‘Hawk Tuah’ girl Haliey Welch has disappeared from the public eye following crypto carpet pull

Haliey Welch has gone MIA.

The “Hawk Tuah” girl has not released a new episode of her popular weekly podcast, Talk Tuah, for two weeks. There was no previously announced break in the show. Welch has also not posted on her social media channels for several weeks.

Welch became one viral sensation over the summer after dropping what would become her catchphrase “Hawk Tuah” in a video clip that spread across the Internet like wildfire. Welch capitalized on his Internet fame by selling merchandise like t-shirts and then eventually launching a weekly podcast called Talk Tuah, which rocketed to the top of the Spotify podcast charts.

Everything seemed to be going well for Welch. And then she launched its own cryptocurrency. She has not been heard from publicly since.

“Anywhere I Go To Bed”

On December 4, Welch announced that her Hawk Tuah memecoin, $HAWK, had gone live. The memecoin exploded in value with a market cap in the hundreds of millions of dollars – before fast collapses. Many who bought $HAWK had lost a significant amount of money in a matter of minutes.

Welch’s fans who had invested began to blame those directly involved in the project. Investigations into memecoin showed that the vast majority of tokens were only held by a few wallets, and those that had invested claimed that insiders received pre-launch access to the cryptocurrency before it was sold to the public. After it launched, some said, those insiders dumped $HAWK for a profit, leaving Welch’s fans with the bag.

Welch and OverHere, the crypto team she partnered with, held a public Spaces stream on X, formerly known as Twitter. During the live audio chat, Welch and her partners were heavily criticized by listeners, including popular YouTube crypto fraud investigator Coffeezilla.

Before $HAWK holders could get any real answers as to why $HAWK had crashed, Welch interrupted the stream.

“Hey guys!” Welch said on the late night December 5 stream. “I hate to interrupt you, Nick, but good morning. Anywho, I’m going to bed and I’ll see you tomorrow.”

And that was the last the public heard from Welch since.

Not the end for the Hawk Tuah coin saga

While Welch has yet to speak out, her partners at OverHere recently attempted to do so address the situation. The group blamed Alex Larson Schultz, aka Doc Hollywood, who OverHere claims “‘controlled all symbolic decisions, fees, the treasury.” Schultz is a music producer, DJ and crypto promoter who is best known to the public as the son-in-law of comedian Howie Mandel.

Schultz has yet to comment on OverHere’s statement. Mashable tried to reach out to Welch, but has yet to hear back.

The Talk Tuah podcast launched on September 3 and has released a new episode every week since. The last episode of Talk Tuah was released on December 3, a day before the launch of $HAWK.

Welch has also not posted on social media since the failed cryptocurrency launch on December 4th.

But we may hear from Welch or at least other members of her $HAWK team soon. Hawk Tuah memecoin investors filed suit on Thursday against the creators of $HAWK, alleging that they had illegally sold unregistered securities.