What if the next memecoin meta isn’t something new, but a RETURN TO MEMES?
I’ve been involved with Return to Memes ($RTM) for a while now, and I wanted to share the story here because I think the idea behind it is pretty different from what most memecoins are trying to do right now.
Every few weeks crypto seems to need a new narrative:
AI agents, celebrities, politics, new launch mechanics, new buzzwords. Meanwhile, the thing that originally made memecoins fun has almost become secondary: the memes themselves.
That’s basically the entire philosophy behind RTM: **RETURN TO MEMES.**No fake utility, no pretending we’re revolutionizing finance, and no complicated roadmap designed to make a memecoin sound like a tech company.
It’s a memecoin built around meme culture, community, content and collaboration.
The project was basically brought back from the dead
RTM was taken over by the community at around a $3K market cap. Since then, the dev/lead (@elchefdesol on x) has stayed involved and continued building instead of treating it like a quick launch and disappearing.
One of the more interesting things he built is an
AI-powered bot that automatically claims the rewards generated by the project, uses them to buy back $RTM and then adds those tokens back into liquidity.
In other words, instead of manually claiming rewards and deciding what to do with them every time, the process can continuously feed value back into the ecosystem — essentially creating an automated compounding engine for RTM liquidity.
He’s also been working directly with the community, supporting content creators and building relationships with other memecoin communities.
More than $130K in creator fees has already been put back into the project through things like liquidity, buybacks, LP locks/burns and other community-focused actions.
That’s probably one of the biggest reasons I personally stayed involved. You can say anything on Twitter, but watching what someone actually builds and what they do with the money is much more interesting.
Then there’s the Ansem (@blknoiz06 on x) connection
This is probably the part that gets the most attention. Ansem has posted and interacted with RTM multiple times. Not one random mention or one reply that the community has been milking for months, he has shared RTM-related content on multiple occasions and has continued interacting with the narrative.
He also holds roughly 10% of the RTM supply, and the connection didn’t stop at social media. RTM also created liquidity paired directly with $ANSEM.
So instead of the relationship existing purely through posts and screenshots, part of it is actually connected through liquidity on-chain. Personally, I think that makes the story much more interesting.
The community is probably the actual “utility”
RTM has people creating content every day - memes, videos, artwork, 3D models, physical figurines, the Black Bull character and collaborations with other communities.
We’ve also been trying to do something that memecoin communities don’t always do very well: support each other.
Instead of treating every other token as competition, RTM content regularly includes and supports other established meme communities, and in some cases that support has started coming back the other way.
$ALUN is a good example. Our community regularly included them in RTM content, supported their posts and gave them exposure. Over time their community and dev started returning that support and sharing RTM as well.
That’s what collaboration in this space should look like, in my opinion. Not paying someone for one tweet and not forcing a partnership announcement - just communities actually interacting with each other.
I’m obviously not pretending to be neutral
I’m involved with the RTM community, so obviously I want the project to succeed. This isn’t financial advice, and I’m not posting this pretending I randomly discovered some hidden gem yesterday.
I just think the experiment itself is interesting. Can a memecoin build a long-term identity around meme culture itself, instead of constantly abandoning its narrative to chase whatever happens to be trending that week?
Because maybe memecoins don’t need another completely new meta. Maybe the original meta was already good enough.
Return to Memes. $RTM
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