the memes that actually went to billions did not print a clean candle. they printed an ugly dump, a dead tape, and people sitting on a market cap that looked finished. Pepe ran to ~$1.8b in may 2023 then dumped 60%+ in days, down to ~$640-800m. then months of nothing before the leg that took it near $11b in late 2024. Bonk launched christmas 2022, spiked in january, then died. by october 2023 it was almost off the map. then the nov-dec run toward ~$1b, and later the 2024 expansion into multiple billions. the accumulation was long. the move was not. Wif came out november 2023, sat in the millions with violent pullbacks, then went to ~$4.5-4.8b in march 2024. not a straight line either. solana:5UUH9RTDiSpq6HKS6bp4NdU9PNJpXRXuiw6ShBTBhgH2 already did this at its own scale. ath near $280m. now ~$49-50m. that’s about -80% from the high. 71k holders. listings. ip. and the chart is quiet again while other narratives take the timeline. winners don’t get built when everyone agrees. they get built when the bag is -70/-80 and the community is still here. the longer that base sits, the more violent the next expansion usually is. not because it “has to” go to billions. because that’s what pepe, bonk and wif did when the market had already written them off. that’s how i see troll. same shape. different cycle.