Pepe Creator Matt Furie Claims Account Hacked After Linking to Three Meme Coins
Famous artist and Pepe creator Matt Furie's X account became active in early August after being silent for 9 months, linking to the contract addresses of three meme coins: HOODRAT, DORK, and BOYZ within a week, with many related tweets deleted. On August 9, the account posted that it had been hacked and does not endorse any shitcoin, indicating that the official website had already provided a warning; on-chain analysis shows that the related tokens briefly surged before falling back, with the deployer profiting, and archived web pages show that the warning text on the official website was not previously seen, raising doubts about the credibility of the statement. This incident reinforces the narrative of the risks of celebrity accounts being used for meme coin promotion, with funds and attention shifting towards verifiable on-chain behavior and archived evidence, putting pressure on short-term tokens relying on account endorsements.
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As the original creator of Pepe the Frog, Matt Furie has previously faced situations where his account was used for unauthorized token promotions, with his artistic image being long exploited by the meme coin ecosystem, while his involvement in the crypto space remains limited. His account's recent pattern of sudden activity after a period of silence followed by a claim of being hacked—posting multiple contract addresses and then deleting them, ultimately responding with a warning from the official website—suggests motivations related to account security or external manipulation, but on-chain and archived evidence cast doubt on the statement. Similar cases have been observed where artists or celebrity accounts were hacked to promote scam coins, and the meme coin ecosystem continues to exploit intellectual property, currently in a phase of rapid depletion of trust in celebrity endorsements. This essentially reflects a failure of technical substitutes and trust mechanisms: social accounts have become marketing tools that can be hijacked, where the mechanism of deleting tweets and post-facto statements cannot cover the already occurred on-chain transactions and price fluctuations, making verification reliant on independent archiving and on-chain analysis. ABAB News · Cognitive Laws 1. The longer an account is silent, the more verification is needed when it suddenly becomes active. 2. Deleted tweets cannot stop already occurred on-chain transactions. 3. If the official website warning lacks archiving, the statement is just words.