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Arnold Robert Haro, 23, held his last sentence in his hand. He said, “If I die, I hope you will turn it into a monument.” Then Harrow took his life.
Haro died on February 21 at his family home in Madeira County, California, a death certificate obtained by Wired Shows. His suicide was live on X, and he walked on X @mistafuccyou. The footage of Haro’s death has since been removed from the platform, but the event is briefly listed in its Trends tab.
In the hours after Haro’s death, dozens of adults were created, a highly volatile cryptocurrency used as a vector of financial speculation, imitating in his identity. Traders, in particular, perceive opportunities to make profits, especially by increasing their value to a total of $2.1 million. (This coin has lost 96% of its value since then.)
On X, it was tried to argue that both the people behind Mistafuccyou Coin were properly given Haro’s ultimate wish. But most people condemn the trader’s impulse to try to profit from his death. “If you are going to trade this, you are sick,” one user wrote.
The speculation was rampant on X because Haro ended his life because he had lost the Memecoin Rugpull, which was a maneuver, someone in the action created a new coin, promoted it online, and then sold their property for an unsatisfactory price, devalued everyone else’s shares. The wire could not confirm whether this happened to Haro, but his friend disputed the narrative. “It has nothing to do with cryptocurrency…it’s not all of these crypto nerds’ ideas,” one of Haro’s friends accompanied him on social media via J Nova. Meanwhile, Haro’s family described his death because of his “fight against depression.”
The incident captures the Memecoin Trading Circles contest in the microcosm, and now only the most outrageous and morally bankrupt ideas are getting attention.
“We have reached the most exciting launch people are looking for is Kanye trying to launch swastika coins,” Khan said. “That’s the horror of this space.”
Until last year, the currency for launching Memecoin was relatively expensive and technology-heavy, meaning few people went public. There are only the original memes, only Dogecoin and a few derivatives have any lifespan.
With the arrival of the pump, the equation is reversed. Since the launch of Pump.Fun in January 2024, millions of Memecoin have flooded the market, including coins modeled on Haro.
