Returning to X on day 3, Luo Yonghao has already gone full throttle

Original by Odaily (@OdailyChina)

Author: Golem (@web3_golem)

This week, two topics garnered the most attention and discussion among Chinese netizens on X (formerly Twitter): one was Trump's visit to China, and the other was the return of Luo Yonghao, an early-generation KOL of the Chinese internet, founder of Smartisan Technology, and the male lead of the "True Repayment Saga."

Luo Yonghao's first post upon returning to X on May 13

This account (X: @luoyonghao) was created by Luo Yonghao in April 2009, but he stopped using it later due to forgetting the password. According to Odaily, the revival of this old account is because Luo Yonghao has now retrieved the password.

Speaking his mind freely in the "cesspool," it’s likely the man himself

After recovering the account, Luo Yonghao began an intense session of online browsing. As of May 16, over three days, Luo Yonghao had posted/replied more than 110 times. On platform X, Luo Yonghao stated that his return was due to his company's overseas business needs, and that he had legally applied for a VPN for work. He also posted the past three episodes of his video podcast program, "Luo Yonghao's Crossroads," featuring interviews with Cai Kangyong, Li Xiang, and film and television professional TIM.

However, "serious work content" accounts for less than 3% of Luo Yonghao's new posts. The vast majority of the remaining posts see Luo Yonghao letting loose, with topics spanning genetics, relationships, and the crypto circle, primarily consisting of replies to other netizens.

Platform X is not strict in its management of user speech. Taking advantage of this, Old Luo's characteristic of "speaking bluntly and fighting back if disagreed with" has been fully unleashed here. Faced with provocations from netizens, Old Luo retaliates in kind, as shown in the image below...

This highly "human" and aggressive content instantly boosted Luo Yonghao's account popularity. Many netizens bluntly stated, "I just love watching Old Luo tear into people." As of May 16, within three days, Luo Yonghao's account followers had surged to 250,000.

However, since Luo Yonghao considers the atmosphere of simplified Chinese X to be a quasi-cesspool, why choose to swim in this cesspool? Was he expelled from other platforms, does he have unspeakable difficulties, is he truly preheating some new overseas business, or is it merely a means to grow an account? Only he himself can answer that question.

Among his 100+ posts, the most dramatic and consequential was this: on May 15, Luo Yonghao posted on platform X, calling out Binance founder CZ, demanding the delisting of all "Luo Yonghao" namesake Meme coins.

"Rights Defense" Triggers "Absurd" Surge; Old Luo Doesn't Understand and Doesn't Want to Understand the Crypto Circle

In the crypto circle, most Meme coins are pure attention-grabbing speculative tools. Over time, a typical industrialized gameplay has formed: whether it's political news, entertainment trends, technological progress, or social hot topics, as long as it captures public attention, the "coin-issuing group" will immediately launch related Meme coins on the chain. Speculators then come in to trade, competing to see who can "run faster."

The return of one of the most famous KOLs on the Chinese internet to X perfectly aligns with the "attention economy." Almost simultaneously, a large number of namesake Memes appeared on the BSC chain (Odaily note: Binance's public chain). To those within the circle, this is extremely common. But who does Luo Yonghao think he is to tolerate these people consuming his influence to commit "fraud"?

So, at 8:30 PM on May 15, following suggestions from netizens, Luo Yonghao posted on X, calling out Binance founder CZ, demanding the delisting of all "Luo Yonghao" namesake Meme coins from the Binance wallet.

Luo Yonghao calls on CZ to delist his namesake crypto tokens

Luo Yonghao clearly hasn't caught up with the speculative logic of the "modern crypto circle." For Meme players, "it's not the scolding they fear, but being ignored." Infamy is still fame. Consequently, almost instantaneously, the market cap of the "Luo Yonghao" Meme coin on the BSC chain surged past $1 million, peaking at $3 million before dropping back below $500,000.

Seeing that the token had risen even after he had refuted it, Luo Yonghao bluntly called investors "stupid leeks ready to be harvested," and labeled the crypto circle as a madhouse.

