- Event
- First reported
- Last checked
- · reviewed
About this date
The original post displays 7:19 AM · Oct 21, 2026 at UTC+8, equivalent to 20 October 23:19 UTC. Seconds are not inferred from the displayed minute.
Summary
Protos reports that Kimchi and Pump.fun worked together on the 'Pill Your Friends' campaign, and that Alon Cohen called Kimchi 'the first ever example of a trader becoming a celebrity'. Alon's own post, now inspected directly on x.com, shows similar language and says Kimchi would help set creative direction.
“the first ever example of a trader becoming a celebrity”
What the sources support
Alon's and Pump.fun's own posts, inspected directly on x.com, plus Protos's account. Earlier capture records remain in the source history.
- The public framing of the partnership by Pump.fun's co-founder.
What remains unresolved
- Terms of the partnership. 99Bitcoins (S08) says Pump.fun has not disclosed them.
- crypto.news attributes to Lookonchain a claim that Kimchi 'may have' received 1.35B PUMP for marketing. We have not verified this.
Limits of this receipt
- A first-party promotion records what Alon and Pump.fun published, not the deal's terms or the truth of financial claims.
The screenshots

Alon's 20 October post about Kimchi
Redacted view · Change in Settings
Alon's partnership framing as displayed directly on x.com, including the quoted Pump.fun campaign post and visible community context. 3 separately captured carousel views are labelled and joined vertically.
- Source
- S39 x.com
- Post date shown
- 7:19 AM · Oct 21, 2026
- Screenshot taken
Edits & limits
What UNREPOST changed:
- Cropped to the target post, preserving its text, visible attachments and date/time line; unrelated replies, side panels and lower reply-filter controls omitted.
- 3 separate normal-browser carousel views are labelled Part N of K and joined vertically without resizing; the result is not presented as one continuous screenshot.
- Photographs of people, including portrait avatars where present, covered with visible labelled boxes.
- Provenance strips give x.com, capture UTC, sign-in state, displayed date/time and the meaning of each redaction label.
Limits:
- A screenshot records what X displayed at capture time, not whether the author's claims are true.
- A current screenshot does not authenticate earlier edits, deleted originals or screenshots attached by another author.

Pump.fun's “Pill Your Friends” street posters, 20 October
Redacted view · Change in Settings
Pump.fun's own campaign post, inspected directly on x.com. X served three attached images during this review; separate carousel views preserve all three. 3 separately captured carousel views are labelled and joined vertically.
- Source
- S54 x.com
- Post date shown
- 7:01 AM · Oct 21, 2026
- Screenshot taken
Edits & limits
What UNREPOST changed:
- Cropped to the target post, preserving its text, visible attachments and date/time line; unrelated replies, side panels and lower reply-filter controls omitted.
- 3 separate normal-browser carousel views are labelled Part N of K and joined vertically without resizing; the result is not presented as one continuous screenshot.
- Photographs of people, including portrait avatars where present, covered with visible labelled boxes.
- Provenance strips give x.com, capture UTC, sign-in state, displayed date/time and the meaning of each redaction label.
Limits:
- A screenshot records what X displayed at capture time, not whether the author's claims are true.
- A current screenshot does not authenticate earlier edits, deleted originals or screenshots attached by another author.
- A post is its author's claim or opinion. Allegations in it are not findings.
All images: image archive.
Identifiers
- X status
- 2112685193928773962
Sources
- A third-party capture can be incomplete or mistaken. Its capture time is not the post time.
- The capture notes the post was edited, so the wording may differ between versions.
- Original not inspected by UNREPOST. The post text comes from a third-party capture.
- Market figures such as $14M, about $600,000 and about $183,000 are reported without timestamps, apart from the article date.
- Competing explanations come from named X users. Protos does not settle them.
- The ~$15M peak and $284K value are the article's own reporting, without a named data source or timestamp.
- It calls the event the 'October 23 collapse'. Other reports and the pair-creation time place the QR-code episode on 22 October UTC, so the date label may reflect a different timezone.
- This is X's live rendering on 28 Oct 2026. The post may have been edited before then, and X truncates long text.
- A post is its author's claim or opinion. Allegations in it are not findings.
- A screenshot records what X displayed at capture time, not whether the author's claims are true.
- A current screenshot does not authenticate earlier edits, deleted originals or screenshots attached by another author.
- A screenshot records what X displayed at capture time, not whether the author's claims are true.
- A current screenshot does not authenticate earlier edits, deleted originals or screenshots attached by another author.
- A post is its author's claim or opinion. Allegations in it are not findings.
