UPDATE: Dec. 20, 2024, 11:10 a.m. EST Lower than 24 hours after Mashable revealed this story, Hailey Welch has damaged her silence with a press release on the failed $HAWK memecoin.
Learn our newest story on Welch’s assertion.
Mashable’s authentic report continues under.
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Haliey Welch has gone MIA.
The “Hawk Tuah” lady has not launched a brand new episode of her fashionable weekly podcast, Discuss Tuah, in two weeks. There was no beforehand introduced hiatus of the present. Welch additionally has not posted on her social media channels in weeks both.
Welch turned a viral sensation over the summer season after dropping what would go on to develop into her catchphrase “Hawk Tuah” in a video clip that unfold throughout the web like wildfire. Welch capitalized on her web fame by promoting merchandise like t-shirts after which ultimately launching a weekly podcast known as Discuss Tuah, which rocketed to the highest of the Spotify podcast charts.
Every part seemed to be developing roses for Welch. After which she launched her personal cryptocurrency. She hasn’t been heard from by the general public since.
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‘Anywho, I am gonna go to mattress’
On Dec. 4, Welch introduced that her Hawk Tuah memecoin, $HAWK, had gone reside. The memecoin exploded in worth, with a market cap within the a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} – earlier than shortly collapsing. Many who purchased $HAWK had misplaced a big sum of cash in a matter of minutes.
Welch’s followers who had invested began responsible these straight concerned within the venture. Investigations into the memecoin discovered that the overwhelming majority of the tokens had been held by just some wallets, with those who had invested claiming that insiders obtained pre-launch entry to the cryptocurrency earlier than it went on sale to the general public. After it launched, some mentioned, these insiders dumped $HAWK for a revenue, leaving Welch’s followers holding the bag.
Welch and OverHere, the crypto group she partnered with, held a public Areas stream on X, previously referred to as Twitter. In the course of the reside audio chat, Welch and her companions had been closely criticized by listeners, together with the favored YouTube crypto rip-off investigator Coffeezilla.
Earlier than $HAWK holders might get any actual solutions about why $HAWK had crashed, Welch interrupted the stream.
“Hey guys!” Welch mentioned on the late evening Dec. 5 stream. “I hate to interrupt you, Nick, however good day there. Anywho, I am gonna go to mattress and I will see you guys tomorrow.”
And that was the final the general public has heard from Welch since.
Not the tip for the Hawk Tuah coin saga
Whereas Welch has but to make a press release, her companions at OverHere have just lately tried to handle the scenario. The group positioned the blame on Alex Larson Schultz, also referred to as Doc Hollywood, who OverHere claims “‘managed all token choices, charges, treasury.” Schultz is a music producer, DJ, and crypto promoter who’s finest identified to the general public as comic Howie Mandel’s son-in-law.
Schultz has but to touch upon OverHere’s assertion. Mashable tried to achieve out to Welch however has but to listen to again.
The Discuss Tuah podcast was launched on Sept. 3 and has launched a brand new episode each week since. The final episode of Discuss Tuah was launched on Dec. 3, in the future earlier than the launch of $HAWK.
Welch additionally has not posted on social media for the reason that failed cryptocurrency launch on Dec. 4.
Nonetheless, we could hear from Welch or a minimum of different members of her $HAWK group quickly. Hawk Tuah memecoin buyers filed a lawsuit on Thursday in opposition to the creators of $HAWK, alleging that that they had unlawfully bought unregistered securities.
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