Haliey Welch, the “Hawk Tuah” woman who went viral final yr, has awoken from her lengthy “sleep” following the disastrous launch of her Solana meme coin in early December. And issues are as chaotic and complicated as ever.
Welch seems to have posted a brand new episode of her “Discuss Tuah” podcast on Thursday, greater than two months after the final episode was launched shortly earlier than her meme coin disaster. Surprisingly, although, the episode not seems on her YouTube channel—seemingly deleted as abruptly because it went up.
But when the concept was to wash it earlier than the web might get its eyes on it, then it wasn’t quick sufficient, as leaks of the episode at the moment are circulating on social media.
The brand new episode encompasses a dialog primarily with Richard “FaZe Banks” Bengtson, the crypto-native founder and CEO of gaming group FaZe Clan, who introduced alongside a pair of trade friends: DeGods creator and meme coin dealer Frank (actual title: Rohun Vora), and content material creator and influencer Threadguy.
In it, Welch recounts her expertise of agreeing to launch a meme coin, how issues went incorrect with the deployer holding 80% of the availability and the token worth instantly plunging to near-zero, and the immense backlash that largely compelled her offline in current months.
“I’m nonetheless a bit shook up about it,” Welch admitted on the high of the present.
Broadly, it’s a pleasant dialog about missteps across the meme coin state of affairs, which resulted in a lawsuit in opposition to Welch’s enterprise companions—and Welch is enjoying ball with the legal professionals taking goal at her one-time allies. Welch suggests within the interview that she didn’t actually perceive what she was stepping into, which her company agree sounds correct.
Following the leak, Banks wrote on X (previously Twitter) that he agreed to do the podcast beneath “heavy” stipulations, together with that the episode not be leaked to control markets, and that her crypto staff discover “an actual answer relating to the cash she made, the place that ought to go, and what to do with the HAWK challenge transferring ahead.”
Banks claims that Welch’s staff assured them that the episode wouldn’t be launched until his aspect permitted it. However chatter across the upcoming episode began circulating in current days, as Banks notes; certainly, Decrypt acquired a heads-up days in the past in regards to the recording from a supply. Banks stated that they “referred to as the episode off proper then and there.”
He additional alleges some shenanigans across the now almost nugatory HAWK token on the again of the episode “leak” fueling hype.
“Now immediately, the episode ‘randomly’ will get leaked. The worth of HAWK is pumping they usually utterly fucking fumbled the bag, but once more,” Banks wrote. “What a fucking mess. Poor woman, it’s a marvel how she discovered herself on this place within the first place.”
Certainly, the HAWK token greater than doubled in worth on Thursday afternoon, however has since cooled, up simply 9% on the day to a present worth of $0.00078 per information from CoinMarketCap.
Decrypt reached out to Welch’s spokesperson for particulars on the episode launch and response to Banks’ feedback, however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
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