#Gate广场创作者新春激励 Why are memes related to Chinese internet pop culture becoming more and more prevalent?

An often overlooked background is that: in the current era, the mainstream market environment makes it increasingly difficult to make money.
• Serious project cycles are getting longer
• VC no longer supports retail investors
• Large-scale funds prefer low volatility and predictability
In this environment, Meme coins have become one of the few trading venues that can produce results relatively quickly. They do not promise the future, only the present. They address not faith issues, but emotional and liquidity problems.

Actually, the real danger is not the Meme coin itself

but these three illusions:
1. Treating gambling as investment
2. Seeing participation as an advantage
3. Mistaking short-term success for a replicable ability

If you clearly understand what you are playing, why you enter, and when to exit, Meme coins are a trading tool, and this trading tool carries very high risk.
But if you rely on emotions, feelings, and others’ buying actions, what you face is not an air coin, but a structure you do not understand.
In Chinese, many true players of Meme coins are not retail investors. Retail investors are just people caught up in the game. The ones who can truly determine victory or defeat are those who understand the structure, master the rhythm, and control liquidity.
You can choose to participate or to watch from the sidelines. But at least, before you click to buy next time, you should know: which square are you standing on the chessboard.