‘Buy the dip’ was the main call among the investor community just two years ago. Whenever Shiba Inu faced correction, the online brigade was out in full force, urging and also convincing traders to accumulate more. The discount will not last long, and this opportunity won’t come again was the main crux of the argument. Traders believed in the war cry and bought the dips, hoping for a better future.
That was two years ago, and the future has arrived now in 2026, and it’s not what you think it is. The hope of having a better future has turned into ‘I hope to break even’ and jump ship. The majority of investors who bought the dips are all underwater with deep losses. The losses are as good as the deep blue sea, and the depth of the pit is only increasing. A quick swim back to the shore looks impossible at the moment.
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Here’s Why Nobody Is Buying the Dip on Shiba Inu Anymore
The top reason why Shiba Inu investors are no longer buying the dip is that they feel betrayed, as they were sold false dreams. The major push to buy SHIB followed the launch of the Shibarium layer-2 network. The team marketed Shibarium as the key vehicle that could steer Shiba Inu towards the $0.01 mark. The main reason given was that Shibarium would be a mill that would relentlessly burn SHIB tokens.
After the launch in August 2023 till 2026, Shibarium did none of that. In May 2025, the layer-2 solution burned a total of 1 billion SHIB tokens. While the number sounds big, it is just worth $15,000 in reality. That is a meager amount and barely does anything to move prices upward. Shibarium needs to start sending trillions of tokens to the dead wallet for investments to return. If it does not, Shiba Inu will remain a sinking ship for a longer tenure.