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HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu (BITCOIN) ยท Community token

A joke worth
$300 million.

No team, no funding, no product. Attention was the only asset available, so we made the absurdity work. The ticker did the acquisition and the community did the retention.

Peak market cap
$316.2M
Starting point
Zero
Paid media
None
Approach
Guerrilla GTM

The situation

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The bootleg Harry Potter Obama Sonic backpack the token was named after, photographed in an overseas market

It started as a meme on 4chan.

HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu came out of a bootleg backpack photographed in an overseas market, and grew into a cultural icon. There was no treasury to spend, no product to demo and no institution behind it to borrow credibility from.

The absurdity was the asset. A name that long and that ridiculous gets screenshotted, repeated and argued about, which is reach nobody at that stage can buy.

The mechanism

We changed the ticker to BITCOIN.

Every search for bitcoin on Google, CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko started surfacing it. That funnel hack put a token with no budget in front of the largest standing search demand in the asset class, permanently, for nothing.

None of that traffic had to be bought or pushed. People arrived looking for the other bitcoin, found HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu sitting in the results, and shared it because it was ridiculous. It spread on its own from there.

What we built

The first grassroots community behind the token.

We wrote the positioning and seeded it where the audience already was, across Telegram, X and the trading communities that move first on internet culture.

We ran daily content, coordinated with holders, and paid for the cameos that were worth paying for, keeping the tone consistent enough that the community could carry it without us in the room.

Distribution came out of the community itself. Listings, coverage and holder growth followed the attention.

Results

$316.2M
Peak market cap
$0
Raised
Zero
Paid media

Receipts

BITCOIN (HPOS10I) market cap chart
CoinMarketCap, all-time. Peak $316.2M on 30 October 2024.
A paid celebrity cameo, cut for the feed.
Guerrilla placement. Sonic, Obama and Harry Potter on the back of a tuktuk, printed and put on the road.
Yeonmi Park, the North Korean defector and activist, promoting the token.

Same constraint,
different company.

Every one started with a 30-minute call about what was stuck.

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