Who Is Roaring Kitty And Is His Return Bullish For Cat Meme Coins?

On-chain analytics platform Lookonchain shed light on how retail trading legend Roaring Kitty played an important role in the GameStop GME/USD stock surge of 2021 and what his return could mean for meme coins.

What Happened: Lookonchain notes that Roaring Kitty’s return caused a stir in the meme coin market.

Roaring Kitty(@TheRoaringKitty), a retail trading legend, returns after 3 years!

He once led retail users to drive #GameStop's stock price to soar in 2021, and also promoted the takeoff of crypto memes!

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Learn His Story: The 100x Trading Opportunity You Can't Miss! pic.twitter.com/aMfW3xmMtC

— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) May 14, 2024

The trader’s story began in 2019 when he started posting about GameStop being undervalued and purchased $53,000 worth of GME stock.

As more people joined him, the stock price soared, turning his investment into around $48 million by January 2021. In June 2021, he posted a video of a kitten falling asleep on Twitter before largely disappearing from social media.

On May 13, Kitty suddenly returned, posting a picture of a video gamer leaning forward on their chair. His return caused two meme coins, GameStop and Roaring Kitty KITTY/USD, to skyrocket by 2,500% and 13,000%, respectively.

This surge is reminiscent of the 2021 meme season, during which Roaring Kitty’s influence drove meme coins like Dogecoin DOGE/USD to new heights, setting its all-time high in May 2021.

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Why It Matters: Roaring Kitty’s latest videos mention "The Dog Days are Over, The Dog Days are Done," and feature cats, which could hint at a potential upcoming cat-themed meme season.

Lookonchain listed several cat-themed meme coins that could potentially become the next DOGE, including Popcat POPCAT/USD, Mew MEW/USD, Michicoin MICHI/USD, Mogcoin MOG/USD, Toshi TOSHI/USD, Wen WEN/USD, and Roaring Kitty KITTY/USD among others.

It has also identified several whales and smart money investors who have been buying these cat-themed meme coins.

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Fi6ysS withdrew 1,409 $SOL($208K) from #Binance and bought 490.4K $POPCAT. https://t.co/NVwAtS2CYi

BG6tLK withdrew 300K $USDT from #MEXC and bought 53.8M $MANEKI. https://t.co/lIZLXUlER4

ERJXtV withdrew 815 $SOL($121K) from #Binance and bought 3.08M $KITTY.… pic.twitter.com/jK67qzrwLi

— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) May 14, 2024

What's Next: The influence of meme coins and Bitcoin as an institutional asset class is expected to be thoroughly explored at Benzinga’s upcoming Future of Digital Assets event on Nov. 19.

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