Shiba Inu isn't a great investment alternative. The supply is just too high and the usecase nonexistent. I see no point in investing in this token, since we have so many alternatives of altcoins at crypto market right now. Why not invest in an altcoin which has solid adoption, plans for the future and its own blockchain, instead? Investments aren't memes or jokes. I believe it has to be taken seriously, because it's all about your future and the future of your finances. So make sure to take responsible decisions towards it. Avoid speculative hypes which don't have any fundamentals behind them.
I tend to agree on most points. Yet having a community is a fundamental (to me). Just like having a name everyone knows and connects to a meme-coin, not to something else, is a fundamental (to me).
The current value is way to high for Shiba Inu being a failed coin which only is about hype and speculation. So it's something else. It for sure is a high-risk asset. After mass-adoption, some meme-coins will be worth more then Bitcoin is worth in the now. A meme-coin needs a very big community and it's far best of having some instrumental utility, for example being intergrated in an exchange, which the community uses - or for example being used in a predictions-market.
Example of the last thing: one could create or develop a meme-coin called "Karl Marx" and build a predictions-markets for the results of elections, but also for the price of the USD.
Due to the FED and also the ECB policies, plus the bank of England, there is a lot of store of value going on - a lot more then there is actual value. This for example means that the prices of houses are way to high in the now - houses no longer are just buildings to life in - they are stores of value. Not just in the rich parts of town, but in a lot of other area's also. This is something which will go wrong some day.
This means that most of all in a "Karl Marx" community, plenty of people will spend money on predicting that the USD will lose big versus gold, silver and grain. Such kind of a community could become to worldwide, if so it would have many chapters and it would connect people who have something in common.
I would be VERY suprised if Shiba Inu will be a winning memecoin over the years and decades. It does not connect people who have something in common and without that, it's not going to be easy for a meme-coin.