Pseudonymous social media memer turned crypto advisor BuzzlamicJihad, known as Buzz, has left his position at Aptos after his one-year contract ended, calling the split “mutual.” He told Decrypt that he has sold his APT tokens and is now directing his meme campaign at Meta, the parent company of Facebook.
Departure from Aptos
Buzz rose to prominence in early 2025 when his unofficial “community takeover” of Aptos helped pump the token’s value. In October 2025, he officially joined Aptos as an advisor, aiming to fix the project’s image and position it as a premium stablecoin network. A year later, the contract ended and Buzz chose not to extend it.
“I didn’t see it going anywhere else, and some of the plans I had didn’t work out as intended,” Buzz told Decrypt. “So, I didn’t bother extending it and they didn’t seem willing to either anyways, so it’s mutual.” Aptos did not respond to Decrypt’s request for comment.
Since the start of the month, APT has dropped 10.7% to a $607 million market capitalization, per Decrypt data. Buzz confirmed he has sold his APT.
Shift to Meta
Buzz’s entire thesis around Aptos was based on its ties to Facebook. He told Decrypt last year that he made his money via Facebook advertising and strongly believed in the team behind the social media app. That’s why he cared so much about Aptos, a crypto project formed by developers from Libra—a now-defunct stablecoin project led by Facebook.
His approach this time is different, he says. “I don’t think META is failing obviously and needs a hostile takeover, but retail is kind of forgotten, especially with the recent Class C share creation with no voting ability,” Buzz told Decrypt. “It’s also not entirely dependent on memetics here; I actually think they have strong fundamentals too.”
Buzz’s social media campaign has begun as he tests the waters. He has already posted a “META looking good here” and claims to have moved all communications off of Telegram and onto the Meta-owned WhatsApp (though Decrypt spoke to Buzz via Telegram during the creation of this article).
Meta is down 1.2% on the day Buzz’s campaign began, per Yahoo! Finance data, sitting at a $1.59 trillion market cap. Meta is 2,619 times bigger than Aptos when comparing market capitalizations, making any price movement a real challenge.
A Comparable Challenge
A somewhat comparable success story is that of Roaring Kitty, a meme stock influencer who led the charge for those investing in GameStop’s GME stock. Through a stream of posts on the subreddit r/WallStreetBets and livestreams, he gathered an army of die-hard investors to rally behind GameStop as major hedge funds looked to short the stock. The phenomenon resulted in GME hitting an all-time high, substantial losses for hedge funds, and a 2023 feature film, “Dumb Money,” based on the influencer’s antics.
Roaring Kitty did it for a stock that currently sits at a market cap of $11.85 billion. That makes Buzz’s challenge 134 times larger. The GameStop influencer momentarily returned to social media in 2024 after more than two years of inactivity. But since then, Roaring Kitty has faded into obscurity, despite unsubstantiated rumors that he would join the GameStop board.
Buzz, however, wants to help lead Meta into a new era. “I do think [Meta’s AI agent] Muse could also benefit hugely from stablecoin float economics from the original vision of GlobalCoin (later becoming Libra/Diem), so it’s not out of the question that they go back into crypto in a huge way,” Buzz told Decrypt. “And if they chose me to lead this in some capacity, I would be honored to do so.”
