A NYT journalist created a coin named “Idiot Coin” and it 100x'ed

Without reading the article: I would guess that the kinds of people who keep an eye on new coins popping up are simply betting on which one will take off. If a coin is created by someone with built-in marketing available, who would love to see the coin grow in order to write a more interesting story, wouldn't someone bite? And wouldn't other people bite because they think lots of other people are going to bite? We live in a world where an arctic government ship is called "boaty mcboatface" by popular vote.

He doesn't link to the token contract or market, so I call BS. Anyone can mint a token and create a pool for it, setting any price they like. It's not nearly so easy to do this with volume though, and without volume the price is a meaningless non-story.

I want to see this window licking meme, why would you tell us about it and not show us