The Haliban
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The Haliban
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Memecoin
- Name
- The Haliban
- 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/the-haliban
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 Haliban is a nickname for NBA player Tyrese Haliburton of the Indiana Pacers, which is a portmanteau of his last name and the radical Islamic terrorist group, the Taliban. The Haliban meme went viral during the 2025 Eastern Conference Finals in late May and early June of that year. New York Knicks fans humorously likened Haliburton to the Taliban due to the emotion of losing Game 1, which felt like a bomb on New York City, stemming from the storied Knicks-Pacers rivalry. A Photoshop edit of Haliburton as Osama Bin Laden notably stood out from other posts, which mostly surfaced on Twitter /
Origin
The full history, spread and examples live on the source entry: The Haliban 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.