Saylor’s bizarre orange-filled Thanksgiving post goes viral instantly
Bitcoiners interpret the orange avalanche as the ultimate “orange-pilling” metaphor.
Meme coins and orange-themed tokens pump on the back of the photo.
On Thanksgiving 2025, while most Americans were carving turkeys, MicroStrategy chairman Michael Saylor dropped the most cryptic holiday greeting in crypto history: a professionally shot photograph of himself lounging under an orange tree, literally surrounded by thousands of oranges, casually peeling one with a serene smile. Caption? A simple “Happy Thanksgiving ”.Within minutes, Bitcoin Twitter lost its collective mind.
Saylor has long been Bitcoin’s loudest corporate evangelist, but this image takes his personal brand to psychedelic new heights. The sheer volume of oranges is absurd – they blanket the ground like autumn leaves on steroids. The golden-hour lighting, the relaxed posture, the single orange held like a sacrament – everything screams intentional symbolism.
In Bitcoin culture, “orange pill” is the term for converting someone to the Bitcoin maximalist worldview (a playful twist on “red pill” from The Matrix). Posting a photo in which he is physically buried in oranges on America’s biggest family holiday feels less like a Thanksgiving greeting and more like performance art.
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The reactions were immediate and unhinged (in the best way):
- “He just hard forked Thanksgiving into Bitcoin propaganda.”
- “This is the most expensive fruit salad in human history.”
- “Saylor bought so much Bitcoin the Fed had to print oranges to balance it.”
Orange-themed meme coins that were flatlining for months suddenly 10x’d. The Solana-based $ORANGE token did a quick 400% sprint before retracing. Even established “fruit” tokens like $BANANA caught stray bids.
Beneath the jokes, there’s substance. MicroStrategy now holds over 450,000 BTC (purchased at an average price well below current levels). Every surreal Saylor post is a reminder that one man’s personal conviction has turned a publicly traded company into the largest corporate Bitcoin holder on Earth. When the man who has bet literally billions on Bitcoin bathes himself in orange imagery on national television day, it’s not subtle. It’s a flex. It’s a sermon. It’s the Bitcoin equivalent of the Pope holding mass in a Bitcoin hoodie.
Michael Saylor didn’t just wish us Happy Thanksgiving. He reminded the entire world – in the most gloriously unapologetic way possible – that he’s all in, forever, and having the time of his life doing it. If this is what peak Bitcoin maximalism looks like, pass the oranges. We’re never selling.
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Nikolai Carter
