[Top Meme Creator Suspected of Turning into a Crypto Scammer, Pepe Creator Posts Three Rug-Pull CAs in a Week, Blames Account Hack] BlockBeats News, August 10: Renowned artist and Pepe creator Matt Furie's X account, which had been dormant for nine months, suddenly became active in early August. Within a week, the account was linked to three meme coin contract addresses. Subsequently, most related tweets were deleted. On August 9, the account posted, claiming that it had been hacked and that it does not endorse any shitcoins, further stating that a disclaimer had long been displayed on its official website. On August 1, Matt Furie's account changed its profile picture to a hoodrat image and posted content related to the meme coin HOODRAT along with its contract address (CA). After the token's market cap surged, the tweet was deleted, leading to a price crash. On August 3, the account posted the official CA for the DORK token shortly after its deployment, followed by mutual interactions with the project's account and the release of collaborative artwork featuring Pepe and Dork Lord. These tweets were also later deleted. On-chain analysis by @StandartXBT revealed that the deployer quickly executed bundled purchases, removed liquidity, and sold off, extracting significant ETH profits from the initial funds. Around August 7, Matt Furie's account posted in support of the meme coin project BOYZ, calling it the only token it would endorse and announcing a creative collaboration with the team, including links to the project's website and CA. The related content was widely shared by the project team and key opinion leaders (KOLs). On August 9, the account posted, "The answer has always been on my website," attaching a screenshot of the website (showing a sidebar with the text "my twitter is hacked- i do not endorse any shitcoins" in an inconspicuous location). On-chain analyst @StandartXBT, through monitoring archived web pages, found that the website did not previously include this text and that there was no prior evidence of such a disclaimer on X, casting doubt on the credibility of the statement. [Original Link]