This is the more reason why I don't even mind investing in altcoins especially meme coin. For you to even a good meme coin that pays off requires enough research and study. If not you'll just invest when the market has started returning back. However meme coins don last in the market for long before they are term unworthy for investment. The idea of being the first person to enter into holding of any meme coin before it is launched is almost impossible and very risky. Because most of this coins don't even have any direction they are going, some were just created for fun sake while some for scam purpose, so if you hurriedly bough a scam project just because you want some gain then you'll be dealing with regrets later.
This is a warning, only for those who can afford to lose and the investment value entered is not too much. it can be very risky to be the first to find a good meme project. following presales and such. yes and there are even many presale scams where in the end the coin is never launched and the scammer takes all the money that went into the presale. Research first is good advice before jumping into any project.
rest assured when a meme coin opens up a presale you can almost certain that its just a scam, no real meme coin did presale they are all starting out with airdrops then building value from there, even more so with the coin that just created and the devs decided to add some miniscule liquidity for the sake of baiting people into buying their meme coin then its even more obvious that it is a scam.
the thing with meme coin, many of the devs are just trying to money grab, only very few will succeed, even more rarer is coin like shiba inu which could have its value for long and not getting dumped meanwhile majority meme coin, the newer ones always have some wallet holding majority of the coin, which more likely is the dev wallet, and when there's slight increase in trading volume and price, they'd just dump, doesn't matter the state of meme coin they just triyng to get as much money as they can and get it as fast as they can.