
Why was $GHIBI an overnight success?

In-depth dismantling of the underlying logic of the phenomenal spread of $GHIBLI Meme - a perfect conspiracy of AI technology, childhood sentiment and community spread!

will tell from the event beginning, key event timeline, $GHIBLI price fluctuation and behind the event marketing and other three levels.
1. The essence of the event: the collective memory of the chain carnival
The success of $Ghibli does not rely on a complex narrative, but precisely captures the global resonance of Miyazaki's aesthetics - the emotional value accumulated by Ghibli's animation over the years has found a new breaking point on the chain.
2. The perfect catalyst of AI technology
1/2. February 25, 2025: OpenAI releases GPT-4o, whose built-in image generator is officially described as “the most advanced AI drawing tool to date,” and is particularly good at restoring the Ghibli style.
2/2. March 26, 2025 at 2:18AM:
@sama.
Sam himself changed into an AI-generated Ghibli-style avatar, triggering the spread of the 'Ghibli Virus'.
3/2. Low-threshold creation: GPT-4o allows ordinary users to easily generate Miyazaki style images without the need for professional tools, greatly lowering the threshold of participation.
3. Timeline of key events
1/3. Background
@ghibli
This is not a new account (2022.10-2024.08):
-
@ghibli
The account has been up and running since October 5, 2022, posting daily Ghibli-style tweets covering almost all of Miyazaki's classics.
- The frequency of updates plummeted from June 2024 onwards, and stopped completely after August 18th (or tweets were deleted).
2/3. cut to Web3 (2025.03.27 around 5 AM):
- 05:30 AM:
@ghibli
Official account posts first Web3-related tweet, officially shifting to crypto (2:18AM, March 26, 2025, Ghibli-style avatar change by Sam Altman)
- Same day linkage: the same day Ghibli style was swept across social media, the
@ghibli
Officials capitalized on the market heat to build momentum for $Ghibli. Among those rubbing off on the heat, including
@elonmusk
@elonmusk,
@DogeDesigner
@DogeDesigner,
@cz_binance
and more, driving the heat up.
3/3. 2025.03.27.
@ghibli
The overall operational time cadence is as follows:
- 4:50 AM.@BillyM2k Tweets
, $GHIBI price of 0.0077USDT
- 5:30 AM.
@ghibli Posts tweet
showing $GHIBI vs Solana, $GHIBI price is 0.0071USDT
- 6:30 AM.
@elonmusk, posted a tweet
, $GHIBI price is 0.018USDT
-7:30 AM.@cb_doge. Tweet
, $GHIBI price of 0.011 USDT- 8:30 AM.
@phantom Tweeted
, $GHIBI price of 0.015 USDT
- 8:55 AM.@pepecoineth Tweeted
https://x.com/pepecoineth/status/1905061041027064203, $GHIBI price is 0.018 USDT
- 9:38 AM. @ghibli Tweeted
https://x.com/ghibli/status/1905071923748274428, $GHIBI price is 0.023 USDT
- 9:57 AM. @solsniperxyz Tweeted
https://x.com/solsniperxyz/status/1905076772720488703, $GHIBI price at 0.023 USDT
- 11:06 AM.@bitgetglobal Tweeted
https://x.com/bitgetglobal/status/1905094097528082723, $GHIBI price is 0.02 USDT
- 12:53 PM.@ghibli Tweeted
https://x.com/ghibli/status/1905120877835858113, $GHIBI price is 0.028 USDT
-2:15 PM.@BingXOfficial Tweeted
https://x.com/BingXOfficial/status/1905141518890922022, $GHIBI price is 0.022 USDT
- 2:44 PM.@xprunie Tweeted
https://x.com/xprunie/status/1904786623939895542, $GHIBI price is 0.019 USDT
- 4:08 PM.@binance Tweeted
https://x.com/binance/status/1905170012090102222, $GHIBI price is 0.02 USDT
- 8:05 PM.@ghibli Tweeted
https://x.com/ghibli/status/1905229726441939198, $GHIBI price at 0.0185 USDT
- 8:20 PM.@saylor Tweeted
https://x.com/saylor/status/1905233338782134525, $GHIBI price is 0.018 USDT
- 8:44 PM.@CoinWOfficial Tweeted
https://x.com/CoinWOfficial/status/1905239561896378723, $GHIBI price is 0.018 USDT
- 10:00 PM.@coingecko @coingecko, tweeted
https://x.com/coingecko/status/1905258523279393087, $GHIBI price is 0.022 USDT
- 10:20 PM.@ghibliTweeted
https://x.com/ghibli/status/1905263563708506370, $GHIBI price is 0.022 USDT
- 10:24 PM.@cz_binance Tweeted
https://x.com/cz_binance/status/1905264631213617590 $GHIBI price is 0.021 USDT
- 11:46 PM. @pumpdotfun Tweeted
https://x.com/pumpdotfun/status/1905285375427289313 $GHIBI price is 0.021 USDT
4/3. 2025.03.28.
@ghibli
The overall operational time cadence is as follows:- 12:43 AM RT @a1lon9.
Tweets
https://x.com/a1lon9/status/1905299647901425924 $GHIBI price is 0.019 USDT- 1:23 AM @krakenfx
Tweeted
https://x.com/krakenfx/status/1905309689035829615 $GHIBI price is 0.021 USDT pulling up to 0.028USDT- 1:52 AM RT @WhiteHouse.
Tweet
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1905332049021415862 $GHIBI price is 0.023 USDT- 3:05AM @krakenfx
Posting a tweet
https://x.com/krakenfx/status/1905335300122964217 $GHIBI price of 0.024 USDT pulls up to 0.037USDT- 4:08 AM @ghibli
Retweeted previously @binance
Tweets
https://x.com/binance/status/1905170012090102222 on March 27th $GHIBI price at 0.030 USDT Pulled up to 0.042USDT by 11:02AM, also the highest point.
4. $GHIBI overall price fluctuation and the event marketing correlation behind it
1/4. March 26th 18:00 Started to build a pool
2/4. March 27, 0:32 began to pull the market, the highest to March 28, 11:02AM, the price from 0.0029, rose to 0.042 USDT, market capitalization of more than 40M
3/4. The price chart is shown below:
4/4. A few of the key time nodes for price fluctuations are:
- March 27, 0:35AM, $ GHIBI began to pull the market, the price from 0.0026USDT, to 2:05 am, pulled up to 0.016USDT, pulling up about 6 times
- On March 27th, starting at 4:00AM.
@ghibli
Started posting the first Web3 related tweets on this account, the price went from 0.006USDT to 0.028USDT by 12:20PM, a price increase of roughly 4.6 times. Intermediate social media hair on the release of related information, including: deployment on Solana, Elonmusk, DogeDesigner, Pepe released Ghibli-style images, Web3 project official Phantom, Sol Sniper , Bitget Global and other with the
@ghibli
Interaction between.
- Starting close to 18:00 on March 27th, the $GHIBI price was pulled from 0.014 to 0.032 USDT, which is close to 2.2x at this moment at 22:55PM. During this period, events include Binance officially posting Ghibli Memes, CoinWOfficial posting listing information (start of trading on March 27th at 22:30PM), Michael Saylor posting Ghibli style images wearing BTC markers, Coingecko Ghibli style images, CZ Posting of Kipling style pictures.
- Starting around 5:00AM on March 28th, the price of $GHIBI rose from 0.025USDT to 11:00AM, the price was at its highest point of 0.042USDT, with a market capitalization of more than $40M. And before 5:00AM, the Kraken Exchange opened $GHIBI for trading!