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Ich sage nicht, dass sich das ausschließt. Aber es sind 2 unterschiedliche Ansätze.
Minimalismus bedeutet wenig zu besitzen. Z.B. kann sich meine Wohnzimmer Einrichtung da auch auf einen Eames Lounge Chair für über 10.000€ beschränken, während auf der anderen Seite, viele Messis extrem sparsam leben und alles aufheben, was man noch irgendwie gebrauchen könnte.
Aber klar. Man kann auch minimalistisch und sparsam leben. Die Schnittmenge ist auch ziemlich groß. Deshalb wird das auch oft durcheinander gebracht und manchmal sogar gleich gesetzt.
Ich habe eine Zeit lang mehr oder weniger gezwungener Maßen minimalistisch gelebt und in dieser Zeit trotzdem mehr Geld ausgegeben, da ich halt viel Unterwegs war.

***TLDR (don't blame you): TikTok's biggest influencer by follower count (160m), Khaby Lame likely pumped & dumped his own fans after making that suspicious deal I had talked about in my previous post. No media outlet has bothered to call it out.***
***This post gives the playbook to pull something like this off. Through utilizing a regulatory oversight within underwriting, a tinker of coordinated trading, and the influencer collab to bring in the liquidity... there's a whole new China Hustle that goes beyond the 2017 movie. If you're willing to take the risk to short it, there's decent money to be made timing it right.***
Hola fellow regards, hope February has treated all you beautiful souls well.
I'm writing this post as a well... more comprehensive follow up on [a post I did at the start of this month regarding the "deal" made that turned Khaby Lame, TikTok's biggest influencer, into a billionaire](https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1qtig67/tiktoks_most_popular_influencer_sold_his_company/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) having more red flags than the former glorious motherland of the USSR.
If you don't have time to read over all my fucking yap (believe me, I hardly can too), I'll fill you in on a quick summary here.
* The acquirer/reverse takeover entity was Rich Sparkle Holdings, a Chinese financial statements printing company that [returned \~19x returns at their peak in 2025](https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/ANPA/history/?period1=1738456733&period2=1767139200) that drove their market cap from $35m to $661m in mere months.
* This is in spite of the fact... it's a fucking financial statements **printing** company that only did $6m in revenue and had no material events or notoriety that would justify such a return.
* Their previous auditor, Wei Wei & Co resigned abruptly. They then chose to replace them with FundCertify CPA, an auditor with only [one publicly listed employee on their LinkedIn (poor guy)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fundcertify-cpa/people/) and [a facebook account](https://www.facebook.com/people/FundCertify-CPA/61566746430615/) and [twitter account](https://x.com/chan1335289) with zero followers and generic stock photos.
* The underwriter for Sparkle's offering, Eddid Securities, was involved in the notorious IPO of fellow Hong Kong shitco $HKD, which saw its stock rise to nearly \~$400 billion at its peak... a case I firmly believe to have been self-underwritten to manipulate prices.
My take at the time was that this "acquisition" was likely an influencer-driven facade to pull a massive rugpull on fans of Lame and other retail investors; it was only a matter of time.
Lo and behold, if we take the price action that happened since
[DAMP EET](https://preview.redd.it/34n9oi7bhomg1.png?width=572&format=png&auto=webp&s=5fc7d9cbb10650af080a62b78fdbd12001869acd)
While I didn't end up taking a short position (borrow rates were too expensive for it to be feasible), a couple of you did, and updated me weeks after the first post about how much that rug was pulled.
For someone as big as Khaby Lame is on TikTok ([the guy literally has 160m followers on TikTok)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_TikTok_accounts), I hadn't seen a single media article talking about the massive dump that came after the *acquisition,* despite the initial headlines of Khaby's $975m deal being on [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-27/tiktok-star-khaby-lame-signs-975-million-deal-to-monetize-global-fan-base) and [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/tiktok-influencer-khaby-lame-ai-avatar-deported-trump-creator-economy-975-million-deal/). The only thing up there is a [garbage GPT-generated Business Insider article](https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktoker-khaby-lame-975-million-deal-riding-on-falling-stock-2026-2) that doesn't fucking explain why this stock is plunging.
So fuck it, I will. There's a new type of China Hustle that's innovated far beyond what the 2017 movie proclaimed regarding these Chinese stocks. Let me run through that playbook, if you mind to indulge yourself in further yap.
# ACT I - The Public "Offering" And Pumping
It shouldn't surprise you that a financial statement printing company that [returned \~13x gains within a month of their IPO](https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/ANPA/history/?period1=1752019200&period2=1756252800) is being price manipulated to a comical amount. But how? Equity markets *should* be built to halt any activity of this sort, and they usually do.
If you're trying to achieve this level of price coordination, you're going to need to control the distribution of who gets how much of those public shares (a.k.a mostly you and your compadres). Cornering the traded float allows massive illiquidity that could allow for price coordinating measures that could push up price to comical extent. If we get those shares underwritten to friendly parties within the offering process, we also aren't due to much of any lock-up restrictions and can dump as we feel.
The issue is, stock markets don't function like [crypto markets that let Hawk Tuah coin hit $480m in market cap before dumping.](https://blockworks.co/news/hawk-memecoin-launch-fail) American IPOs are done with underwriters under strict regulation to ensure that the book being built isn't going to people intending to manipulate the price. Even if we had... favorable underwriters, the book we built as we pleased would get flagged instantly by American authorities and SROs.
Keyword: American.
