Crypto Meets Gaming: ’100 Degens vs 1 Gorilla Whale’ Meme Coin Battle Heats Up as Steam Drops Viral 100v1 Game
Gamers and degens collide as Steam’s absurdist ’100 Men vs Gorilla’ fighter goes viral—while crypto Twitter begs for a blockchain spin-off. ’100 Degens vs 1 Gorilla Whale’ writes itself: a meme-ready battle royale where retail traders swarm a crypto whale. (Bonus jab: At least here, the gorilla’s Ponzi scheme would be transparent.)
Pump-and-dump mechanics? Check. Zero-sum gameplay? Obviously. But unlike your altcoin portfolio, this gorilla actually lets you hit ’sell’ before the crash.
100 men vs 1 gorilla debate
Crypto responded by organizing a DAO to see if 100 traders could beat a whale.
The Steam listing for 100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla promises chaos: one silverback, one arena, and 100 fragile dudes charging in like leverage bros on a green candle.
Within hours, crypto Twitter turns it into a market allegory. One viral thread (270 million views and counting) proposed a Web3 simulation: “Can degens out-vote a whale if every punch costs gas?”
The top 100 Bitcoin wallets control 14% of the total BTC supply. That’s 100 wallets holding a chunk big enough to flatten retail morale faster than a Binance “scheduled maintenance” tweet.
Whale moves regularly erase billions, like in April, when over $1.58 billion in longs were liquidated in a 24-hour bloodbath.
Meanwhile, DAO proposals limp along with turnout lower than a Discord poker night. Tokenholders routinely skip votes, with participation often below 10%.
So if you’re picturing a DAO-powered anti-whale brawl, understand: it’s mostly nine guys and a governance bot throwing punches, while the whale checks its Rolex.
That didn’t stop one DAO from announcing a BANANA memecoin “airdrop for fighters,” aiming to gamify whale-battling by making each swing cost gas. Traders vote on strategy, spread out, dogpile, or fake a rug pull. Though every punch needs coordination from people who famously ignore governance notifications unless Vitalik personally pings them.
TikTok seized the metaphor instantly. One sketch of traders in LED glasses circling a gorilla racked up 41,000 likes. Reddit threads likened it to retail’s never-ending dream: if we all just buy at once, maybe this time the whale explodes instead of us.
The game? It drops on May 22. The DAO? Lives within the shitposter in all of us.
Whether it’s a digital arena or crypto markets, when 100 squishy humans take on a behemoth with laser focus and DEEP pockets, odds are somebody’s portfolio is going to get flung into a tree.