Responses, rebuttals & corrections
No response from the people or companies discussed was located as of the cutoff. That does not mean none exists. Send one.
Correction C-0002 ·
Updated source-access and image-acquisition descriptions after a direct x.com recheck. Current receipt wording now identifies the inspected original posts, while deleted originals remain uninspected and analyst/author claims retain their limits.
A signed-in normal browser made the current post views available on 28 October 2026. Earlier capture-service/embed records and their access history are preserved; this does not authenticate deleted originals or prove the posts' allegations.
R-A06.supportSummary: "Two independent news reports (different origin groups) plus the complaint itself."
R-B01.summary: "Protos reports that Kimchi and Pump.fun worked together on the 'Pill Your Friends' campaign, and that Alon Cohen called Kimchi 'the first ever example of a trader becoming a celebrity'. A capture of Alon's 20 October post shows similar language and says Kimchi would help set creative direction."
R-B01.eventDateNote: "The status ID decodes to 20 October 2026, 23:19 UTC. That time is derived from the ID, not displayed by an original we inspected."
R-B01.supportSummary: "A third-party capture of the post (the original returned HTTP 402) and Protos's account."
R-B01.limitations: ["The original post was not inspected. A capture service supplied the text."]
R-B03.limitations: ["UNREPOST has not seen the deleted posts. They are not presented as inspected originals.","No capture of Kimchi's QR-code post or of Alon's repost was located, so neither is pictured. The poster image shown comes from a third party's refund demand (S15).","A repost and its removal do not by themselves show coordination, intent, wallet ownership or profit."]
R-B04.limitations: ["Market cap is not cash stolen, money deposited or traders' realised losses.","The Lookonchain figures are secondary: the original post was not inspected (S17)."]
R-B05.limitations: ["The Lookonchain original was not inspected (S17).","This estimate must not be combined with Bitquery's figure for the separate 20 October token (R-B02)."]
R-B06.summary: "A captured post by @tontheneko asks Alon to refund people who lost money on the coin he reposted, arguing that he should have checked it first. crypto.news reports this demand as an allegation and says it found no verified refund arrangement."
R-B06.eventDateNote: "The status ID decodes to 22 October 2026, 20:54 UTC. That time is derived from the ID. The capture was taken 23 October, 01:01:31 UTC."
R-B06.supportSummary: "A capture of the demand and a news report that describes it."
R-B07.supportSummary: "Several reports describing competing explanations, with no attributable confirmation."
R-B08.supportSummary: "Two reporting origins: 99Bitcoins, with its two syndications counted once, and Protos."
R-B09.eventDateNote: "The thread's status IDs decode to 22 October 2026, 10:39 UTC. That time is derived. Post 1/ was captured 23 October, 00:43:41 UTC; posts 2/ to 4/ on 26 October, 20:03:32 UTC."
R-B09.supportSummary: "The analyst's own thread, posts 1/ to 4/, via captures, and two reports that cite it."
R-C01.supportSummary: "One news report linking several participants' posts."
R-C02.supportSummary: "A single news report."
R-C03.summary: "A capture of Alon's post shows him announcing 'the BIGGEST competition we've ever hosted on the Pumpfun app': $2.5M for the top three Squads by PnL over two weeks. Per the capture, the quoted Pump.fun post set the sign-up deadline at Monday, 26 October. Protos reports that critics say the format favours large KOL groups."
R-C03.supportSummary: "A third-party capture of the announcement and a news report."
R-C03.supports: ["The announced prize structure and dates, as captured."]
R-C03.unresolved: ["The terms as finally run. The capture notes the post was later edited."]
R-C03.eventDateNote: "The status ID decodes to 23 October 2026, 15:05 UTC. That time is derived. The capture was taken 24 October, 00:36:32 UTC."
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Revision history
| Revision | Date | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Added a Settings choice between redacted and original post screenshots without redactions. The default remains redacted; capture dates, source attribution and claim limitations are unchanged. Release 2026.10.29-r6. | |
| 4 | Replaced linked capture-service/embed images with reviewed direct x.com screenshots; added sources S39, S54. Full text, attachments, visible timestamps and labelled redactions were checked. Earlier sources and revisions remain available; claim limitations are preserved. Release 2026.10.28-r5. | |
| 3 | Added Pump.fun's own campaign post (S26), opened through X's embed. Release 2026.10.28-r4. | |
| 2 | Added a screenshot of the captured 20 October post. Release 2026.10.28-r2. | |
| 1 | First publication in release 2026.10.28-r1. |