[Under Regulation S,](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/230.904) foreign underwriters are allowed to broker offerings without being SEC-registered, as long as they commit to not directly selling within the US. Offshore distribution means that whatever placements that are arranged aren't under the SEC jurisdiction to regulate, but whatever regulatory authority was local to where the deal took place. If we can do business in a place that has... lax oversight for book building, we get our book right.
I'm going to go back to $HKD's IPO in 2022 because a) I've already done more than enough work on it and b) it's probably the most fucking obvious example of my point (literally was bigger than [Goldman fucking Sachs at its peak](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-06/how-a-tiny-hong-kong-firm-grew-bigger-than-goldman-then-began-to-plunge))
[Pulled from $HKD's filed 424B4 filed July 16th, 2022](https://preview.redd.it/qq6icdtehomg1.png?width=809&format=png&auto=webp&s=e25240d7cfd79e105472e322f82cafd59efa1400)
If you couldn't already tell from the fact $HKD's parent company themselves underwrote their IPO ([ran by a CEO that allocated shares of offerings he did to his parent's firms, mind you](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-30/ex-ubs-banker-s-parents-bought-into-china-ipos-he-helped-arrange)), Hong Kong's SEC-equivalent in the SFC sucks ass at doing their job and can allow for shit like this to happen. As long as you're not fully allocating offshore, the SEC will look the other way.
[Disclosure statement within the 424B4](https://preview.redd.it/uu5qwglhhomg1.png?width=854&format=png&auto=webp&s=306d59fa7bc681254a0a65a9bb1673c4e8fb5f6d)
Now, is Rich Sparkle the same? You can look at the fact that, per [their prospectus](https://app.quotemedia.com/data/downloadFiling?webmasterId=90423&ref=319291838&type=PDF&symbol=ANPA&companyName=Rich+Sparkle+Holdings+Limited&formType=424B4&formDescription=Prospectus+%5BRule+424%28b%29%284%29%5D&dateFiled=2025-07-09), their offering was done entirely by Eddid Securities USA, who is SEC-registered.
To that, I call bullshit. If it's not already obvious from $HKD's IPO and their dual-use of both registered and non-registered broker entities within that scheme, I have little reason to believe that the printing company that delivered phone number returns in a month after IPO didn't employ self-allocation means to achieve such a return for a company that had no material events that would
So great, we've got our shitco running and pumping on the stock market. But we need our liquidity to sell into to fully gainsmaxx. Otherwise, what else are we doing it for?
# ACT II - Influencer Promotion & Dump (ft. Khaby)
The first thing I usually think of when I think of when I hear the the word *influencer* would be crypto scams. Perhaps that's the *Gen Z, terminally online* part of my brain thinking, but we're in an age where Jake Paul can net millions from crypto P&Ds and still headline boxing events with Anthony Joshua that further cripple his brain into another echelon of CTE.
These guys get reach, massive fucking reach, and when you're indulging into pump & dump scams, they'll get you that promotion you need. But there's a price to pay for it. While a lot of influencers have non-existent levels of shame, there's still a massive reputational hit that comes with, well *scamming your fans* ([r.i.p hawk tuah](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/haliey-welch-aka-hawk-tuah-tries-to-explain-herself))
Hence these types of scams are evolving, and what happened with Rich Sparkle and Khaby Lame is a prime example of this.
[Summary from Bloomberg Article, posted January 27th, 2026.](https://preview.redd.it/1lg3qrenhomg1.png?width=637&format=png&auto=webp&s=01edf30574eb5384692483a3b16b363c24f89599)
This doesn't appear to be a *Hawk Tuah Coin*, but an actual business opportunity.
Of course, the investor "pitch" is complete horseshit, talking about how the firm seeks to monetize Lame's *Face ID, Voice ID, and behavioral models for AI Digital Twin development* to somehow achieve more than $4 billion in annual sales (how exactly they are going to achieve that, isn't explained)
Lame, for his part, is certainly being paid on the side to promote people to go check out the stock and provide that liquidity needed for the stock to dump. A [Le Monde article ](https://archive.ph/LZBeC)written after the "acquisition" went through highlighted the fact the influencer was openly promoting the "opportunity" on his socials that reach hundreds of millions of people per day.
[excerpt from Le Monde article showing Lame's promotion of the stock](https://preview.redd.it/jey74l2qhomg1.png?width=522&format=png&auto=webp&s=4f619669b4e86c2d6e9c61836294af2d44cddac1)
That's not peanuts, and the amplification of this story hitting global headlines brings in retail investors that aren't adept enough to recognize this BS for what it is, being a lot more nuanced than (sorry Hailey Welch, but you deserve to be called out forever for this) *Hawk Tuah Coin.*
[February dump....](https://preview.redd.it/rb04hki2iomg1.png?width=1600&format=png&auto=webp&s=ca7b9f5f430f8a79ada096a628dc329301598966)
In an almost-trademark move after the stock collapsed, Lame has deleted the links to Sparkle on his bio in both [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/khaby00/) and his [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame?lang=en) and hasn't commented about it publicly.
To the robot writing that Business Insider article... that's why this stock collapsed beyond "bad influencer deals"
# Epilogue - What's Next?
If you're wondering why I took the time to write all of this, it is because I believe that this deal isn't going to be a one-off, but the start of trend. The China Hustle gave investors the blueprints in terms of avoiding Chinese scams for years, but it's been nearly a decade since that movie came out, and these guys are a lot smarter than thinking paying Bubba Clinton for investor conferences to rinse retail out of their money. These types of schemes are WSBbait designed to rinse not educated enough to question it
If you want to take positions? Short these stocks at your own risk. Borrowing rates are pretty fucking nuts, and stocks like Regencell show the most regarded, manipulated stocks can somehow stay within a range over months before the inevitable dump. If you can ace the timing well, you're looking a nice fucking return.
Anyways, apologies for the Bible of a post this was. With how much finance slop there is online, I figure there needs to be some form of actually well-written finance pieces that can make you all wonder why this shit matters.
I'm out. Peace

