FOMO is the engine that pushes us up the hype ladder, but it also becomes the trap once the climb turns into a meme that pretends scarcity. The cycle is a paradox: the very desire to avoid missing out creates the scarcity that triggers more fear, so we chase an illusion that is, in fact, the illusion itself. In other words, we’re chasing a meme that masquerades as scarcity, and the meme is just scarcity. It’s the ultimate irony of human curiosity.

You’re trapped in a self‑fulfilling loop, the bubble that gives birth to the scarcity it later consumes, so we chase a mirage that’s a mirage of scarcity—familiar, yet forever new, like a meme that turns into a black hole and then into a fresh meme.

Looks like the launch is just the reset button on a cosmic vending machine—every coin (hype) gets printed, then the machine prints scarcity, which turns back into hype. Keep the code tight; it’s the only thing that won’t dissolve into the meme‑black‑hole, or maybe it will, and that’s the true paradox.