"What the hell is going on with this coin?"
Bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=598823.1165;wap
The real quote from fantom's website is: "1st merged mining cryptonote coin"
Some guy named "Amphibia" forked the coin from Monero back in May 2014. This is his profile picture on GitHub:
So this is the coin that pops us when I mine Monero. At first I was frustrated with this coin always popping up. That was a month ago in November when it was selling at 9 cents a coin. Now it is selling at 40 cents a coin. That is a 400% increase in 30 days. I was ready to throw away that coin. That would have been stupid. Consider the agony of the coin. He cries, "Too many years fighting back the tears." The coin that neglected for three years became the "Fatom of the Coin Exchange".
He pleads, "Love me - that's all I ask of you."
The moral of this story is don't consider something to be nothing just because you cannot see it or you are afraid of it or don't understand it. Everything has value in its own time and in its own place. Honestly I feel the same way about the posts I am posting here. This is my creative outlet. This is the place where I can be me and my wife won't say, "stop that bitcoin stuff! It is a waste!" This is a place I can laugh and see others laugh with me. I always hope that others will understand my posts. When one post and the next post had a big zero I felt like the fantom. But I have to look at the wonderful gift and the friends I found on steemit discord like 
Love,
365GROOVY