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How Coffeezilla Destroyed The Hawk Tuah Scam | Internet Anarchist

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With a random meme launching her into stardom and giving her brand deals, paid appearances, and even a podcast, you'd think the hawk-to-ah girl, aka Haley Welch, would be satisfied with getting everything she ever wanted. However, one greedy leap into the realm of crypto meme coins landed her in every shady influence's worst nightmare, an investigation from Coffie Zilla. Nobody's here for me, everyone's here for you. Where did the fees go? Where did the money for the pre-sell tokens go? Why did your unlock day one so people could dump on Haley Welch's fans? And how involved was she really? Hi, I'm the internet anarchist. I create weekly YouTube documentaries, and today, we'll be going over the web of lies and controversy surrounding the hawk-to-ah meme coins and its creators. How they manipulated fans into giving the millions of dollars, tried to cover it up, and immediately got exposed by Coffie Zilla. For a bit of context, Haley's rise to fame was sparked by a viral clip from a street interview with Tim and DTV

on the 11th of June 2024. What's one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time? Oh, you gotta give him that hawk-to-ah and spit on that thing. The video immediately went viral on Instagram, garnering over 400,000 likes, and thousands of comments are raving about the absurdity of her off-handed statement. She's a national treasure, keep this woman safe. Imagine for the rest of your life being known as the hawk-to-ah girl. She can't escape it now. As well as, I'm curious as to why the guy picked that particular question to ask, her laugh at the end is priceless. Not long after the clip went viral, it inspired hundreds of edits and railbloads, which naturally made people curious who the hawk-to-ah girl was. Fortunately, viewers would get some answers to Haley's identity through an Instagram post from Tim and DTV. This led fans to a Facebook post from the account fathead threads, which featured Haley signing and promoting their apparel collaboration. While the meme continued to go viral in the preceding months, Haley didn't seem eager to capitalize on a newfound fame.

Initially, Haley didn't make any social media posts or product launches, which led users to believe the hawk-to-ah sound bite was all they were going to get out of her. However, little did Haley, or anyone on the internet know, the hawk-to-ah meme was about to make internet history once again. For better or for worse. By the 3rd of September 2024, Haley would return to the internet with the announcement of a weekly talk-to-ah podcast, reading, Y'all kept asking, what's next? Well, this is it. I'm so thankful to have my own podcast where you'll discover the real Haley Welch. I'm delighted to join the team at Better, who fully gets me. Together, we're going to introduce the world to talk-to-ah every Tuesday. Over on YouTube, Haley was trying to increase the hype for a brand. With a rather uncanny promotional video, that's played into the fact that she was stretching an 8-second clip into a full career. She's literally doing anything to stay right. Does anyone actually give a fuck about her? Why are we keeping this girl relevant? You're 15 minutes or up. Your joke was funny for two days. Stop. Y'all really thought I was done?

I'm just getting started, baby. It smells more. Kio. Yeah! What's one move in bed that makes the girl go crazy? Unfortunately for Haley, fans didn't seem to enjoy the overplayed meme anymore, as they heavily disliked Bombed the video and flooded it with harsh comments, such as hanging out with the worst influences makes me hate her more. She really said the biggest meme of all time on the buyer. Nah, the 15 minutes of famed quarter, as well as, imagine milking a 30-second meme with a podcast. Having a podcast episodes massively disliked by her audience would become a running theme on Haley's YouTube channel, and only seem to get worse with each upload. Despite the overwhelming negativity, the talk to our podcast reached number three on the US Spotify chart within the first month of its launch. What's even more strange is how the podcast managed to stay in the top five for several months after. One could imagine that the rapid growth of the podcast would be enough for Haley and the companies promoting her, but sadly that wasn't the case, as Haley and her team decided to

monetize the meme in the worst way possible. On the 6th of November 2024, Haley would publish a tweet showing off a crypto wallet and announcing her plans to launch a meme coin of her own. Naturally, the community was revolted by the possibility of another crypto pump and dump, and even speculated that Haley had every intention to scam her fans. With a tweet from expert crypto investigator Zach XBT stating, We were warned with Haley replying fake news, but appreciate you trying to protect the community. Instead of addressing the concerns of her fans, Haley labeled it as fake news, and went onto launch a coin a few weeks later. Oh yeah, if I want to meme coin, can I give you some tokens? Yeah, you can know all that. How do you do my wallet? Okay. Are you sure you're going to launch a... I don't know, I'm not a big fan about meme coins. I love crypto, but you could make some money from it. There's no doubt about it. No doubt about it. Along with this, Haley and the Web 3 platform, on here, began offering fans spots on the allow list to receive free tokens when it goes live. On the sign-up page, the team behind the hawk coin reassured fans of the project's legitimacy,

