It's all about quantity over quality and that's not new to the trading world and he's longing to wait for that very moment until he's able to bag those profits from that centavo move.
After reading your response I also came to think that it might be true that he had foreseen this. considering he's a crypto analyst.
Ask your friend. There's really a reason on why he has bought it. No one will buy it for no reason, everyone has a reason why we're buying this and that.
I asked my friend again. and it turns out he has already sold 50% of his coins and left 50%.
it turns out that the reason he bought it was not just for a keepsake. but in a sense if this coin really has no value anymore then he will make it just a keepsake. but behind that it turns out that he has an assessment that there is no way this coin will end like that. considering it's a big project and devs can't just run away. so he sees little potential for the price to rise again. and sure enough it happened. And now, as we can see, Binance, which has already been delisted, has actually reopened its Luna/Busd trading spot. and followed by other exchanges such as BingX and others.
His joke to me about buying it as a souvenir turned out to be an indirect invitation to me. but this invitation means buying to be forgotten. ie if it becomes worthless then it doesn't matter because it's only for memories. and if it becomes valuable then it is luck.