An early Shiba Inu watcher who rode the token’s explosive 2021 run is urging holders to stop relying on upbeat messages from project insiders and start treating SHIB like any other risky altcoin position.
In a recent video, market connoisseur Zack Humphries tackles a simple but uncomfortable question — “Will SHIB make a comeback?” — and answers it with a mix of cautious hope and hard lessons from the last four years.
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The catalyst for the video was a recent post on X by Shiba Inu’s (SHIB) marketing lead, Lucie, who painted a “very positive” picture of the meme coin’s future and its “strong” community. The analyst doesn’t dismiss that outlook outright, but takes issue with the one-sided optimism that omits risks and structural problems.
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“I love the positivity and the optimism,” the host says, while stressing he’s not speaking from a place of needing SHIB to recover. He notes that Shiba Inu is still a major asset by crypto standards — roughly a $4 billion market cap and sitting around rank 25 globally at the time of recording — and says he does believe SHIB will “make some type of comeback” eventually.
But he pushes back on investors who treat bullish posts from team members as a green light to keep averaging in: “What I don’t like is that people look at this and say, ‘I’ll just keep investing everything into this Shiba Inu and hopefully it’ll all be good because somebody told me so.’”
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The tougher part of the message centers on market structure. According to the analyst, altcoins have been in a “really, really brutal” environment since 2021, and SHIB in particular has struggled when Ethereum is not leading the market. “When SHIB doesn’t have Ethereum setting the pace, it’s very difficult for SHIB to do well,” he notes, adding that ETH itself has lagged Bitcoin for a prolonged period.
He expects that trend to eventually reverse and sees a future phase where Ethereum and altcoins move higher again. However, he argues that waiting passively in a concentrated SHIB position until that happens can be costly.
If a single asset “doesn’t go well for four years,” Humphries says, investors should think in terms of “opportunities lost” elsewhere in crypto, stocks, or even real estate.
Drawing on his own bear market experience, the host criticizes the idea of loading “80% of your funds into altcoins” and warns against portfolios locked into one narrative. He encourages rotating capital only when there are “clear signs that altcoins are moving up” rather than pre-emptively betting on a comeback because community figures are optimistic.
The final takeaway is blunt: posts on X, even from official project figures, should be taken “with a grain of salt.” Investors, he says, need to act for their own goals, not for “a dev member” or “a community member,” and be willing to diversify while there is still time — regardless of how strongly they believe SHIB will eventually recover.
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People Also Ask:
No. He explicitly says this is not a “I’m leaving SHIB” video, but he has broadened his focus beyond Shiba Inu content.
He does not make any price predictions; he only says he expects “some type of comeback” without defining scale or timing.
Its performance has been heavily tied to Ethereum’s strength; when ETH underperforms Bitcoin, SHIB has struggled.
Diversify, wait for clearer altcoin strength before going heavy into speculative tokens, and don’t rely solely on optimistic messaging from project insiders.
