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~ welcome. you're early. ~

this website has sound. on purpose. that was a choice. the sound starts as soon as you click the button. if you do not want sound just click the small link instead. either is correct. the feeling is mild. the volume should be too.

>> enter (with sound) << enter quietly
turn your volume down a notch first. trust me on this one.
>> now playing <<
shuffle is on · we are not telling you the name · just let it play · do not look up the file · hold the feeling · you're early · hover here to pause this scroll

~ welcome  to  hopium ~

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a website. for the feeling you have left. you're early. you've always been early.
« you're early. you've always been early. »    « the contract address is on this page, breathing quietly, scroll »    « copium is down the hall. this is the hopium room. »    « hold the feeling »    « hover over me to make me stop, i get tired of holding too » ::: hopium is the feeling you have left after the chart took the rest ::: it has not gone up yet ::: it does not need to ::: my dog is staring at me ::: i think she knows ::: she holds ::: she has always held ::: this website was built in 2026 by a guy who could not sleep and did not sell ::: the people down the hall are on copium, we do not talk about them ::: try the konami code, you know the one :::

::: what even is this :::

hopium is the feeling you have left after the chart took everything else. it is not hope. hope wants something. hope has a plan. hopium wants nothing. it just keeps you here, at the bottom, refreshing the same page until something nice appears. nothing nice has appeared yet. you stay anyway. that's it. that's the feeling.

you can't buy the feeling at cvs. they checked. my friend checked twice. there is one (1) place on the entire internet where you can hold it in your hand and that place is a wallet on a blockchain i will eventually tell you about, scroll down a little, don't rush me. down the hall there are people on copium — the cope of the ones who folded and need to feel right about it. we don't judge them. we just don't sit with them. this is the hopium room. you breathe one or the other.

some people use the hopium to pay rent. this does not work. some people use it to fall asleep. this works ok. some people use it to remember why they started looking at charts in the first place. you'll figure out your own use for it or you won't, and that's the whole deal.

this is the website. there's no app. there's no team page. there's no whitepaper because the paper got wet. this is it. hello. you're early. you've always been early.

a man in a hazmat suit administering a giant syringe labeled HOPE fig. 1: the feeling, being administered. it is mild. results pending. doreen supervises.
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// CONTRACT ADDRESS //
HopeYvdYJ1rxya5ma2jbkBCW8269sCfBkbnE65yvCopE
if you see a contract somewhere that is not on this page, that contract is not us, that contract is somebody's nephew. this is the only page. bookmark it. write it on your hand. you're early either way.
>> buy a little hopium <<

(this opens jupiter in a new tab once the contract address is set. if it's still TBA the button will gently shake its head at you.)

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pick a lung

same chart. different lung. you breathe one or the other — hopium (being early, willing to wait) or copium (being wrong, needing to feel right). there is no correct answer. there is only the one you can live with today. pick.

hopium
copium
this tally lives in your browser. it is between you and the void.

the lore. it's not very good.

an unsettling realistic rendering of a frog wearing colonial clothing

in 2019 a guy named darren from a town outside indianapolis wrote a blog post about a feeling he couldn't name. the post had four readers. one of them worked the night shift at a speedway off i-65 and started saying "hopium" out loud to nobody, the way his cousin used to say it about the colts going 5-11.

the word got around the gas station. then the parking lot of the gas station. then a customer wrote it on a napkin and left it under a stranger's wiper. the stranger laughed in the cold for a second, which was the most anyone laughed that week. he told his sister. his sister was on the internet.

the rest is, i don't know, chart. that's the whole story. a word for the thing that keeps you at the bottom when leaving would be smarter. i am not making it longer for you. it does not need to be longer.

(darren has not responded to dm. darren may not be real. the feeling is real either way. you're early. so was he.)

^ above: artist's impression of darren in the year of the original blog post. likeness not confirmed by darren.

tokenomix (allegedly)

a deeply cursed yellow cartoon character with a real human face
  • supply: enough. probably too much. nice round number with too many zeros.
  • feeling supply: fixed. one (1) per person. it is mild. you already have yours.
  • audit: a guy i went to high school with looked at it for fifteen minutes. he says it looks normal. that is the audit.
  • team allocation: zero. the team is one guy. the guy is allergic to his own coin. he holds anyway.
  • liquidity: locked because i do not trust myself near a button.
  • roadmap: we will see what happens on tuesday and go from there. we are not in a hurry. you're early.
  • burn mechanism: i burned my hand on the stove last week. counts.

^ unofficial mascot. he is not authorized but we cannot make him leave.

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people are saying things about hopium

a square cartoon character with a strangely handsome and serious human face "yes. i hold. i have always held." — this gentleman, allegedly
"i started holding hopium and within three weeks my dentist asked if everything was ok at home. so yeah, it's working." — kyle r., 34, columbus oh, not paid
"the hopium kept me up for 41 hours and i finally did my taxes. i owe seven thousand dollars but spiritually i am a king." — t. (last name withheld for safety reasons), 29
"i held one (1) hopium and the bird outside my window started speaking english. it told me to call my mom which i did. we are talking again." — anonymous, possibly my own mom
"i was at the dmv. i saw a man with a hopium hat. we did not speak. we did not need to." — reddit user u/glassparking-99
"i tried copium first. it's faster. it wears off and you have to take more and you're still wrong. hopium just sits with you. i hold hopium now." — anon, formerly down the hall
"no comment." — the s.e.c. (allegedly)

questions you didn't ask but here we are

q. is this a rugpull
a. no. but if it goes to zero on its own that is also not financial advice and also kind of beautiful. a zero nobody had to pull
q. why does this website look like that
a. on purpose. i had options. this is the option i picked. i'm not changing it
q. who runs this
a. a guy. you would not know him. he has a normal job and a slight cough that won't go away
q. is there a discord
a. no. there is a telegram if you can find it. it is full of people typing in lowercase about feelings. you will fit in
q. what is the utility
a. the utility is the feeling. you hold a little of it and you have something to be at the bottom with. that's the whole utility. it is enough on a good day
q. what's the difference between hopium and copium
a. copium is being wrong and needing to feel right about it. hopium is being early and being willing to wait. same chart. different lung
q. how do i actually buy this
a. scroll up. the contract is in the box. you copy it. you take it to a swap. you press the swap button. then you wait. if nothing happens, that is also a kind of buying.
q. will this make me rich
a. it will not. but it might make you slightly weirder, which is the better return
q. who is doreen
a. the official site mascot. she holds the oxygen. she says breathe. she does not check the chart. be like doreen
q. am i early
a. yes. you're early. you've always been early. that never stops being true here
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a circle of websites that have nothing in common except they all look like this on purpose. click random and you'll probably land on a guy's homepage about his model trains. that is the entire point of a web ring.
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the vigil

the feeling is mild. the room is quiet. if you held today — if you did not sell, if you breathed the hopium and not the copium — light a candle. nobody is keeping score except your own browser, which forgives easily.

0 feelings held tonight

sign the book

two costumed cats celebrating a birthday with a single small candle

nothing happens when you submit. the form is decorative. you say your weird thing into the void and the void holds it for you. that's how it was in 1998 and that's how it is now. [guestbook offline since 2003]

^ the only known photograph of the guestbook's third birthday party. no one came except those two.

[ the wall ]

cursed close-up of a familiar children's toy
submission #1
a purple dinosaur mascot embracing a small child outdoors
submission #2
a green creature with antennae visibly crying
submission #3
a heavily distorted dark image of a face in sunglasses
submission #4 (no comment)

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