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Monday, September 1st, 2025

A rug used to mean betrayal. A dev yanked liquidity, dumped supply, or vanished with the keys. At least there was a human hand behind the theft.

Someone to hate, someone to blame.

But now, the rug doesn’t need a human anymore. The contract rugs you by design.

A self-destruct switch hidden in plain sight.

A liquidity drain written into the functions. A kill mechanic that triggers once a condition is met — no Discord drama, no exit scam, no teenager laughing on Twitter.

Just the code, pulling the plug.

In the past, you were watching a child rug you live on Pump.fun, screaming and posting memes as he torched your money. Now, the code rugs you. Silent. Automatic.

No villain, no face, just inevitability.

What a misery.

The cruelty is in the certainty. Everyone who buys knows the trap is there — but the game is about timing. Will you be the last one holding before the rug executes itself?

Or can you dump your bags fast enough to pass the misery to the next fool?

In May 2025, researchers showed how bot armies on Pump.fun generated up to 80% of the “trading” volume on certain tokens, faking liquidity to lure in new buyers. Not all volume is real. Sometimes, it’s just code simulating life. That same logic applies to autonomous rugs: engineered liquidity and scripted death spirals dressed up as organic markets.

The chart isn’t random; it’s prewritten. The contract doesn’t care about hype or community. It only cares about execution.

The end was written before the beginning, but people still queue up to play. The pump is just theatre, a countdown to the same scripted collapse.

The “autonomous rug” is just mathematics dressed up as fun. A memecoin that pretends to be unstoppable, until it stops. A community that thinks it’s in control, until the contract reminds them who’s really in charge.

There’s no negotiation, no redemption arc, no chance to beg a dev to reconsider.

The rug doesn’t get cold feet, it doesn’t change its mind. It executes with machine indifference.

The rug was always coming — they just found a way to make sure no human has to get their hands dirty.

And that’s what makes it worse: you can’t even point fingers anymore.

You got rugged by inevitability, and inevitability doesn’t care about your tears.

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We are all rekt.