Haro died on February 21 at his family home in Madera County, California, a death certificate obtained by WIRED shows. His suicide was broadcast live to his followers on X, where he went by the handle @MistaFuccYou. Footage of Haro's death has since been removed from the platform, but the incident was briefly listed in its trending tab. In the hours after Haro's death, people created dozens of memecoins'a type of highly volatile crypto coin used as a vector for financial speculation'modeled after him. Sensing an opportunity to profit, traders piled into one of the coins in particular, driving its value to $2.1 million in aggregate. (The coin has since lost 96 percent of its value.) On X, some tried to argue that whoever was behind the MistaFuccYou coin had duly granted Haro's final wish. But most denounced the impulse among traders to try to profit by his death. 'If you're trading this, you're sick af,' wrote one user. Speculation ran rampant on X that Haro had ended his life...
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