• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Elon just seems like the most out of touch person on the planet.

    “Americans love memes and dogs! I’ll name my government demolition squad after a meme dog! They’ll love it!”

    “Why don’t they love it?”

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      13 days ago

      It was made by two software engineers as a joke parodying cryptocurrencies in 2013. One of them called musk a self-absorbed grifter.

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    13 days ago

    She has an Instagram page.

    I think the term “Doge” existed separately to the picture of Kabosu, but then was attached to it and popularised.

    Granted, the intention of the creator of dogecoin was likely related to the meme anyway. Like a lot of people for example would write something like “Abide With Me piano cover” or “Danny Boy piano cover” when the tune to those songs are Eventide and Londonderry Air. Abide With Me and Danny Boy are texts which quickly got associated with the tune.