As meme coin activity picked up again, Bonk Guy has become one of the standout traders in the segment. The original report says he is currently ranked first on the fomo platform with more than $15 million in profit, about twice the profit of the trader in second place. It also says that after his public posts, tokens including USELESS, Marscoin, SUE and SOCK all saw renewed momentum, with some low-cap names quickly clearing a $10 million market cap.
That setup has turned the so-called “Bonk Guy effect” into a market talking point. The question now is less whether the effect exists and more how long it can keep working.
Recent examples in low-cap meme coins
The report argues that the clearest examples are not just the better-known episodes around “PONS 100x returns,” “USELESS getting a second life,” or “Marscoin listing on Binance,” but a series of small-cap meme coins he mentioned more recently.
SUE: entered around a $450,000 market cap, then moved past $10 million
At around 5 p.m. on Sept. 5, Bonk Guy received a SUE token airdrop worth about $6,300 when the token’s market cap was around $450,000.
On Sept. 6, after he posted about the token, SUE’s market cap moved quickly from the low millions to above $10 million, and later climbed past $13 million at one point.
SOCK: position established around $3.4 million, later neared $14 million
On Sept. 7, Bonk Guy received about 32 million SOCK tokens when the project’s market cap was around $3.4 million. The position was worth about $110,000. He later posted that he was positive on both the token and its “basket of stocks” concept.
The report says the pattern repeated: SOCK’s market cap later approached $14 million.
Before that, Bonk Guy had also commented on and backed memestock and microduck. Afterward, the meme names he discussed included MEME (A Meme Coin), described in the report as an AMC-themed meme coin on Robinhood Chain. In each case, the tokens moved sharply in a short period. The article says the impact of his posts on market cap and price is visible on the charts.
It adds that he posted on X yesterday asking for targets with market caps below $1 million. Within 24 hours, that post drew more than 1.3 million views and over 11,000 comments, which the report cites as another sign of his current reach.
Why the “Bonk Guy effect” exists
The article lays out several reasons for Bonk Guy’s current standing in this meme coin cycle.
First is his past trading record and profit-making ability. For a broader profile, the report refers readers to another piece titled “64-year-old tops the Fomo leaderboard, the meme legend of diamond hands Bonkguy.”
Second is a holding style that the article says stands apart from many on-chain leaders and traders known for flipping quickly. Rather than “weak hands,” fast exits, or calling coins and then selling into the attention, Bonk Guy is described as trading with “diamond hands.” Data shown on the fomo platform puts his average holding time at about 5 days and 10 hours. In a meme coin market where tokens can surge and collapse in short order, that is presented as unusual.
Third is his long-running communication with meme coin communities and developers. The report points to his public request for sub-$1 million market-cap ideas as one example. It sums up that logic with the phrase “no community, no meme,” and says Bonk Guy clearly understands that dynamic.
Fourth is outside attention, including from Binance-linked figures such as He Yi and Nina Rong, along with major influencers and public personalities. The article says Bonk Guy had previously asked He Yi to pay attention to him, tying that move to his repeated calls on Marscoin and to his view that “BNB Season” and “BNB on-chain momentum” were arriving.
The report groups these as favorable “people” factors. It then adds a warmer broader market, renewed meme coin activity, and the timing of fomo and Robinhood Chain as platform and ecosystem support. In that mix, it says Bonk Guy has moved ahead of still-active crypto KOLs such as Ansem and him, becoming the most watched figure in the meme coin segment right now.
How long can it last
Based on previous meme coin boom-and-bust cycles, the article says the “Bonk Guy effect” could continue for about a month.
It looks back at several examples. In 2023, trader Chang Weixi became a focal point for many market participants at home and abroad, with repeated market validation of his coin calls. In 2024, during the Solana meme coin surge, crypto KOL Ansem became the center of attention. In 2025, as conditions swung between hot and cold, figures such as 0xSun, Laser Cat and Queen drew major attention early in the year because of Trump-related trades. Later that year, momentum tied to Murad, described in the report as the “godfather of meme coins,” as well as Binance founders CZ and He Yi, also lasted around a month.
By that measure, the report says nearly half a month has passed since Aug. 22, when Bonk Guy used USELESS to call for a “meme bull market.” At the same time, it points to recent disorder on Robinhood Chain and BSC, including “high-APY LP pools” and what it calls “FAMI/JINQIAN fast-pass scams.” On that basis, the article says the meme heat and price action driven by Bonk Guy may start to fade toward the end of this month.
A hot personality and a hot phase of the market
The report also compares Bonk Guy with Serenity, described as the “white-haired stock god,” who was widely celebrated in June this year because of investment performance but faded from the center of attention after what the article calls a “bloody July” in the stock market.
Its broader point is that highly concentrated attention around a single market personality often appears during rising phases and can, at least for a time, signal that the market is moving into a “greed phase.”
Even so, the article says every cycle has its own character. Bonk Guy is not identical to earlier market favorites. Beyond the “diamond hands” label, it highlights his unusually high activity level, his focus on low-cap targets, and his willingness to repeatedly call coins in public as traits that set him apart.
As for whether he can break the usual attention cycle and keep this meme coin run going longer than previous examples, the report leaves that open and says the answer will depend on how the market deals with the next round of surprises.