Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has permanently abandoned X (formerly known as Twitter) on Tuesday, citing “repeated hacks” that used his account to promote a meme coin.
The decision came just a week after hackers compromised his verified account to promote a Solana-based meme coin called GUNS, falsely positioning it as an official Guns N’ Roses crypto project.
“This was a considered decision after repeated hacks, and it reflects a shift in how I’d like to stay connected moving forward,” Slash told followers in what could, at least for now, be his final tweet.
It remains unclear why Slash claimed the hacks were ” repeated” or if the message was directed specifically at the April 2 hacking incident.
Towards the end of his farewell tweet, the rock legend directed fans to follow him on other popular social media platforms, prompting some fans to suggest he try Bluesky, a decentralized alternative.
The guitarist’s account was hacked just a few hours after April Fool’s, posting several promotional messages about the fake Guns N’ Roses meme coin.
“In 2 hours, we’re launching a meme coin on SOLANA. Stay tuned…” the hackers posted, pinning a post claiming they will “invest $1M in $GUNS in the next hour” to generate artificial excitement.
Those posts have since been deleted, though the token remains live on PumpFun, albeit with just some $3,300 in value left.
This isn’t the first time that meme coin hackers have targeted a hard rock band; in June last year, American heavy metal band Metallica saw its Twitter account hacked to promote METAL, another Solana meme coin.
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