Some gen Z kid tried telling me "Stranger Things" is better than "The Goonies".

Unfortunately no, but not because they don’t exist. Generally speaking, RSI is used in conjunction with other things. It’s more of a helper tool. Most people use it to filter out less probable trades.
Most profitable trading strategies have some type of model that can be expressed like “if X is going to occur, then I would likely see Y and Z happening as well. And RSI can be one component of Y or Z.
For example, I find that my supply/demand zones tend to work better when they are formed while taking out a trend line and when they are retested while the RSI is at the extreme. So for a bullish setup, I would want my demand zone to break a bearish trend line (and ideally an opposing supply zone), and then if price comes back and taps that zone while the RSI is above 60-65, then that’s a higher probability trade.
The core idea behind the above setup is that an RSI above 65 means the trend is not only up, but it’s strong and has some momentum behind it. If a demand zone is formed and then it’s retested while that momentum is still pretty high, then it’s probably going to react strongly or continue higher. If I’m wrong and the trend ends up trying to reverse around that point, then it’s likely to require some consolidation before a true reversal can happen, and that consolidation could still produce a strong reaction at the demand zone. There is more to my setup than that, but it’s a pretty good heuristic.
In other words: “if price is going to bounce off this zone, then I am pretty likely to see that zone forming as part of a trend line break, along with strong momentum in the direction of my trade at the time of entry.” RSI helps me quickly see if the second part of that is true.
There are probably some good strategies that rely on a low RSI for bullish setups, and those are likely to be mean-reversion setups that work best in consolidations.
Keep in mind, RSI is literally just a calculation on price movements over time. After a while, you get pretty good at making rough estimates of what the RSI should be by just looking at the price action.

As someone that has been around since early 2011, there have been 2 very distinct sudden drops in quality in my opinion. One was about 5-6 years ago, around Covid. Lots of people at home with nothing to do but sit on their couch with their phones in their hands. Huge influx of new users. Bots became rampant.
The other was around 2015. During the first Trump election and campaign. This also coincided with the timing of Gen Z seemingly getting their hands on smartphones all at the same time. This was also around the time that the way to access Reddit changed from a PC to a smartphone, which drastically reduced the quality of posting and comments. This was also around the time that you really started to see bot-content pop up regularly in most of the large subreddits.
2011 - 2015 was peak Reddit and it's never coming back. This place is nearly unrecognizable compared to how it used to be, even in "smaller" subreddits like this one.

