If you've spent more than five years in this casino and suddenly had the thought “maybe I should have kept that LinkedIn updated” — congratulations, this meme just punched you directly in the soul.

Posted by KJ (@koreanjewcrypto) the image of a battle-worn, thousand-yard-stare lion paired with the line

“The lion starts to think he shouldn’t have made himself unemployable”

immediately blew up because it’s the most painfully accurate thing anyone has posted in 2025.

We’ve all been there.

You quit the corporate job in 2021 to “trade full time.”
You told your parents it was temporary.
You watched your normie friends get promotions while you were up at 4 a.m. watching Solana meme coins print.
You now list “professional degen” on your taxes and your last real interview was answering “where do you see yourself in five years?” with “financial freedom or zero, no in-between.”

And then one day the chart goes red, the group chat goes quiet, and the lion starts wondering if McDonald’s is still hiring.

The replies are pure gold.

The cope is immaculate:

The defiance is strong:

And of course someone had to drop the ultimate solution:

($neet stays winning, apparently.)

Look, we joke about it, but this meme is actually peak crypto culture in 2025.

We are the kids who chose the hardest possible path, burned the boats, deleted Indeed from our phones, and decided that generational wealth or ramen noodles were the only two acceptable outcomes.

Sometimes the lion doubts himself.

But then he remembers: lions don’t punch clocks.

They hunt.

And the next 1000x is always right around the corner.

So keep the resume empty, king.
The jungle needs its apex predators.