when a snake begins eating its own tail it is known as the "ouroboros", and unless the snake is able to realize what it is doing, it will often lead to its own death. the trenches have spent too long paying fees to platforms that don't care if they win. these fees leave the eco and then the circulating capital in the trenches grows smaller and smaller leading to worse charts.

changes can only happen when traders realize what is happening to the eco. crypto in itself is already a zero sum game, now imagine a single platform extracting tens of millions a week from the eco, and then going and selling that sol. a once zero sum game now becomes negative.

a big part of the trenches back in the good days was communities forming around a token and bagworking the hell out of the token. the problem is that community driven slow cooks with bagworkers and everything just aren't profitable for the launchpads they launch off of, or are just sometimes too slow of a cook for the dev. part of returning to memes isnt just about launching memes, it's about returning to the old way of doing things.

part of the "launchpad meta" that everyone is used to, is seeing some gimmicked token officially tied to the launchpad. what does this mean for new unestablished launchpads?: it directly ties the success of the launchpad to the token, and in most cases, the lifetime of the token often overshadows the product the team came to build. look at "lesgo" for example, it launched ~2 weeks ago and reached an all time high of 10m, and is now down 95% since then, sitting at 400k. as a result of their main token slowing down, so did their platform. however, platforms can still have runners built by communities (memecoins) without having an official platform token. meme.fun is a home for meme coins to grow and send, not a one time extraction on a platform token.