Indeed it was ridiculous. One of the wildest predictions I made (more for entertainment than serious forecasting) was back in the 2021 bull run when meme coins were blowing up. I said something like:
A dog-themed coin backed by a billionaire’s tweets will briefly outperform major DeFi protocols and become a household  memecoin and to my greatest suprise it actually  came true. Dogecoin and Elon Musk made that happen. It even hit the top 20 coins by market cap and had people who never touched crypto talking about it on TV. Wild times.