O preço do Chillguy (CHILLGUY) cai em meio a especulações de que o meme pode ser plagiado
Chillguy (CHILLGUY), um dos memes mais ativos dos últimos dias, começou a deslizar após evidências de que sua imagem principal foi plagiada. CHILLGUY caiu de US$ 0,19 para US$ 0,17 após a notícia, estendendo sua queda desde meados de dezembro.
A Chillguy ampliou suas perdas, caindo de US$ 0,19 para US$ 0,17 em poucos minutos. A ação do preço ocorreu após uma série de postagens nas redes sociais mostrando evidências de que a imagem principal do meme foi plagiada de um livreto distribuído na Tailândia.
A imagem original foi postada no Reddit, apontando para uma única imagem da página do livreto. A falta de outras imagens ou informações adicionais levantou dúvidas sobre a autenticidade das provas. Além disso, as versões do panfleto são conflitantes.
Alguns afirmam que a imagem publicada é da Tailândia e foi impressa há oito anos, enquanto outros apontam para uma publicação no Vietname há seis anos. No geral, a controvérsia está criando um entusiasmo adicional nas mídias sociais em torno do token, onde alguns exaltam o plágio, enquanto outros acreditam que a história toda é para criar mais FUD em torno do token.
A pesquisa reversa de imagens mostra que isso veio de um livro vietnamita há 6 anos
O artista que alegou ter os direitos de #chillguy é uma fraude
Envie o #OGchillguy pic.twitter.com/0aODGjVgAP
— DD (@onchainbookie) 25 de dezembro 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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