Hawk Tuah Girl’s Crypto Disaster Continues: Another Rug Pull, Another Lesson Not Learned

You had to know this was coming. It’s been two months since the Hawk Tuah girl got roped into the chaotic world of cryptocurrency by a bunch of opportunistic crypto bros, leading to a meme coin launch that went about as well as you’d expect.

If you’ve been following this saga, you already know the story: the coin was hyped, people threw money at it, and—shocker—it immediately tanked.

Now, in the latest chapter of “What Did You Expect?”, she tried to make amends by bringing in FaZe Banks—one of the few credible names in crypto—to break down exactly where she went wrong.

Hawk Tuah launched meme coin, everyone lost their money and want to throw her in jail: How are people still stupid enough to fall for this?

For those unfamiliar, Banks isn’t just some random dude with a Twitter account and a fake finance degree. He’s one of the OGs of gaming and internet culture, the face of FaZe Clan for years, and a guy who’s actually been around the crypto block without blatantly scamming his audience.

So when he agreed to sit down with Hawk Tuah Girl on her podcast, there were conditions: he wanted to make sure people weren’t getting scammed, and that she was putting whatever money she made into something not completely ridiculous.

But because this is the internet in 2025, it immediately went off the rails.

Haliey Welch, aka “Hawk Tuah Girl,” breaks her 2 month silence and cries while talking about rugging millions in her memecoin, as FaZe Banks tries to explain the crypto space to her 👀 pic.twitter.com/NeaggIMPst

— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) February 7, 2025

So in an attempt to hear Haliey Welch’s side of the Crypto scam story, I agreed to do her first podcast back.

I had heavy stipulations including;

1) Not allowing markets to be manipulated by leaking this episodes existence before a resolution was found.

2) Her team finding… pic.twitter.com/X3TW5nZmtR

— FaZe Banks (@Banks) February 6, 2025

The Podcast That Wasn’t Supposed to Drop… Dropped

For reasons unknown, the podcast leaked onto her YouTube channel, and before anyone could put out the fire, the clip made its rounds online. And guess what happened next? More people bought in.

More people put their hard-earned money into Hawk Tuah Coin hoping for some sort of diamond hands resurgence, and more people lost everything when the inevitable rug pull happened again.

If you ever needed a visual representation of insanity, just look at the $HAWK coin chart. It’s basically a real-time graph of people getting scammed over and over again while expecting a different result.

JUST IN: $HAWK Tuah girl @HalieyWelchX posted and deleted a podcast episode with FaZe Banks, Threadguy, and Frank DeGods

Banks agreed to do the podcast under 2 conditions:

1. No market manipulation leaks

2. Solution for the $HAWK project moving forward

Of course, the $HAWK… pic.twitter.com/X8UqlHrBpx

— BlockNews (@blocknewsdotcom) February 6, 2025

Crypto Bros Never Learn—And That’s the Funniest Part

At this point, watching meme coins implode has become one of the greatest side quests on the internet. You can practically set your watch to it:

1. Random internet personality (with no financial experience) gets roped into launching a coin.
2. Crypto influencers start pumping it up as the next big thing.
3. A wave of “Get in early bro” tweets flood Twitter/X.
4. Everyone FOMOs in.
5. The coin skyrockets for about 12 minutes.
6. The founders cash out.
7. The chart nosedives into oblivion.

Rinse, wash, repeat.

At this point, I don’t even feel bad for anyone still falling for this. If you’re out here throwing money at a coin named after a viral girl who once demonstrated her elite spit game on camera, you deserve whatever financial devastation comes next.

“Invest in Hawk Tuah” or the S&P 500? Decisions, Decisions

I don’t claim to be a financial expert, but I do know that dumping your life savings into a meme coin based on a viral soundbite is not the move. If you want to set your money on fire, just go to a casino—it’s more fun and at least there’s free drinks. But hey, maybe I’m just a broke boy. Maybe the real Hawk Tuah is the millions of dollars we lost along the way.

Chess, not checkers.

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