They Went Viral, Then Went to Prison - A Ray William Johnson Compilation
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How did Haley (Haktua) become a viral internet sensation?
So this is Haley, aka Haktua. 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 are out on the town in Nashville, and they're pretty tipsy, and they see a couple of guys do 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? Oh, you gotta give
him that h 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 f 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 Haktua girl. And 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 followers and 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 Zach Bryan concert. She's throwing out the ceremonial first pick. 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, 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 gonna 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 in end up getting screwed. And 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 gonna be a cash grab.
Okay, y'all, drop your Solana 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, cause they're gonna be so rich off this. And then finally the big day comes and boom.
My hop meme coin is live!
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% of its value. 95 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 paying. Pissed. And 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.
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