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Werther Effect

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Werther Effect
Werther Effect

Werther Effect

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Updated 18 months ago on Know Your Meme.

Not launched yet. The first launch claims this meme forever.

Memecoin

Name
Werther Effect
Image
the meme's own image, fixed
Pair
$MEME, the mother coin. This coin becomes a child of $MEME.
Rewards
1% of every trade of this child coin, paid to its holders in $MEME
Website
kym.fun/memes/events/werther-effect

One signature creates the coin on pump.fun (you pay only pump.fun's creation cost, about 0.02 SOL). With a first buy, a second signature buys it right after. The first launch claims this meme for good.

About

The Werther Effect is a term coined by American sociologist Dave Phillips in 1974 to describe the phenomenon that behaviors, whether self-preservative or destructive, are copied between humans by ideas manifested in language (ex: literature, music), in addition to genetics. Named after the protagonist in The Sorrows of Young Werther, this observation is closely associated with "contagious human behaviors", including multiple personality disorder, pathological homesickness and suicide.

Werther Effect

Origin

The full history, spread and examples live on the source entry: Werther Effect on Know Your Meme.

The Child Coin

Whoever launches this meme first creates its one official child coin of $MEME. The child coin takes this exact image, is priced in $MEME, and pays 1% of its every trade to its holders, in $MEME. After that, the meme is closed here forever.