Gooseman takes a u-turn on the $GOOSE coin

Counter-Strike has seen peak performance at the highest level of competitive play and the community has been floating countless "what ifs" to look forward to in 2026 for quite a while now. Will Vitality win a fourth Major and level one of the greatest records of all time? Will The MongolZ crack their playoffs slump and take Asian Counter-Strike to newer heights? Will Falcons finally deliver with their star studded roster? But absolutely no one had the creator of Counter-Strike getting involved with a Crypto controversy on their bingo cards.

It all began a couple of days ago on 3rd March 2026 when Minh "Gooseman" Le, the creator of Counter-Strike took to X, posting his Solana walltet address, likely to receive trading fees from $GOOSE, a meme coin which was launched on pump.fun. The community speculated that Gooseman's X handle was hacked and believed the post to be just another rug-pull scam. In another post, an hour apart, Gooseman expressed his gratitude towards the Counter-Strike fans in the Crypto community for creating a meme coin in his honor but the community was still not convinced that this was Gooseman himself posting.

"OK, my account wasn't hacked. basically @momo_mattomo msg'ed me today and told me he was setting up a $GOOSE as a way of thanking me for CS", read another post from Gooseman's handle on the same day. Gooseman even confirmed that he didn't have anything to do with the introduction of the meme coin and did not plan on buying any himself.

No one really knew for sure whether it was Gooseman making these posts or if his account was hacked until Dust2.us validated Gooseman's story with Jeffrey "Mnmzzz" Moore getting on a brief video call with Minh Le to confirm the same.

In their call, Le explained that the "coin" was created suddenly after an X user named Momo reached out and told Le that he wanted to help financially support him by creating a "Gooseman-themed" cryptocurrency, feeling that Valve had unfairly compensated him for Counter-Strike.
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On the next day, Gooseman took a complete u-turn on the $GOOSE coin and uploaded an apology video on YouTube his initial confusion and eventual ethical concerns as the events unfolded. Most of the Counter-Strike community levelled with Gooseman and admitted that the Crypto space could be tricky. Gooseman posted on X again announcing that he would buy back the $GOOSE coin supply and lock it up using the trading fees he had accumulated.

"I still have about $35K US in fees that I have collected that I will use to buy back more $GOOSE coins and lock them.", said Gooseman on X before announcing that he bought back another 25 million $GOOSE coins and locked them up, taking the total of the locked coins to 29 million.