@wbnns

The chart of meme coins and content coins trace very similarly to hashtags and trends Some people wonder why meme and content coins don't run and create generational wealth, but this is the same pattern one sees with any buzzword or topic that garners attention It's the same reason today's trending topics on X don't stay as the top phrases in perpetuity -- people's attention shifts to something else Since the inception of social the value of people's attention has been 100% captured by the platform it's on; platforms charge advertisers exorbitant fees to present themselves front and center to people's eyeballs As advertiser revenues have peaked and declined, platforms introduced subscription fees; a portion redirected to folks with large followings in exchange for producing content For the average user this is a 100% tax on their attention, its value captured and split with a select few while an algorithm calibrates to gather even more An attention market flips this model; the ability to tokenize a person and their content returns value not only to the creator but to the community around them Shared upside on social hasn't existed before crypto; its early beginnings formed around the first cryptocurrencies themselves like Bitcoin Over the years this has propagated to all kinds of communities; the term CTO (community takeover) has gained prevalence and now any group can form around any meme or content that has a token This will not change, it will happen more rapidly; in the future similarly to how initiatives have pages and social handles the majority will have tokens Prices will ebb and flow, many will spike and never reach new highs -- but this is the nature of the internet, web traffic and trends The only difference is now the axes for impressions/attention over time have a price The alternative is to stay on the sideline and let the platform reign Or you can capture that value yourself 2026 is the year of the attention market, where people's attention is no longer extracted by a select few Sovereignty to capture the value of now -- what matters most to people in this moment, a person, their content, a meme or something more The earliest times are the most volatile; sometimes it pays to be early, you just got to hold on and zoom out

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