You can set up "buy $X of Z every fixed period Y". You can't do "when money is deposited, buy Z."

Could someone please explain to me what's going on using gen Z lingo, but written in 1337sp34k?

It's ok 🐻, there's always world war Z

Catching some "Z"s

Let’s be real — the crypto market in 2026 is moving way too fast for manual trading. If you’re still staring at charts 24/7 trying to catch a signal, you’re already behind the whales and bots.
I’ve been diving into the **MEXC AI Product Panorama** recently, and honestly, it’s a game changer for retail traders. They’ve built a full-chain closed-loop that actually makes sense.
Here are the 6 AI tools that are reshaping the decision chain right now:
* **AI News Radar**: Stop doom-scrolling Twitter. This monitors social trends and macro moves 24/7. It doesn’t just tell you "what happened," it interprets "what it means" for the price.
* **AI Select List**: This is the "Gem Finder." It filters high-potential assets based on capital flow and platform metrics in minutes.
* **AI Trending Search**: Want to know what the smart money is asking? This leaderboard shows real-time trending topics and questions from the community.
* **Intelligent Candlestick Assistant**: This is wild. It reads patterns and overlays news events directly on your chart to give you probabilistic forecasts.
* **MEXC-AI (Your Personal Agent)**: You can literally talk to it. Ask for a strategy, position management, or a portfolio "health check." It’s like having a senior analyst in your pocket.
* **AI Copy Trading**: This is the MVP for passive income. You can follow live-market AI traders with transparent win rates and net value curves. No more guessing.
**Why this matters for Trading:** Most exchanges just give you a chatbot. MEXC actually connected the dots:
1. **Discovery** (News/Rankings) → 2. **Analysis** (Candlestick/AI Agent) → 3. **Execution** (Copy Trading).
My Hot Take: Gen Z traders (around 67% according to MEXC Research) are already moving to AI-assisted setups. If you aren't leveraging these tools to bridge the information gap, you're basically donating your liquidity to those who do.
**TL;DR:** MEXC isn't just an exchange anymore; it's an AI-powered trading partner. Use the **AI Flash News** for signals and **AI Copy Trading** for execution if you want to stay competitive in this 2026 meta.

Z.B. die, die sie selbst als Enkelin bekommen hat, anstatt die Hälfte der Münze der Urenkelin zu unterschlagen.

Z.b. weil sie es müssen. Aktuell läuft in den USA eine Klage gegen Valve. Eben wegen ihren Lootboxen.

Interestingly, it all started with maybe 2-3 kinds (and mostly unspoken), and now my head is spinning. You get junior recruitment workflow a la "if a candidate isn't good enough for position X, continue interviewing him/her for track Y, but don't tell them at first to still get their best effort. If failed for Y as well, send it over to Z pipeline - they might take anyone"

Ist richtig. Weiß ich. Ich hab davon aber ganz gut profitiert. Z.b zu Corona. Oder Ukraine. Oder Trump 2. Amtszeit. Immer wenn’s geknallt hat, hab ich gekauft

Imagine Gen Z getting drafted 

Finance ka sab kuch A to Z. + Lseg workspace is also good

Calls on McDonalds, Gen Z is going to have to start pounding Big Macs if they hope to dodge the draft.

Ist wie immer nicht schwarz und weiß. Z. B. die Siemens ermöglicht es dem Personal sehr attraktiv Aktien zum halben Preis mit einer Haltepflicht zu kaufen. Zusätzlich wird ein längeres Halten der Aktien weiter prämiert. Ist für die Mitarbeiter zumindest die letzten 30 Jahre toll.
Kommt also immer auf den Arbeitgeber an. Gesetzlich geregelt ist es wenig attraktiv eine Betriebsrente zu nutzen. Da sind die Zahlungen des Arbeitgebers zu niedrig als das ein World-ETF das nicht schlägt

Ein Auto kostet soviel mehr als nur den Sprit den man verfährt. Ich verlange bei einzelnen Fahrten nichts. Bei regelmäßigen Fahrten möchte ich schon das sich der Beifahrer irgendwie erkenntlich zeigt. Z.b. hat ein Student im Praxissemester seinen bereits arbeitenden Fahrer einmal im Quartal zum Essen eingeladen. War sicherlich weniger als die Fahrtkosten aber da zählt der Gedanke.
Wenn ich selber irgendwo mitfahre rechne ich die Fahrkosten 10€/100km durch die Anzahl der Personen im Auto und geb das Ergebniss dem Fahrer.

We won't get out of this without sending in troops imo.
Enjoy gen Z