The original 2017 Running Away Balloon comic meme by Superelmer is now community-led, with the support of its original creator. Built on one of the internet’s most recognizable memes, $BALLOON unites creators, collectors, and believers around authentic meme culture, creativity, and ownership. More than a memecoin, it’s the original story carried forward by its community. 🎈
I have onboarded one of the biggest new generation meme artist “The Running Away Balloon” meme.
Memes are the internet’s modern folklore, but the people who create them rarely benefit from their impact. By onboarding the original creator of this iconic meme, we’re helping return value where it belongs. 100% of creator onboarding fees are redirected directly to the creator because internet culture should reward the people who built it.
Elmer created many memes in this style and has a staggering 1.2m followers on Facebook, truly insane mindshare scale on this new gen meme.
He is also running a lawsuit against a Meme platform that is using his artwork without compensating him for his work, so I believe this is the best way to give back and help out this great creator.