About

Garlicoin is a garlic bread-themed cryptocurrency launched by Redditor DigitalizedOrange using Litecoin (LTC) technology.

Origin

On December 25th, 2017, Redditor DigitalizedOrange created the /r/garlicoin subreddit, where he submitted a post titled "If this post gets 30,000 upvotes, I will make a garlic bread cryptocurrency called garlicoin" to /r/garlicoin. Over the next month the post gained over 45,800 points (88% upvoted) and 1,200 comments.

Spread

On December 26th, DigitalizedOrange republished the post to the Garlic Bread Dating Simulator-themed subreddit /r/GBDS, where it accumulated upwards of 19,900 points (72% upvoted) and 160 comments in 29 days. That day, a post about the cryptocurrency was submitted to Steemit titled "Garlicoin, the new MemeCoin?" Also on December 26th, Redditor AlexanderSalamander submitted a fake tweet screenshot of Elon Musk claiming "I'm selling all my #bitcoin for the launch of #garlicoin" to /r/garlicoin, where it gathered upwards of 1,400 points (95% upvoted) within one month (shown below).





On January 12th, 2018, Redditor SuperficialPickle444 submitted an image macro of the Garlicoin logo captioned with "Upvote Garlicoin / And someone will deliver you 100 garlicoin at launch" to /r/garlicoin, where it accumulated more than 54,600 points (77% upvoted) and 48,000 comments within 11 days (shown below). That day, the /r/GarlicMarket subreddit was created for trades of the cryptocurrency. On January 13th, 2018, the Garlicoin.io website was submitted to /r/Buttcoin, where the top comment described Garlicoin as "the next Doge."





On January 21st, DigitalizedOrange announced the official launched of the coin, recommending adopters use the Garlium wallet located on GitHub. That day, the GarlicTip Reddit account submitted a post claiming to be a "tip bot" that required karma "to get pas Reddit's Api limits." Within 48 hours, the post gained upwards of 49,700 points (68% upvoted) and 1,700 comments on /r/garlicoin.

Garlicoin memes on Reddit

Since Garlicoin was introduced to Reddit, many different memes spawned about this topic. These memes, are, in general, text macros used on images to depict a certain passion for Garlicoin, comparing Garlicoin to other objects or other cryptocurrencies, and basic memes about garlic in general.





Karma whoring on /r/Garlicoin

Many posts on the /r/Garlicoin subreddit that gained large amounts of upvotes are so-called "bamboozle" posts, where a "karma whore" user posts a simple sentence like "If this gets 10,000 up votes I will give every up voter 1 garlicoin", with the intent of gaining free karma. Some of these posts managed to get upwards of 30 thousand upvotes. Since some time, the moderators of /r/Garlicoin started deleting "simple" karma whoring posts (such as giveaways or topics already exploited before).

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