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Bruh I genuinely can't believe the stupidity of the trenches sometimes and this whole $AI/ $SI shitshow might be the epitome of it. I find it hilarious that people keep selling $AI every time orange man or one of his puppets says “SI,” like AI suddenly became some archaic term nobody recognizes anymore. AI is a term that's been around for decades and is probably one of the most universally understood two-letter combinations on earth right now. You could say AI to my grandma and she'd know exactly what you're talking about. That was always the entire joke of the coin. Take something literally everyone recognizes and meme it into the most universally understood meme format on earth: a dog. And it didn't run because someone important kept saying “AI” on TV. It ran for a bunch of reasons. The ticker, the dog, the distribution, the timing, and the fact that it became the biggest RWA machine on the shiny new chain. Which is also the difference between a memecoin and a catalyst coin. Imagine if $AI pumped 30% every time Sam Altman said the word “AI.” It'd be fucking ridiculous. Nobody sits around waiting for the next Sam Altman interview to validate the existence of the meme. AI is the meme. It doesn't need someone to keep saying the magic word for it to work. $SI is basically the opposite disguised as the same thing. The entire thing exists because of a catalyst, and every subsequent mention of SI becomes another catalyst required to keep validating the meme. Put a badly photoshopped Superman cape on a dog and suddenly we're supposed to pretend this has some independent cultural significance outside of Trump occasionally saying two letters. I could at least understand some stupid SUPERIDIOT coin running off the headline. That's what trenches are for. Make the actual event the joke and move on. But pretending you've discovered the culturally superior successor to AI because you recycled the same dog in a badly photoshopped superman costume around a political soundbite is just bad taste, bad memetics and, honestly, cope. And there's an obvious problem with catalyst coins pretending to be memes: eventually either the meme has to become bigger than the catalyst, or you need increasingly bigger catalysts to produce increasingly smaller reactions. There's only one way that game ends. And I think that's the part of trenches I despise the most now. We've gone from finding memes to manufacturing “catalysts.” Every sentence, tweet or headline needs a new ticker attached to it. If the original coin runs too hard without you, you don't reconsider whether you missed the trade - you launch or bid 15 increasingly shitty derivatives until one sticks and call yourself early. Even worse, we somehow idolize the people doing it. Guys with multi millions in their bank accounts who were sidelined for the biggest runner we've had in two years, spent the entire move throwing vamp after vamp at it because $AI itself created a ceiling big enough for one of them to hunt. And maybe that's why it all feels so soulless now. Back in the day when we did have billion dollar runners, the meme used to create the price. Now everyone watches the price and desperately tries to create the meme afterwards.