with claims like, hawk isn't just a meme coin. It's a part of the culture. Haley is using her meme to unite her entire community. Hundreds of thousands of non-cryptor users will be onboarded by hawk, because Haley is making it easy, fun, and engaging. By the 4th of December 2024, those claims would be proven false. Once the coin actually hit the market, and the community's worst nightmare would become a reality. Within an hour of its launch, the hawk coin price increased by 900%, with a market cap of $490 million, and then dropped by 90% shortly after, all while Haley is hyping up the coin on Twitter. My hawk meme coin is love! Hawkcoin's launch had all the telltale signs of a pump and dump, and it wasn't long before everyone behind the token was facing serious scrutiny. In the comments of a Twitter post, the crypto analysis software, Bubble Maps, was right, FYI, your team is keeping 96% of Hawkcoin's apply in 10 connected addresses. You might not be aware of this since your new decrypto,

but it's worth bringing to your attention. In an effort to sway public opinion, Haley and her team would organise a Twitter space to discuss the incident. However, things didn't go as planned. At the start of the space, Haley would try to pin the blame on court snipers, while seemingly reading off a script full of influencer buzzwords. Hey, y'all, it's Haley, and I just want to say thank you for joining my space, and I also want to thank you for my 15,000 holders. We got SnipeBodded today, but we didn't sell a single token. This is just a launch, and I want to tell you I'm here to stay. The plan is to give these coins to my real fans, the ones that buy my merch, watch my podcast, donate to my charity, and I also wanted to tell you that I learned a lot along the way, but I just want to say, screw the sniper bots, and I'm not going anywhere. Shortly after, Haley's co-hosts would rant about how the launch was set up, and explain why it definitely wasn't a pump and dump. Yo, Haley, they try to fuck us. It's all good. It's all good. Let them know you're here to fucking... You're not here to get SnipeBodded all day.

You're not here to get fucked. We're here to have some fun. We're here to meme. And most of those coins, by the way, are going to your community for free. There was only like 3%. That's why everyone's like, oh, 97% is bundled. 3% was in the pool. That 97% is all on chain. Yes, there was a strategic allocation that was done through SaaS for people outside the United States of America. Because of all the security laws. So yes, 17% of the supply was taken from the... And that was paid for. There was a strategic allocation. And those tokens, those people can do whatever they want. They're not from the US. They can do whatever the fuck they want with those tokens. Even going as far as claiming that the critics were mentally ill. So if you want to be part of this meme community, go.

If not, if you want to just... You know, I'm going to say, y'all, you guys, right? There's a lot of negativity in the space. I think crypto brings the mentally ill into this thing. Right? Most of... If you guys are in crypto, you're most likely mentally ill. And I'm going to count myself as mentally ill for even being here right now. Right? I'm definitely mentally ill. I do love it. I do love memes. I do have a passion for this stuff. I try not to be on X like I used to. Because it's just a bunch of miserable people trying to farm engagement and hate. When Haley and her associates were done explaining, a certain YouTube investigator would take the stage and started hitting them with some hot hitting questions about their token. Happy to answer any questions. I have questions. I have questions. I'm raised by hand. Hey guys. What copies, Ellen? Hey, this is one of the most miserable, horrible launches I've ever seen in my life. Okay, the wildest fucker you on. I've been tracing it on chain for a while.

You guys generated over a million dollars in fees while y'all's fans got rug pooled. There was snipers, but there was also insider trading directly linked to y'all's creator account. What are you guys doing? No, no, no, that's not true. That is true. That's a fact. It's not. It's a fact and you can see it on chain. So... Yeah, we know. We trust me. We're there. We can answer that. Do you know about the insider trading? No, there's no insider trading. That's why we can answer it. Okay, so there's tokens going directly from the main account. Coffeezilla. Just chill for a second. For most of the call, Haley's co-host would continue to evade coffee zillas questions and even directly antagonize him at times. Who's making millions of dollars on fees from this rug pool? That's not a scheme. That's the product that's the product that's the product that's the product that's the product. making fees. You can keep this thing going for years, okay? That's how do you think there's so many expenses?

Who makes the money on the fees? Someone just made over a million dollars on fees. Who made it? First of all, the fees were there with meteor pools. And that goes to, yes, the creator, right? Which is who? Who does that belong to? That belongs to the project. Who's the project? Who is the project? Well, the project is over here, Haley Welch, right? And how much does Haley Welch own? This is Haley Welch's project. That's the on top of Zilla. Coffee Zilla. I just try to figure out who owns it. You know how much it costs for lawyer fees to create a foundation in the Cayman Islands to hire directors. You think this stuff pays for itself? Things were devolving to Haley and her co-hosts to shouting at Coffee Zilla when every presented them with relevant points or evidence. You just talk over me. You talk over me. I'm hearing bullshit. No, you're not. You're talking over me. Let me just lay out your tokenomics. You guys released 3% to the meteor pool.

Why you have 17% of the token allocation unlocked day one on from your strategic allocation? Are you guys insane? What do you guys think exactly is going to happen when your insiders get sent their tokens? And by the way, who made the money from your 17% pre-sale while you're giving a tiny piece of the pie to the public? Like what the hell, this is the worst tokenomics I've ever seen and it is a scam. It's not a scam. The tokenomics are a scam. That's my opinion. You can say whatever you want about it. You can cry, defamation. That's my opinion. It's a scam. And I only do this for a living. I've only seen a million of these projects. So who pays you, coffee zilla? Let's, let's, let's, Ooh, turn it around, turn it around. Nobody's here for me. Everyone's here for you. When the Hork toa team couldn't take the heat anymore, they decided to end the conversation by muting coffee zilla. Where did the fees go?

