Zerebro creator Jeffy Yu, who supposedly dedicated suicide final weekend, has been discovered alive by a reporter at his mother and pop’s home.
The 22-year-old dev was found Wednesday by the San Francisco Commonplace, which discovered him padding round in flip-flops. He was visibly shocked at being discovered.
Yu claimed he had been “doxxed” and “harassed,” and lamented that his poor dad and mom would now have to maneuver home.
“You’ll be able to see the PTSD in my eyes, proper?” he stated, earlier than telling the reporter to go away.
Yu’s alleged demise sparked a meme coin buying and selling frenzy. On Sunday, customers on X reported watching a now-deleted video of Jeffy Yu smoking a cigarette earlier than capturing himself within the head with a gun.
A scheduled weblog submit was launched after the video surfaced, that includes Yu’s philosophical musings on fame and fortune, and describing his ultimate act as a “legacoin,” or legacy meme coin.
In consequence, the Solana-based $LLJEFFY surged 2,115%, hitting a market cap of almost $105 million.
Nevertheless, traders shortly realised that the deployer pockets was shopping for up the token regardless of Yu’s supposed demise. It plummeted 86.8% in only one hour to a market cap of $13.8 million.
Claims of his demise have been bolstered by an obituary posted on-line by the San Francisco Chronicle by way of Legacy.com. It referred to him as “a visionary artist, technologist, and cultural pressure” however was later eliminated.
The San Francisco and San Mateo Coroner’s Places of work additionally advised Decrypt that no person with the surname Yu has died within the space since Friday, April 2.
Excessive stunts to pump meme cash are nothing new. Earlier cases embrace a dev livestreaming his self-immolation and one other faking an OD.
Meme coin platform Pump.enjoyable finally banned livestreaming after one token promo included a pretend hanging.
Decrypt has contacted Jeffy Yu for remark.
Edited by Sebastian Sinclair
