El precio de Chillguy (CHILLGUY) cae en medio de especulaciones de que el meme puede ser plagiado
Chillguy (CHILLGUY), uno de los memes más activos de los últimos días, comenzó a deslizarse tras evidenciarse que su imagen principal era plagiada. CHILLGUY cayó de 0,19 dólares a 0,17 dólares después de la noticia, ampliando su caída desde mediados de diciembre.
Chillguy amplió sus pérdidas, cayendo de 0,19 dólares a 0,17 dólares en cuestión de minutos. La acción del precio siguió a una serie de publicaciones en las redes sociales que mostraban evidencia de que la imagen principal del meme fue plagiada de un folleto distribuido en Tailandia.
La imagen original fue publicada en Reddit y apunta a una única imagen de la página del folleto. La falta de otras imágenes o información adicional generó dudas sobre la autenticidad de la evidencia. Además, las versiones del folleto están en conflicto.
Algunos afirman que la imagen publicada es de Tailandia y fue impresa hace ocho años, mientras que otros señalan una publicación en Vietnam hace seis años. En general, la controversia está creando un revuelo adicional en las redes sociales en torno al token, donde algunos exageran el plagio, mientras que otros creen que toda la historia tiene como objetivo crear más FUD en torno al token.
La búsqueda inversa de imágenes muestra que esto proviene de un libro vietnamita de hace 6 años.
El artista que afirmó tener los derechos de #chillguy es un fraude
Envía el #OGchillguy pic.twitter.com/0aODGjVgAP
- DD (@onchainbookie) 25 de diciembre de 2024
Previously, Chillguy was considered the original creation of cartoonist Phillip Banks. Banks himself was touchy about using the image, even intending legal action to protect his creation. Despite this, the image was widely used on TikTok and became the avatar of a whole collection of meme tokens.
Up to 30 versions of CHILLGUY or similar tickers exist, spreading on Ethereum, Solana, and Base. The main version was the one affected by the discovery of what social media considers plagiarism.
Is CHILLGUY still the original?
Some doubted the evidence of actual plagiarism, where claims were made that the character was taken from a Vietnamese leaflet created six years ago. Skeptics did not see additional evidence and suggested the image may be AI-generated or manipulated in some way.
Phillip Banks has posted an Instagram image suggesting the suspicions are unfounded and the plagiarism is based on a faked image. Banks has not communicated through X to explicitly refute the claims and rarely pays attention to the meme community.
The story was appealing enough that some of the large influencer accounts repeated the message of suspected plagiarism. Others found evidence that Banks denied all claims, while the image raised red flags of being AI-generated.
Others noted that the booklet is not actually years old, and may be printed after the creation of Chillguy. In fact, when showing the reverse image search, Google indexes the age of subreddits, and not the image itself, which may be more recently printed.
CHILLGUY controversy produces new meme token
According to the original claims of plagiarism, the booklet called the character ‘Relax Boy’. This is just the name that the meme market needed, immediately launching RELAXBOY on Solana. The token graduated to Raydium and is already in price discovery mode.
RELAXBOY is just hours old and has already gone through a 700X rally, followed by a 67% crash. The new asset still has just $232K in locked liquidity, though the token is creating a social media movement. Just hours after the token’s launch, CHILLGUY whales bought in. For traders, the actual verification of the image is less important.
The spreading of images and rumors on TikTok shows the short video social app may also play a big role in the meme token market.
If RELAXBOY was not enough, the market also produced Just a Chill Dog (CHILLDOG), playing on the remixed illustration hype. The new asset is just as risky as RELAXBOY, though both tokens have seen intentions of creating social media movements and rising to a higher valuation.
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