Today, PIPPIN taught everyone a lesson—a textbook example of liquidity rug-pulling.

Just look at the chart: the number of holders is already dropping, and these manipulators are busy pulling liquidity and preparing to run. The trick is pretty old: first, they pump the price aggressively to lure in retail investors, then they let the price go sideways to wear people out.

A lot of people think sideways movement is just a consolidation before another pump? Wake up. For small tokens like this, going sideways just means they're slowly unloading their bags. The whales are propping up the price so it doesn’t drop, but in reality, they’re quietly offloading their tokens to bag holders. Once the sideways phase lasts longer than expected, the run is basically over.

That’s how altcoins work: either get in and out quickly to ride the pump, or don’t touch them at all. The sideways phase is a minefield—whoever buys in gets rekt.