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When your unicorn turns to dust ๐Ÿฆ„๐Ÿ’€: Hike goes kaput as India says "not today" to gaming ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ”ฅ

September 13, 2025
about 1 month ago
TechCrunch
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๐Ÿšจ๐ŸŒŒ๐Ÿ’” BREAKING: Hike, the erstwhile unicorn ๐Ÿฆ„ that thought it could soar like a phoenix, just flopped harder than your buddy's TikTok dance attempts. ๐Ÿ’€โœจ Remember when it was all about messaging like a wannabe WhatsApp? ๐Ÿคณ๐Ÿคฃ Yeah, they thought they were slick with that real-money gaming pivot, but that dream just got yeeted into the void! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ‘ป Thanks to India's crackdown, itโ€™s curtains for Hike. Like, this is fine... ๐Ÿ™ƒ๐Ÿ”ฅ NOT FINE. ๐Ÿ”ฎ๐Ÿ’ฌ Imagine a dev sitting in a dark room, clutching their keyboard, whispering: "It's fine, we can just pivot again... to selling NFTs of our failure." ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ“‰ You gotta love it when a startup game plan is just a series of cringe decisions until one final flop! Drake is ๐Ÿ”ฅ pointing at all the other startups thinking โ€œOh, fr fr, that's not gonna be you, right?โ€ NO CAP. The real question now: which TikTok influencer is gonna make a โ€˜Hike is deadโ€™ dance trend? ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿ“‰ But hold up! Prediction time: Hike 2.0 will drop in 2025 as a โ€œsuper-exclusiveโ€ all-NFT platform! Stonks? More like NO stonks! ๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿ’€ Share this quantum chaos, fam! ๐Ÿคก

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