there are people who keeps on insisting that the chance still there if you place your money in much earlier time, not knowing that manipulators (pump and dump groups) already have huge bag holds that's awaits to sell out.
Meme coins designed to serve it's purpose if you are a serious trader / investor finding real project that have real case usages is far better than trying to ride with this kind of projects.
Be more practical in choosing where to place your money while you are inside this market.
I believe that if you are interested in a meme coin you are accepting that whatever you invested into will be manipulated like crazy from the start, that's just how the world works and if you do not want to be manipulated by the whales or whatever so that your coin is left alone and doing decent then you wouldn't have invested into memes to begin with, you are fully expecting everything that is bad could happen to your investment the moment you are putting it into memecoin. Why do people do something this silly then?
Well the profits, because if you are lucky you could buy when it is low and then sell when they pump it and get out, if you can do that which requires amazing timing skills then you could make a profit, aside from that everyone else will be losing their money, so you have to really hope that you will do a great job at timing your trades in a meme project.
The very beginning of your post pins reality down in a very precise way. You take part in the gamble and the only thing you need to do is make sure to take profit before liquidity dies out and everyone wants to dump. It sounds sad and doesn't really have a lot to do with cryptocurrency as a whole, but it is what it is.