9.5M Views, going mad viral all over X, Italian news and the world. Protests regarding a man that was brave enough to fight back with a baton.
Paired with baton.
Protests have broken out in Italy too, it’s going crazy.
There is this one man going viral who has had enough and he’s going around beating the looters with a Baton and protecting stores.
He doesn’t have a name but currently being called The Baton Hero.
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🚨#BREAKING: The people of Milan in Italy have had ENOUGH of the 3rd world migrants destroying their stores and are now BEATING THEM BACK with batons!!!
A lone Italian man wielding a baton starts SINGLE-HANDEDLY TAKING DOWN multiple looters at the Under Armour store in Milan!!!
IBM legit has a token currency called Bobcoin that basically powers their AI agent who's name is BOB.
We Haven't had an IBM runner and what better coin than their
Think of the amount of institutions and people around the world who use Bobcoins daily to use the IBM agent.
Lore can't get much better, verified with claude as shown below.
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How has this gone unnoticed?
Reddit Gold was the memecoin before memecoins.
It started in 2010 as a premium subscription token sold by Reddit — buy it, get an ad-free experience and a few extra settings. Utility currency. Boring.
Then people started using it on each other.
A few dollars, permanently welded to some stranger's throwaway joke. A public act of recognition. You couldn't trade it. There was no chart. You just spent money, gave a stranger a tiny yellow coin, and felt like a fucking king.
And the gilded user was obligated to respond. Hence the most famous acceptance speech in internet history:
"EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!"
The line got so standardized that people started appending it to comments sitting at negative twelve. That's how you know something stopped being a feature and became culture.
Before Ethereum. Before memecoins. Millions of people were paying real money to send a fake gold coin to some random dude because his comment was funny. And somehow it worked for over a decade. Getting gold on Reddit actually meant something.
It's still here. Redesigned into the award button, leaderboards running on gold as the single currency, awards wired directly into the contributor program. Gold you receive now converts to real money — roughly 90 cents to a dollar per gold, paid monthly.
The meme never died. Reddit just put it on payroll.
And where did wallstreetbets come from? Where did the meme stock movement come from? Where did half of modern internet degen culture come from?
Reddit.
This isn't some random mascot we need to force into a meme. The meme already exists. The lore already exists. The entire internet already knows what gold means.
The grandfather of all internet coins.
