Zerebro Creator Jeffy Yu Found Alive After Faked Death Fuels Meme Coin Surge

Zerebro creator Jeffy Yu, who supposedly committed suicide last weekend, has been found alive by a reporter at his mom and dad’s house.The 22-year-old dev was discovered Wednesday by the Yu claimed he had been “doxxed” and “harassed,” and lamented that his poor parents would now have to move house. “You can see the PTSD in my eyes, right?” he said, before telling the reporter to leave.Yu’s alleged death sparked a meme coin trading frenzy. On Sunday, users on X reported watching a now-deleted video of Jeffy Yu smoking a cigarette before shooting himself in the head with a gun.A scheduled blog post was released after the video surfaced, featuring Yu’s philosophical musings on fame and fortune, and describing his final act as a “legacoin,” or legacy meme coin. As a result, the Solana-based $LLJEFFY surged 2,115%, hitting a market cap of nearly $105 million.However, investors quickly realised that the deployer wallet was buying up the token despite Yu’s supposed death. It plummeted 86.8% in just one hour to a market cap of $13.8 million. Claims of his death were bolstered by an obituary posted online by the The San Francisco and San Mateo Coroner’s Offices also Extreme stunts to pump meme coins are nothing new. Previous instances include a dev livestreaming his self-immolation and another faking an OD. Meme coin platform Pump.fun eventually banned livestreaming after one token promo included a fake hanging.DecryptEdited by Sebastian Sinclair