KOL PAULY, who has more than 150,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter), tweeted this morning that the true identity of the founder of PEPE is Zachary Testa, who currently lives in Arizona. Zachary often uses the two accounts z (@degenharambe) and Lord Kek (@LordKekLol) to be active on social media.
Zachary Testa was born in 1997, graduated from Arizona State University in 2018, and is now a professional photographer.
PAULY accused Zachary Testa and his team of making huge profits from PEPE (even buying a Lamborghini), but did not give any feedback to Matt Furie, the creator of the original image of "Pepe the Frog". In addition, PAULY said that he helped the PEPE team contact the Binance currency listing team and the SushiSwap team, which enabled PEPE to be listed on Binance. PAULY also mentioned that Zachary Testa also had multiple violations when taking photos in real life.
It is worth mentioning that because he has been bullish on PEPE many times before, PAULY was once rumored to be the founder of PEPE. There is no evidence for what he disclosed today.