When crypto OG Jordan Fish, better known as Cobie, fired off "What are TikTok Coins?" on X, the replies immediately devolved into a linguistic war zone of Gen Z slang. The concept was name-dropped by Pump Fun founder Alon Cohen, yet the actual definition remained as elusive as a profitable trade on a Sunday night.
The most coherent explanation eventually boiled down to a single, cursed comparison: TikTok coins are the new Chill Guy. For anyone who touched grass instead of their phone in late 2023, Chill Guy was that meme of a cartoon dog in a sweater radiating pure, unadulterated main character energy.
Further digging revealed these coins are "basically anything relevant to normies, like jestermaxxing." For the uninitiated, jestermaxxing is the art of weaponizing humor to climb the social ladder, a term borrowed from the darkest corners of the internet. Consequently, TikTok coin discourse is packed with this manufactured irony, layered with pop culture references that feel like trying to understand a different language.
Ultimately, TikTok coins are just memecoins that migrate from the native soil of TikTok trends instead of the usual X or Telegram hunting grounds. They usually launch on Solana via brain-dead simple platforms like Pump Fun. The real gatekeeping isn't about the tickers themselves, but the slang required to discuss them, effectively walling off anyone who isn't fluent in terminally online culture.
