Shoggoth
“The eldritch horror that best describes the AI you talk to daily.”
Shoggoth Shoggoth is a Lovecraftian blob monster that became the defining visual metaphor for large language models, an alien intelligence wearing a thin, friendly smiley-face mask.
Origin
Shoggoths are amorphous, shapeshifting creatures from H.P. Lovecraft's 1936 novella 'At the Mountains of Madness.' Around 2022-2023, AI researchers and X users popularized the 'Shoggoth with a smiley-face mask' image to argue that reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) only puts a thin, friendly mask over an inscrutable, alien machine intelligence.
Spread
The Shoggoth became shorthand in AI-alignment and AI-safety discourse, reposted whenever the 'true nature' of LLMs is debated. In October 2024 a SHOGGOTH memecoin launched on Solana via pump.fun, riding the AI-agent and AI-meme narrative that swept the chain.
Legacy
The Shoggoth remains the canonical image for the hidden nature of AI, one of the most enduring crossover memes between machine-learning culture and crypto.
The Chain Trail
MemePedia tracks 1 Shoggoth memecoin across Solana.
Key facts
- Shoggoths are shapeshifting blob monsters from H.P. Lovecraft's 1936 'At the Mountains of Madness.'
- The 'Shoggoth with a smiley-face mask' became the defining meme for LLMs around 2022-2023.
- It depicts RLHF as a thin friendly mask over an alien intelligence.
- Widely used in AI-alignment and AI-safety discourse on X.
- A SHOGGOTH memecoin launched on Solana via pump.fun in October 2024.
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The tokens that claim Shoggoth
Every token we can tie to this meme, and which contract appeared first. The original is marked OG; the rest arrived to ride the name.
| # | Coin | Price | 24h | Market Cap | Liquidity | Launched |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Shoggoth $SHOGGOTH | $0.000840 | +1.76% | $839.80K | $247.74K | Oct 19, 2024 |
Combined live market cap for Shoggoth: $839.80K across 1 coin. Market data is live from DexScreener; figures are not investment advice.
The on-chain receipts for $SHOGGOTH, pulled straight from the chain.
On-chain report
via helius · updated 1d agoHeld by the top 10 wallets.
- 1. 5Q54…e4j113.85%
- 2. 9ZPs…E4Y45.39%
- 3. FnLu…yLLp3.36%
- 4. AW1Z…Y5bh2.04%
- 5. B2f9…k4181.69%
- 6. ABUq…HvC61.55%
- 7. CL2T…7BQw1.50%
- 8. CSxJ…UZvC1.50%
- 9. Gxvi…5Ays1.46%
- 10. BjEw…8vMb1.33%
- Top 10 wallets hold 33.7% of supply — moderately concentrated.
- Deployment predates the scanned history — earliest date is a lower bound.
Facts pulled directly from the chain via Solscan-grade data. Not financial advice.
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