2024’s internet celebrity Hawk Tuah Girl has responded after being accused of ‘scamming’ fans with her new cryptocurrency.
Haliey Welch shot to fame earlier this year. She appeared in a street interview and shared her thoughts on what makes a guy go wild in bed. Given her nickname, you can probably guess her response. The clip itself wasn’t spectacular. Still, it went viral at the right place and right time, launching Welch into internet fame.
Take a look at this clip if you need to refresh your memory:
Welch has since utilized her unexpected fame to launch a podcast and, more recently, her own meme cryptocurrency named HAWK. The coin became available yesterday (4 December) and swiftly gained a value of $490 million (£384 million).
However, things have since taken a significant downturn from there, with the coin swiftly losing 91 per cent of its value, according to CoinTelegraph, currently trading at a value $41.7 million (£32.6 million).
The situation has left a lot of people out of pocket, and they aren’t happy about it.
The viral celebrity has now found herself in a spot of hot water (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
Several disgruntled buyers flooded social media, claiming they lost tens of thousands on the investment. Others accused the influencer and her team of profiting at their followers’ expense. Some even argued that Welch “deserves to be in jail.”
“I am a huge fan of Hawk Tuah, but you took my life savings,” one person wrote on Twitter. “I purchased your coin $Hawk, that you were so excited about, with my life savings and children’s college education fund as well.
“You didn’t mention that you were going to buy 97% of the supply and sell it almost immediately to make a large profit.”
Welch responded to the allegations, posting a statement that reads: “Hawkanomics: Team hasn’t sold one token, and not 1 KOL was given 1 free token.”
“We tried to stop snipers as best we could through high fees at the start of launch on @MeteoraAG. Fee’s have now been dropped.”
Meanwhile, overHere, which launched HAWK, has also attempted to clarify the scenario online, releasing a lengthy statement refuting the allegations that Welch’s team had been selling the tokens.
Welch issued a response on Twitter (X/HalieyWelchX
“Haliey’s Team has sold absolutely no tokens whatsoever,” the statement read. Haliey’s Team has a 10% allocation, which is locked for 1 year and vested over 3 years.
“The rest of the tokens are distributed into the different wallets according to the tokenomics.
