This can be considered one of the most ironic meme coin comebacks in the second half of 2025. Let’s take a look at how this surreal drama unfolded.

**Event Sparks**

In early October this year, the official BNB Chain Twitter account was hacked. The hacker’s method was simple—sending phishing links to trick users into connecting their wallets. As a result, some users fell for it, losing about $8,000 in total (including cross-chain losses).

The hacker took this "unexpected windfall" straight to Four.meme platform (a well-known meme coin launchpad on BNB Chain). They created and bought a meme coin called "4"—just the number 4, with a cartoon CZ raising four fingers as the avatar. Simple and crude, but definitely with a certain flavor.

After manipulating the coin’s price to pump it up, the hacker dumped and ran, making nearly $4,000 from a rug pull. Normally, this coin should have been finished and gone to zero.

**The Turnaround Begins**

But this time, the community didn’t play by the usual rules. Seeing what happened, everyone collectively got hyped: "The hacker only made $4,000? Then let’s pump this coin higher just to annoy him!"

Guess what happened next? A large number of degens and retail investors flooded in to buy "4". Nobody was in it to make money—purely for meme fun, to mock the hacker, and to keep this absurd show going. The coin’s price started climbing from the bottom after the rug pull…