Haliey Welch, the “Hawk Tuah” girl who went viral last year, has awoken from her long “sleep” following the disastrous launch of her Solana meme coin in early December. And things are as chaotic and confusing as ever. Welch appears to have posted a new episode of her “Talk Tuah” podcast on Thursday, more than two months after the last episode was released shortly before her meme coin catastrophe. Strangely, though, the episode no longer appears on her YouTube channel—seemingly deleted as abruptly as it went up.
But if the idea was to scrub it before the internet could get its eyes on it, then it wasn’t fast enough, as leaks of the episode are now circulating on social media. The new episode features a conversation primarily with Richard “FaZe Banks” Bengtson, the crypto-native founder and CEO of gaming organization FaZe Clan, who brought along a pair of industry pals: DeGods creator and meme coin trader Frank (real name: Rohun Vora), and content creator and influencer Threadguy.
In it, Welch recounts her experience of agreeing to launch a meme coin, how things went wrong with the deployer holding 80% of the supply and the token price immediately plunging to near-zero, and the immense backlash that mostly forced her offline in recent months. “I’m still a little shook up about it,” Welch admitted at the top of the show.
