Hawk Tuah Is In Big Trouble Now - The Haliey Welch story

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Who is Haliey Welch and what controversy is she involved in?

Narrator 0:00

So this is Haley, aka 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.

What viral moment led to Haliey's rise in popularity?

Narrator 0:22

And they see a couple of guys doing street interviews for a YouTube series. And these 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? 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 Hailey the Hak Tua girl. And from here, Hailey 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 followers and tons of fans. She signs with a management company. She starts getting invited onto podcasts.

Guest 1:17

Oh my gosh. Thank you so much. This is your first podcast ever. First anything ever. Yes, ma'am.

Narrator 1:21

And suddenly she's invited to be on stage at a Zach Bryan 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.

What is the story behind the Hawk meme coin?

Narrator 1:45

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 they're gonna 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. Meme coins or crypto based off of memes, they have a history of being pump and dump scams. And influencers and sometimes celebrities, they 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. And Hailey 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.

2:50

Okay, y'all drop your Solana wallets. I'm giving out some meme coins for free.

Narrator 2:54

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 off this. And then finally the big day comes and boom.

3:05

My Hawk meme coin is live!

How did the Hawk meme coin launch go wrong?

Narrator 3:08

And so the coin launches 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 percent of its value 95 that means that if you invested one dollar into this coin you would now be left with five 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 bro 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.