moment, and she’s very likable and a lot of people love her, until pretty quickly she gets involved in a different type of venture, and this is what gets her in trouble. Now, at some point during all this, she partners with some crypto bros, and she and the crypto bros are going to launch her very own meme coin called Hawk.
So, leading up to the launch, she allegedly gives some free Hawk tokens to some fans, and she rallies them to get in on this exciting opportunity, and everyone’s going to be so rich. What could possibly go wrong? From pushing a meme coin?
Here’s the thing about meme coins, though—they’re crypto‑based off of memes, and they have a history of being pump‑and‑dump scams. Influencers and sometimes celebrities will sometimes push these meme coins onto their fans, and you know it all turns out to be a scam, and the fans end up getting screwed. Haley must be aware of this reputation meme coins have, because in this interview with Fortune Magazine she reassures people that her meme coin is definitely not going to be a cash grab.
“Okay, y’all, drop your Salano wallets—I'm giving out some meme coins for free,” and so some of her fans get on board and they invest, and they buy into it because they’re going to be so rich. And then finally the big day comes, and boom, my Hawk meme coin is live, and it hits a $490 million market cap allegedly. But then the worst thing that could happen happens less than 20 minutes after the launch: pow, over 90 % of the shares are suddenly sold off, and the coin crashes, losing 95 % of its value.
That means that if you invested $1 into this coin, you would now be left with 5 cents. So a lot of people lose a lot of money over this. Here’s the thing, though—Haley apparently doesn’t lose any money over this, and the crypto bros she’s partnered with apparently they don’t lose any money either, but the fans and the investors they all do, and as you can imagine they are pissed.
They feel something isn’t right about this, and that is where this guy comes in: coffeezilla. Now coffeezilla he’s a YouTuber, and he’s made a name for himself in the online space by calling out seemingly shady crypto behavior, and so coffeezilla he’s been watching this whole meme coin launch thing play out, and he finds it all very suspicious and he’s convinced it’s some kind of scam, and he’s like, not on my watch. So then Haley and some of the crypto bros they start a Twitter space because I guess they want to explain to the investors that this whole meme coin thing wasn’t really a scam, it wasn’t a rug pull, and maybe they’re like trying to calm them down, except the main crypto bro, this guy Doc Hollywood, his speech to the investors doesn’t exactly take accountability, in fact it actually feels like it’s blaming them a little.
There’s a lot of negativity in the space, I think crypto brings the mentally ill into this thing, right? Most if you guys are in crypto, you’re most likely mentally ill, and I’m going to—I’m going to count myself as mentally ill for even being here right now. We’re trying to actually have fun, we’re trying to do something cool, we’re trying to give meme tokens away for free to people who have never had any crypto before any meme token, and you guys should be kissing my ass.
Coffeezilla is there in the space and bro is just waiting for his turn to speak, and when it’s his turn he lets them know what’s up: “I have questions, I’m raising my hand—hey guys, what’s up, coffeezilla—hey, this is one of the most miserable, horrible launches I’ve ever seen in my life. ” Then Doc Hollywood appears to get pretty riled up about coffeezilla’s accusation: brother who profited over a million dollars was just made—I’m telling you a foundation that pays people out, and by the way coffeezilla I’m not asking you, you know, questions that are irrelevant to the most important stuff that you said. Who cares where fees go?
It goes to bills, go to account it goes to directors—a rug, you’re profiting from the rug because we didn’t, we didn’t pull a rug. I don’t know what you’re trying to say; it’s not true. Now the funniest part of all of this is in the middle of all of this chaos Haley I guess she just suddenly gets tired and she’s like, I’m going to head out, as if she’s not in the middle of being accused of fraud.
“Hey guys I had to interrupt you, Nick, well hello there but any who I’m going to go to bed and I’ll see you guys tomorrow. ” Okay. Now, to be clear and to be fair to everyone involved in this, I don’t know if this was a scam or a rug pull, as they call it, I don’t know enough about the crypto space to make that call, but the people who do know the space really well are all saying yeah it was a rug pull and she got involved with some sketchy people.
Now I do know this: at the end of the day, the fans, the investors they lost a lot of money while Haley and the crypto bros apparently they made a ton of money, so the optics of this aren’t looking good for them, and the people who feel like they got conned they’re really, really upset, and some of them are calling for her to be thrown in jail, which I promise you, Hawk girl, is not going to happen. However, some of the investors did file official complaints with the SEC and there could possibly be lawsuits, but who knows? Now, after all of this happened, as of right now, as of me filming this video right now, Haley has gone pretty silent on her social media, but I’m sure she’ll reappear at some point, and I’ll keep you updated if anything happens beyond this, but my guess is that it won’t—I mean people rarely get in any real trouble for this crypto rug pull stuff.
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