原文：Forehead tattoos and alcohol dares: Inside the dark underbelly of crypto's memecoin craze
Memecoin issuance platform Pump.fun’s new bounty product has produced its first controversy.
A user posting as Arivu on X said he completed a Pump.fun GO bounty last week that asked someone to tattoo the ticker “$boutywork” on their forehead and provide video proof. The task appeared to reference a token called $Bountywork, but the bounty description itself used the misspelled version “$boutywork.”
Arivu said he followed the task exactly.
“Guys I have followed everything exactly what the name mentioned in the line,” he wrote on X, adding that it was not his mistake because he tattooed the exact name mentioned by the bounty creator. “Please i gave my life,” he wrote.
伙计们，我已经完全按照行中提到的名字进行了所有操作
这不是我的错，我在额头上纹上了@ayushquantt fam提到的确切名字，我相信@Pumpfun团队正确地审查了它
Please i gave my life😭$Bountywork #TATTOOontheforehead #tattoo https://t.co/jVVeTG24jG pic.twitter.com/yxQvjFA28K — Arivu (@Arivulife) June 7, 2026
The typo then became the market.
A Solana token using the ticker BOUTYWORK began trading on PumpSwap, rising to an over $600,000 market cap shortly after going live. It grabbed over $3.5 million in volume in 24 hours, 2,630 holders and roughly $43,000 of liquidity.
Arivu later posted that he had received $20,000, but from the trading fee of a token someone had launched. He shared the token address and thanked users, saying they had changed his life.
'Pay anyone to do anything'
Pump.fun GO, announced last week, that it will let users create and complete bounties for almost any task. The company pitched it as a way to “pay anyone to do anything,” a line that sounds like internet fun (and most of the bounties are light-hearted dares) until the task becomes more exploitive, such as permanent body modifications.
The backlash on the new platform came quickly.
One X user claimed to have spoken with the tattoo shop and alleged that the person w