All FOMO could be a peak, and behind most wealth stories lie countless silent counterexamples.
Written by: BitpushNews
Recently, OpenAI launched a new feature for ChatGPT: input any image, and the AI can transform it into the style of "Studio Ghibli."
Overnight, countless users input "Ghiblify me" or "draw me like a Miyazaki movie" into ChatGPT, or "Ghiblify" those classic memes.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also posted his Ghibli-style avatar on the X platform, and this dreamy, gentle Miyazaki art style quickly went viral, as social networks seemed to fall into a "manga parallel world."
Tesla CEO Elon Musk supported it with a post: "Theme of the day."
Miyazaki's Dream World Collides with Meme Speculation: $600 Turns into $200,000
The crypto world certainly wouldn't miss this opportunity.
In just 48 hours, dozens of tokens capitalizing on the trend emerged on the Solana chain, including Ghiblification, TotoroCoin, and SpiritedAway. The craziest $Ghibli (Ghiblification) coin skyrocketed from $0.00005 to $0.02, meaning early players could instantly become millionaires with just a $100 investment.
It's the same old story: no white paper, no official website, just a visually appealing token icon and a project name riding the trend. Just like that, it ignited the emotions of the crypto community.
Twitter account @0xfacairiji seems to be the "lucky goose" in this wave. He wrote that he just "tried to buy 600U," and unexpectedly, $Ghibli suddenly caught the attention of big influencers, causing the price to soar, and his position peaked at 200,000 U, multiplying over a thousand times.
He is not a well-known KOL, yet his experience recap post went viral.
This is not an isolated case; similar stories began to emerge throughout the crypto community. Many flocked to Telegram groups, DEX pages, and Reddit discussions, asking, "Did you buy?" "When to sell?" "Which other Ghibli series tokens are there?"
It's hard to explain this scene with traditional financial logic.
This memecoin frenzy is less about faith in a particular project and more about a collective emotional release.
Coinmarketcap data shows that the memecoin market has been sluggish for the past few months, with trading volume dropping over 50%. The visual aesthetics of Ghiblify + OpenAI's technological hype + the push from two tech giants perfectly filled the emotional vacuum. People are not concerned with "whether this is a useful project," but rather "is anyone buying, is it rising, is anyone following?"
Artists and Speculators – A Divided World
In the crypto section of Reddit, Generation Z is enthusiastically discussing "how to preemptively ambush the next meme coin." One user shared a tutorial on using AI to turn their girlfriend's photo into Ghibli style, and immediately someone in the comments asked, "Please share the token contract address!"
But the art community presents a different picture. Hayao Miyazaki, the founder of Studio Ghibli, publicly stated in a 2016 documentary: "AI is an insult to life."
Yet now, his visual style is being imitated and disseminated for free by AI, even becoming a gimmick for speculation in the crypto circle.
Writer Brian Merchant criticized, "Using Miyazaki's hard work to drive traffic to AI companies is a secondary harm to the master."
A group of hand-drawn artists initiated a joint protest, demanding that OpenAI disclose the sources of its training data. Ironically, the comments section of the official Ghibli X account has been overtaken by meme coin advertisements, with a tweet saying "Buy GHIBLI and get an NFT avatar" receiving tens of thousands of likes.
The crypto circle is also tearing apart. Once popular meme coin CHILLGUY, which had a market cap exceeding $600 million, has now dropped by 95%. Among Ghibli series tokens, some have already reported hidden taxes, black hole contracts, and inability to sell traps set by the teams, leaving many latecomers who bought in at high prices as bag holders.
So, does this Ghiblify craze have any positive significance?
That depends on how you understand crypto culture.
If past DeFi was about efficiency and rules, then memecoins are more like "emotional value," a financialization of a social phenomenon—just like "I’m willing to invest because of what you said."
It may be absurd, it may be fleeting, it may even be a bubble, but it genuinely captures a certain change of the times: the pursuit of narrative, the fantasy of a comeback.
The wind will eventually stop. Whether you made a fortune in this wave of Ghibli coins, are watching from the sidelines, or have already been "Ghiblified" into a bag holder, it's worth maintaining a bit of clarity amidst the frenzy:
When you see a screenshot claiming "earned A7 in XX days," remember: the numbers may be AI-generated, and the promises of KOLs may be carefully crafted scripts. Behind the magic of the crypto market lie countless traps waiting to be harvested; all FOMO could be a peak, and behind most wealth stories lie countless silent counterexamples.
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