The statement "a wallet is still Binance's exchange" revealed another piece of knowledge Luo Yonghao hasn't learned: asking the "spiritual leader" of the Binance wallet to delist a decentralized on-chain token – how exactly does that work?

On-chain rules are immutable, but Binance is dynamic. Since the coin cannot be erased, the next best thing is to block it on the front end.

After Luo Yonghao's call, Binance responded within half an hour, blocking "Luo Yonghao" in its platform search system. Users could no longer find related Meme coins by searching these three characters, and even if they directly input the Meme contract address, the token name would be replaced with "***". Subsequently, Luo Yonghao retweeted Odaily's tweet, requesting Binance to also block his profile picture.

Luo Yonghao retweets Odaily tweet, asking Binance to also block the profile picture

Later, another major crypto exchange, OKX, also blocked the "Luo Yonghao" namesake Meme coin and its profile picture on its wallet interface. Of course, users can still trade the relevant Meme coins using native on-chain tools like GMGN.

Binance handled all this quietly, without any official announcement or explanation. Some players believe that platforms like Binance acting this way shows a lack of consideration for the on-chain community. Celebrity coins have existed in the crypto circle for a long time, and there wasn't any defamation of Luo Yonghao personally. Does this blocking of the "Luo Yonghao" namesake Meme coin mean that all such namesake Meme coins can be hidden by their namesakes at any time from now on?

In response to Luo Yonghao's public call, CZ merely replied with the emoji "😂". When Luo Yonghao pressed further, asking how to reasonably request an exchange to delist a token, CZ did not reply again.

Luo Yonghao asks CZ how to properly apply for token delisting

This is not Luo Yonghao's first interaction with the crypto circle. As early as 2018, Justin Sun offered Luo Yonghao an annual salary of 1 million yuan to be the spokesperson for entrepreneurial spirit at TRON, an offer that Luo Yonghao refused.

On May 15, a netizen again suggested Luo Yonghao join the crypto circle. Luo Yonghao responded that if he didn't care about his reputation, he would have done an ICO back in 2018 to "harvest leeks," bought a small island, and retired, as many scammers were willing to give him coins back then, but he refused them all.

Luo Yonghao in 2019 claiming he would also issue a coin

Not issuing coins doesn't mean not trading them. He once invested 1 million yuan in BTC in 2018, making a huge profit of 30 million yuan, but still warned his employees to focus on their work and not trade crypto...

Cherish Luo Yonghao

Even now, some people doubt the authenticity of the account, searching for various temporal discrepancies. For example, some netizens pointed out that Luo Yonghao was livestreaming the evening of May 15, yet his X account was still posting, leading them to conclude the account was fake. Luo Yonghao subsequently blasted them as "stupid." Regardless of the account's authenticity, at least the personality traits match...

The reluctance of netizens to believe the account is real might also stem from their disbelief that, in this sensitive era where "everything must be correct," a public figure like Luo Yonghao could still maintain such a strong "human feel." Too many public figures resort to "isolation" for self-preservation, relying on their teams to manage accounts to shield themselves from external harm. After all, not everyone can withstand the torrent of public opinion on the internet.

Luo Yonghao is authentic, authentic to the point of being unconcerned about the consequences. Last year's Xibei controversy began when he ate at Xibei, expressed his personal opinion that it was overpriced pre-made food that wasn't even good, and the situation escalated uncontrollably from there.

Since returning to X, Luo's posts seem even less polished and more unfiltered, often engaging in close-quarters battles with detractors in the comments over trivial opinions – direct, crude, and aggressive.

But think about it. In this era rife with "AI slop" and everyone looking out for themselves, people are smarter, yet also more "human-machine-like."

On Luo Yonghao's X account, he once published a lengthy post exceeding 20,000 words. Its content was a dialogue between him and an AI about Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), the future of humanity, and high/low-dimensional intelligence. What struck me most was when the topic of love came up. Luo Yonghao dismissed his thoughts as mere "whining" of a lowly life form. But the AI's response was: It is precisely this low-level, irrational whining that constitutes the uniqueness of humans as carbon-based life.

In my view, Luo Yonghao can at least inject a dose of authenticity into today's internet. So, I urge him to protect this uniquely human "low-level whining."