I think content coins are bringing forth a fun question:

What happens to a digital "thing" in the modern day when there is no liquidity to support it?

I only think this idea is fun to think about for mechanism design tbh

It either dies the victim of unpaid cloud bills or it lives long enough to end up on archive dot org.

it lives in fleeting memory 

if that memory is tarnished with a chart that's down only, the memory means less 

for collector or trader

It’s like a tree in a forest with nobody around to hear it scream.