Where did the money for the pre-sale tokens go? Why did you all unlock day one so people could dump on Haley Welsh's fans? And how involved was she really? And how much money is she making from all this? What's her cut? I just got muted. Eventually, Haley would get sick of the questions from other speakers and just leave the space entirely. Like, for the inkling. I didn't interrupt you, Nick. Hello there. But, I knew who I'm gonna go to bed and I'll see you guys tomorrow. In Haley's mind, the entire Hork controversy was something she could put on hold and to walk away from. Unfortunately, the reality of the situation was much more grim. As hundreds of millions of dollars was on the line and holders of the coin were already involving regulating authorities. In his video titled, exposing the Hork toa scam, coffee zilla outlined a deceptive strategies used behind the tokens launch and the devastating impact it had on the community. And I just wanna show you exactly how the Hork toa team

is sort of lying by a mission here when they say that team hasn't sold one token. And that's because they pre-sold the tokens, guys. They sold them to a bunch of investors with a presale. And then those people were unlocked immediately upon launch. So you can see that with her tokenomics here. It says, Haley's locked for 12 months, but you can see the strategic allocation is fully unlocked immediately on token generation event. Now, I spoke to some people who bought into this presale. They say they got in at $16.69 million total valuation, which means that if they sold out the whole 17%, you're looking at about $2.8 million raised by pre-selling these tokens. So it's essentially a lie to say her team didn't sell tokens. Well, they pre-sold them and then those investors dumped on your fans. That's the problem because BubbleMap says we found 285 investors doing the Hock pre-sell. That's about what I saw as well. 89 wallets sold 100% on launch. 47 sold over 50%. Anyway, you can see in total, $3.3 million were sold.

Again, as you'll see, on mostly Haley Walsh's fans or Hock two of girls fans. And I know what you're thinking. Who falls for this? Well, unfortunately, with situations like this, they're not targeting crypto growth. They're mostly targeting like actual fans who've never been involved in the crypto space before. Inside a trading, wasn't the only scam at play as they profited off the exorbitant trading fees throughout the Hock coins release. Now, the other part of this scam that I really need to break down because people don't understand it exactly is the fee scam, okay? When this launched, they had 15% fees on trading. They said that this was to stop snipers. But basically what this means, and because the team now blames snipers for a lot of this rug pool, but what it means is they've benefited the entire way. You can see in 24 hours, they made almost $2 million from this fee. Meanwhile, on deck screener, you can see the sniper, which is the number one trader on this coin. They made about $1.3 million,

and they're total profits and loss. So they actually made less in total profits, this sniper that ruined the project, than the team made on fees. While Haley's meme status was the driving force behind the project, the individuals that assisted in helping her launch the coin should also be held accountable. Is that there are four groups to look out for here. One, you have Hock to a girl who is promoting this thing. Two, you have this guy, Doc Hollywood, who is like, how he mandels, like, son-in-law or something like that. He's this guy who has some connections in Hollywood, and he seems to be the guy connecting Hock to a girl with crypto, and he said he was teaching her a meme coin class, okay? And he goes unhinged, John or call. Three, you have the guys running the crypto token, and four, you have the insiders who paid money to get early access to this coin, and then are rug pulling a lot of Haley Walsh's fans. What you wanna make of it, who you exactly want to assign blame to, is up to you.

A lot of people are saying, oh, she didn't know any better. She's getting taken advantage of, maybe, or maybe she's making a ton of money, talking about Hock to a girl. In the pinned comment, Koffee Zilla would leave a response from Haley's lawyer, stating, I watched the video. Just to clarify, the 50% of net proceeds mentioned was from the allocation of tokens. Hempersent locked for one year with a three-year vest thereafter, and wouldn't be realized until if when she sold them. Out of her 50%, she would have to pay her non-crypto team too. So in reality, she would likely only hold 3.5% of the tokens withdrawn, if at all, on the above schedule. I think a comment from one of Koffee Zilla's view with summarizes the situation perfectly. The current meme cycle, one, become a meme, two, study Stupid Crypto Coin, three, rug pull, four, lie about said rug pull, five, get exposed by coffee. Regardless of who the masterminds behind the project were, all of those involved will likely face bearing levels of legal action. As citizens of the internet, we can only hope that a regulator will see this

and want to make an example out of Haley Welch. While she might not fully understand what she did, actions should have consequences, and there's a lot of people who lost their money because of her shitty scam. If you enjoyed this video, you'll probably enjoy Koffee Zilla's videos too, but Haley Welch is far from the worst example of Koffee Zilla exposing an influencer. Click the video on screen to learn how Koffee Zilla exposed the worst YouTuber's scams on the platform.

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