Memecoins are also alts.
Sure, memecoins are also altcoins so why would the op make such a statement with all the experience he has here in this forum. Aside Bitcoin, all other coins are altcoins. However meme coins are know to be more volatile than other coins, and that means they can pump rapidly or dump rapidly. So in as much as they make investor become rich, they can also drain make them encounter lots of loses. Due to the fact that memecoins are the current hype, we now have lots of scam project that will definitely become shitcoins after a while, meme coins are short term coins for investment.
All cryptos are volatile except stable coins but even with that, I can see some stable coins that have been moving under some cents and trying to depeg. And what you've said is a warning to those that like most memecoins. If they're in profit, that's nice but if they start to see themselves getting losses, let it be as a lesson for them to remember.
people seem to forget the fact that when someone cashes out big profit from meme coin there's people losing buying at peak, its not really profitable for many people but they don't tell anyone about their losses, at least with some coin with real product you got product that can be utilized but many meme coin trend are short lived.
in this case like as you mentioned even meme coin fall under category of altcoin and meme coins and other altcoin generally are just as volatile depends on the coin we are talking about here.
if its stablecoin indeed there's some case where the stablecoin are being volatile, i still remember when usdt and usdc has some value decrease, usually most of the stablecoin that depegs are made algorithmic stablecoin where they didn't really peg their coin to usd but to other coin to keep value.